People brag about their BSD boxes uptime of months or a couple years. The satellite has not been pysically maintained for 20 years and still works. It's pretty impressive.
I'll bet that bit kills at open mic night at the coffee house. Do you use it in between your "is that your final answer" material and the closing "you are the weakest link, goodbye" bit.
IIRC- there were three tests on Viking for life-related chemicals. There were two main tests and a tiebreaker test. The first test was negative, the second test was positive, and the tiebreaker was inconclusive. Since there was no official positive conclusion, the news media never did much with the story. People have been debating that positive test ever since.
I really really hope they find undeniable evidence of life on Mars. That should give the anti-evolution people something to chew on.
I read a story that I believe Bill G. has confirmed as true.
When Bill was in high school, he wrote the software that handled class registration. Not only did the system work great, but all of Bill's classes were two thirds girls. Nice.
Check out the Samsung A-460. It's pretty small and does all the basics really well. Mine broke and was replaced with a N-400, this big bastard with a color screen. I'm looking for a downgrade.
Lots of friends have camera phones. I have a camera for taking pictures. Unlike these phones, it captures more than 1 megapixel. When I need to take pictures, I carry it with me.
That would be a tricky weapon to use. You would have to choose an asteroid with exactly the right mass to destroy an enemy without ending life on Earth. Then you would have to both aim and time the asteroid to hit your enemy. Compare the difficulty of that to building or stealing a nuclear weapon. I'd worry about the nukes.
From the link (after space was removed): "Fact: The CIA trained absolutely no one in Afghanistan, or in neighboring Pakistan, neither in the tactics of terror or even in how to use the Stinger missiles provided to the Afghans."
Then why were two retired CIA agents on the History Channel talking how they spent years training resistance fighters in Afghanistan? One guy told a great story. They agents had insructed fighters on how to build bombs (according to you, after checking IDs and excusing foreigners). For PR reasons, they didn't want the fighers to use car bombs, then and now a staple of "terrorist" attacks. The agent heard there had been a car bombing and went to a resistance leader to yell at him. The leader defended the action saying "No...not car bomb...mule bomb."
The facts are that Ronald Reagan provided weapons and support to both Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Donald Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam in 1984, months after he killed hundreds of Kurds using American helicopters. Until we admit these things, we're destined to do it again.
We can use President Bush's terrorist definition: 1) Is brown 2) Mistakenly refers to God as Allah 3) Hates freedom
He talks about #3 all the time even though it makes no sense. When Bin Laden was working with the CIA to free Afghanistan from the Russians, he liked freedom well enough. The Army of God has killed 3 people and injured over 100 in 4 bombings (Olympic Park, 2 Women's Clinics, and a Gay Bar). They fail tests #1 and #2, so Bush never mentions them.
George Bush spent his entire business career working closely with Saudis and losing their money by the billions. He'll never take a hard line with them. They're an Islamic based monarchy with extensive ties to terrorism, but they play ball, and that's what counts in Bush's world (which bears little resemblance to the real world). Pakistan was providing real WMD to "Axis of Evil" countries while we were hunting imaginary WMDs in Iraq. Again, they won't be touched because they play ball.
Until we start focusing on actual terrorism issues and not politically convenient smoke and mirrors, we'll never make any progress against terrorism.
I've worked with the stuff you're talking about on one project. You're right, it's somewhat delicate. But you're assuming that it's impossible for the process to be improved. In the early 1900s, the motor oil in cars had to be changed every few hundred miles. Nobody said "This car thing will never work because the oil sucks". No, they hit the lab and developed better oil.
My guess is that they'll develop a 2 stage process. The first stage will be like what we have now. Then some sort of baking or chemical treatment will harden it.
Has anyone else noticed that Republicans yell about state's right right up until a state tries to do something they disagree with? When a state tries to let 19 year olds drink or let cancer patients smoke pot, where do all of those state's rights conservatives run off to?
My good friend has the first Phillips Tivo (originally 14 hr). We've called the remote "the dildo" since the week he got it. It's a great remote, but very dildonic.
Modern evolution deniers say that dinosour bones were placed in the ground by Satan to trick people like you and me into thinking that the world wasn't created 5000 years ago. For many many years, fossils of all kinds were identified as the remains of animals killed in the Biblical Flood.
Don't bother debating logic with religious fanatics. Their system is designed so that logic won't work against it. The church is not going to let something as trivial as reason get in the way of them collecting their 10% off the top.
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Actually, payphones are disappearing by the boatload. Every payphone at my college is now an empty wall jack. They're not worth maintaining because most people have....wait for it...cell phones.
The biggest factor in determining whether someone will survive a major heart attack is how fast the paramedics arive. The 2 minutes it takes to get outside the jamming range or find a land line phone may be 2 minutes more than someone has.
The good news is that they're putting automatic defibrilators in airports and malls, which are saving lives everyday.
My cell phone is on vibrate 24/7. Why should I get jammed? The only good solution is a bluetooth type technology that silences any phone in the area without disabling them.
Sure some people are inconsiderate jerks. People talk to people sitting next to them in movies all the time. We don't duct tape everyone's mouthes shut on the way in.
Actually they should have screened the line for Return of the King. If you didn't see the first two movies, you should not have been allowed in. There were people all around me having the first 6 hours of film described to them on the fly.
Diamonds are graded on color. A is the clearest and the more yellow pigment there is the farther into the alphabet the color grade. The price falls significantly as you move down the scale. Then you get all the way to Z+ which becomes "fancy yellow" and then the price goes WAY up. The yellow is caused by nitrogen impurities. The diamond manufacturing people can make a lot more per carat if they intentionally put nitrogen into their diamonds.
It's a real company, or at least used to be. Me and my friends played a lot of Duke Nukem deathmatch back in about 1995. I always preferred Quake more, but Duke was the last good flat bitmap based game.
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People brag about their BSD boxes uptime of months or a couple years. The satellite has not been pysically maintained for 20 years and still works. It's pretty impressive.
-B
Was it this bet or another bet Hawking made where the prize was a subscription to Hustler magazine?
I could imagine a reporter just changing the bet to an encyclopedia.
-B
I'll bet that bit kills at open mic night at the coffee house. Do you use it in between your "is that your final answer" material and the closing "you are the weakest link, goodbye" bit.
-B
IIRC- there were three tests on Viking for life-related chemicals. There were two main tests and a tiebreaker test. The first test was negative, the second test was positive, and the tiebreaker was inconclusive. Since there was no official positive conclusion, the news media never did much with the story. People have been debating that positive test ever since.
I really really hope they find undeniable evidence of life on Mars. That should give the anti-evolution people something to chew on.
-B
I read a story that I believe Bill G. has confirmed as true.
When Bill was in high school, he wrote the software that handled class registration. Not only did the system work great, but all of Bill's classes were two thirds girls. Nice.
-B
Why do they sell "medical" N2O at the porno store? I don't see any doctors there, just naughty nurses.
-B
Check out the Samsung A-460. It's pretty small and does all the basics really well. Mine broke and was replaced with a N-400, this big bastard with a color screen. I'm looking for a downgrade.
Lots of friends have camera phones. I have a camera for taking pictures. Unlike these phones, it captures more than 1 megapixel. When I need to take pictures, I carry it with me.
That would be a tricky weapon to use. You would have to choose an asteroid with exactly the right mass to destroy an enemy without ending life on Earth. Then you would have to both aim and time the asteroid to hit your enemy. Compare the difficulty of that to building or stealing a nuclear weapon. I'd worry about the nukes.
-B
I wish posts could be moderated two things. For example, the above post could be both "redundant" AND "unbelievably retarded".
-B
From the link (after space was removed):
"Fact: The CIA trained absolutely no one in Afghanistan, or in neighboring Pakistan, neither in the tactics of terror or even in how to use the Stinger missiles provided to the Afghans."
Then why were two retired CIA agents on the History Channel talking how they spent years training resistance fighters in Afghanistan? One guy told a great story. They agents had insructed fighters on how to build bombs (according to you, after checking IDs and excusing foreigners). For PR reasons, they didn't want the fighers to use car bombs, then and now a staple of "terrorist" attacks. The agent heard there had been a car bombing and went to a resistance leader to yell at him. The leader defended the action saying "No...not car bomb...mule bomb."
The facts are that Ronald Reagan provided weapons and support to both Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Donald Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam in 1984, months after he killed hundreds of Kurds using American helicopters. Until we admit these things, we're destined to do it again.
-B
We can use President Bush's terrorist definition:
1) Is brown
2) Mistakenly refers to God as Allah
3) Hates freedom
He talks about #3 all the time even though it makes no sense. When Bin Laden was working with the CIA to free Afghanistan from the Russians, he liked freedom well enough. The Army of God has killed 3 people and injured over 100 in 4 bombings (Olympic Park, 2 Women's Clinics, and a Gay Bar). They fail tests #1 and #2, so Bush never mentions them.
-B
Sherley finally stopped fighting with Rerun last year when he died.
I think JIVE is a great name.
-B
George Bush spent his entire business career working closely with Saudis and losing their money by the billions. He'll never take a hard line with them. They're an Islamic based monarchy with extensive ties to terrorism, but they play ball, and that's what counts in Bush's world (which bears little resemblance to the real world). Pakistan was providing real WMD to "Axis of Evil" countries while we were hunting imaginary WMDs in Iraq. Again, they won't be touched because they play ball.
Until we start focusing on actual terrorism issues and not politically convenient smoke and mirrors, we'll never make any progress against terrorism.
-B
I've worked with the stuff you're talking about on one project. You're right, it's somewhat delicate. But you're assuming that it's impossible for the process to be improved. In the early 1900s, the motor oil in cars had to be changed every few hundred miles. Nobody said "This car thing will never work because the oil sucks". No, they hit the lab and developed better oil.
My guess is that they'll develop a 2 stage process. The first stage will be like what we have now. Then some sort of baking or chemical treatment will harden it.
-B
Has anyone else noticed that Republicans yell about state's right right up until a state tries to do something they disagree with? When a state tries to let 19 year olds drink or let cancer patients smoke pot, where do all of those state's rights conservatives run off to?
-B
My good friend has the first Phillips Tivo (originally 14 hr). We've called the remote "the dildo" since the week he got it. It's a great remote, but very dildonic.
-B
Modern evolution deniers say that dinosour bones were placed in the ground by Satan to trick people like you and me into thinking that the world wasn't created 5000 years ago. For many many years, fossils of all kinds were identified as the remains of animals killed in the Biblical Flood.
Don't bother debating logic with religious fanatics. Their system is designed so that logic won't work against it. The church is not going to let something as trivial as reason get in the way of them collecting their 10% off the top.
-B
Actually, payphones are disappearing by the boatload. Every payphone at my college is now an empty wall jack. They're not worth maintaining because most people have....wait for it...cell phones.
-B
Baseball stars is the best baseball game ever and Samurai Showtime is one of the best fighting games ever.
-B
The biggest factor in determining whether someone will survive a major heart attack is how fast the paramedics arive. The 2 minutes it takes to get outside the jamming range or find a land line phone may be 2 minutes more than someone has.
The good news is that they're putting automatic defibrilators in airports and malls, which are saving lives everyday.
-B
My cell phone is on vibrate 24/7. Why should I get jammed? The only good solution is a bluetooth type technology that silences any phone in the area without disabling them.
Sure some people are inconsiderate jerks. People talk to people sitting next to them in movies all the time. We don't duct tape everyone's mouthes shut on the way in.
Actually they should have screened the line for Return of the King. If you didn't see the first two movies, you should not have been allowed in. There were people all around me having the first 6 hours of film described to them on the fly.
-B
It's strange. The Wayans family helped make Fox with In Living Color. Now they're dragging down the WB. That's a pretty influential family.
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The jewelry store lighting definately brings out the yellow in less than perfect stones. It's a dirty trick.
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Diamonds are graded on color. A is the clearest and the more yellow pigment there is the farther into the alphabet the color grade. The price falls significantly as you move down the scale. Then you get all the way to Z+ which becomes "fancy yellow" and then the price goes WAY up. The yellow is caused by nitrogen impurities. The diamond manufacturing people can make a lot more per carat if they intentionally put nitrogen into their diamonds.
-B
It's a real company, or at least used to be.
Me and my friends played a lot of Duke Nukem deathmatch back in about 1995. I always preferred Quake more, but Duke was the last good flat bitmap based game.
-B