Let's see. If we can use a small amount to power an engine and blow stuff up, I envision us having a small arms race to build a huge stealth swarm of bomb/WMD watchers to hover over the heads of those we don't like. Think AA sized battery with the energy content to fly from the US to any spot on the globe then over most of the year there. With a pay load of 2-4 D sized battery's that could cleanly wipe out New York delivered with GPS pin point accuracy and the video feed would be streamed straight to the major news outlets.
I can't wait. We can already build everything except the small power source. Small long lived power sources have just as many civilian uses as well.
I've not really thought of google competing with news sources. Why? Because the first thing that I do is open a tab into that news site. Honestly, I don't trust google for news. They are o.k. for getting an overview at a few things that may have been unknown to you. Depending on google for news is like depending on slashdot for balanced reporting and good editing.
I'm really uncomfortable with the words "banging against my nipples" conjuring a certain type of imagery
Didn't you guess that's all this is? Stick anything on the end of string and hang it between a pair of breasts. Unless it is a male breast, the object will be viewed.
Most of the childes asked, believed that what they found on the internet is true, 100% fact, and they had no training in spotting what's not facts or how to check the sources.
Actually, it is even worse if it is a printed book in the school's library or worse yet the assigned school textbooks. Students are taught to take it on faith that those facts in those books are true. Adults are worse though. Adults take it on faith that either CNN or Fox News depending on their political leaning is "right" without looking at or for any hard facts.
You do know that if you call up Sony and say anything about a "disk read error" that they will have you ship them your PS2 and send you back one with a new DVD-ROM and/or a new mobo with all the latest firmware updates and DVD player software right?
Does Sony do that if your PS2 is out of warranty? My was having that problem. The main reason that I didn't just exchange was lack of receipt. I hate those little pieces of paper that vanish when I need them. I originally got my PS2 for PS1 & DVD combo use. When I started having disc read errors, I just bought a cheap $40 DVD player. I was just going to wait for the PS3.
The social aspect is interesting: people resent reliable productive platforms, as it gives them fewer means to goof off, or semi plausable reasons for missing a deadline.
The required complexity of a "game" to train doctors would tend to make it not fun. I think the same could also be said for games designed to guide many other professionals.
I've read a few more posts along these lines. I think that you are under estimating game designers. I wouldn't want to in compass all of a "professional" field in a game it wouldn't work. Here are a few ideas that could work. 1. A basic first aid game with characters that are similar to the sims, must include Male/Female and age groups of infant, small child, young teenager, older teenager, "adult", and senior. The game should be designed to teach first aid and lesser known medical pracises to the general public. Think having a Sims room and a "senior" Sim has a heart attack. What do you do other than just call 911? 2. Guess the illness. This could be intended for doctors or the general public. The key thing is to provide a good 100-200 possible patients to show up with various minor medical problems/ or no medical problems but just aches and pain. I'd envision this game if aimed properly at the general public could teach parents when a child is "faking" illness, or has any of the various childerns illnesses like chicken pox. 3. You could have a Sim Doctor's office that is more similar to the Sims, but deals with the money factor of how small to very large hospitals are run. 4. And you could have "operation" type games. A game for the general public could be funnier, but I really won't want to stress teaching anything of operations to the general public. I'd want a some what realistic model with accurate responses for med. students only.
Our southern border with Mexico is 3,141 km long. So we just declare the first 5-10 km from the border, the wind mill plant and outsource the up keep to Mexican labor. It would be a win for both sides except for the birds.
And yes, I am a born-and-raised American. I am just so friggin sick of this idea that the USA is the greatest country in the world and that it always will be.
Actually, we copied that from China. China doesn't care about the rest of the world though. It knows it is the best in the world. China has known this for centuries. The US hasn't been around very long. We only had the USSR as a serious global challenge. The USSR didn't even last a century. Remember, the rest of the world has nothing that China wants. Will the US last 2-3 more centuries?
Because of this, the local Ma Bell company is not allowed to close up shop, and that's why they're basically granted a monopoly to soak the customers the can soak so that the company can afford to give below-cost service to those who can't.
They soak those low income folks also. In my latter years of college, my yearly income was really low. My AT&T bill was always about $20 per month. I'd look at the line items, $15 for services that I used and $5 bucks for fee/taxes! My long distance bill was worse, I'd get charged $10 a month for $2-3 of service, $5 basic ATT fee and the rest taxes and fees.
I'm glad sales tax isn't run the same way. We'd have %100 percent sales tax rather than the %8-%9.
I bet if the restoration was done on a beowulf cluster of old amigas running Linux, everyone would start saying Greedo shooting first was the best thing that ever happened to the trilogy...
Nah, we'd have to wait another twenty or thirty years for it to finish rendering. Then we'd complain about waiting x amount of years for that.
The Article said that it was supposed to be Star Wars hi-tech. So they need lasers in them there cameras, perform a crime infront of camera and you risk getting a body part cut off.
Filibusters should be illegal with the only penalty is the lost position of any one found guilty of it. Our government could be better run if delaying tatics like this were removed.
I would like to put a huge 2.4Ghz blaster outside your residence so you can not use any of your 2.4Ghz equipment...
It is as simple as that - Ever been to a LARGE conference (1000+) that offers wireless ? Every time I have gone - it takes about 2 days for the networking people to shutdown all of the stupid idiots that have open wireless on their laptops so the network can stabalize.
So what you are asking for is for the University to not be allowed to run a stable wireless network.
Why not flip that around. Do you live by a university or conference center, and about twice a month get your wireless connection with your neighbor shut down for the day and nearly trapped in your own home because thousands have decended at some event and start flooding the usually free spectum. Why can't the Universities stay on their own licensed spectrum? I as an individual can't afford to license spectum from the FCC. Any large university should be able to budget it as a perk not attempt to steal individuals rights for unveristy use only.
The argument over whether or not the US Senate should be appointed by state legislature or appointed by popular vote is really more about whether you lean more towards a pure democracy or a more republican system of government.
Which then boils down to whether you prefer to call it 'popular vote' or 'mob rule.'
That's easy it's 'mob rule' when every one votes against my views. Its a 'popular vote' if what I happen to be believe is supported. We are a republic. We have never been democracy. I don't directly vote for Supreme Court Judges, the President, or all the positions the President appoints. That's why we are a republic. I couldn't afford to spend the needed time and effort to learn about everyone and make good valid decisions. Those in elected position have to spend that time learning about judges and government middle managers that most people have never heard of. In this country we are doing good if most people even know the name of our current president, let alone agree with his views or have voted.
"In this case, the U.S. (a country of 200+ million people currently exerting its military dominance in 2 other countries) asked Australia (a country of 20 million people and comparably little world impact) to extradite him."
So should we extradite people to India or China because they outnumber people in the US? I doubt our military dominance would mean squat if we were colonized/invaded by 100 - 200 million Chineese. Our military might is good at remote stuff, we haven't been attacked and invaded in a long time. We could lose or be conquered.
It's not about laws, it's about rules. Even still, the access point is open to library patrons. You are not a patron for simply sitting in front of the building with your card in your pocket. Enter the library.
As, I understood it, you are a library patron if you pay for the taxes or fees to support it. It has nothing to do with if I'm in the library or not.
I argued in another post that it isn't okay for you to simply remove books from the library without checking them out.
It's more like you are saying that you have to go pick out a book, check it out, read the book in the library, and then check the book back in after you are finished. Only super special reference material is usually treated in this manner. If I'm going to be reading a 300 year old book, that's one thing if I'm reading the latest Harry Potter, well, they'll let you take that out of library.
2. Do you seriously believe that once the black boxes are in cars, and once the populace is used to the idea, that government WON'T expand on its use? 30 minutes? Why not 90 minutes in case the car's involved in a hit-and-run? Who can argue against that? Why not RFID transmitters on your car too so when you speed past a checkpoint, they can ring you up for speeding? At that point, why not an RFID transmitter implanted in your arm so that the speed trap can detect exactly who was behind the wheel?
Here is an idea, why not a bar code scanner required on the dash board that makes sure only a licensed and insured driver can start the car. The system can be used to prevent casual auto theft as well.
It's 1984. Brave New World is the one where the govt. encourages everyone to have sex with each other. 1984 is the one where the govt. attempts to completely restrict sex except for reproduction and all other forms of entertainment.
In BNW, the evil is there are no families everyone is grown in bottles and raised in creches , religion is almost completely eliminated, and the government damages the folks in the bottles to separate everyone into different catagories.
In 1984, the govt. watches everyone. In BNW the government doesn't have to, it built and raised everyone.
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Let's see. If we can use a small amount to power an engine and blow stuff up, I envision us having a small arms race to build a huge stealth swarm of bomb/WMD watchers to hover over the heads of those we don't like. Think AA sized battery with the energy content to fly from the US to any spot on the globe then over most of the year there. With a pay load of 2-4 D sized battery's that could cleanly wipe out New York delivered with GPS pin point accuracy and the video feed would be streamed straight to the major news outlets.
I can't wait. We can already build everything except the small power source. Small long lived power sources have just as many civilian uses as well.
I've not really thought of google competing with news sources. Why? Because the first thing that I do is open a tab into that news site. Honestly, I don't trust google for news. They are o.k. for getting an overview at a few things that may have been unknown to you. Depending on google for news is like depending on slashdot for balanced reporting and good editing.
I'm really uncomfortable with the words "banging against my nipples" conjuring a certain type of imagery
Didn't you guess that's all this is? Stick anything on the end of string and hang it between a pair of breasts. Unless it is a male breast, the object will be viewed.
Most of the childes asked, believed that
what they found on the internet is true, 100% fact, and they had no training in spotting what's not facts or how to check the sources.
Actually, it is even worse if it is a printed book in the school's library or worse yet the assigned school textbooks. Students are taught to take it on faith that those facts in those books are true. Adults are worse though. Adults take it on faith that either CNN or Fox News depending on their political leaning is "right" without looking at or for any hard facts.
You do know that if you call up Sony and say anything about a "disk read error" that they will have you ship them your PS2 and send you back one with a new DVD-ROM and/or a new mobo with all the latest firmware updates and DVD player software right?
Does Sony do that if your PS2 is out of warranty? My was having that problem. The main reason that I didn't just exchange was lack of receipt. I hate those little pieces of paper that vanish when I need them. I originally got my PS2 for PS1 & DVD combo use. When I started having disc read errors, I just bought a cheap $40 DVD player. I was just going to wait for the PS3.
The social aspect is interesting: people resent reliable productive platforms, as it gives them fewer means to goof off, or semi plausable reasons for missing a deadline.
Mod this guy up.
Ah well, personally, I think you should have to have a slashdot account to vote this year.
That's got to be the funniest thing that I've read today!
The required complexity of a "game" to train doctors would tend to make it not fun. I think the same could also be said for games designed to guide many other professionals.
I've read a few more posts along these lines. I think that you are under estimating game designers. I wouldn't want to in compass all of a "professional" field in a game it wouldn't work. Here are a few ideas that could work.
1. A basic first aid game with characters that are similar to the sims, must include Male/Female and age groups of infant, small child, young teenager, older teenager, "adult", and senior. The game should be designed to teach first aid and lesser known medical pracises to the general public. Think having a Sims room and a "senior" Sim has a heart attack. What do you do other than just call 911?
2. Guess the illness. This could be intended for doctors or the general public. The key thing is to provide a good 100-200 possible patients to show up with various minor medical problems/ or no medical problems but just aches and pain. I'd envision this game if aimed properly at the general public could teach parents when a child is "faking" illness, or has any of the various childerns illnesses like chicken pox.
3. You could have a Sim Doctor's office that is more similar to the Sims, but deals with the money factor of how small to very large hospitals are run.
4. And you could have "operation" type games. A game for the general public could be funnier, but I really won't want to stress teaching anything of operations to the general public. I'd want a some what realistic model with accurate responses for med. students only.
Our southern border with Mexico is 3,141 km long. So we just declare the first 5-10 km from the border, the wind mill plant and outsource the up keep to Mexican labor. It would be a win for both sides except for the birds.
And yes, I am a born-and-raised American. I am just so friggin sick of this idea that the USA is the greatest country in the world and that it always will be.
Actually, we copied that from China. China doesn't care about the rest of the world though. It knows it is the best in the world. China has known this for centuries. The US hasn't been around very long. We only had the USSR as a serious global challenge. The USSR didn't even last a century. Remember, the rest of the world has nothing that China wants. Will the US last 2-3 more centuries?
There's no way Yahoo will add my IP address to their DNS record.
If they let, you in, then they'd have to let all the spammers in as well. How do they know that you aren't a spammer?
Because of this, the local Ma Bell company is not allowed to close up shop, and that's why they're basically granted a monopoly to soak the customers the can soak so that the company can afford to give below-cost service to those who can't.
They soak those low income folks also. In my latter years of college, my yearly income was really low. My AT&T bill was always about $20 per month. I'd look at the line items, $15 for services that I used and $5 bucks for fee/taxes! My long distance bill was worse, I'd get charged $10 a month for $2-3 of service, $5 basic ATT fee and the rest taxes and fees.
I'm glad sales tax isn't run the same way. We'd have %100 percent sales tax rather than the %8-%9.
I bet if the restoration was done on a beowulf cluster of old amigas running Linux, everyone would start saying Greedo shooting first was the best thing that ever happened to the trilogy...
Nah, we'd have to wait another twenty or thirty years for it to finish rendering. Then we'd complain about waiting x amount of years for that.
The Article said that it was supposed to be Star Wars hi-tech. So they need lasers in them there cameras, perform a crime infront of camera and you risk getting a body part cut off.
Filibusters should be illegal with the only penalty is the lost position of any one found guilty of it. Our government could be better run if delaying tatics like this were removed.
Do you have flash installed? I didn't have any problems myself. Most of their site looks flash based.
I would like to put a huge 2.4Ghz blaster outside your residence so you can not use any of your 2.4Ghz equipment...
It is as simple as that - Ever been to a LARGE conference (1000+) that offers wireless ? Every time I have gone - it takes about 2 days for the networking people to shutdown all of the stupid idiots that have open wireless on their laptops so the network can stabalize.
So what you are asking for is for the University to not be allowed to run a stable wireless network.
Why not flip that around. Do you live by a university or conference center, and about twice a month get your wireless connection with your neighbor shut down for the day and nearly trapped in your own home because thousands have decended at some event and start flooding the usually free spectum. Why can't the Universities stay on their own licensed spectrum? I as an individual can't afford to license spectum from the FCC. Any large university should be able to budget it as a perk not attempt to steal individuals rights for unveristy use only.
The argument over whether or not the US Senate should be appointed by state legislature or appointed by popular vote is really more about whether you lean more towards a pure democracy or a more republican system of government.
Which then boils down to whether you prefer to call it 'popular vote' or 'mob rule.'
That's easy it's 'mob rule' when every one votes against my views. Its a 'popular vote' if what I happen to be believe is supported. We are a republic. We have never been democracy. I don't directly vote for Supreme Court Judges, the President, or all the positions the President appoints. That's why we are a republic. I couldn't afford to spend the needed time and effort to learn about everyone and make good valid decisions. Those in elected position have to spend that time learning about judges and government middle managers that most people have never heard of. In this country we are doing good if most people even know the name of our current president, let alone agree with his views or have voted.
"In this case, the U.S. (a country of 200+ million people currently exerting its military dominance in 2 other countries) asked Australia (a country of 20 million people and comparably little world impact) to extradite him."
So should we extradite people to India or China because they outnumber people in the US? I doubt our military dominance would mean squat if we were colonized/invaded by 100 - 200 million Chineese. Our military might is good at remote stuff, we haven't been attacked and invaded in a long time. We could lose or be conquered.
It's not about laws, it's about rules. Even still, the access point is open to library patrons. You are not a patron for simply sitting in front of the building with your card in your pocket. Enter the library.
As, I understood it, you are a library patron if you pay for the taxes or fees to support it. It has nothing to do with if I'm in the library or not.
I argued in another post that it isn't okay for you to simply remove books from the library without checking them out.
It's more like you are saying that you have to go pick out a book, check it out, read the book in the library, and then check the book back in after you are finished. Only super special reference material is usually treated in this manner. If I'm going to be reading a 300 year old book, that's one thing if I'm reading the latest Harry Potter, well, they'll let you take that out of library.
We'd also have fewer car accidents if we never made cars at all.
How many car accidents a year would we be having if we never made cars at all?
Why not atrocious or cruel' movies as 'harmful matter to children and adults!
2. Do you seriously believe that once the black boxes are in cars, and once the populace is used to the idea, that government WON'T expand on its use? 30 minutes? Why not 90 minutes in case the car's involved in a hit-and-run? Who can argue against that? Why not RFID transmitters on your car too so when you speed past a checkpoint, they can ring you up for speeding? At that point, why not an RFID transmitter implanted in your arm so that the speed trap can detect exactly who was behind the wheel?
Here is an idea, why not a bar code scanner required on the dash board that makes sure only a licensed and insured driver can start the car. The system can be used to prevent casual auto theft as well.
Baby steps to 1984. Or is it brave new world?
It's 1984. Brave New World is the one where the govt. encourages everyone to have sex with each other. 1984 is the one where the govt. attempts to completely restrict sex except for reproduction and all other forms of entertainment.
In BNW, the evil is there are no families everyone is grown in bottles and raised in creches , religion is almost completely eliminated, and the government damages the folks in the bottles to separate everyone into different catagories.
In 1984, the govt. watches everyone. In BNW the government doesn't have to, it built and raised everyone.
to fake a human settlement on Mars.
And cheaper also.