> This cycle will go on infinitely, hence the reality-destroying paradox
Nope, it would continue until old-Jennifer meeting new-Jennifer happened in such a way that it didn't cause any further changes. Like two chatbots ultimately settling down into the exact same dialog repeated over and over again. It'd be a good approximation of an ontological paradox or closed time loop.
This does suggest that widespread use of soy or hemp-based plastics would be even more eco-friendly than previously thought. They'll not only decompose faster and more thoroughly than petro-plastics, but that process is actively assisted by the local fauna!
And what we've been seeing in Iraq and Afghanistan is the absolute best-case scenario for the army, where only the tail end of the supply line runs through combat zones. Imagine that the factories making those fancy tanks and APCs, the fuel shipments keeping them running, the convoys carrying light arms and ammunition, even the very troops themselves while on leave are all vulnerable to (and I think this is not an unlikely scenario for the US military) attacks from the pissed-off relatives of the people killed when the army leveled a city block because someone thought they saw a glint off a sniper scope.
You can tell someone's religion just by looking at them? Even if they know you're looking and are deliberately hiding it or masquerading as another? That's pretty impressive.
No, you don't understand. They got this ban passed because cell phone signals were interfering with the government mind-control rays. They just want you to _think_ it's safe to take off your tinfoil hat, but reality you need to double up on it.
Remember Yahoo Music? DRM laden crap that became just so many unusable megabytes when they decided to close up shop and shut down their servers. They didn't even last 4 years, much less 10.
No, I won't be buying Civ5. If I play it at all, it will be a hacked copy that doesn't require a permission slip from mommy to let me run it.
I tried the Boxee software some time ago, and while I was impressed, there was just enough stuff wrong with it to render it unusable crap. I presume they'll be running the same stuff on the Box?
Refused to index any of my movies past the ones beginning with 'P'. Didn't have a way for me to correct any mistakes it made in auto-identifying the movies. Didn't have proper brightness/contrast adjustments for video. Refused to index 99% of my MP3's.
France has a size and population essentially equivalent to 2 1/2 times that of Texas. It's population density is basically identical, and I bet Texas would be even better suited, since the population is almost entirely concentrated in the eastern half. France has 59 nuclear power plants, so logically Texas should get by with 24 or so. And there's no way that their electrical exports are shaving more than a penny or two off the cost per kWh.
It's regulatory hurdles, constantly shifting political winds, NIMBY obstructionism, policy against fuel reprocessing, and the lack of standardized plant models that causes nuclear costs in the US to be so high and companies so unwilling to risk building them.
And another big reason is that there are really only 3 or 4 different nuclear plants in France. They're all just copies of the same models. Whereas in the US, they're all different, one-off designs that have to be independently evaluated.
Are you kidding? This obsession with 'balance' over fact is the biggest problem in journalism today! They're so dead set on being in the "center" of any disagreement that they wind up doing nothing but reporting what is said, and we already have stenographers for that.
Joe Klein provides the perfect example. He wrote a monumentally untrue article that did nothing but quote Republican sources and, when called on it, simply responded with "I have neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right". He doesn't think investigation or fact checking is part of his job. And he's not alone in that.
This exchange between Chris Matthews and Tom Brokaw regarding the 2008 elections:
BROKAW: You know what I think we're going to have to do?
MATTHEWS: Yes sir?
BROKAW: Wait for the voters to make their judgment.
MATTHEWS: Well what do we do then in the days before the ballot? We must stay home, I guess.
BROKAW: No, no we don't stay home. There are reasons to analyze what they're saying. We know from how the people voted today, what moved them to vote. You can take a look at that. There are a lot of issues that have not been fully explored during all this.
Explore issues? Analyze? Investigate? What are these strange, outlandish notions?
Colbert had their number exactly right. Modern journalists think their job is to write down whatever they're told, publish it without question, and get a paycheck for it.
I use PasswordSafe for most of my needs. For my banking stuff in particular, I don't even _know_ my own passwords, never have; they are randomly generated and I never have to type them in.
Commander Cody handed Obi-Wan's lightsaber back to him after he dropped it. The stormtroopers who captured Luke and delivered him to Darth Vader disarmed him of his lightsaber as well. R2-D2 was carrying around Luke's lightsaber in preparation for his attack on Jabba's palace. But none of them turned the things on, that we know of.
That exact case has already gone through the courts. Can you guess the result? Turns out, the police are not actually under any obligation to serve and protect or, you know, _do their jobs_. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Yeah, waging war at the end of a 6-year supply line isn't the kind of thing you do unless you really, really have to. That's one thing they got right; only something so valuable it can clock in at $20M/kg and still sell could possibly make it cost effective.
I can use my cellphone as a backup internet pipe for my computer should my cable go out. In my testing I found it to be merely two or three times as fast as a 56k modem, but it'll do.
The role of government in BNW was radically different from that of 1984, or even Fahrenheit 451. Take the spokesmen for these worlds. Mond was a fundamentally different character from F451's Beatty or 1984's O'Brian. He basically admitted that he was unhappy with the world he helps maintain, but was resigned to it being, essentially, the least bad solution to the various problems civilization had encountered. He willingly described the stabs at alternative solutions the world government had tried and seemed truly disappointed that they didn't work (e.g., the Alpha-only island population). I can't really see 1984's Inner Party conducting experiments into social models improving the people's lot in life that could replace IngSoc. Say what you will about the dystopic society, but a government that draws its ranks from the most intelligent rebels against it by rationally arguing the case for continuing the status quo is about as benign as you can get.
Ahh, Argon. Even more effective than coffee, I tell you.
But the gravity thing really is true. Manufacturing? Physical therapy? Sports? All things that could significantly benefit from being able to pick your g.
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> This cycle will go on infinitely, hence the reality-destroying paradox
Nope, it would continue until old-Jennifer meeting new-Jennifer happened in such a way that it didn't cause any further changes. Like two chatbots ultimately settling down into the exact same dialog repeated over and over again. It'd be a good approximation of an ontological paradox or closed time loop.
How about Bush and Cheney getting on camera and admitting to ordering prisoners to be tortured? They already did that. Next question?
This does suggest that widespread use of soy or hemp-based plastics would be even more eco-friendly than previously thought. They'll not only decompose faster and more thoroughly than petro-plastics, but that process is actively assisted by the local fauna!
And what we've been seeing in Iraq and Afghanistan is the absolute best-case scenario for the army, where only the tail end of the supply line runs through combat zones. Imagine that the factories making those fancy tanks and APCs, the fuel shipments keeping them running, the convoys carrying light arms and ammunition, even the very troops themselves while on leave are all vulnerable to (and I think this is not an unlikely scenario for the US military) attacks from the pissed-off relatives of the people killed when the army leveled a city block because someone thought they saw a glint off a sniper scope.
You can tell someone's religion just by looking at them? Even if they know you're looking and are deliberately hiding it or masquerading as another? That's pretty impressive.
No, you don't understand. They got this ban passed because cell phone signals were interfering with the government mind-control rays. They just want you to _think_ it's safe to take off your tinfoil hat, but reality you need to double up on it.
> colourful shrubberies
Ni!
> It's nice and all, but I'm trying to annihilate the free people of Earth
Tell me about it. Just like anything else, man, do it 9 to 5 and it's just another job.
Remember Yahoo Music? DRM laden crap that became just so many unusable megabytes when they decided to close up shop and shut down their servers. They didn't even last 4 years, much less 10.
No, I won't be buying Civ5. If I play it at all, it will be a hacked copy that doesn't require a permission slip from mommy to let me run it.
I tried the Boxee software some time ago, and while I was impressed, there was just enough stuff wrong with it to render it unusable crap. I presume they'll be running the same stuff on the Box?
Refused to index any of my movies past the ones beginning with 'P'. Didn't have a way for me to correct any mistakes it made in auto-identifying the movies. Didn't have proper brightness/contrast adjustments for video. Refused to index 99% of my MP3's.
Anyone know if these have been fixed?
France has a size and population essentially equivalent to 2 1/2 times that of Texas. It's population density is basically identical, and I bet Texas would be even better suited, since the population is almost entirely concentrated in the eastern half. France has 59 nuclear power plants, so logically Texas should get by with 24 or so. And there's no way that their electrical exports are shaving more than a penny or two off the cost per kWh.
It's regulatory hurdles, constantly shifting political winds, NIMBY obstructionism, policy against fuel reprocessing, and the lack of standardized plant models that causes nuclear costs in the US to be so high and companies so unwilling to risk building them.
And another big reason is that there are really only 3 or 4 different nuclear plants in France. They're all just copies of the same models. Whereas in the US, they're all different, one-off designs that have to be independently evaluated.
Hey, can someone find out where Jack Valenti is buried so I can go piss on his grave?
Are you kidding? This obsession with 'balance' over fact is the biggest problem in journalism today! They're so dead set on being in the "center" of any disagreement that they wind up doing nothing but reporting what is said, and we already have stenographers for that.
Joe Klein provides the perfect example. He wrote a monumentally untrue article that did nothing but quote Republican sources and, when called on it, simply responded with "I have neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right". He doesn't think investigation or fact checking is part of his job. And he's not alone in that.
This exchange between Chris Matthews and Tom Brokaw regarding the 2008 elections:
BROKAW: You know what I think we're going to have to do?
MATTHEWS: Yes sir?
BROKAW: Wait for the voters to make their judgment.
MATTHEWS: Well what do we do then in the days before the ballot? We must stay home, I guess.
BROKAW: No, no we don't stay home. There are reasons to analyze what they're saying. We know from how the people voted today, what moved them to vote. You can take a look at that. There are a lot of issues that have not been fully explored during all this.
Explore issues? Analyze? Investigate? What are these strange, outlandish notions?
Colbert had their number exactly right. Modern journalists think their job is to write down whatever they're told, publish it without question, and get a paycheck for it.
I use PasswordSafe for most of my needs. For my banking stuff in particular, I don't even _know_ my own passwords, never have; they are randomly generated and I never have to type them in.
Yeah, but then we'd have problems trying to keep the damned Texans coming over the border and takin' our jobs!
Kinda like how watching FOX news leaves you knowing less about current events than a flipped coin?
Commander Cody handed Obi-Wan's lightsaber back to him after he dropped it. The stormtroopers who captured Luke and delivered him to Darth Vader disarmed him of his lightsaber as well. R2-D2 was carrying around Luke's lightsaber in preparation for his attack on Jabba's palace. But none of them turned the things on, that we know of.
That exact case has already gone through the courts. Can you guess the result? Turns out, the police are not actually under any obligation to serve and protect or, you know, _do their jobs_.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
That's essentially what California has right now wrt taxes, and it's bankrupting them.
Standard sunset clauses aren't a bad idea, though.
> forcing people to clean up the mess Fine, they can charge the jumper with littering.
Yeah, waging war at the end of a 6-year supply line isn't the kind of thing you do unless you really, really have to. That's one thing they got right; only something so valuable it can clock in at $20M/kg and still sell could possibly make it cost effective.
Clearly you've been wearing the wrong type of clothing...
I can use my cellphone as a backup internet pipe for my computer should my cable go out. In my testing I found it to be merely two or three times as fast as a 56k modem, but it'll do.
The role of government in BNW was radically different from that of 1984, or even Fahrenheit 451. Take the spokesmen for these worlds. Mond was a fundamentally different character from F451's Beatty or 1984's O'Brian. He basically admitted that he was unhappy with the world he helps maintain, but was resigned to it being, essentially, the least bad solution to the various problems civilization had encountered. He willingly described the stabs at alternative solutions the world government had tried and seemed truly disappointed that they didn't work (e.g., the Alpha-only island population). I can't really see 1984's Inner Party conducting experiments into social models improving the people's lot in life that could replace IngSoc. Say what you will about the dystopic society, but a government that draws its ranks from the most intelligent rebels against it by rationally arguing the case for continuing the status quo is about as benign as you can get.
Ahh, Argon. Even more effective than coffee, I tell you.
But the gravity thing really is true. Manufacturing? Physical therapy? Sports? All things that could significantly benefit from being able to pick your g.