Of course! All new technologies must be handicapped to make sure that the sellers of old technology can continue to make money. All digital photos should come with auto-deletion code to make sure that the makers of photo paper continue to stay in business. And a guy with a sledgehammer should show up every five years at your door to make sure you don't just keep using your artificial knee replacement forever.
The appropriate demo of the dangers of AC data center power will be to show an elephant losing his entire database due to a power failure. Ominous voiceover: "Unlike an elephant... AC-driven data centers always forget!"
FTA: Basic research funding is intended to support "fundamental" scientific research that has ostensibly no connection to developing a specific weapon system. This category is the principal source of Pentagon's largesse to universities. And whether the nation should continue to spend huge sums of money in defense R&D, especially at universities, is an issue worthy of debate.
So we should *not* spend defense R&D money at universities, where it has arguably the highest chance of benefitting the public? M'kay.
Back in my day, we had to dissect each other while running uphill to campus in ten feet of snow and manage to sew ourselves back up before roll call. Of course, back then you could buy bread for a nickel and still have five cents left over for malt shakes, and dancing was all proper-like, none of this "flopping" or "dunking" you kids do now, and when I got back from the war I... *snore*
BigDog, RoboCheetah, now this ostrich thing. Imagine herds of these just roaming the earth after the nuclear armageddon / pigbirdhorse flu armageddon, scavenging for fuel and occasionally blasting each other to smithereens. What will the alien archaeologists think?
There is no reason to fear death when paradise awaits you, which is why MAD doesn't work so well where religious extremists are in power. Now, the Iranian mullahs are not dumb enough to initiate a nuclear conflict and give up a life of luxury... but if a group of genuine fundamentalist nutcases were to gain access to the launch codes, all bets are off, and in an unstable political atmosphere, this is not a far-fetched proposition. This is precisely why a nuclear Pakistan is so scary.
Reek of fraud would be a better choice of words. Spew forth a putrid stench of fraud, even. Bash you over the head with a hammer of fraud in a dark alley of fraud, leaving you bleeding and unconscious in a puddle of fraud as dismal raindrops of fraud fall from a fraudulent sky.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it was very likely fraud.
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Unlikely. Although some species of lawyers are insectoid, the vast majority are reptilian.
All these comments and no Madagascar jokes?
No respectable hackerdojo would touch that hackathon with a ten-foot kickstarter.
That tiger protection rock had a hidden microphone. We're going to have to take you in for questioning. What do you know about the Tamil Tigers?
Here are the real lessons of Sci-Fi movies.
Slightly overweight visitor: "Ok, Glass..."
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "What did you say?"
Slightly overweight visitor: "Uh, I said... looking classy... Looking classy, Mr. Salinger!"
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "Shh."
[ later that day ]
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "I wonder why that guy was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask."
They were supposed to close years ago. They never got the memo because they only communicate by telegraph.
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You're deluding yourself. Your furry parasite can't remember anything except his cold, unrelenting loathing for all humans and you in particular.
Here's the lab at Harvard that developed this robot. There's more cool stuff on the YouTube channel.
Of course! All new technologies must be handicapped to make sure that the sellers of old technology can continue to make money. All digital photos should come with auto-deletion code to make sure that the makers of photo paper continue to stay in business. And a guy with a sledgehammer should show up every five years at your door to make sure you don't just keep using your artificial knee replacement forever.
Pff! I only read "The True Scotsman." No "True Scotsman" would ever print letters like that.
The appropriate demo of the dangers of AC data center power will be to show an elephant losing his entire database due to a power failure. Ominous voiceover: "Unlike an elephant... AC-driven data centers always forget!"
These 240,000 metric tons of nutritional assistance... surely these will be cakes?
I think we know the number one culprit here, ahem [citation needed] ahem.
Couldn't find any pictures of the aliens, but I did locate schematics of the exploration vehicle: http://i.imgur.com/gER2w.jpg
FTA: Basic research funding is intended to support "fundamental" scientific research that has ostensibly no connection to developing a specific weapon system. This category is the principal source of Pentagon's largesse to universities. And whether the nation should continue to spend huge sums of money in defense R&D, especially at universities, is an issue worthy of debate.
So we should *not* spend defense R&D money at universities, where it has arguably the highest chance of benefitting the public? M'kay.
Back in my day, we had to dissect each other while running uphill to campus in ten feet of snow and manage to sew ourselves back up before roll call. Of course, back then you could buy bread for a nickel and still have five cents left over for malt shakes, and dancing was all proper-like, none of this "flopping" or "dunking" you kids do now, and when I got back from the war I... *snore*
Google developers, you can relax now and start adding massive amounts of bloat that drove me from Firefox to Chrome!
BigDog, RoboCheetah, now this ostrich thing. Imagine herds of these just roaming the earth after the nuclear armageddon / pigbirdhorse flu armageddon, scavenging for fuel and occasionally blasting each other to smithereens. What will the alien archaeologists think?
There is no reason to fear death when paradise awaits you, which is why MAD doesn't work so well where religious extremists are in power. Now, the Iranian mullahs are not dumb enough to initiate a nuclear conflict and give up a life of luxury... but if a group of genuine fundamentalist nutcases were to gain access to the launch codes, all bets are off, and in an unstable political atmosphere, this is not a far-fetched proposition. This is precisely why a nuclear Pakistan is so scary.
So would we see more Star Wars or Star Trek write-ins?
Reek of fraud would be a better choice of words. Spew forth a putrid stench of fraud, even. Bash you over the head with a hammer of fraud in a dark alley of fraud, leaving you bleeding and unconscious in a puddle of fraud as dismal raindrops of fraud fall from a fraudulent sky.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it was very likely fraud.