>>>Only if Austin can stay in the Union...a lot of us don't like getting thrown in with the hicks.
When the US seceded from the British Empire, the loyalists were given a choice: Stay as part of the new "hick" country, or pack-up their bags and move to British territory (Canada or England). Most moved. I guess if Texas seceded, you too would have to move somewhere else?
Well "Secession" is a reserved power under the Tenth Amendment. Just as any of the EU States can secede from the Union, so too can any of the US States.
The argument is especially strong in the case of Texas, which was an independent republic (like Vermont), and never part of the original Articles of Confederation. Texas is free to leave whenever it wishes.
Almost all my professors believed in God. They thought the Initial Singularity, big bang, expansion, evolution of stars, and all of it was part of his design.
It was Voyager for me. Reading the latest updates of V'ger's progress plus the gorgeous photos of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune..... definitely ignited by imagination. The shuttle program never interested me.
And of course there was that cool movie starring V'ger. "The Motion Picture" I think it was called.
The job must be exceptionally boring, since most of the time nothing happens. In my nearby plant, the nuclear engineers were found sleeping on the job during afternoons, and playing board games when awake.
1/2 dollar per GB v. 8 dollars per GB THAT'S the point. Of course if Verizon Wireless were still unlimited I agree with you, that it would be the better choice. But now that it's capped, it sucks. You're being waaaay overcharged. It should be closer to the cost of a DSL or cable hookup --- about 20 cents per GB.
From New York to Germany, politicians are proposing shutting-down nuclear plants.
Talk about jumping to rash conclusions. What are we supposed to use for power once the oil/coal becomes scarce and as expensive as silver? We need nuclear power as a replacement fuel (and supplemented by solar).
Yeah 750k is slower than your 20,000k line, but show me where else I can get a hulu.com-compatible line (for watching Stargate and other shows) for only $15/month. It doesn't exist.
>>>5 1/4" floppy disk
Fixed that for you.;-) And no I upgraded to the new "stiffies" a long time ago.
>>>"optimized for IE, if you use something else you're not worth bothering with" sites.
I used Mosaic/Netscape all the way from 1993 (Commodore Amiga and Mac) to 2006 (PC). I never had any problem rendering those "IE only" sites, and did try IE5/6 from time to time but never felt any desire to switch. IE5 rendered poorly on the mac, and IE6 crashes a lot.
Then I moved to Netscape's "child" known as Mozilla Seamonkey and eventually Firefox. Still see no reason to switch to IE, even though we have version 8 at work. There are better browsers (like opera).
$30/year gets me a full year of qualify fantasy and science fiction (Asimov's) whereas the Times offers nothing that valuable. I can hear the news for free (via google).
Information wants to be expensive AND wants to be free. So you have Value vs. Cheap distribution fighting each other.
>>>the ability of those three "precogs" to see the future is central to the plot of the story
Isaac Asimov had "seeing the future" as a central plot device for one of the most famous Science Fiction Trilogies ever produced (Foundation, F & Empire, Second F). It's not hard to imagine a being capable of moving, not just along three axes, but also the fourth time axis (even if it's just a brief glimpse).
Please allow me to address your message, but without the ad hominem attacks (logical flaw):
.....
Unfortunately after I deleted the ad-homs, there was nothing left. Maybe you should try rewriting your posts based on FACTS and leave out the personal insults. Thank you.
Also I question the sanity of this man Andreyev. He says if the fuel melts, it can achieve critical mass, and explode. Nuclear plants are designed to prevent such a thing.
that is the opinion of ONE man out of millions. Don't give it more weight than it deserves. It is too early to say, with certainty, that the Japan nuclear corporation is guilty like BP
I feel like that last post was written by a cheerleader.
>>>If something similar happens in Japan then Tokyo could quite easily become a ghost town
Tokyo's around 200 miles away! Jeez. And encasing everything in concrete would be dumb, as the nuclear material would simply keep heating-up until a worse disaster happened. You have to DEAL with the problem, not dump a bunch of concrete and hope it goes away.
Considering this long and lengthy argument from 1786, I don't know how can you reach that braiddead conclusion. Note the final bolded sentence.
"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
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>>>Only if Austin can stay in the Union...a lot of us don't like getting thrown in with the hicks.
When the US seceded from the British Empire, the loyalists were given a choice: Stay as part of the new "hick" country, or pack-up their bags and move to British territory (Canada or England). Most moved. I guess if Texas seceded, you too would have to move somewhere else?
Well "Secession" is a reserved power under the Tenth Amendment. Just as any of the EU States can secede from the Union, so too can any of the US States.
The argument is especially strong in the case of Texas, which was an independent republic (like Vermont), and never part of the original Articles of Confederation. Texas is free to leave whenever it wishes.
Almost all my professors believed in God. They thought the Initial Singularity, big bang, expansion, evolution of stars, and all of it was part of his design.
>>>Apollo or Voyager?
It was Voyager for me. Reading the latest updates of V'ger's progress plus the gorgeous photos of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune..... definitely ignited by imagination. The shuttle program never interested me.
And of course there was that cool movie starring V'ger. "The Motion Picture" I think it was called.
No the Peach Bottom nuclear plant near the Chesapeake Bay (northern tip).
bit of a stretch.
The job must be exceptionally boring, since most of the time nothing happens. In my nearby plant, the nuclear engineers were found sleeping on the job during afternoons, and playing board games when awake.
You're a bastard. You should have labeled it "NSFW" or "nudity" rather than than to get people fired off their jobs.
- "Microsoft officials brought with them a federal court order granting them permission to seize computers"
Sounds like corporatism to me. A hundred years ago in a small country called Italy, it was called a different word, starting with "F".
If Windows NT 6.1 (seven) is secure, how can the users cause problems?
And why don't users of OS X or Ubuntu Linux cause similar havoc with viruses/spybots? Perhaps because X and L are better designed.
>>>your signature makes you look like an idiot.
$7/14 gigabytes versus $40/5 gigabytes
1/2 dollar per GB
v. 8 dollars per GB
THAT'S the point. Of course if Verizon Wireless were still unlimited I agree with you, that it would be the better choice. But now that it's capped, it sucks. You're being waaaay overcharged. It should be closer to the cost of a DSL or cable hookup --- about 20 cents per GB.
>>>And what's a "hulu.com-compatible line"? ...like a troll? You're a troll, aren't you?
Hulu.com doesn't work with lines slower than 192k (i.e. dialup or ISDN or cellular G2) mister Anonymous Coward.
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>>>oil/coal becomes scarce and as expensive as silver?
That would be ~$160,000 per barrel. I suppose oil will never reach that high.
From New York to Germany, politicians are proposing shutting-down nuclear plants.
Talk about jumping to rash conclusions. What are we supposed to use for power once the oil/coal becomes scarce and as expensive as silver? We need nuclear power as a replacement fuel (and supplemented by solar).
Yeah 750k is slower than your 20,000k line, but show me where else I can get a hulu.com-compatible line (for watching Stargate and other shows) for only $15/month. It doesn't exist.
>>>5 1/4" floppy disk
Fixed that for you. ;-) And no I upgraded to the new "stiffies" a long time ago.
>>>"optimized for IE, if you use something else you're not worth bothering with" sites.
I used Mosaic/Netscape all the way from 1993 (Commodore Amiga and Mac) to 2006 (PC). I never had any problem rendering those "IE only" sites, and did try IE5/6 from time to time but never felt any desire to switch. IE5 rendered poorly on the mac, and IE6 crashes a lot.
Then I moved to Netscape's "child" known as Mozilla Seamonkey and eventually Firefox. Still see no reason to switch to IE, even though we have version 8 at work. There are better browsers (like opera).
That's damn fast. Even my 750k high speed line can't do that.
Can the Nexus run Opera?
>>>Protip: WebGL is not part of the HTML5 standard nor is it a W3C or WHATWG standard
Brain hurt.
Want to go back to simple HTML:
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19961114151757/http://scifi.com/
(look how fast it loads)
Your signature is ironically appropriate:
$30/year gets me a full year of qualify fantasy and science fiction (Asimov's) whereas the Times offers nothing that valuable. I can hear the news for free (via google).
Information wants to be expensive AND wants to be free. So you have Value vs. Cheap distribution fighting each other.
>>>the ability of those three "precogs" to see the future is central to the plot of the story
Isaac Asimov had "seeing the future" as a central plot device for one of the most famous Science Fiction Trilogies ever produced (Foundation, F & Empire, Second F). It's not hard to imagine a being capable of moving, not just along three axes, but also the fourth time axis (even if it's just a brief glimpse).
Dear Fishexe:
Please allow me to address your message, but without the ad hominem attacks (logical flaw):
Unfortunately after I deleted the ad-homs, there was nothing left. Maybe you should try rewriting your posts based on FACTS and leave out the personal insults. Thank you.
Allow me to address your post, minus the Personal attacks.
Unfortunately there was nothing left for me to respond to. Sorry.
P.S.
Also I question the sanity of this man Andreyev. He says if the fuel melts, it can achieve critical mass, and explode. Nuclear plants are designed to prevent such a thing.
that is the opinion of ONE man out of millions. Don't give it more weight than it deserves. It is too early to say, with certainty, that the Japan nuclear corporation is guilty like BP
I feel like that last post was written by a cheerleader.
>>>If something similar happens in Japan then Tokyo could quite easily become a ghost town
Tokyo's around 200 miles away! Jeez. And encasing everything in concrete would be dumb, as the nuclear material would simply keep heating-up until a worse disaster happened. You have to DEAL with the problem, not dump a bunch of concrete and hope it goes away.
>>>Jefferson actually supported IP laws
Considering this long and lengthy argument from 1786, I don't know how can you reach that braiddead conclusion. Note the final bolded sentence.
"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."