It sounds like Pak Protectors. In his version of reality the age based changes originally had a purpose. The fact there's a genetic change matches with his scenario. Just interesting how science fiction and reality often converge.
A major problem that isn't generally discussed is the pests and diseases don't just cry uncle and move on to non commercial food sources. The problem is evolution kicks in and they get resistant. They are already finding it in some GMO crops. Ultimately the pest and diseases get tougher so they potentially are even more damaging to traditional crops while GMO crops go back to the drawing board. It's very similar to what is happening with antibiotic resistant diseases. It's very much like the old cold war where each side builds bigger weapons. Eventually one side looses and I doubt it'll be nature. The problem is if we loose this war billions potentially starve. Basically all staple crops are being genetically modified so the entire food supply is at risk. I know the belief is science always solves every problem but the antibiotic analogy proves that isn't the case. There are now many incurable strains of diseases with no solution on the horizon. Do we really want to go through the same nightmare with food? It'll take 20 pr 30 years for us to be in the same position with food production but by then it will be far too late. If you don't believe it's happening in GMO crops do some web searches.
I've already seen my favorite show canceled due to ratings on HBO so just be aware if the ratings drop due to piracy then the show is doomed. Already the bulk of HBO shows are dumb comedies because they are cheap to produce. The next few seasons will need budget increases so unless the ratings grow the show will not survive. Fan love may very well kill this show after the next season. I have to defend them on this because they chose to produce it when no one else would take the risk. It's good that the blu-rays are selling well but HBO never produces a show that looses them money on the initial run just to sell blu-rays and DVDs. For HBO ratings are money and like it or not money makes TV shows.
It's called deminishing returns. Let's say I bury a ton of gold 12,000 feet below the surface. It's a fortune in gold but it would take many times more than it was worth to recover.They are already extracting the bulk of the gold from gold bearing sands where they have to process a ton or more for an ounce of gold. Translated were are running out. Even copper production has fallen off. There's a massive reserve of gold in seawater. Why not extract it? too expensive. We harvest a tiny portion of the resource available but it's all that is worth extracting. Like cheap oil our technological society is built on cheap resources. If iron was worth as much as gold would there be any skyscrapers? Iron is common but it's only cost effective to extract it from Iron ore. There is essentially an unlimited supply of raw materials in magma but it's rarified and expensive to refine. anyone expecting technology to swoop in and save us before it's too late is kidding themselves. let's say there was a magic way to extract rarified materials. It would still means digging up vast tracks of land to harvest them. Just look at Canada and the oil sands. most of central Canada may be turned into a desert just to scrape off some tar sand. In West Virgina they are leveling mountains and filling in valleys to get coal cheap. More mining isn't a solution to anything.
A few bags of Reese's Pieces spread around the field could be an effective way to confuse the rats. I haven't heard of rats being trained to ignore food when they are working like dogs. Another option would be if the mine could be triggered by a rat digging coat it with food smells. You loose a mine but you take out an expensive trained rat.
like bare breasts and tight clothing. That's the standard I use to buy my motherboards and CPUs! Just imagine how many iPads they would have sold if they had two lesbians making out in the ad! Anyone swayed by this kind of marketing deserves the product they get!!! Don't blame the companies marketing to your demographic blame yourself for having such low standards.
I'll never forget him telling the story of how this guy he had never met gave him a start in a little known side career, designing amusement park rides. My friend had been impressed with a story he had written and suggest Ray for scripting the story for the ride back in the early 60s. It was several years after that they finally met and became friends. His kind words meant a lot to all that attended the wake. He was a gentleman and one of the truest artists ever in fantasy and science fiction. He may have passed but his work will be read a thousand years from now if for no other reason than his brilliant insights into humanity during this time in history. History books can give dry facts but Ray had a genius for telling what it was like to be a live during the 20th century. That aspect of his work was just as important as his unique tales of the fantastic. It was the humanity in the stories that made them excel beyond his contemporaries and become truly timeless.
But the question remains if two African Sparrows carrying a coconut can cross the face of the sun in the same time as Venus can we weigh the sparrows and coconut to determine the weight of the planet Venus? Does this also mean since coconuts float that the planet Venus would float like very small stones? This would be valuable in determining if the planet Venus is made of wood.
When the Hubble was launched a NASA scientist was talking to a general. The general asked if he turned the Hubble around and pointed at the Earth what could it see. The scientist gave an example of how small an object it could see. The general responded "not Bad", not particularly impressed. The scientist thought to himself what could the military satellites do if he wasn't impressed? I think they are getting a little peak at obsolete military technology. Translated what could NASA do with practically unlimited funds.
How about showing where forests are replanted? In North Ameria, more than 2 billion trees are planted each year and the total forest coverage of the continent has increased considerably over the past century.
Actually most of what is replanted is what people intend to cut as soon as possible. Here in Maine the moment trees reach a marketable size they are cut. I had a real estate agent refer to 30 year old trees as old growth. The forests used to extend from coast to coast except for the great plains and the deserts. A small percentage remains even with the replanting. Trees are pretty critical to the environment. They're a major source of oxygen, plankton in the oceans are the number one source. They are also one of the bigger carbon sinks so when trees are cut down they stop collecting and any parts that are burned or allowed to rot release the carbon. You talk about the last century but the largest reduction in forest coverage has happened in the last century. Even in the states replanting was rare until the last 50 years and even now most that are planted are earmarked for cutting as I said. Old growth are generally forests that have never been cut but that's probably less than 1% believe it or not. These days mature trees are called old growth but even that is misleading because a tree that is 30 to 50 years old and is 35 to 50 foot tall isn't old growth when the same species reaches 80+ feet and a 150 years old. A number of species reach a 100 to 200 foot tall, even White Oaks reach a 100', but trees of that size which used to be common are now rare. We can't keep leveling forests and burning fossil fuels without seeing a backlash. It's important to keep track of losses and gains.
If there is life it's either not advanced enough for radio, too advanced for radio or too xenophobic to use radio for fear of being detected. Ultimately it means practically nothing that anything was detected. In truth it doesn't even prove the radio issue. They wouldn't have detected a low power undirected radio signal like are used everyday here and a solar flare could have taken out the signal for the time they were looking and it could be back on this week. Without physically going there it's impossible to tell if there isn't life or intelligent life. You can only tell that there was when a signal was sent that there happened to be intelligent life. The odds are that any life detected will be gone before it's discovered.
It's an odd coincidence that it starts to happen around the time our sun goes red giant. Not that anything resembling Homo Sapiens would be around. 5 billion years ago we hadn't made it up to the level of bacteria yet. Impossible to say what Earth life would be like by then if it survived that long. Odds are all life would be wiped out well before we go red giant. Even another billion years from now conditions will be quite harsh. Too bad because in 7 billion years we'd have a very interesting sky.
Given that the cast of characters demanding control of the internet I would have to agree. Every country named has sought to filter internet content to restrict speech. If they take over I'd say the open internet would be effectively dead.
Hard to call something useless if it's a dog that can do the work of a trained geologist and lab. I'd call him impressive not useless. "Annoying" is the judgement of a person that dislikes dogs. I'm a cat person but I love animals so I still like dogs even if they can at times be annoying. Trust me if a dog found a rich gold deposit for you I think you'd learn to love them.
Can we at least limit the number of years they can stall a lawsuit? I'm sick to death of companies suddenly suing after a product has been out for years and sometimes a decade or more. They shouldn't be allowed to wait until the companies rack up a lot of profits before they hit them with a patent they never exploited. A judge should at least limit their recovery to the first three years. The point is if the company had known about the patent maybe they could have made changes to avoid racking up fees. It's a total scam.
If the government can't get you on what they want they settle for anything that puts you behind bars even if it's something dicey like this lame charge. It's one of the reasons for search warrants or my favorite is searching your car when they pull you over for a dead tail light. If you look hard enough you can usually find something to bust people on. Translated if they want to put you in jail they can probably come up with something to bust you on.
I would have assumed a fairly even distribution with Wikipedia so the results weren't that surprising. I'd be more interested in using it to find bias in the media. There are obvious cases of bias such as Fox but I've noticed a gradual move towards the right in groups like CNN who seemed in the past Democratic in it's leaning. I've found more open reporting from comedians these days. Some subjects only the comedians take on that the media avoids or barely mentions. One interesting trend I noticed early on is all media sources including supposed left wing groups call the President Mr Obama while Bush was generally called President Bush and I can't remember him being referred to as Mr Bush. Traditionally the media always calls a sitting President by the title President and expresidents are generally referred to as Former President. Pay attention when you listen to the news and see if I'm right. Both Bushs and Clinton are referred to as former Presidents far more often than Obama is called President Obama.
Okay so 98 Se is king and ME is the antichrist. We have high hopes for Windows 2000 but all this talk of XP is disturbing. Vista sounds like a sad joke and Windows 8 sounds like a lame rip off of iOS so I question if it's real. I fantasize about going back to NT.351which was actually stable. Maybe I should have stuck with linux after all? Okay so the compromise is XP which is unsupported? I need a drink since Vista was a nightmare and I can't see Windows 8 as being better. I just want to run software so which is best? I'm nearing a bottle of Everclear and I still can't sort the mess out. Who is best for a heretic that doesn't care? Does anything work that doesn't require me to sign my soul over to the Devil?
"Australians use the word 'prawn', actually. Just so you know."
Wait a minute. Australians eat intelligent South African aliens? That's more disturbing than Japanese eating whale burgers. They may be aliens but Prawns deserve the same rights as any intelligent species. Besides how big are Australian Barbecues? Prawns are really big so it must take forever to cook one.
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Actually they specify people that are targeting others and harassing them not just people being obnoxious.
It sounds like Pak Protectors. In his version of reality the age based changes originally had a purpose. The fact there's a genetic change matches with his scenario. Just interesting how science fiction and reality often converge.
A major problem that isn't generally discussed is the pests and diseases don't just cry uncle and move on to non commercial food sources. The problem is evolution kicks in and they get resistant. They are already finding it in some GMO crops. Ultimately the pest and diseases get tougher so they potentially are even more damaging to traditional crops while GMO crops go back to the drawing board. It's very similar to what is happening with antibiotic resistant diseases. It's very much like the old cold war where each side builds bigger weapons. Eventually one side looses and I doubt it'll be nature. The problem is if we loose this war billions potentially starve. Basically all staple crops are being genetically modified so the entire food supply is at risk. I know the belief is science always solves every problem but the antibiotic analogy proves that isn't the case. There are now many incurable strains of diseases with no solution on the horizon. Do we really want to go through the same nightmare with food? It'll take 20 pr 30 years for us to be in the same position with food production but by then it will be far too late. If you don't believe it's happening in GMO crops do some web searches.
I've already seen my favorite show canceled due to ratings on HBO so just be aware if the ratings drop due to piracy then the show is doomed. Already the bulk of HBO shows are dumb comedies because they are cheap to produce. The next few seasons will need budget increases so unless the ratings grow the show will not survive. Fan love may very well kill this show after the next season. I have to defend them on this because they chose to produce it when no one else would take the risk. It's good that the blu-rays are selling well but HBO never produces a show that looses them money on the initial run just to sell blu-rays and DVDs. For HBO ratings are money and like it or not money makes TV shows.
It's called deminishing returns. Let's say I bury a ton of gold 12,000 feet below the surface. It's a fortune in gold but it would take many times more than it was worth to recover.They are already extracting the bulk of the gold from gold bearing sands where they have to process a ton or more for an ounce of gold. Translated were are running out. Even copper production has fallen off. There's a massive reserve of gold in seawater. Why not extract it? too expensive. We harvest a tiny portion of the resource available but it's all that is worth extracting. Like cheap oil our technological society is built on cheap resources. If iron was worth as much as gold would there be any skyscrapers? Iron is common but it's only cost effective to extract it from Iron ore. There is essentially an unlimited supply of raw materials in magma but it's rarified and expensive to refine. anyone expecting technology to swoop in and save us before it's too late is kidding themselves. let's say there was a magic way to extract rarified materials. It would still means digging up vast tracks of land to harvest them. Just look at Canada and the oil sands. most of central Canada may be turned into a desert just to scrape off some tar sand. In West Virgina they are leveling mountains and filling in valleys to get coal cheap. More mining isn't a solution to anything.
A few bags of Reese's Pieces spread around the field could be an effective way to confuse the rats. I haven't heard of rats being trained to ignore food when they are working like dogs. Another option would be if the mine could be triggered by a rat digging coat it with food smells. You loose a mine but you take out an expensive trained rat.
like bare breasts and tight clothing. That's the standard I use to buy my motherboards and CPUs! Just imagine how many iPads they would have sold if they had two lesbians making out in the ad! Anyone swayed by this kind of marketing deserves the product they get!!! Don't blame the companies marketing to your demographic blame yourself for having such low standards.
I'll never forget him telling the story of how this guy he had never met gave him a start in a little known side career, designing amusement park rides. My friend had been impressed with a story he had written and suggest Ray for scripting the story for the ride back in the early 60s. It was several years after that they finally met and became friends. His kind words meant a lot to all that attended the wake. He was a gentleman and one of the truest artists ever in fantasy and science fiction. He may have passed but his work will be read a thousand years from now if for no other reason than his brilliant insights into humanity during this time in history. History books can give dry facts but Ray had a genius for telling what it was like to be a live during the 20th century. That aspect of his work was just as important as his unique tales of the fantastic. It was the humanity in the stories that made them excel beyond his contemporaries and become truly timeless.
I hate the fake kind:-(
But the question remains if two African Sparrows carrying a coconut can cross the face of the sun in the same time as Venus can we weigh the sparrows and coconut to determine the weight of the planet Venus? Does this also mean since coconuts float that the planet Venus would float like very small stones? This would be valuable in determining if the planet Venus is made of wood.
It's all the Scotchguard they spray themselves with.
When the Hubble was launched a NASA scientist was talking to a general. The general asked if he turned the Hubble around and pointed at the Earth what could it see. The scientist gave an example of how small an object it could see. The general responded "not Bad", not particularly impressed. The scientist thought to himself what could the military satellites do if he wasn't impressed? I think they are getting a little peak at obsolete military technology. Translated what could NASA do with practically unlimited funds.
How about showing where forests are replanted? In North Ameria, more than 2 billion trees are planted each year and the total forest coverage of the continent has increased considerably over the past century.
Actually most of what is replanted is what people intend to cut as soon as possible. Here in Maine the moment trees reach a marketable size they are cut. I had a real estate agent refer to 30 year old trees as old growth. The forests used to extend from coast to coast except for the great plains and the deserts. A small percentage remains even with the replanting. Trees are pretty critical to the environment. They're a major source of oxygen, plankton in the oceans are the number one source. They are also one of the bigger carbon sinks so when trees are cut down they stop collecting and any parts that are burned or allowed to rot release the carbon. You talk about the last century but the largest reduction in forest coverage has happened in the last century. Even in the states replanting was rare until the last 50 years and even now most that are planted are earmarked for cutting as I said. Old growth are generally forests that have never been cut but that's probably less than 1% believe it or not. These days mature trees are called old growth but even that is misleading because a tree that is 30 to 50 years old and is 35 to 50 foot tall isn't old growth when the same species reaches 80+ feet and a 150 years old. A number of species reach a 100 to 200 foot tall, even White Oaks reach a 100', but trees of that size which used to be common are now rare. We can't keep leveling forests and burning fossil fuels without seeing a backlash. It's important to keep track of losses and gains.
Hahahaha NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER! Yeah. Go wet your bed now you liberal assholes.
So Rush Limbaugh posts on Slashdot?
If there is life it's either not advanced enough for radio, too advanced for radio or too xenophobic to use radio for fear of being detected. Ultimately it means practically nothing that anything was detected. In truth it doesn't even prove the radio issue. They wouldn't have detected a low power undirected radio signal like are used everyday here and a solar flare could have taken out the signal for the time they were looking and it could be back on this week. Without physically going there it's impossible to tell if there isn't life or intelligent life. You can only tell that there was when a signal was sent that there happened to be intelligent life. The odds are that any life detected will be gone before it's discovered.
It's an odd coincidence that it starts to happen around the time our sun goes red giant. Not that anything resembling Homo Sapiens would be around. 5 billion years ago we hadn't made it up to the level of bacteria yet. Impossible to say what Earth life would be like by then if it survived that long. Odds are all life would be wiped out well before we go red giant. Even another billion years from now conditions will be quite harsh. Too bad because in 7 billion years we'd have a very interesting sky.
Given that the cast of characters demanding control of the internet I would have to agree. Every country named has sought to filter internet content to restrict speech. If they take over I'd say the open internet would be effectively dead.
...in Minecraft? I have a legion of about 20 tamed wolves now. If they could all sniff out the ores it would make the mining grind go a lot faster.
There was a bug in the beta. They kept sniffing out dog's backsides.
Whats that Lassie , you have discovered a large deposit of unobtainium?
And it's at the bottom of a well?
Oreo-sniffing dogs still useless, and annoying
Hard to call something useless if it's a dog that can do the work of a trained geologist and lab. I'd call him impressive not useless. "Annoying" is the judgement of a person that dislikes dogs. I'm a cat person but I love animals so I still like dogs even if they can at times be annoying. Trust me if a dog found a rich gold deposit for you I think you'd learn to love them.
Can we at least limit the number of years they can stall a lawsuit? I'm sick to death of companies suddenly suing after a product has been out for years and sometimes a decade or more. They shouldn't be allowed to wait until the companies rack up a lot of profits before they hit them with a patent they never exploited. A judge should at least limit their recovery to the first three years. The point is if the company had known about the patent maybe they could have made changes to avoid racking up fees. It's a total scam.
If the government can't get you on what they want they settle for anything that puts you behind bars even if it's something dicey like this lame charge. It's one of the reasons for search warrants or my favorite is searching your car when they pull you over for a dead tail light. If you look hard enough you can usually find something to bust people on. Translated if they want to put you in jail they can probably come up with something to bust you on.
I would have assumed a fairly even distribution with Wikipedia so the results weren't that surprising. I'd be more interested in using it to find bias in the media. There are obvious cases of bias such as Fox but I've noticed a gradual move towards the right in groups like CNN who seemed in the past Democratic in it's leaning. I've found more open reporting from comedians these days. Some subjects only the comedians take on that the media avoids or barely mentions. One interesting trend I noticed early on is all media sources including supposed left wing groups call the President Mr Obama while Bush was generally called President Bush and I can't remember him being referred to as Mr Bush. Traditionally the media always calls a sitting President by the title President and expresidents are generally referred to as Former President. Pay attention when you listen to the news and see if I'm right. Both Bushs and Clinton are referred to as former Presidents far more often than Obama is called President Obama.
Apple's response was to announce the new iPhone 5 would include speakers that produce sounds only a dog can hear.
Okay so 98 Se is king and ME is the antichrist. We have high hopes for Windows 2000 but all this talk of XP is disturbing. Vista sounds like a sad joke and Windows 8 sounds like a lame rip off of iOS so I question if it's real. I fantasize about going back to NT .351which was actually stable. Maybe I should have stuck with linux after all? Okay so the compromise is XP which is unsupported? I need a drink since Vista was a nightmare and I can't see Windows 8 as being better. I just want to run software so which is best? I'm nearing a bottle of Everclear and I still can't sort the mess out. Who is best for a heretic that doesn't care? Does anything work that doesn't require me to sign my soul over to the Devil?
"Australians use the word 'prawn', actually. Just so you know." Wait a minute. Australians eat intelligent South African aliens? That's more disturbing than Japanese eating whale burgers. They may be aliens but Prawns deserve the same rights as any intelligent species. Besides how big are Australian Barbecues? Prawns are really big so it must take forever to cook one.