I keep Slashdot on the whitelist to try to help support the site, but just today an ad auto-played. If advertisers don't knock it off, I'll sadly have to remove Slashdot from the list.
It was a program called ticketsbite, based in Nevada I think, although it looks like they may have gone out of business (the website seems to be down). There is also trafficare international, which seems to be still up.
If they remove the requirement that you must break the law, then it is probably legal as a type of insurance. For example, there exists in the US insurance for speeding, expired tags, etc. that will pay your fine. You just have to phrase it as "if you forgot and broke the law accidentally, we will cover your ticket".
Not sure you should have picked 30 years ago. Here is a list of movies from 1981:
Arthur Body Heat The Cannonball run Escape from new york The Evil Dead Fort Apache, the bronx The Fox and the Hound History of the World, Part I Mommie Dearest On Golden Pond The Postman always rings twice Raiders of the Lost Ark Stripes Taps
Some of them you may not like due to subject matter or whatever, but many of these are considered classics (or at least cult classics).
Of course, you also got movies from 1981 like Condorman and Pirahna 2, The Spawning, but it seems like the ratio of good movies to sucky movies were better.
You know, if I was hired to run a convoy of supply trucks near a war zone, dropping a thousand dollars on a cheap UAV plus operator in the front cab seems like a wise investment. He could keep an eye out for ambushes, someone setting up IEDs, or even road problems that might delay us. I might even be able to expense it, depending on the contract.
Pass laws that any creature with human DNA is human and has the same rights as any other human. Have the law make those who create such creatures be financially responsible for them until such time as they can be demonstrated to be able to care for themselves.
And he who breaks the law shall be punished back to the house of pain!
This means a teacher can discuss examples of creationism from other religions (like from Islam) without fear of reprimand. With, of course, supporting text from the Koran.
What if some agent took the picture of a 12 year old girl home to "enjoy" in his free time? Could he be charged with possession of child pornography then? I'd say yes.
Ah, but the volume of an object increases as a cube, so if we increase the sphere so that the increase in the radius is 3, that would increase the volume by 27. Since we want to have a surface gravity similar to earth, that would mean the density of the planet to be about 2.04. (mass increases by 10, volume increases by 27, density of the earth is approximately 5.52)
Interestingly, that is very close to the range of the bone density of many animals, so the answer is obvious. We need to find the skeletal remains of a spherical space whale that is 3 times the size of the earth, and immigrate there.
Of course, with my luck, it would already be inhabited and I would be put to work in the calcium mines.
I have long thought that having a national health insurance system that anyone can buy into makes a whole lot of sense, especially if you roll in medicare/medicaid and the VA program costs into it. I also wonder how much of a discount doctors would be willing to give if you provide them with free malpractice insurance for accepting patients in the national health insurance program.
Hah! You think you are so clever. But I, I have figured out your secret message, buried deep within your ordinary missive to your parent. Now, I reveal it to the world!
"My plot is to rig engine into cutting out at noon"
It was so simple. just starting with the first letter, you used a standard pattern count of
Indeed, and such a study was done. The conclusion was a statistically significant increase in the lifespan of mothers vs. childless women, although environmental factors (status level and level of education) were more significant.
Interestingly, older mothers had a slower rate of aging than young mothers.
Does that mean you can accelerate a mass less than 0 beyond C? Hmmm.... So all we need to do is convert the object into negative mass, and then we can travel to the stars! Brilliant! Now where did I put that negative mass converter...
I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone that at one time creationism was a scientific proposition. Much thought was put into it, and men of science and reason believed it as the best explanation of the time.
No, it wasn't scientific. It was philosophical. A small but very important distinction.
I can't emphasize that enough. Get up, and actually make it to those classes that you or your parents are paying good money for you to attend. Most professors don't care if you go or not, your roommates certainly won't care, and unless you live at home, you're parents won't know if you do or not, until you flunk out. Too many of my friends, when they first taste the freedom of college, decided that since no one is forcing them to go to every class, they don't actually go to any of them.
I don't care how smart you are, if you don't attend the classes, you won't learn the material. Trying to keep up by just reading the textbook won't cut it anymore. You will often cover things in the class that won't actually be in the book, but will help you understand the material better.
Oh, and don't forget to do all those papers, homework assignments and to study for the tests too.
Nah, Viruses are unlife. I mean, have you ever seen one under a microscope? Or at least a picture of one? They are these strange, skeletal monsters that possess other living organisms, eat their brains and turn them into zombified machines.
I'm sure that when amoeba tell horror stories to each other, it all involves viruses taking over amoeba-kind.
No. There are many more than just two possibilities. Let's just take a look at some of the variables:
Variable One: Climate. The climate could be changing, the climate may not. However, which direction is the change occuring in, if at all? Is the climate getting warmer, cooler, staying the same? are the changes cyclical or a steady increase or decrease?
Variable Two: Cause. If the climate is changing, what is causing the change? Is it human or man-made? What are the sources of the changes, if any? If there are multiple sources, are the results additive or multiplicative? Do some causes counter some of the other causes? How much?
Variable Three: Effect. Can anything we do effect the climate at all? If so, should we? If global warming isn't occuring, what effect would happen if we should alter the environment? What if our current environmental effects are protecting us from a worse change (the global warming protecting us from an ice age scenario) and we upset that balance? What happens if there is an over-correction?
It is a much more complicated set of problems than what you propose. A simple either/or solution will not suffice.
This is an example of a GOOD commercial in my opinion. It is so mind-numbingly bizarre that you just have to watch to see what the hell is going on here, mouth hanging open in utter shock. Meanwhile you get told about this restaurant called Quizno's that serves sandwiches and has a pepper bar. If you are in the mood for a sandwich and you like the idea of a pepper bar, then you may be willing to try it out.
And your mind will never, ever, let you forget the horrors that are the spongemonkeys.
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I keep Slashdot on the whitelist to try to help support the site, but just today an ad auto-played. If advertisers don't knock it off, I'll sadly have to remove Slashdot from the list.
It was a program called ticketsbite, based in Nevada I think, although it looks like they may have gone out of business (the website seems to be down). There is also trafficare international, which seems to be still up.
If they remove the requirement that you must break the law, then it is probably legal as a type of insurance. For example, there exists in the US insurance for speeding, expired tags, etc. that will pay your fine. You just have to phrase it as "if you forgot and broke the law accidentally, we will cover your ticket".
Who's Performing the great ghost dance in Russia?
Not sure you should have picked 30 years ago. Here is a list of movies from 1981:
Arthur
Body Heat
The Cannonball run
Escape from new york
The Evil Dead
Fort Apache, the bronx
The Fox and the Hound
History of the World, Part I
Mommie Dearest
On Golden Pond
The Postman always rings twice
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Stripes
Taps
Some of them you may not like due to subject matter or whatever, but many of these are considered classics (or at least cult classics).
Of course, you also got movies from 1981 like Condorman and Pirahna 2, The Spawning, but it seems like the ratio of good movies to sucky movies were better.
You know, if I was hired to run a convoy of supply trucks near a war zone, dropping a thousand dollars on a cheap UAV plus operator in the front cab seems like a wise investment. He could keep an eye out for ambushes, someone setting up IEDs, or even road problems that might delay us. I might even be able to expense it, depending on the contract.
Pass laws that any creature with human DNA is human and has the same rights as any other human. Have the law make those who create such creatures be financially responsible for them until such time as they can be demonstrated to be able to care for themselves.
And he who breaks the law shall be punished back to the house of pain!
This means a teacher can discuss examples of creationism from other religions (like from Islam) without fear of reprimand. With, of course, supporting text from the Koran.
What if some agent took the picture of a 12 year old girl home to "enjoy" in his free time? Could he be charged with possession of child pornography then? I'd say yes.
You know, if a single small accident could lead to a horrible, horrible death... I'd be okay with boring checklists.
You're not supposed to read the newspaper either.
Ah, but the volume of an object increases as a cube, so if we increase the sphere so that the increase in the radius is 3, that would increase the volume by 27. Since we want to have a surface gravity similar to earth, that would mean the density of the planet to be about 2.04. (mass increases by 10, volume increases by 27, density of the earth is approximately 5.52)
Interestingly, that is very close to the range of the bone density of many animals, so the answer is obvious. We need to find the skeletal remains of a spherical space whale that is 3 times the size of the earth, and immigrate there.
Of course, with my luck, it would already be inhabited and I would be put to work in the calcium mines.
I have long thought that having a national health insurance system that anyone can buy into makes a whole lot of sense, especially if you roll in medicare/medicaid and the VA program costs into it. I also wonder how much of a discount doctors would be willing to give if you provide them with free malpractice insurance for accepting patients in the national health insurance program.
Hah! You think you are so clever. But I, I have figured out your secret message, buried deep within your ordinary missive to your parent. Now, I reveal it to the world!
5 -6-7-1-8-6-25-10-13-22-4-6-4-2-6-8-9
"My plot is to rig engine into cutting out at noon"
It was so simple. just starting with the first letter, you used a standard pattern count of
7-10-10-5-11-4-11-1-3-8-4-2-5-5-3-5-5-5-6-11-1-7-
to hide your message, then filled in the remaining letters as necessary.
I have foiled your scheme! You will never succeed in causing the engine to fail at noon!
Indeed, and such a study was done. The conclusion was a statistically significant increase in the lifespan of mothers vs. childless women, although environmental factors (status level and level of education) were more significant.
Interestingly, older mothers had a slower rate of aging than young mothers.
Does that mean you can accelerate a mass less than 0 beyond C? Hmmm.... So all we need to do is convert the object into negative mass, and then we can travel to the stars! Brilliant! Now where did I put that negative mass converter...
I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone that at one time creationism was a scientific proposition. Much thought was put into it, and men of science and reason believed it as the best explanation of the time.
No, it wasn't scientific. It was philosophical. A small but very important distinction.
I can't emphasize that enough. Get up, and actually make it to those classes that you or your parents are paying good money for you to attend. Most professors don't care if you go or not, your roommates certainly won't care, and unless you live at home, you're parents won't know if you do or not, until you flunk out. Too many of my friends, when they first taste the freedom of college, decided that since no one is forcing them to go to every class, they don't actually go to any of them.
I don't care how smart you are, if you don't attend the classes, you won't learn the material. Trying to keep up by just reading the textbook won't cut it anymore. You will often cover things in the class that won't actually be in the book, but will help you understand the material better.
Oh, and don't forget to do all those papers, homework assignments and to study for the tests too.
Nah, Viruses are unlife. I mean, have you ever seen one under a microscope? Or at least a picture of one? They are these strange, skeletal monsters that possess other living organisms, eat their brains and turn them into zombified machines.
I'm sure that when amoeba tell horror stories to each other, it all involves viruses taking over amoeba-kind.
Plagarized without attribution from SJ Games.
I mean, come on. At least change around the text a little bit.
Anecdotal evidence never proves anything
Sure it can. It's called a counterexample.
No. There are many more than just two possibilities. Let's just take a look at some of the variables:
Variable One: Climate. The climate could be changing, the climate may not. However, which direction is the change occuring in, if at all? Is the climate getting warmer, cooler, staying the same? are the changes cyclical or a steady increase or decrease?
Variable Two: Cause. If the climate is changing, what is causing the change? Is it human or man-made? What are the sources of the changes, if any? If there are multiple sources, are the results additive or multiplicative? Do some causes counter some of the other causes? How much?
Variable Three: Effect. Can anything we do effect the climate at all? If so, should we? If global warming isn't occuring, what effect would happen if we should alter the environment? What if our current environmental effects are protecting us from a worse change (the global warming protecting us from an ice age scenario) and we upset that balance? What happens if there is an over-correction?
It is a much more complicated set of problems than what you propose. A simple either/or solution will not suffice.
But what if it was decaf coffee? Would 100 cups of decaf coffee kill you? Or would you just wish you were dead?
That would be Voltaire.
Another good quote: "There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them." - Joubert
But... but... they got a pepper bar!
This is an example of a GOOD commercial in my opinion. It is so mind-numbingly bizarre that you just have to watch to see what the hell is going on here, mouth hanging open in utter shock. Meanwhile you get told about this restaurant called Quizno's that serves sandwiches and has a pepper bar. If you are in the mood for a sandwich and you like the idea of a pepper bar, then you may be willing to try it out.
And your mind will never, ever, let you forget the horrors that are the spongemonkeys.