Can they still reuse the cartridge if it's cracked or has a hole in it? It's well known that people send bricks through the mail - it could just happen that one lands, sharp corner straight down, on top of your cartridge envelope.
Excuse me, I think that's the problem right there.
The stuff that western civilisation pushed on us under the label food, is often highly processed, devoid of useful nutrients, and stuffed with harmful chemicals and empty calories. Not buying stuff that comes in boxes (and tins and plastic packaging) if often a good (if somewhat rough) rule of thumb to improve health (including losing weight).
They should have built the thing somewhere else, where there are no baguettes available. Somewhere that is so notorious for it's bland-tasting, non-nutritious bread that even hungry scavenging birds won't touch it.
Well, one has to be specific about WHAT organic compounds. Reinheitsgebot and all that.... (Why yes, I AM a snob when it comes to the fizzy Teutonic Health Drink. The stuff that comes from my bladder is also water with some organic compounds in it.)
Of course, in the meantime, many humans have replaced cooked food with fast food. And there goes what makes us human -- hand in hand with our fitness (both evolutionary and health-wise).
This is secondhand info, since it comes from a relative in Germany, but - consider that most German homes are heated by burning natural gas or "heating oil" (diesel fuel that is sold at a much cheaper rate than the fuel used for cars - and marked with a dye so that it can be detected if some clever guy fills up his car with it) in any case, then burning the same stuff and getting some electricity out at the same time does not seem such a bad idea.
I was quite interested when visiting, since where I live we use very little heating and only 2-3 months of the year, but this relative had a huge storage tank for the fuel in his basement, and the apparatus for burning it and heating the water in the heating system that circulates through his house.
Various units are available on the market that consist of an internal combustion engine running on either of the fuels, turning an electricity generator, and with a heat exchanger to capture the heat from the engine's exhaust. You'll also be amazed how quiet those units can be made in operation - in short, not noticeable that there's an engine running.
Interesting view. While I admittedly tend towards what you term the theistic view (physics is a study of creation, which by (theistic) definition is certainly not a set of objects/phenomena containing also the Creator that created it) I do not have much hope that the theologians will be sitting at that pinnacle. They seem to have frighteningly little knowledge even of their exclusive field of study.
I was with you until the second paragraph:-) I imagine that wireless bandwidth will increase and become ubiquitous enough to not require (most) people to even come to a workplace - not if their labour only requires typing into a computer and communicating with people. (Whether this is good or bad is debatable...)
I think that a lot of devices will converge to the point that we have wearable computers that also do telephony and other communication functions (including teleconferencing/virtual meetings), navigation, and sound and video recording, amongst a host of other functions we barely dream about today. If networking advances enough, we might just carry around some interface devices and the network will become the computer. Step after that: miniaturization and implantation.
No. Besides that text mentioning nothing about currency at all, people are hoodwinked by the whole microchip-implant story, which succeeded the Credit Card (VISA adding up to 666) story, which succeeded the UPC barcode story. (By which I don't claim there is or is no danger in any of those.)
There was a time, not so many hundreds of years ago, when no one who did not toe the church's party line was permitted to participate in commerce. You need 2 parties for buying and selling, and if the one is under church control and scared for his life, there is no commerce.
There is a school of thought (which seems quite convincing to me) that the book of Revelation concerns the whole time span from when it was written up to the end. If that's the case, many of the prophesies have already been fulfilled, which can of course be demonstrated by anyone having a good grasp on history (which unfortunately is not joe average of today).
According to christian doomsday lore, several things which need to happen have not, including the mark of the beast, the universal persecution of the christian faith, the single currency system... the anti-christ...
And even then, the rapture is supposed to occur seven years before the destruction of this world... basically under christian theology, the rapture happens, then seven years of absolute devestation occurs.
None of these are universal christian doctrines.
Luther, amongst many others, pointed to the papal system as the antichrist (literally meaning "in the stead of Christ").
Mark of the beast (on the right hand and forehead) is interpreted to symbolise a certain way of thinking and acting - indoctrination that salvation is attained through "the church" and not through Christ, with all the accompanying abuses of power. (Also keep in mind that the church organisations of today descend from that first church organisation, and although they claim to have reformed to leave behind some doctrines, they have maintained others.)
Persecution of christians under the Roman empire pales in comparison to persecution under the Roman church.
Single currency? Not sure, never heard of that one.
Rapture: I understand it's big in the US in certain circles, as it goes hand-in-hand with the aforementioned views, but it's not universal. When one investigates history and sees that many of these signs (many that you haven't even mentioned), that these people claim go hand-in-hand with the "end times", have been in effect from the days of the apostles, one realises that many christians in modern times have it incredibly good. I often ask proponents of the Rapture doctrine: what makes you better than the millions of early christians that where rounded up and fed to lions and burnt at stakes - why should you avoid persecution by being raptured, and they not?
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Can they still reuse the cartridge if it's cracked or has a hole in it? It's well known that people send bricks through the mail - it could just happen that one lands, sharp corner straight down, on top of your cartridge envelope.
I, for one, am not holding my breath though.
Ahem, you might want to inform yourself about that misconception.
Well, plastic IS then new china. Manufactured courtesy of the same country that gave the original stuff its name.
Excuse me, I think that's the problem right there.
The stuff that western civilisation pushed on us under the label food, is often highly processed, devoid of useful nutrients, and stuffed with harmful chemicals and empty calories. Not buying stuff that comes in boxes (and tins and plastic packaging) if often a good (if somewhat rough) rule of thumb to improve health (including losing weight).
They should have built the thing somewhere else, where there are no baguettes available. Somewhere that is so notorious for it's bland-tasting, non-nutritious bread that even hungry scavenging birds won't touch it.
There will be no stinkin' terrorists on my plane. Thats nothing to be sniffed at.
3 pieces and a lot of crumbs.
That's what happens when you are too stressed at work to properly read. You develop faux dyslexia. So that headline read:
And then I run around claiming that everything I know I've learnt from /. headlines.... Scary.
(* = National Dyslexia Association, for those who've never heard the old joke.)
Is that another word for sick building syndrome?
IT people are more socially inept than the norm.
Next article please.
Well, one has to be specific about WHAT organic compounds. Reinheitsgebot and all that.... (Why yes, I AM a snob when it comes to the fizzy Teutonic Health Drink. The stuff that comes from my bladder is also water with some organic compounds in it.)
Call me again when it's raining beer.
True. They also keep appendages from freezing off or sticking together.
There's life there? I, for one, welcome our fire-breathing, hard-headed overlords.
Of course, in the meantime, many humans have replaced cooked food with fast food. And there goes what makes us human -- hand in hand with our fitness (both evolutionary and health-wise).
Now now. You've clearly not read the summary, which talks about "intelligent alien beings elsewhere in the galaxy".
As if they have already found intelligent aliens on earth (or intelligent earthlings elsewhere in the galaxy, come to think of it).
Do you perhaps mean Slash-and-char?
I mean, having an able-bodied, athletic bird compete against such a lame and fat organisation is just so unfair....
(Disclaimer: Not only do I live in ZA, I have done some contracting for said company.)
This is secondhand info, since it comes from a relative in Germany, but - consider that most German homes are heated by burning natural gas or "heating oil" (diesel fuel that is sold at a much cheaper rate than the fuel used for cars - and marked with a dye so that it can be detected if some clever guy fills up his car with it) in any case, then burning the same stuff and getting some electricity out at the same time does not seem such a bad idea.
I was quite interested when visiting, since where I live we use very little heating and only 2-3 months of the year, but this relative had a huge storage tank for the fuel in his basement, and the apparatus for burning it and heating the water in the heating system that circulates through his house.
Various units are available on the market that consist of an internal combustion engine running on either of the fuels, turning an electricity generator, and with a heat exchanger to capture the heat from the engine's exhaust. You'll also be amazed how quiet those units can be made in operation - in short, not noticeable that there's an engine running.
Interesting view. While I admittedly tend towards what you term the theistic view (physics is a study of creation, which by (theistic) definition is certainly not a set of objects/phenomena containing also the Creator that created it) I do not have much hope that the theologians will be sitting at that pinnacle. They seem to have frighteningly little knowledge even of their exclusive field of study.
Good for your karma that this is a discussion about physics and not theology.
I was with you until the second paragraph :-) I imagine that wireless bandwidth will increase and become ubiquitous enough to not require (most) people to even come to a workplace - not if their labour only requires typing into a computer and communicating with people. (Whether this is good or bad is debatable...)
I think that a lot of devices will converge to the point that we have wearable computers that also do telephony and other communication functions (including teleconferencing/virtual meetings), navigation, and sound and video recording, amongst a host of other functions we barely dream about today. If networking advances enough, we might just carry around some interface devices and the network will become the computer. Step after that: miniaturization and implantation.
No. Besides that text mentioning nothing about currency at all, people are hoodwinked by the whole microchip-implant story, which succeeded the Credit Card (VISA adding up to 666) story, which succeeded the UPC barcode story. (By which I don't claim there is or is no danger in any of those.)
There was a time, not so many hundreds of years ago, when no one who did not toe the church's party line was permitted to participate in commerce. You need 2 parties for buying and selling, and if the one is under church control and scared for his life, there is no commerce.
There is a school of thought (which seems quite convincing to me) that the book of Revelation concerns the whole time span from when it was written up to the end. If that's the case, many of the prophesies have already been fulfilled, which can of course be demonstrated by anyone having a good grasp on history (which unfortunately is not joe average of today).
None of these are universal christian doctrines.
Luther, amongst many others, pointed to the papal system as the antichrist (literally meaning "in the stead of Christ").
Mark of the beast (on the right hand and forehead) is interpreted to symbolise a certain way of thinking and acting - indoctrination that salvation is attained through "the church" and not through Christ, with all the accompanying abuses of power. (Also keep in mind that the church organisations of today descend from that first church organisation, and although they claim to have reformed to leave behind some doctrines, they have maintained others.)
Persecution of christians under the Roman empire pales in comparison to persecution under the Roman church.
Single currency? Not sure, never heard of that one.
Rapture: I understand it's big in the US in certain circles, as it goes hand-in-hand with the aforementioned views, but it's not universal. When one investigates history and sees that many of these signs (many that you haven't even mentioned), that these people claim go hand-in-hand with the "end times", have been in effect from the days of the apostles, one realises that many christians in modern times have it incredibly good. I often ask proponents of the Rapture doctrine: what makes you better than the millions of early christians that where rounded up and fed to lions and burnt at stakes - why should you avoid persecution by being raptured, and they not?