Obama can only stop the pipeline crossing the border from Canada. If they want to build it from ND to the Gulf refineries he couldn't do anything about it.
But they should be building refineries in North Dakota, thats where the oil is, (and they could be fueled by natural gas which is also in abundance. Why send the oil all the way to the gulf, when the refineries there might have to shut down at times due to hurricanes (more likely due to global warming these days) and then ship it back north as refined product. Refine it in ND and then the Midwest can have sheaper gas.
We don't need no stinking CA tar sand oil.
Anyway the oil train that blew up was hit by another freight train that derailed due to the extreme cold.
"d) shot down by North Korea, China, someone else"
Since it was nowhere near North Korea I think that can be ruled out. Of course Vietnam or China could have shot it down, but the latter seems unlikely.
I am sure they have boats out analysing the oil slicks that were found tto see if they could be from the plane.
Say did you know that Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry are still developing Directory OPus (for windows, now up to version 11. It started off as Shareware for the Amiga (V2 was on Fish Disk 212)
"Whether they have a place on the modern battlefield is equal to the question of whether infantry has a place on the modern battlefield. If they do, then having a mobile infantry is an advantage."
There is a big difference between what the jet pack can do, and what the armored suits of the "Mobile Infantry" could do. For a start they had nuclear power, so could keep flying for hours not minutes. And of course they were fighting in alien worlds, there were no civilians around to worry about collateral damage.
Jupiters moon Europa is more likely than the planet itself. I wouldn't bother checking Pluto because even if there was life there, it would be pissed at us for demoting them to not living on a planet.
"check under the Sun!"
everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
" Check wars all around. Do we really want extraterrestrials to see us under that kind of light ?"
We would want a war;ike race like the martians to see us like that, then they might think twice about invading us. Then they might go to Saturns rings to get their water rather than here.
Surely they should use Greenwich as the centre point, Thats where the Time Zone originated. (Except that the US military prefers to think of it as being centered in Natal St Africa
I can understand what most Scots are saying, since I was brought up in a Commonwealth country that showed British TV shows. Plus I have some Scottish ancestry if you go back 300 years.
The BBC should have a subscription for people in the rest of the world, so that we can watch the quality programmes they make online. I am sure this would be very popular, we wouldn't have to pay the cable companies for the higher monthly cost necessary to get BBC America.
Or maybe Amazon can do a deal with the Beeb so we can get more British programs on Amazon Prime
Anyway, what would stop you from installing that 'free with Bing' win 8.1, then installing your own choice of browser (Firefox, SeaMonkey or Chromium) and using that, with the home page set to google.com (And install another file manager instead of using windows explorer.
I thought they were already decommissioning the USS Enterprise (CVN65) which was the only ship in The Fleet that had really aging reactors. The Nimitz class had a newer design of reactor, which they only needed 2 of per ship.
For many centuries, Christianity was OK with real slavery, as long as the slaves were a different race. The word robot means slave in Czech (I think)
Anyway only a very small number of robots look as humanoid as C3PO, the "can't tell robots from humans" world as described by Asimov, Dick and others is a long way off, if ever
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"Malaysia - a country whereby RACE means everything."
Thats in 3 weeks time, and since everything in Formula 1 is different this year who knows whats going to happen
Obama can only stop the pipeline crossing the border from Canada. If they want to build it from ND to the Gulf refineries he couldn't do anything about it.
But they should be building refineries in North Dakota, thats where the oil is, (and they could be fueled by natural gas which is also in abundance.
Why send the oil all the way to the gulf, when the refineries there might have to shut down at times due to hurricanes (more likely due to global warming these days) and then ship it back north as refined product. Refine it in ND and then the Midwest can have sheaper gas.
We don't need no stinking CA tar sand oil.
Anyway the oil train that blew up was hit by another freight train that derailed due to the extreme cold.
"d) shot down by North Korea, China, someone else"
Since it was nowhere near North Korea I think that can be ruled out. Of course Vietnam or China could have shot it down, but the latter seems unlikely.
I am sure they have boats out analysing the oil slicks that were found tto see if they could be from the plane.
Even a 1 to a million scale model of the universe would be pretty big...
Can you play Pete Wisemans Klondike on it?
Say did you know that Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry are still developing Directory OPus (for windows, now up to version 11.
It started off as Shareware for the Amiga (V2 was on Fish Disk 212)
Putin wants it back
The problem with 2 wheeled transportation alternatives is the weather
Bikes are unusable on ice or snow.covered roads
You'd freeze when theres a wind chill of 20 below 0
You'd get soaked in the rain
Too hot in the summer
"Whether they have a place on the modern battlefield is equal to the question of whether infantry has a place on the modern battlefield. If they do, then having a mobile infantry is an advantage."
There is a big difference between what the jet pack can do, and what the armored suits of the "Mobile Infantry" could do. For a start they had nuclear power, so could keep flying for hours not minutes. And of course they were fighting in alien worlds, there were no civilians around to worry about collateral damage.
Jupiters moon Europa is more likely than the planet itself.
I wouldn't bother checking Pluto because even if there was life there, it would be pissed at us for demoting them to not living on a planet.
"check under the Sun!"
everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
" Check wars all around. Do we really want extraterrestrials to see us under that kind of light ?"
We would want a war;ike race like the martians to see us like that, then they might think twice about invading us.
Then they might go to Saturns rings to get their water rather than here.
The Wizard of Christchurch used to sell upside down maps to show NZ's proper position at the top of the world
Surely they should use Greenwich as the centre point, Thats where the Time Zone originated.
(Except that the US military prefers to think of it as being centered in Natal St Africa
I can understand what most Scots are saying, since I was brought up in a Commonwealth country that showed British TV shows.
Plus I have some Scottish ancestry if you go back 300 years.
I thought the Danes abandoned their Greenland colony in the 13th century, and the settlers all died.
The BBC should have a subscription for people in the rest of the world, so that we can watch the quality programmes they make online. I am sure this would be very popular, we wouldn't have to pay the cable companies for the higher monthly cost necessary to get BBC America.
Or maybe Amazon can do a deal with the Beeb so we can get more British programs on Amazon Prime
The Dutch don't pay the British TV licence Fee that funds the BBC, so they can't complain.
Does this come with batteries or do you just plug it into an AC outlet?
I tend to think of backpacks as being used away from power sources.
Of course if it did include batteries the TSA wouldn't allow it as carry on.
No I didn't RTFA - this is /.
is way overpriced.
So how much are they selling Win7 for these days?
Anyway, what would stop you from installing that 'free with Bing' win 8.1, then installing your own choice of browser (Firefox, SeaMonkey or Chromium) and using that, with the home page set to google.com
(And install another file manager instead of using windows explorer.
I thought they were already decommissioning the USS Enterprise (CVN65) which was the only ship in The Fleet that had really aging reactors.
The Nimitz class had a newer design of reactor, which they only needed 2 of per ship.
The Canadians can keep their power and use it to refine their own stinking tar sand oil.
In LifeLine, Pinero did not use blood tests. Also it predicted death to within minutes, and of accidental causes as well as disease.
Note that he supposedly gave the money back To Lazarus Long (AKA Woodrow Wilson Smith)
For a ban on washing machines too
Apart from Ecuador or Africa, the equator is mostly ocean
when you can sell powerful electric sports cars to rich people and celebreties
???
Profit
Anyway Leaf is a silly name to sell an electric car.
For many centuries, Christianity was OK with real slavery, as long as the slaves were a different race.
The word robot means slave in Czech (I think)
Anyway only a very small number of robots look as humanoid as C3PO, the "can't tell robots from humans" world as described by Asimov, Dick and others is a long way off, if ever