Actually, this is good environmentally. With better drilling tech, more oil can be obtained from fewer wells, reducing the need to "explore" places like ANWAR.
Wasn't Majestic 12 (MJ-12) the big bad organization in Deus Ex? I realize that game borrowed form conspiracy theories in general, and Illuminati stuff specifically, but did it and this book come up with MJ-12 separately? Or is this based on another black ops conspiracy theory, independent of the two stories, I've not heard of?
He's so worried about privacy and such, why did my search at Namebase.org get truncated because "No one at has donated money to namebase"? The site noted and probably logged my IP, looked up my organization in its database, and found that it had not donated to his cause.
...I believe is called "30% Iron Chef", and to further your point, also contains a reference to old depression-era cartoons and the "Hobo-Lifting Aroma".
One has to have an appreciation of culture and history and science to appreciate these sorts of things, and unfortunately many TV viewers these days don't. So network execs drop such things in favor of more lowest-common-denominator appeal. The Simpsons is lucky - it has many of these references, too, but fortunately there's enough Homer-Beer humor for stupid people to watch it too.
To sloppily paraphrase Fry in "When Aliens Attack": "You can't do anything original or unexpected on TV, because this confuses and frightens people."
The writers knew their own show's situation, to put that line in.
One of the smartest, most original shows on TV, IMO.
This article was extremely poorly written. I am a scientist, I agree with the actual genome evidence that shows how our DNA evolved from less derived critters. But the article showed none of this, it was a derogatory opinion piece that makes the author no better than the worst religious fanatic out there. And by worst I mean closed-minded and intolerant.
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Automatic Position Reporting System
HAM radio operators have been doing this for a while, but cheaper (with slightly more effort):
License: ~$10 testing fee
Basic GPS: ~$100
APRS packet-capable radio: ~$300 (US)
A couple of cables: ~$20
The GPS sends location data to the radio, which broadcasts digital packets to a "digipeater," which is wired to the internet...
A trip to findu.com and you're tracking. No monthly fees, plus you can use all the equipment for other stuff.
So does this.
Actually, this is good environmentally. With better drilling tech, more oil can be obtained from fewer wells, reducing the need to "explore" places like ANWAR.
Wasn't Majestic 12 (MJ-12) the big bad organization in Deus Ex? I realize that game borrowed form conspiracy theories in general, and Illuminati stuff specifically, but did it and this book come up with MJ-12 separately? Or is this based on another black ops conspiracy theory, independent of the two stories, I've not heard of?
He's so worried about privacy and such, why did my search at Namebase.org get truncated because "No one at has donated money to namebase"? The site noted and probably logged my IP, looked up my organization in its database, and found that it had not donated to his cause.
Fsck him.
...I believe is called "30% Iron Chef", and to further your point, also contains a reference to old depression-era cartoons and the "Hobo-Lifting Aroma".
One has to have an appreciation of culture and history and science to appreciate these sorts of things, and unfortunately many TV viewers these days don't. So network execs drop such things in favor of more lowest-common-denominator appeal. The Simpsons is lucky - it has many of these references, too, but fortunately there's enough Homer-Beer humor for stupid people to watch it too.
To sloppily paraphrase Fry in "When Aliens Attack": "You can't do anything original or unexpected on TV, because this confuses and frightens people."
The writers knew their own show's situation, to put that line in.
One of the smartest, most original shows on TV, IMO.
This article was extremely poorly written. I am a scientist, I agree with the actual genome evidence that shows how our DNA evolved from less derived critters. But the article showed none of this, it was a derogatory opinion piece that makes the author no better than the worst religious fanatic out there. And by worst I mean closed-minded and intolerant.