If someone were bold enough, they could get a tattoo of the source code, perhaps in a color that's only visible under ultraviolet light.
This would bring all kinds of interesting laws into effect. They can't issue cease and desist orders on someone's skin, nor could they reposses the code.
This is however, extremely unlikely. It's the college of congress that actually elects the president. And there's no way they're going to cast enough votes for him, to get him elected. I wonder if None of the above can be elected.
The skull will absorb more than the brain though, for what its worth
This will be the next great fraternity prank. New recruits will be required to spend their pledge time on the cell phone. At their initiation party, they'll shut off the lights and watch their heads glow. For added effect, they'll fix the antennae to be in the shape of the frat's greek symbols.
It goes without saying that this is a bad idea. Doesn't the president have some kind of technology advisor? If so, how in-tune is this person with the ever growing arena of technical advance? ICANN got their technical man. It's time we did too. Maybe we need someone who deals just with computer/internet technology.
If paper burns at 451 degrees farenheit, at what temperature do floppy disks burn?
I'm building my set now and plan to test how space worthy it is in a couple of months. My main concern is how space fungi resistant they are. I don't want to be battling the Ewoks one minute and cleaning the interior of my death machine the next.
On the other hand, if they could arrange a chance meeting between my newly acquired instrument of destruction, and Jar Jar, then I just might put up with it.
When complete, in 2006, the 16-nation project will have the interior volume of a 747 jumbo jet and stretch the length of a football field.'"
This is perfect. When the space station is finally completed, they can make some of their money back, by holding the superbowl there. They can use some of that space algae as makeshift astroturf. They'll of course, dress up one of the shuttles like the Goodyear blimp. We can get Roseanne to sing the National Anthem again, because after all, in space, no one can hear you scream.
Even if we could make this happen, do you think the future generations would take the steps necessary to complete the process? I'm sure that generating the PFCs is just one in a chain of events that would have to take place. Sooner or later, future generations will either lost interest, move on to something more exciting, or decide that maybe making this planet more habitable is a more lofty goal.
Oh baloney. There's no way you can convince me that medicine, math, and every other complex system was mastered "by looking at how birds fly and experimenting."
If she weighs the same as a duck, then she's made of wood...and therefore....a witch!
When I was first introduced to the idea of fuzzy sets, it was a little bizarre. Then it became clear that it was completely natural to think in terms of fuzzy sets. Discussing it with others, most have come to the same conclusion. And in discussing other aspects of complex systems, even amoung the average joe, it becomes pretty clear, that people are more than well enough equipped to deal with complex systems - both phsyical and mental. I don't know if describing it as some new paradigm of thinking is fair (and borders on sensationalism to sell a book).
Look at children. They learn to master extremely difficult complex systems like locomotion, language and exploration - all by the time they are five years old. How is most of this accomplished? Through imitation and experimentation. Children imitate what they see but they also explore their world. It's how many things are accomplished. Flight was mastered by looking at how birds fly and experimenting. So was medicine, math and every other complex system.
We may develop new terminology or methodology, but it all boils down to the same concepts.
This might be just another ploy some genius thought up to see if they can get away with it. Why not come up with lame schemes to see if there's money to be made? There's one born every minute after all.
This whole trend is getting ridiculously tiresome. I think it's time to start paying my membership fees to the barter society
This is dangerously close to A Clockwork Orange. In order to remove the bad parts of someone (or a society), they take the good parts out as well. Maybe we should ship them a few thousand copies of the movie
Perhaps at one time they were orbiting around a sun, and something happened to the sun (it blew up, got snuffed out, was stolen), and the planets got blown out into space, or had nothing to hold onto anymore and went wandering through the galaxy.
The fact that they are or not orbiting a star is irrelevant.
Well, not exactly. The only reasonplanets orbit stars is because we define them in that manner, just as we define a moon to orbit a planet. Does it matter that these particular bodies are orbiting planets? Not really. If the people who define what a planet is, decide they want to change the definition, then so be it.
By the way, etimologically planet means wanderer, so refusing to call these wandering objects planets goes against common sense, at least for people fluent in Greek
There are so many levels I could take this. Let's just say, that your logic escapes me. Just because it's etymologically based on the greek word for wanderer matters very little with how we define it today. Asteroids wander but we don't call them planets. Comets wander but they're not planets either. Many, many words are based on words from other languages, that have totally different meanings in today's indioms.
The defini tio n of planet requires that it be in orbit around a star and does not product light on its own. In fact, the article refered to them as planet-like.
Why was this post marked as redundant and the one below, saying a very similar thing was marked as funny?
Well, since you ask, I'll explain it (Ask Jeeves in on vacation and I'm filling in for him).
It all has to do with an add-in to Perl. It's called TemporalMechanics. It allows one to go backwards and forward in time. The exact syntax is:
temporalmechanics(direction, timeline)
As you can see, it allows for multiple timelines. Version 1.3 of the function will allow for parallel universes, but it's still in the debugging phase. Version 2.0 will send a memetic polyalloy self-replicating perl script to destroy any of Jon Katz mother's contributions to slashdot. The word is James Cameron is talking about version 3.0
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I was getting bored playing human chess. Now I can create my very own SubZero and play real life Mortal Kombat.
Now all I have to do is find my very own Pricess Kitana.
If someone were bold enough, they could get a tattoo of the source code, perhaps in a color that's only visible under ultraviolet light.
This would bring all kinds of interesting laws into effect. They can't issue cease and desist orders on someone's skin, nor could they reposses the code.
This is however, extremely unlikely. It's the college of congress that actually elects the president. And there's no way they're going to cast enough votes for him, to get him elected. I wonder if None of the above can be elected.
The skull will absorb more than the brain though, for what its worth
This will be the next great fraternity prank. New recruits will be required to spend their pledge time on the cell phone. At their initiation party, they'll shut off the lights and watch their heads glow. For added effect, they'll fix the antennae to be in the shape of the frat's greek symbols.
It goes without saying that this is a bad idea. Doesn't the president have some kind of technology advisor? If so, how in-tune is this person with the ever growing arena of technical advance? ICANN got their technical man. It's time we did too. Maybe we need someone who deals just with computer/internet technology.
If paper burns at 451 degrees farenheit, at what temperature do floppy disks burn?
I'm not a big perl weenie, but it takes alot for people to try to buy you out of your employer.
It doesn't take as much as you'd think. Sure he's making less money. But he'll start his new job with a lego desk and several AT-AT fighters.
I'm building my set now and plan to test how space worthy it is in a couple of months. My main concern is how space fungi resistant they are. I don't want to be battling the Ewoks one minute and cleaning the interior of my death machine the next.
On the other hand, if they could arrange a chance meeting between my newly acquired instrument of destruction, and Jar Jar, then I just might put up with it.
When complete, in 2006, the 16-nation project will have the interior volume of a 747 jumbo jet and stretch the length of a football field.'"
This is perfect. When the space station is finally completed, they can make some of their money back, by holding the superbowl there. They can use some of that space algae as makeshift astroturf. They'll of course, dress up one of the shuttles like the Goodyear blimp. We can get Roseanne to sing the National Anthem again, because after all, in space, no one can hear you scream.
Consider it done. I'll even create legislation where karma can be traded for frequent flyer miles.
Hmmm. I might be on to something here.
You can always vote for me as a write-in vote. As president, I promise I will:
And while Mars is not zero G. It is roughly 1/3 G.
On the other hand, people can drink 2/3 more beer, to weigh them down.
Even if we could make this happen, do you think the future generations would take the steps necessary to complete the process? I'm sure that generating the PFCs is just one in a chain of events that would have to take place. Sooner or later, future generations will either lost interest, move on to something more exciting, or decide that maybe making this planet more habitable is a more lofty goal.
Oh baloney. There's no way you can convince me that medicine, math, and every other complex system was mastered "by looking at how birds fly and experimenting."
If she weighs the same as a duck, then she's made of wood...and therefore....a witch!
When I was first introduced to the idea of fuzzy sets, it was a little bizarre. Then it became clear that it was completely natural to think in terms of fuzzy sets. Discussing it with others, most have come to the same conclusion. And in discussing other aspects of complex systems, even amoung the average joe, it becomes pretty clear, that people are more than well enough equipped to deal with complex systems - both phsyical and mental. I don't know if describing it as some new paradigm of thinking is fair (and borders on sensationalism to sell a book).
Look at children. They learn to master extremely difficult complex systems like locomotion, language and exploration - all by the time they are five years old. How is most of this accomplished? Through imitation and experimentation. Children imitate what they see but they also explore their world. It's how many things are accomplished. Flight was mastered by looking at how birds fly and experimenting. So was medicine, math and every other complex system.
We may develop new terminology or methodology, but it all boils down to the same concepts.
...so he turned it around to see if the potato was stuck and it nailed him right in the eye at point-blank range.
If he would have used a higher caliber potato, we could have nominated him for the Darwin Awards. He would have been very tough to beat.
This might be just another ploy some genius thought up to see if they can get away with it. Why not come up with lame schemes to see if there's money to be made? There's one born every minute after all.
This whole trend is getting ridiculously tiresome. I think it's time to start paying my membership fees to the barter society
Not only does that potato gun not function properly, but it did some really nasty things to my vintage collection of Mr. & Mrs Potato Heads.
This is dangerously close to A Clockwork Orange. In order to remove the bad parts of someone (or a society), they take the good parts out as well. Maybe we should ship them a few thousand copies of the movie
Perhaps at one time they were orbiting around a sun, and something happened to the sun (it blew up, got snuffed out, was stolen), and the planets got blown out into space, or had nothing to hold onto anymore and went wandering through the galaxy.
The fact that they are or not orbiting a star is irrelevant.
Well, not exactly. The only reason planets orbit stars is because we define them in that manner, just as we define a moon to orbit a planet. Does it matter that these particular bodies are orbiting planets? Not really. If the people who define what a planet is, decide they want to change the definition, then so be it.
By the way, etimologically planet means wanderer, so refusing to call these wandering objects planets goes against common sense, at least for people fluent in Greek
There are so many levels I could take this. Let's just say, that your logic escapes me. Just because it's etymologically based on the greek word for wanderer matters very little with how we define it today. Asteroids wander but we don't call them planets. Comets wander but they're not planets either. Many, many words are based on words from other languages, that have totally different meanings in today's indioms.
The defini tio n of planet requires that it be in orbit around a star and does not product light on its own. In fact, the article refered to them as planet-like.
Why was this post marked as redundant and the one below, saying a very similar thing was marked as funny?
Well, since you ask, I'll explain it (Ask Jeeves in on vacation and I'm filling in for him). It all has to do with an add-in to Perl. It's called TemporalMechanics. It allows one to go backwards and forward in time. The exact syntax is:
temporalmechanics(direction, timeline)
As you can see, it allows for multiple timelines. Version 1.3 of the function will allow for parallel universes, but it's still in the debugging phase. Version 2.0 will send a memetic polyalloy self-replicating perl script to destroy any of Jon Katz mother's contributions to slashdot. The word is James Cameron is talking about version 3.0
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This 'oxidation' infringes on patent number 623326 for our product 'Rust'
Well, your patent number (623326) infringes on my patent (123321) on having patent numbers that are palindromes.
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