Which proposals, specifically, are you referring to? Are there already proposals for an X Prize style competition to create a rapid transit system between LA and SF? Or are you getting your panties in a bunch because you are reading comments without the context of TFA?
I don't think the poster was referring to the idea of Hyperloop or FSR as idiotic. He's responding to TFA's proposed X-Prize style challenge. The idea of private entities competing for a prize by each building such a system is a bit much, given the political and private property issues involved. Random X-Prize team cannot invoke eminent domain to compete for a prize.
I don't love it, but I'll reserve judgment until I see it. I think I mostly don't like the fact that he's already appeared in the series as another character. Sure, Karen Gillan also appeared in a previous episode before becoming Amy Pond, but she was so heavily made up you wouldn't recognize her. They had Eve Myles play different characters, but at least they had a fun little nod to that fact. So maybe it's fine.
I guess I do like the fact that they're going with someone who will probably be darker and less goofy than Smith.
And let's not forget Freema Agyeman playing Martha's cousin a couple of episodes before coming on as Martha Jones.
Their names are out there. Why do you need their addresses? Are you going to pay their families a visit at home? Is that in any way relevant to anything at all?
The problem with printed firearms is that they're plastic. We have no means to detect them. They instantly obsolete our security infrastructure. You can walk onto an airplane with one. You could walk into a courtroom with one. You could walk into the White House, Congress, or the Supreme Court with one. That is a major problem..
People keep saying this. The Liberator uses a metal firing pin. Sure, you would walk into a courtroom with one. It wouldn't be a functional gun, but it would look like one.
I'm glad this is being worked on so diligently. Artificial skin should be ready for prime time by the time I'm finally able to transfer my consciousness into an artificial body.
I got a nasty letter from my ISP telling me "No peer-to-peer". I called them, and said "WTF guys? I download Linux distros and OpenOffice ISOs via torrent, all kinds of 100% legal and legitimate content." "We don't care. No peer-to-peer."
So I signed up for a VPN, of course.
I wonder if they also go after all the folks that are just trying to download the latest WoW patch. Seems like most MMORPGs these days use P2P updaters.
pushing congress to increase non-defensive R&D spending to 3% of the U.S. GDP
3% of GDP sounds like a hell of a lot. It works out to 452 billion. I hope TFS misplaced a decimal point or something because otherwise the president is a stranger to reason.
We could pull $452B out of our defense budget and still be the biggest defense spender in the world nearly twice over (source: Wikipedia). Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.
Still, I'm sure he meant 3% of the federal budget rather than GDP.
Solaris 8. Hell, go all out with the retro vibe and toss on iPlanet and run a web site full of animated GIFs.
In all seriousness, we run several SunFire V480s and V1280s at work. They do, in fact, have Solaris 8 iPlanet installed and we use them to run a web app and some data processing software we built in house. We're ditching them in favor of T4s pretty soon, but they've treated us pretty damned well for about 10 years.
There are provisions for independent observers. The US signed the treaty with these guys, so they have to invite the observers. Local law doesn't matter, as the federal government signed the treaty.
I see no evidence to indicate that the U.S. ratified a treaty with these guys. The POTUS may have signed some non-binding stuff, but it's just that.
Furthermore, the Constitution designates the States as the stewards of the electoral process. The Federal government has no say in this, even if they did sign a treaty.
This is a good way to go, but you have to keep the snapshot up to date. I'd hate to sit down on raid night and find that I can't play for 6 hours because I just restored a snapshot from before $BIG_PATCH was released.
For that many people, we're talking more money than he, Gates, and four other random billionaires combined have.
If you're referring to the "hundreds of thousands" here, I think you misread the summary. As far as I could tell, TFA didn't say how many people he was planning to put on Mars. He's saying he'll finance the Mars colony with the fares he gets from his space tourism business. He's expects hundreds of thousands will pay Virgin Galactic.
I feel for you, sir. Get out and let them know that is the reason you're getting out.
Call centers have such high turnover that they really don't care why you're getting out. They've got a ready supply of people to take your place for $2.00 per hour less.
Ad hominem much? You know, it really takes away from the power of your argument... So do typos/grammos.
No. What he said is pretty much true. Mac OS-X uses a heavily modified BSD kernel. It is 100% not Linux. Also, I don't see anything wrong with suggesting somebody check their facts before posting. Saying something is ad hominem doesn't make it so.
Attempting to discredit somebody's point by criticizing their grammatical and spelling errors is, however, ad hominem.
I played CoH off and on since late 2004. It (along with EverQuest) is one of the games I go back to for a month or two each year. I'm not looking forward to the next time I feel the urge to play my scrapper and then remember he's gone forever.
Wouldn't be so bad if only Champions Online wasn't such a steaming pile of donkey shit. No more hero fixes for me.
The victim of rape should not be punished. And being forced to birth the child of your rapist is an unimaginably cruel punishment that wouldn't even be fit for a convicted criminal.
Better let the muslim world know. There are parts where the rapist can get off the crime if they marry the person they rape. Though in most cases the girl simply commits suicide.
Doesn't the Bible have the same provision?
Indeed it does. Where do you think the Muslims got it?
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Why didn't I think of that? I could have been smoke free years before getting my ecig.
Which proposals, specifically, are you referring to? Are there already proposals for an X Prize style competition to create a rapid transit system between LA and SF? Or are you getting your panties in a bunch because you are reading comments without the context of TFA?
I don't think the poster was referring to the idea of Hyperloop or FSR as idiotic. He's responding to TFA's proposed X-Prize style challenge. The idea of private entities competing for a prize by each building such a system is a bit much, given the political and private property issues involved. Random X-Prize team cannot invoke eminent domain to compete for a prize.
I don't love it, but I'll reserve judgment until I see it. I think I mostly don't like the fact that he's already appeared in the series as another character. Sure, Karen Gillan also appeared in a previous episode before becoming Amy Pond, but she was so heavily made up you wouldn't recognize her. They had Eve Myles play different characters, but at least they had a fun little nod to that fact. So maybe it's fine.
I guess I do like the fact that they're going with someone who will probably be darker and less goofy than Smith.
And let's not forget Freema Agyeman playing Martha's cousin a couple of episodes before coming on as Martha Jones.
Hopefully it will get a bit more sinister, less shouting and running, better arcs. Can't wait till the Christmas Special :)
They're only replacing the (really good) actor that portrays the Doctor. Moffat is still in control.
Their names are out there. Why do you need their addresses? Are you going to pay their families a visit at home? Is that in any way relevant to anything at all?
OK. So you've got a non-functional gun that doesn't look like a functional gun.
The problem with printed firearms is that they're plastic. We have no means to detect them. They instantly obsolete our security infrastructure. You can walk onto an airplane with one. You could walk into a courtroom with one. You could walk into the White House, Congress, or the Supreme Court with one. That is a major problem..
People keep saying this. The Liberator uses a metal firing pin. Sure, you would walk into a courtroom with one. It wouldn't be a functional gun, but it would look like one.
I'm glad this is being worked on so diligently. Artificial skin should be ready for prime time by the time I'm finally able to transfer my consciousness into an artificial body.
Why not Alice? It's available on Windows, Mac and Linux. If it's not yet available in your chosen language, you can join in the localization effort.
I got a nasty letter from my ISP telling me "No peer-to-peer". I called them, and said "WTF guys? I download Linux distros and OpenOffice ISOs via torrent, all kinds of 100% legal and legitimate content." "We don't care. No peer-to-peer."
So I signed up for a VPN, of course.
I wonder if they also go after all the folks that are just trying to download the latest WoW patch. Seems like most MMORPGs these days use P2P updaters.
WARNING: Goatse link! Seriously, fuck you. This stopped being funny years ago.
Don't believe the AC. The tinyurl above goes to http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/26/obama-readies-to-blast-nasa
Not really sure why that needed to be tiny.
3% of GDP sounds like a hell of a lot. It works out to 452 billion. I hope TFS misplaced a decimal point or something because otherwise the president is a stranger to reason.
We could pull $452B out of our defense budget and still be the biggest defense spender in the world nearly twice over (source: Wikipedia). Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.
Still, I'm sure he meant 3% of the federal budget rather than GDP.
Solaris 8. Hell, go all out with the retro vibe and toss on iPlanet and run a web site full of animated GIFs.
In all seriousness, we run several SunFire V480s and V1280s at work. They do, in fact, have Solaris 8 iPlanet installed and we use them to run a web app and some data processing software we built in house. We're ditching them in favor of T4s pretty soon, but they've treated us pretty damned well for about 10 years.
And Unity finally makes the natural leap from unusable PC desktop environment to laggy, buggy tablet interface.
There are provisions for independent observers. The US signed the treaty with these guys, so they have to invite the observers. Local law doesn't matter, as the federal government signed the treaty.
I see no evidence to indicate that the U.S. ratified a treaty with these guys. The POTUS may have signed some non-binding stuff, but it's just that.
Furthermore, the Constitution designates the States as the stewards of the electoral process. The Federal government has no say in this, even if they did sign a treaty.
This is a good way to go, but you have to keep the snapshot up to date. I'd hate to sit down on raid night and find that I can't play for 6 hours because I just restored a snapshot from before $BIG_PATCH was released.
For that many people, we're talking more money than he, Gates, and four other random billionaires combined have.
If you're referring to the "hundreds of thousands" here, I think you misread the summary. As far as I could tell, TFA didn't say how many people he was planning to put on Mars. He's saying he'll finance the Mars colony with the fares he gets from his space tourism business. He's expects hundreds of thousands will pay Virgin Galactic.
I feel for you, sir. Get out and let them know that is the reason you're getting out.
Call centers have such high turnover that they really don't care why you're getting out. They've got a ready supply of people to take your place for $2.00 per hour less.
Can we get that in bowler hat form?
You got me. You are correct. I stand by the rest of my statement though.
Ad hominem much? You know, it really takes away from the power of your argument... So do typos/grammos.
No. What he said is pretty much true. Mac OS-X uses a heavily modified BSD kernel. It is 100% not Linux. Also, I don't see anything wrong with suggesting somebody check their facts before posting. Saying something is ad hominem doesn't make it so.
Attempting to discredit somebody's point by criticizing their grammatical and spelling errors is, however, ad hominem.
I played CoH off and on since late 2004. It (along with EverQuest) is one of the games I go back to for a month or two each year. I'm not looking forward to the next time I feel the urge to play my scrapper and then remember he's gone forever.
Wouldn't be so bad if only Champions Online wasn't such a steaming pile of donkey shit. No more hero fixes for me.
The victim of rape should not be punished. And being forced to birth the child of your rapist is an unimaginably cruel punishment that wouldn't even be fit for a convicted criminal.
Better let the muslim world know. There are parts where the rapist can get off the crime if they marry the person they rape. Though in most cases the girl simply commits suicide.
Doesn't the Bible have the same provision?
Indeed it does. Where do you think the Muslims got it?
No, I am Spartacus! Wait, I think I am in the wrong movie!
I'm Brian and so is my wife!