HG Wells, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, HP Lovecraft, and Robert E Howard. Lovecraft and Howard had the biggest influence. I read a lot of scifi like A Mote In God's Eye and Robert Heinlein but Howard and Lovecraft had the biggest influence.
Our oxygen is plant shit, the co2 is other peoples shit, your vegetables grow on shit, your meat eats shits, you cook it on farts, you walk on shit and some of us consider clothes made from shit to be the height of luxury.
It is a shitty world and it worse for those who believe in homeopathy.Water has memory? Oh good, so does it remember having been pissed out billions of times over the lifetime of the earth? And if water has memory, why doesn't it remember the time it was beer!
The point isn't feces it's the fact they are planning to use raw sewage so the bacteria is the dangerous element. I think this once again brings up the question, why do we allow food imports from China!!!! Their standards are so low much of the food is potentially dangerous. Imported foods should always be held to the same standards as domestically produced foods. Better yet raise the food locally and create jobs and reduce oil consumption.
Musicians make money by playing venues. If they get ROI from recordings they are doing well. If they make chump change on mechanical recordings, then that is a bonus. The starving artists are the ones who are not playing live.
I had a friend who could routinely make $100 an hour playing on the street. Not massive cash, but for a kid of 18, better than flipping burgers.
People always quote the venues as in live playing as the option so bands don't have to charge for their music. That hasn't been an option since the early 80s. They used to call them bar bands. They never got rich but you could make a living. Well there got to be too many indy bands fighting over who got to play that the "venues" stopped paying. Bands play for exposure so they can sell CDs and t-shirts. I've heard of bands even having to pay to play. Only the larger venues pay and they are after established bands that can sell out every night. FYI if street musicians regularly made a $100 an hour they'd be one every street corner. They might make that a day or possibly during an hour after a major event let out so there was lots foot of traffic. Most bands struggle to pay expenses and aren't getting rich off iTunes or CDs. I've been buying tracks since I bought my first iPod Touch. Over time I've added up enough music to go over 24 hours without repeating a song and I never spend more than $10 every few months. It's not a major expense for me and yet I have most of the music I want and it's one of the cheapest sources of entertainment I know so I don't get the frenzy over not wanting to pay for music. A lot of the same people complaining about paying for songs drop $5 a day at Starbucks. If you did hit Starbucks every day that would translate to 1,500 songs a year or more. There aren't 1,500 songs I like. Even just buying $6 worth of music a month we're talking around 60 songs a year. 5 years is 300 songs and over a 10 year period it's 600 songs. That's a little more than one trip to Starbucks a month. Music really isn't a major expense these days. In adjusted dollars it's actually gone down in price from what it was 30 years ago for an album and albums have more songs on them. I would never hesitate to pay a $1 or a $1.29 for a song I like. Considering I'll likely hear it hundreds of times over the years it's dirt cheap. Look at it this way a 4 minute song played a 100X is over six and a half hours of entertainment for around a buck.. Double the number of plays and it's over 13 hours of entertainment for a little over a buck. I just don't see the problem with paying for music. It only became an issue when downloading from the internet became popular. For the 100 years before that no one complained.
This is about power and control. They aren't trying to control their behavior or beliefs of people like them they want to control the rest of us. It's out of fear. Their beliefs can't survive the acid test of "what if I'm wrong" so they don't want anyone posing the question in the first place. It's why the church suppressed science for so long. People that believe this is about religious freedom are living in a fools paradise. The fanatically religious don't want religious freedom they want everyone to be forced to follow THEIR beliefs. Right wing conservatives are far more dangerous than any terrorist group. They are over here and they have power and worst of all they are very organized. They control through fear. Anyone that tells you to be afraid of everyone and everything that isn't like them or their beliefs is dangerous and a threat to our way of life!
Content providers have a vested interest in unlimited service. Let them team up and bid on bandwidth as a group. Right now there's no competition because there's a form of quiet capping where rather than increasing service to steal away customers from those with caps all the others bring in caps to cut costs and increase profits. It's the opposite of what capitalism should be. The idea that it's prohibitively expensive is a lie because other countries do it. The difference is greed. If capping results in 5% more profits then who cares about the customers they cap and take the attitude of 'what are you going to do about it"!
Neil Degrasse Tyson said one of the most profound things I've ever heard. He said growing up he thought Congress was made up of Doctors, engineers and scientists. He was shocked to find out who was actually running the country. The point is how can a politician make a judgement call on an engineering project? How can a Congressman restructure Medicare when they don't know anything about medicine? What about the environment or NASA? The argument would be we invite in experts and have studies done. The truth is they invite in lobbyist for advice who are mostly retired politicians. They don't do reports on every project considered and most Congressional studies are biased and they lack the education to know the difference. The whole mess starts to make sense when you realize the country is being run by a bunch of non professionals. How many actual economist or even accounts are in Congress and they handle all the money! Do you know the most common profession Congressmen come out of? The law as in lawyers. Congress should be made up of an even mix from all major disciplines. We need experts running the country not people skilled in cutting deals!
I like Penn and Teller but their "study" was seriously flawed. Super market organic and regular market food are both factory farmed. The real test is to buy organic food from a farmer's market and test it against supermarket foods. All they were trying to test is the established fact that most people are gulible and will believe what they are told. The factory farmed foods can't be as nutritious for two obvious reasons. One the factory farms don't bother to replace lost minerals so trace minerals are badly depleted in supermarket foods, even so called organic food. The second fact is they pick foods green then transport them long distances. Organic farmers market foods tend to be local. A large portion of the nutrition is lost in the first few hours after things are picked and unripe foods have less nutrition. Common sense would call bull on the original article.
It may be that people whose genetics predispose them to exfoliation glaucoma are also more than usually enchanted by coffee. Still, interesting observation.
I thought the same thing. It seems far more likely it's genetic than coffee related. They are hardly the only population with a heavy coffee consumption. It would be more compelling if they found people in professions and such that drank a lot of coffee had the problem. I come out of entertainment and we drank it like fish and I don't recall many, if any in truth, with the problem. The French drink very strong coffee and a lot of it and they don't have a spike.
After nearly seven years of living anal free, I'm planning to be anally raped in early 2013. Last time I was anally raped, giant spiked dildoes weren't out yet. Small penises were common, and good lube was an ad campaign. I'm used to South Korea's very small penises, both with lube and without, and I'm wondering what the Slashdot community believes to be the least worst anal raper in the U.S. Which is quickest? Which offers the least pain and lots of lube? Nationwide reaming and coverage (condom)? Sizes? Service?
Sprint promises 12" and struggles to prove 3". AT&T offers sandpaper condoms for quality and loss of erections. Verizon's 6" to 8" services provide the best all round and come standard with lube. Cricket won't ask you for commitments and offers passable service for under 5" if you can deal with that. T-Mobile talks big and they are willing to try harder than most but expect to be disappointed. Other than Verizon don't expect much in the size AKA coverage department. Sprint like most of the competition can provide a strong 8" to 12" if you are standing under a tower but outside of town expect flaccid city and no lube for miles.
Where is gold-chloride found in nature? A quick google search and all I could find were descriptions describing gold-chloride as something created in a lab.
I think this was done as a what if experiment and has no practical use. The point though is if you can create a bacteria that will concentrate gold in either industrial or natural compounds if could be very useful. Right now mercury is the main element used in processing gold ore. Japan started extracting gold from sewage. I thought it was a silly idea until I heard how much they extracted. I'm not sure what the source of the gold is, old fillings wearing or naturally occurring but they did get a respectable amount from the sewage. Most of the world's available gold is actually suspended in seawater. The downside is it costs more to extract it than the gold is worth. Say you develop a bacteria that seeks out and absorbs gold then sinks to the bottom of the tank. You could over time end up with a coating of gold on the tank bottom. A similar process has been developed for removing radioactive elements from drinking water.
The concern is increased prices, it has never been that you won't be able to get bacon but that you will have to pay twice as much for it.
It's good ole supply and demand. Raise prices, reduce demand. It's how we are currently dealing with peak oil. People don't realize but for the first time in decades demand for gasoline in the US is actually down. Five years ago the US was pushing Saudi Arabia to pump more to control prices. When's the last time you heard demands for more pumping? It's the same with demands on pork. As prices go up consumption will simply go down until it reaches a balance. The real problem isn't pork it's all grain fed meats which are most meats we consume. Odds are beef prices will be more affected. Truth be told Pigs can eat almost anything. Cattle are more narrow in the dietary needs. Even chickens can be fed traditional foods like millet. Cattle are mostly fed grass, corn and soy, all of which are affected by the drought.
I think bigger issues than breaking the record, are the capabilities of the human body
1) How will the human body cope with the insane pressure and temperature buildups at his head (assuming here he's going to go head first)
2) I'm assuming he'll have a regulated air supply of some kind, but how will this be affected by 1
3) etc
captcha: ascender
Actually the stresses would be roughly the same as the one back in the 60's. The real stress isn't in the upper stratosphere it's as the atmosphere thickens so going further out wouldn't add to the stresses. Terminal velocity still applies so he will max out before he hits maximum stress. Really the limiting factor is the Van Allen Belt. Odds are the suit he's using wouldn't be enough and he'd cook but it starts at a 1,000 kilometers so he won't even be close to it.
It's treated like this is the way we always raised food when the truth is factory farming is less than a 100 years old and it didn't take over until the 60s. All the problems we are having with food production are directly related to factory farming. Also the fact that middle men are allowed to force farmers to sell below cost and let farmers survive on federal farm aid. I ran onto this site a year ago where this family is field raising pigs on grass then supplimenting their diet with free milk curd from a dairy, rather than dumping it and risking environmental problems they feed it to the pigs. He also buys surplus bread by the ton. The waste milk is delivered for free and the bread is dirt cheap but the bulk of their diet is grass. The pigs learned to eat the grass from sheep and now the mothers teach the piglets. They are also fed some out of date fruits and vegetables but the bulk of their diet is plain ole grass. They are healthier and the meat is tastier. All pigs could be raised this way but corporate America is convinced you can make farm animals the same way you do a car. All you get is diseased unhealthy meat. The only reason for the shortage is expensive feed so take away the cost of the feed and virtually all vet bills and the problem goes away. Each sow averages 8 per litter twice a year and some have over 20 a litter twice a year. Even starting with a handful in a few years you have a substantial herd so if they dropped the factory farming the numbers would come back fast but you also have to get rid of the middle men that reap all the profits. Farmers usually receive an eighth to a tenth of the retail price. No wonder they don't want to raise pigs anymore. Here's that link. http://sugarmtnfarm.com/products/piglets/
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The most essential pieces of equipment were a bottle of Jack Daniels and a blindfold.
They are holding up the video feed until they pry his hands off the safety rail.
Am I the only person for whom the video feed is broken?
That's just the dust cloud from his impact. It should clear up in a minute or two.
Unbelievable, software has bugs too
Probably a bad idea authoring spyware in Flash.
HG Wells, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, HP Lovecraft, and Robert E Howard. Lovecraft and Howard had the biggest influence. I read a lot of scifi like A Mote In God's Eye and Robert Heinlein but Howard and Lovecraft had the biggest influence.
Atlas Shrugged fantastic book Atlas Shrugged part 2 is in theaters today as luck would have it
Paul Ryan is on Slashdot?
Our oxygen is plant shit, the co2 is other peoples shit, your vegetables grow on shit, your meat eats shits, you cook it on farts, you walk on shit and some of us consider clothes made from shit to be the height of luxury.
It is a shitty world and it worse for those who believe in homeopathy.Water has memory? Oh good, so does it remember having been pissed out billions of times over the lifetime of the earth? And if water has memory, why doesn't it remember the time it was beer!
The point isn't feces it's the fact they are planning to use raw sewage so the bacteria is the dangerous element. I think this once again brings up the question, why do we allow food imports from China!!!! Their standards are so low much of the food is potentially dangerous. Imported foods should always be held to the same standards as domestically produced foods. Better yet raise the food locally and create jobs and reduce oil consumption.
I've been short changed before but this is ridiculous!
Next time you come up short you'll have an excuse.
Musicians make money by playing venues. If they get ROI from recordings they are doing well. If they make chump change on mechanical recordings, then that is a bonus. The starving artists are the ones who are not playing live.
I had a friend who could routinely make $100 an hour playing on the street. Not massive cash, but for a kid of 18, better than flipping burgers.
People always quote the venues as in live playing as the option so bands don't have to charge for their music. That hasn't been an option since the early 80s. They used to call them bar bands. They never got rich but you could make a living. Well there got to be too many indy bands fighting over who got to play that the "venues" stopped paying. Bands play for exposure so they can sell CDs and t-shirts. I've heard of bands even having to pay to play. Only the larger venues pay and they are after established bands that can sell out every night. FYI if street musicians regularly made a $100 an hour they'd be one every street corner. They might make that a day or possibly during an hour after a major event let out so there was lots foot of traffic. Most bands struggle to pay expenses and aren't getting rich off iTunes or CDs. I've been buying tracks since I bought my first iPod Touch. Over time I've added up enough music to go over 24 hours without repeating a song and I never spend more than $10 every few months. It's not a major expense for me and yet I have most of the music I want and it's one of the cheapest sources of entertainment I know so I don't get the frenzy over not wanting to pay for music. A lot of the same people complaining about paying for songs drop $5 a day at Starbucks. If you did hit Starbucks every day that would translate to 1,500 songs a year or more. There aren't 1,500 songs I like. Even just buying $6 worth of music a month we're talking around 60 songs a year. 5 years is 300 songs and over a 10 year period it's 600 songs. That's a little more than one trip to Starbucks a month. Music really isn't a major expense these days. In adjusted dollars it's actually gone down in price from what it was 30 years ago for an album and albums have more songs on them. I would never hesitate to pay a $1 or a $1.29 for a song I like. Considering I'll likely hear it hundreds of times over the years it's dirt cheap. Look at it this way a 4 minute song played a 100X is over six and a half hours of entertainment for around a buck.. Double the number of plays and it's over 13 hours of entertainment for a little over a buck. I just don't see the problem with paying for music. It only became an issue when downloading from the internet became popular. For the 100 years before that no one complained.
If by productive you mean that Internet porn usage went up thousands upon thousands of percentage points in use... yes.
I almost commented on millions of WoW users getting a chance for their carpotunnel to heal but I guess not.
This is about power and control. They aren't trying to control their behavior or beliefs of people like them they want to control the rest of us. It's out of fear. Their beliefs can't survive the acid test of "what if I'm wrong" so they don't want anyone posing the question in the first place. It's why the church suppressed science for so long. People that believe this is about religious freedom are living in a fools paradise. The fanatically religious don't want religious freedom they want everyone to be forced to follow THEIR beliefs. Right wing conservatives are far more dangerous than any terrorist group. They are over here and they have power and worst of all they are very organized. They control through fear. Anyone that tells you to be afraid of everyone and everything that isn't like them or their beliefs is dangerous and a threat to our way of life!
Content providers have a vested interest in unlimited service. Let them team up and bid on bandwidth as a group. Right now there's no competition because there's a form of quiet capping where rather than increasing service to steal away customers from those with caps all the others bring in caps to cut costs and increase profits. It's the opposite of what capitalism should be. The idea that it's prohibitively expensive is a lie because other countries do it. The difference is greed. If capping results in 5% more profits then who cares about the customers they cap and take the attitude of 'what are you going to do about it"!
Neil Degrasse Tyson said one of the most profound things I've ever heard. He said growing up he thought Congress was made up of Doctors, engineers and scientists. He was shocked to find out who was actually running the country. The point is how can a politician make a judgement call on an engineering project? How can a Congressman restructure Medicare when they don't know anything about medicine? What about the environment or NASA? The argument would be we invite in experts and have studies done. The truth is they invite in lobbyist for advice who are mostly retired politicians. They don't do reports on every project considered and most Congressional studies are biased and they lack the education to know the difference. The whole mess starts to make sense when you realize the country is being run by a bunch of non professionals. How many actual economist or even accounts are in Congress and they handle all the money! Do you know the most common profession Congressmen come out of? The law as in lawyers. Congress should be made up of an even mix from all major disciplines. We need experts running the country not people skilled in cutting deals!
I like Penn and Teller but their "study" was seriously flawed. Super market organic and regular market food are both factory farmed. The real test is to buy organic food from a farmer's market and test it against supermarket foods. All they were trying to test is the established fact that most people are gulible and will believe what they are told. The factory farmed foods can't be as nutritious for two obvious reasons. One the factory farms don't bother to replace lost minerals so trace minerals are badly depleted in supermarket foods, even so called organic food. The second fact is they pick foods green then transport them long distances. Organic farmers market foods tend to be local. A large portion of the nutrition is lost in the first few hours after things are picked and unripe foods have less nutrition. Common sense would call bull on the original article.
It may be that people whose genetics predispose them to exfoliation glaucoma are also more than usually enchanted by coffee. Still, interesting observation.
I thought the same thing. It seems far more likely it's genetic than coffee related. They are hardly the only population with a heavy coffee consumption. It would be more compelling if they found people in professions and such that drank a lot of coffee had the problem. I come out of entertainment and we drank it like fish and I don't recall many, if any in truth, with the problem. The French drink very strong coffee and a lot of it and they don't have a spike.
The purple flare in the image provided is considered normal behavior for our flawed iPhone 5 camera design.
It's Apple's new "Royal Automatic Purple Effects Default" or iRAPED for short.
"Call it a feature and charge more"
After nearly seven years of living anal free, I'm planning to be anally raped in early 2013. Last time I was anally raped, giant spiked dildoes weren't out yet. Small penises were common, and good lube was an ad campaign. I'm used to South Korea's very small penises, both with lube and without, and I'm wondering what the Slashdot community believes to be the least worst anal raper in the U.S. Which is quickest? Which offers the least pain and lots of lube? Nationwide reaming and coverage (condom)? Sizes? Service?
Sprint promises 12" and struggles to prove 3". AT&T offers sandpaper condoms for quality and loss of erections. Verizon's 6" to 8" services provide the best all round and come standard with lube. Cricket won't ask you for commitments and offers passable service for under 5" if you can deal with that. T-Mobile talks big and they are willing to try harder than most but expect to be disappointed. Other than Verizon don't expect much in the size AKA coverage department. Sprint like most of the competition can provide a strong 8" to 12" if you are standing under a tower but outside of town expect flaccid city and no lube for miles.
gold-chloride (a natural forming toxic liquid),
Where is gold-chloride found in nature? A quick google search and all I could find were descriptions describing gold-chloride as something created in a lab.
I think this was done as a what if experiment and has no practical use. The point though is if you can create a bacteria that will concentrate gold in either industrial or natural compounds if could be very useful. Right now mercury is the main element used in processing gold ore. Japan started extracting gold from sewage. I thought it was a silly idea until I heard how much they extracted. I'm not sure what the source of the gold is, old fillings wearing or naturally occurring but they did get a respectable amount from the sewage. Most of the world's available gold is actually suspended in seawater. The downside is it costs more to extract it than the gold is worth. Say you develop a bacteria that seeks out and absorbs gold then sinks to the bottom of the tank. You could over time end up with a coating of gold on the tank bottom. A similar process has been developed for removing radioactive elements from drinking water.
The concern is increased prices, it has never been that you won't be able to get bacon but that you will have to pay twice as much for it.
It's good ole supply and demand. Raise prices, reduce demand. It's how we are currently dealing with peak oil. People don't realize but for the first time in decades demand for gasoline in the US is actually down. Five years ago the US was pushing Saudi Arabia to pump more to control prices. When's the last time you heard demands for more pumping? It's the same with demands on pork. As prices go up consumption will simply go down until it reaches a balance. The real problem isn't pork it's all grain fed meats which are most meats we consume. Odds are beef prices will be more affected. Truth be told Pigs can eat almost anything. Cattle are more narrow in the dietary needs. Even chickens can be fed traditional foods like millet. Cattle are mostly fed grass, corn and soy, all of which are affected by the drought.
When they reach puberty the logos will be replaced by other images, which they can easily find on the internet.
Like Playboy Bunnies?
I think bigger issues than breaking the record, are the capabilities of the human body
1) How will the human body cope with the insane pressure and temperature buildups at his head (assuming here he's going to go head first) 2) I'm assuming he'll have a regulated air supply of some kind, but how will this be affected by 1 3) etc
captcha: ascender
Actually the stresses would be roughly the same as the one back in the 60's. The real stress isn't in the upper stratosphere it's as the atmosphere thickens so going further out wouldn't add to the stresses. Terminal velocity still applies so he will max out before he hits maximum stress. Really the limiting factor is the Van Allen Belt. Odds are the suit he's using wouldn't be enough and he'd cook but it starts at a 1,000 kilometers so he won't even be close to it.
I see a bright future for this man.
I'm sure he'll be a shooting star.
It's treated like this is the way we always raised food when the truth is factory farming is less than a 100 years old and it didn't take over until the 60s. All the problems we are having with food production are directly related to factory farming. Also the fact that middle men are allowed to force farmers to sell below cost and let farmers survive on federal farm aid. I ran onto this site a year ago where this family is field raising pigs on grass then supplimenting their diet with free milk curd from a dairy, rather than dumping it and risking environmental problems they feed it to the pigs. He also buys surplus bread by the ton. The waste milk is delivered for free and the bread is dirt cheap but the bulk of their diet is grass. The pigs learned to eat the grass from sheep and now the mothers teach the piglets. They are also fed some out of date fruits and vegetables but the bulk of their diet is plain ole grass. They are healthier and the meat is tastier. All pigs could be raised this way but corporate America is convinced you can make farm animals the same way you do a car. All you get is diseased unhealthy meat. The only reason for the shortage is expensive feed so take away the cost of the feed and virtually all vet bills and the problem goes away. Each sow averages 8 per litter twice a year and some have over 20 a litter twice a year. Even starting with a handful in a few years you have a substantial herd so if they dropped the factory farming the numbers would come back fast but you also have to get rid of the middle men that reap all the profits. Farmers usually receive an eighth to a tenth of the retail price. No wonder they don't want to raise pigs anymore. Here's that link. http://sugarmtnfarm.com/products/piglets/
The workers rioted trying to reduce the 25 hour work day to 24 hours.