OMG! They will waste billions and kill American astronauts in the process! No... to late... if only you were there to point out that Wikipedia article to them sooner.
Come on... BESIDES the fact that the Hydrogen payload is going AHEAD of the rest of the mission so the fuel for the trip back is already there when astronauts arrive - don't you think that they would you know... include the proper safety measures for landing 6 tons of H2 and a FUCKING NUCLEAR REACTOR ON THE FUCKING MARS?!
Since the contemporary political reaction to any insufficiently large disaster is to create the conditions for truly massive failures (aka. the "stimulus), the big hydrogen clouds on mars must look pretty attractive to Obama...
Oh! I'm sorry... Didn't realize you were a troll, just going about your daily business. Terribly sorry about. Didn't mean to offend your race or culture or anything. There are some nice political stories coming up in the Firehose. You might like them.
Mars Direct (or Semi-Direct) plan can't be used for the Moon on account that Moon has no atmosphere. Which would be the source of the fuel for the trip back home.
Also, most things that were a part of the Mars Direct plan were there because they are an issue if you are going to MARS. Not Moon. Prolonged exposure to 0-gravity, fuel, launch window every 1.5 years etc. Take a break and watch the documentary about it for more info.
Actually... Your example points at less users...
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...and more desktops. Per user.
That is a total of: 10 linux desktops in use in _ONE_ household
Exactly. One household.
Compared to Windowses and OSXs where a great number of desktops are for business use - there is a huge lack of eyeballs (ads, entertainment...) and hands (apps, tech support...) per desktop in your case. Add to that the fact that most apps on Linux desktops are free of charge - and the actual market share comes out to FAR below 1%.
Cause, there ever was only one reason for talking about market share - how much money is there in it. Desktop Linux? Really, not that much. Business Linux... a whole different kettle of fish.
My sarcasm detector is little off today (perhaps due to that nasty fall I had this morning...) so...
Why do you think they call them "Cardinal" Sins? Because all of the Cardinals commit them.
...than just "that church guy with a red robe and a funny hat, who is not the pope... yet". Not that any of that changes the truthiness of the quoted statement in any way.
Couple of decades down the road, and Lucas (or his clone) will make an "updated and upgraded" version. With more aliens saying things like "Whatda..." while driving.
Only if that tabloid thing with Rorschach's journal doesn't sucesfully expose him.
Thank you for using that word so I don't have to.
New Frontiersman is a small, local, right-wing rag staffed by two people. A paranoid right-winger and a proverbial fool. Also, Rorschach was not really a kind of person anyone sane would listen to or take seriously. Him mailing his journal to New Frontiersman is kinda as if your local homeless "crazy person" would mail his/her findings on who killed Kennedy to his/her favorite fanzine.
Never forget that Watchmen is a critique of the entire genre.
As an atheist I prefer this particular calendar as it is the one which is accepted or recognized the most around the world. There are more accurate and significant calendars and ways of measuring time out there but frankly - after 2000 years none of them are worth the trouble of switching. And personally, I am not so hung up on the whole "it is a calendar based on measuring time since the arbitrarily selected point in time when a pseudo-religious event is thought to have taken place" thing. If you really need to validate it in a scientific way, you can always go back to history (birth of a major religion that had huge impact on the human civilization) or sociology (birth of a major philosophy that had huge impact on the human civilization). Give or take 30 years. Not that the starting point of the calendar really matters much as long as we keep living on the same planet.
As for 11.11.11. - there is also gonna be a 12.12.12. soon. But mostly everyone will have to abandon that scheme for their drinking rituals by 2013. As there are only 12 months in a year. Also, there is supposed to be an end of the world in 2012 - according to Mayans and Roland Emmerich.
A friend of mine once rode with an acquaintance of his who kept passing cars even at curves in the road. When asked not to do that, he gave a "Don't worry" and some BS explanation about centrifugal and centripetal forces and the curvature of the road keeping his car and the one coming at him from behind the curve from crashing into each other.
Scary thing is he obviously believed that. Rest of the road was like riding in a car with Christopher Walken.
If by "accident" you mean something like King Kong, Megatron or Cloverfield monster picking up the car, tearing off the roof and then holding it upside down until the occupants of the vehicle fall out.
In real life, accidents are usually not that colorful, most of them being just the vehicle impacting another moving or stationary object.
I was given that very advice recently while strapping on the seat-belt. From a nurse, no less.
And I wish I had a dime every time someone told me "You don't need the seatbelt - there are no cops around here/I know the cops around here/it's just couple of minutes down the road."...
It is amazing what you can hit while aiming at something else.
Also, cables cover a MUCH larger area than insulators - i.e. there is whole lot of cables to be hit while missing insulators. And shooting with shot might not reach the insulators with enough force to do any damage, but just nicking the optic fibre might warrant servicing/replacement.
Also, drugs are to be used in sequence with the beatings - not simultaneously. No point in beating up someone who can't feel anything just for the sake of beating him up. Leave the personal enjoyment for later.
Mechanical sorting of mixed waste streams combined with anaerobic digestion or in-vessel composting, is called mechanical biological treatment, increasingly used in developed countries due to regulations controlling the amount of organic matter allowed in landfills. Treating biodegradable waste before it enters a landfill reduces global warming from fugitive methane; untreated waste breaks down anaerobically in a landfill, producing landfill gas that contains methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
And the "treatment" basically boils down to inducing either pre-emptive anaerobic or aerobic process - which produces either methane or CO2. Also, being all enthusiastic about the "After all, this is how all that coal and oil formed in the first place", author of the Washington Post story has obviously forgotten that natural gas (i.e. methane) is found in abundance wherever there is oil.
In the end, this could never come even close to being productive. Nor cheap. HUGE amounts of (agriculturally usable) space to plant the trees/plants would be needed. We're talking about enough trees/plants to suck up all the CO2 produced by every power-plant. Plants would need to be something that grows year-round, sucks up a lot of CO2, doesn't need fertilizer or nutrient rich soil and preferably grows vertically to take up less space. Hemp would probably be ideal, combined with pines or some other evergreen for the colder months. Acres and acres would have to be planted for every single power-plant. Plus, we are back to "carbon-credits" here as it would be physically impossible to plant all that shrubbery around the powerplants.
Then, more space would be needed to build the treatment plants that would suck out the carbon. Also, energy and money to run it as it would probably not be breaking even monetarily. Would it be breaking even carbon-vise is a whole new ballgame.
Then, the now nearly inert waste would need to be transported to the landfills buried/piled there - i.e. more energy, more CO2 released, more money.
More you go into it, the more does the whole "as big as the plant itself, costing $700 mil." deal sound attractive. Although, personally, I find the idea of burying the gas underground to be even dumber than the "piling garbage idea".
This story reported by the Sun is not true and we apologize for having published it. The FBI doesn't call the local police of a 1,729-people village in Bedfordshire, England, to tell someone is banned from entering the United States.
According to Homeland Security rules, if you are banned from entering the United States, they don't ever tell foreign nationals about it. They just deny you entry at the border because it shows up in your file.--JD
You are making a search without knowing what you are looking for. I'm talking about the cases when you or someone else know WHAT you are looking for but don't know the exact name of it.
Homophonic and homonymic (in translation) errors mostly happen with people who don't know how to spell that specific word in the first place. And if you DO know how to spell it... well... spellchecker is just a safety net. Cause you can still make beginner's-level errors by accident regardless of your ability to spell. E.g. I've just made an "its-it's" error in my previous post. Noticed it as I clicked [Submit].
As for fraudulent "special offers" - that is not a math problem. It is simply a fraud. People just don't expect to be tricked as most of those "special offers" actually ARE bargains of some sort or the other.
Don't worry. Humanity is not rapidly becoming ignorant. You are simply bumping into the statistical averages more often as there are now more people than ever before. And most of them are now living closer to each other than ever before. Plus, the Internet has made the world a far smaller place. No wonder you bump into more ignorant people.
Calculators. Google must have caused me to forget about that.
E.g. There's this story I've read several times so far, which is somewhat relevant to both the topic and the post above - but I've never really took time to memorize it's name. Or the story itself. And yet, I would be able to retell a very condensed version of it. Or google for it and find it in less than 30 seconds. Or link it here.
Google has not yet made me any smarter or dumber than I was before. But it did provide me with a tool which allows me to augment the use of my somewhat photographic memory to a level that may appear nearly magical to a bystander. Heck, now you can actually consider a line like "that movie, with that guy, who was in that other movie where he holds a bird, but in this movie he eats candy" a somewhat useful description.
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Seriously, we should set up a donation account for that.
OMG! They will waste billions and kill American astronauts in the process!
No... to late... if only you were there to point out that Wikipedia article to them sooner.
Come on...
BESIDES the fact that the Hydrogen payload is going AHEAD of the rest of the mission so the fuel for the trip back is already there when astronauts arrive - don't you think that they would you know... include the proper safety measures for landing 6 tons of H2 and a FUCKING NUCLEAR REACTOR ON THE FUCKING MARS?!
Since the contemporary political reaction to any insufficiently large disaster is to create the conditions for truly massive failures (aka. the "stimulus), the big hydrogen clouds on mars must look pretty attractive to Obama ...
Oh! I'm sorry... Didn't realize you were a troll, just going about your daily business.
Terribly sorry about. Didn't mean to offend your race or culture or anything.
There are some nice political stories coming up in the Firehose. You might like them.
Mars Direct (or Semi-Direct) plan can't be used for the Moon on account that Moon has no atmosphere.
Which would be the source of the fuel for the trip back home.
Also, most things that were a part of the Mars Direct plan were there because they are an issue if you are going to MARS. Not Moon.
Prolonged exposure to 0-gravity, fuel, launch window every 1.5 years etc.
Take a break and watch the documentary about it for more info.
...and more desktops. Per user.
That is a total of: 10 linux desktops in use in _ONE_ household
Exactly. One household.
Compared to Windowses and OSXs where a great number of desktops are for business use - there is a huge lack of eyeballs (ads, entertainment...) and hands (apps, tech support...) per desktop in your case.
Add to that the fact that most apps on Linux desktops are free of charge - and the actual market share comes out to FAR below 1%.
Cause, there ever was only one reason for talking about market share - how much money is there in it.
Desktop Linux? Really, not that much.
Business Linux... a whole different kettle of fish.
You haven't been reading io9 much, have you? 'O' in io9 stands for OMGSensationalism!..
They don't do "articles". Those are blog-posts.
It's all about the page hits baby... Journalism and correctness be damned.
My sarcasm detector is little off today (perhaps due to that nasty fall I had this morning...) so...
Why do you think they call them "Cardinal" Sins? Because all of the Cardinals commit them.
...than just "that church guy with a red robe and a funny hat, who is not the pope... yet".
Not that any of that changes the truthiness of the quoted statement in any way.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex gets a whole new level that way.
Also, Jean-Luc Godard, for the 3rd episode at least.
Couple of decades down the road, and Lucas (or his clone) will make an "updated and upgraded" version.
With more aliens saying things like "Whatda..." while driving.
Brought a tear to me eye, there.
Really, Obi-Wan? You lost another one?
Only if that tabloid thing with Rorschach's journal doesn't sucesfully expose him.
Thank you for using that word so I don't have to.
New Frontiersman is a small, local, right-wing rag staffed by two people. A paranoid right-winger and a proverbial fool.
Also, Rorschach was not really a kind of person anyone sane would listen to or take seriously.
Him mailing his journal to New Frontiersman is kinda as if your local homeless "crazy person" would mail his/her findings on who killed Kennedy to his/her favorite fanzine.
Never forget that Watchmen is a critique of the entire genre.
As an atheist I prefer this particular calendar as it is the one which is accepted or recognized the most around the world.
There are more accurate and significant calendars and ways of measuring time out there but frankly - after 2000 years none of them are worth the trouble of switching.
And personally, I am not so hung up on the whole "it is a calendar based on measuring time since the arbitrarily selected point in time when a pseudo-religious event is thought to have taken place" thing.
If you really need to validate it in a scientific way, you can always go back to history (birth of a major religion that had huge impact on the human civilization) or sociology (birth of a major philosophy that had huge impact on the human civilization). Give or take 30 years.
Not that the starting point of the calendar really matters much as long as we keep living on the same planet.
As for 11.11.11. - there is also gonna be a 12.12.12. soon.
But mostly everyone will have to abandon that scheme for their drinking rituals by 2013. As there are only 12 months in a year.
Also, there is supposed to be an end of the world in 2012 - according to Mayans and Roland Emmerich.
Yeah... I thought that he might have been sarcastic but I just had to say something.. you know... there are kids reading this.*
*Not sure if I'm being sarcastic there.
A friend of mine once rode with an acquaintance of his who kept passing cars even at curves in the road.
When asked not to do that, he gave a "Don't worry" and some BS explanation about centrifugal and centripetal forces and the curvature of the road keeping his car and the one coming at him from behind the curve from crashing into each other.
Scary thing is he obviously believed that. Rest of the road was like riding in a car with Christopher Walken.
If by "accident" you mean something like King Kong, Megatron or Cloverfield monster picking up the car, tearing off the roof and then holding it upside down until the occupants of the vehicle fall out.
In real life, accidents are usually not that colorful, most of them being just the vehicle impacting another moving or stationary object.
I was given that very advice recently while strapping on the seat-belt.
From a nurse, no less.
And I wish I had a dime every time someone told me "You don't need the seatbelt - there are no cops around here/I know the cops around here/it's just couple of minutes down the road."...
It is amazing what you can hit while aiming at something else.
Also, cables cover a MUCH larger area than insulators - i.e. there is whole lot of cables to be hit while missing insulators.
And shooting with shot might not reach the insulators with enough force to do any damage, but just nicking the optic fibre might warrant servicing/replacement.
Not that kind of drug.
Also, drugs are to be used in sequence with the beatings - not simultaneously.
No point in beating up someone who can't feel anything just for the sake of beating him up.
Leave the personal enjoyment for later.
they probably won't bother to hit you with the wrench until you tell them.
That is - it won't hurt THEM.
And besides, a little preemptive beating with a wrench never did kill anyone.
Anyone doing the beating that is.
I don't work for any 3-letter agency and even I could easily get the information needed.
With the right tools.
Besides the fact that the entire idea boils down to "plant a shitload of trees and then bury them" it is a rather uninformed... well... brain-fart. Literally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost_pile#Industrial_systems
Mechanical sorting of mixed waste streams combined with anaerobic digestion or in-vessel composting, is called mechanical biological treatment, increasingly used in developed countries due to regulations controlling the amount of organic matter allowed in landfills.
Treating biodegradable waste before it enters a landfill reduces global warming from fugitive methane; untreated waste breaks down anaerobically in a landfill, producing landfill gas that contains methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
And the "treatment" basically boils down to inducing either pre-emptive anaerobic or aerobic process - which produces either methane or CO2.
Also, being all enthusiastic about the "After all, this is how all that coal and oil formed in the first place", author of the Washington Post story has obviously forgotten that natural gas (i.e. methane) is found in abundance wherever there is oil.
In the end, this could never come even close to being productive. Nor cheap.
HUGE amounts of (agriculturally usable) space to plant the trees/plants would be needed. We're talking about enough trees/plants to suck up all the CO2 produced by every power-plant.
Plants would need to be something that grows year-round, sucks up a lot of CO2, doesn't need fertilizer or nutrient rich soil and preferably grows vertically to take up less space. Hemp would probably be ideal, combined with pines or some other evergreen for the colder months.
Acres and acres would have to be planted for every single power-plant.
Plus, we are back to "carbon-credits" here as it would be physically impossible to plant all that shrubbery around the powerplants.
Then, more space would be needed to build the treatment plants that would suck out the carbon.
Also, energy and money to run it as it would probably not be breaking even monetarily. Would it be breaking even carbon-vise is a whole new ballgame.
Then, the now nearly inert waste would need to be transported to the landfills buried/piled there - i.e. more energy, more CO2 released, more money.
More you go into it, the more does the whole "as big as the plant itself, costing $700 mil." deal sound attractive.
Although, personally, I find the idea of burying the gas underground to be even dumber than the "piling garbage idea".
...our resident expert made the following statement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qKcJF4fOPs
http://gizmodo.com/5637203/drunk-email-to-obama-gets-british-teen-banned-from-america-for-life
This story reported by the Sun is not true and we apologize for having published it.
The FBI doesn't call the local police of a 1,729-people village in Bedfordshire, England, to tell someone is banned from entering the United States.
According to Homeland Security rules, if you are banned from entering the United States, they don't ever tell foreign nationals about it.
They just deny you entry at the border because it shows up in your file.--JD
You are making a search without knowing what you are looking for.
I'm talking about the cases when you or someone else know WHAT you are looking for but don't know the exact name of it.
On the other hand googling for images with "movie holding bird" returns just the image I had in mind.
Now, based on that it's a zilch to get to this.
And going to youtube with all that information (the actor, the movie title) brings us this.
Homophonic and homonymic (in translation) errors mostly happen with people who don't know how to spell that specific word in the first place.
And if you DO know how to spell it... well... spellchecker is just a safety net.
Cause you can still make beginner's-level errors by accident regardless of your ability to spell.
E.g. I've just made an "its-it's" error in my previous post. Noticed it as I clicked [Submit].
As for fraudulent "special offers" - that is not a math problem. It is simply a fraud.
People just don't expect to be tricked as most of those "special offers" actually ARE bargains of some sort or the other.
Don't worry. Humanity is not rapidly becoming ignorant.
You are simply bumping into the statistical averages more often as there are now more people than ever before.
And most of them are now living closer to each other than ever before.
Plus, the Internet has made the world a far smaller place.
No wonder you bump into more ignorant people.
Calculators. Google must have caused me to forget about that.
E.g. There's this story I've read several times so far, which is somewhat relevant to both the topic and the post above - but I've never really took time to memorize it's name.
Or the story itself.
And yet, I would be able to retell a very condensed version of it.
Or google for it and find it in less than 30 seconds.
Or link it here.
Google has not yet made me any smarter or dumber than I was before.
But it did provide me with a tool which allows me to augment the use of my somewhat photographic memory to a level that may appear nearly magical to a bystander.
Heck, now you can actually consider a line like "that movie, with that guy, who was in that other movie where he holds a bird, but in this movie he eats candy" a somewhat useful description.