Kim du Toit is a douchebag who purchases firearms as a way of compensating for his small dick, he is revered and idolized by guys who don't even have the balls to purchase firearms as a means of compensating for their even smaller dicks.
The movie itself would be displayed encrypted, and only viewable by someone trained to decrypt it -- which ability they would naturally lose as the effects of the drug wore off. For future watchings, or party viewings, more pills would be required. (This would suit the studios, as every instance of viewing must be paid for -- someone who watches a movie at a friend's house represents a lost opportunity to sell a movie. This creates a new business model: give away "unwatchable" movies for free and charge for the pills that make them watchable.) If you combined the psychotropic with another substance which reacts with growth hormone to produce nausea or other undesirable effects, you might be able to get enforced age-restriction into the bargain.
There's already a drug that allows you to watch unwatchable movies, and for that matter cable fishing shows. It doesn't render Fox News any more watchable though.
We're told that current nuclear plants are safe, and not like the ones that exploded or went up in flames. At the time the plants which are now acknowledged to be dangerous were being constructed, the public were also told that they were completely safe. The public can be forgiven for not believing that an industry with a history of serial lies on safety is now both safe and truthful about it for once.
Also, I don't suppose they were actually intending to have any accidents, or for some of the radioactive leaks - though BNFL's own propaganda admits they deliberately discharged nuclear waste into the sea. Humans make mistakes, which is another reason nuclear isn't trusted.
Thirdly, terrorism. You don't get coal-fired suicide bombers.
OK, new rule, anyone who says that we shouldn't build nuclear power plants because of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island or Windscale is also, for the sake of intellectual consistency and honesty, required that we shouldn't fly airplanes because of 9/11. Anyone failing to do this will have a 700,000 volt stun baton lubricated with saline and K-Y jelly shoved up their asses and repeatedly triggered until their internal organs are crispy.
Almost 3,000 people died on 9/11, and if things had been different more might have died, imagine the casualty figures if a group of terrorists flew a loaded jet into football stadium or NASCAR track. You could easily go into tens of thousands of casualties, so therefore we should ban all air travel by large jets because there is the potential that these jets will be used as improvised weapons of mass destruction. The airline industry told us before 9/11 that air travel was completely safe, 9/11 proved that they obviously lied.
Seriously though you're a fucking moron (which is probably why you posted AC). Yes, there have been nuclear accidents, there have also been plane crashes. After plane crashes investigations are done to find out why the plane crashed and what can be done to prevent future crashes. After nuclear accidents we've had a bunch of fear-mongering shitheads (Michio Kaku, Helen Caldecott, Greenpeace) whip up public hysteria over how nuclear power is dangerous, how nuclear power and nuclear bombs go hand in hand, how nuclear power is eeeeeevvvvvilllllll and will kill us all. As a gedankenexperiment imagine where the airline industry would be today if everyone collectively shit their pants in fear after Wiley Post and Will Rogers were killed, or Amelia Earhart disappeared or when Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper bought it. Imagine where the airline industry would be if the aforementioned fear-mongering shitheads had been whipping up scares about how horrible, evil and dangerous air travel was, pointing out that airplanes could not only be used to transport passengers, but could also be used to drop bombs, or flown into buildings and claiming that air travel was evil and would kill us all and that man was not meant to fly.
Thirdly, terrorism. You don't get coal-fired suicide bombers.
No, actually I think that most of the suicide bombers are falafel powered, perhaps with a side of lamb and some pita bread. What the fuck are you talking about anyways, "coal-fired suicide bombers"? What the fuck is that? Did you dash that off thinking that it sounded brilliant? It doesn't, it's totally fucking stupid, it's Bill O'Reilly/Sean Hannity/Fox News stupid.
Well let's beat the shit out of your fucking stupid arguments, one by one by one.
1. Being able to locate passengers in areas that are off-limits
Sounds good on the surface, in reality it's really fucking stupid and it's obvious that you have no idea of how security works. Where I work we wear keycard badges and have access controlled areas (labs, machine rooms, etc) that the badges will let you into. If you are in one of these areas and you see someone who doesn't have a badge and who you don't know you're supposed to ask who they are and what they are doing there, I'm certainly going to do this if I find someone in my machine room and I don't know who they are and they don't have a badge. At the airport you do the same thing, you restrict access to certain areas and you require anyone who works in those areas to wear a badge. Anyone who doesn't have a badge isn't supposed to be there. Passengers shouldn't ever be able to get into areas that are off-limits and placing guards at the access points of the restricted areas and having a few that roam the restricted areas checking up on things is a cheaper, less intrusive and more effective than tagging everyone and implemeting ubiquitous surveillance. Also all someone has to do is take this tag off, in which case your magical locating system doesn't work any more, unless of course you're advocating shoving them up everyone's ass or something.
2. In the event of a catastrophy sic being able to find passengers that are missing or potentially injured and being able to get there quicker to potentially save a life.
Sounds nice, but it's blatantly stupid. What kind of catastrophe are we talking about here? Airports are limited areas, if something bad happens finding people is going to be pretty easy, unless of course it's a WTC style collapse, in which case all that those RFID tags are going to tell you is that you've got a lot of corpses in the rubble. Also if something really bad happens any conscientious group of rescuers is going to have to check the whole area anyways in case someone's RFID tag was damaged or torn from their body.
3. Locating lost children
I'm not wearing a dog collar so that some breeder can find his fucking kids. Keep an eye on your fucking brat and stop trying to restrict my freedom or take away my dignity by saying "it's for the children".
4. Making sure the amount of passengers that are checked in / checked out / boarded at any time eliminating any discrepancies should a problem arise.
We already have this. Well we don't in the US, but that's because our airport security is shit, despite TSA's claims to the contrary. But if you fly through London Heathrow or Munich or Frankfurt or Schiphol your bags don't get on the plane unless you're on the plane. If you are late boarding the plane, and I've had a couple of close calls at LHR, your bags will end up staying at the airport and will go out on the next flight. This is the biggest security threat we have, bombs in luggage, not knowing where everyone is at all times. Implementing positive bag matching would do a lot more to improve secuirty than requirinhg everyone to wear an RFID dog collar.
5) From a marketer's perspective - selling the data to the shops / food stands inside. Selling the data to advertisers and designating high value areas where there is the most traffic.
Marketers are shit and should be rounded up and sent to death camps, anyone who advocates making me wear an RFID dog collar so it's easier for marketers to track me and get data about me without my consent should be gut shot and left to die on a lonely stretch of desert highway on a hot summer's day.
6. If there is a problem, checking that passenger's last known whereabouts to see what they were doing from the moment they checked in. If they met with airport staff posing as an insider prior to boarding etc. With that information, it could lead to the quicker arrest and breakup of other terrorist cells.
Hey bitch, which privately owned airports are we talking about? The airport 10 miles from my house, SeaTac, is owned by the local port authority, a public agency whose officials are elected, most airports of any significant size are publicly owned. As an aside it always amazes me how many so called 'libertarians' will accept and advocate and advance assholish and fascistic behavior on the part of private property owners while shitting their "Hello Ayn Rand" panties if the government behaves the same way."
Oh, and despite your Ayn Rand fantasies to the contrary the fact that you own a piece of property, say an airport, doesn't mean that you can do anything you like, if you don't believe me try setting up your own privately owned airport (good luck) and then, once you have it set up, post a sign saying "No niggers, kikes, spics, wops, japs, chinks, gooks" allowed and see how long you stay in business. Perhaps in Libertard fantasy land you get to do this, but we don't live in Libertard fantasy land (or Christard fantasy land or Marxist-Leninist-Tard fantasy land) we live in this imperfect and dirty place called "the real world" where gangs of unruly facts have a nasty way of ganging up to murder beautiful theories.
We've had laser guided artillery rounds since the 1970's. The 155mm Copperhead rounds have a target sensor and you had an forward observer with a laser designator to light up the targets. Some calculation is necessary, you have to make the calculations to get the round close to the target, but once you've done that the FO can illuminate the target and the round will home in on it, making it possible to use artillery to take out tanks.
The laser designator for the Copperheads was quite large, the ones I saw were vehicle mounted. I would imagine that in the 20+ years since I saw them that they've gotten smaller and smarter.
newsflash: republicans see democrats destroying the moral foundation of the country, selling us out to international law via the court system, pandering for votes from illegals, wanting to destroy any successful corporation, etc.
Wasn't there a Dr. Martin Arrowsmith doing a study on the efficacy phages in the treatment of bubonic plague sometime back in the 1920s? What was the result of that?
Yes, but he had to stop when the funding ran out because everyone believed that "It Can't Happen Here".
He's dead. Dead people don't have any rights, even if they were fucking artists. Someone should kick this moron from ARS in the head and groin until he understands this.
Um, pardon me, but being scientific about something is expressing skeceptism in the face of questionable 'journalistic sources'. Ask yourself this: A) Do you know who, if any, paid for this story to go out? B) Do you know the Author's sources, the Author's experience in this field, or any other pertient information thereof? C) Has the Author spent time abroad, in this case inside the Exclusion Zone, or in the town of Pryprat, Ukraine?
Have you? Have any of the other eco-dickheads who get worked up about this?
What? Don't tell me Planesdragon doesn't know! Way to be Scientific about this, moran. Assuming the author is correct is NOT what science is about. Here's some EVIDENCE for you, since you seem to be so firm in your convictions that radiogenic damage can't occur.
Louis Slotin, dead. Exposed to 2100 rems.
OK fucktard, there's a huge difference between the radiation exposure that Louis Slotkin got at Los Alamos (BTW, he was a fucking idiot, so was Harry Daghlian, both of them ignored even the rudimentary safety procedures in place at the time) and what the animals at Chernobyl are getting. It's like the difference between having a glass of water thrown in your face versus being dropped into a lake with a pair of concrete swim fins. Your "evidence" is shit and I can't see one single thing that shows that you know what Science is about either. I mean really, you go after Planesdragon for citing the article but your "evidence" is a bunch of Wikipedia links. Do you know the sources for those Wikipedia links, do you know the experience of the authors of those Wikipedia links in this or any pertinent fields? What! Don't tell me that tavor doesn't know!. Nope, you don't know, you're a pig-ignorant dog-fucker. Also anyone who writes a sentence such as "Way to be Scientific about this, moran" should have their reproductive organs removed with a rusty corkscrew so they can't afflict their damaged genome on future generations.
I offered nuclear as the "one true option" to him at a holiday gathering several years ago, but he would have none of it. However, the grain of truth in his arguments regarding the "corporate" nature of these wind farms is definitely true. The companies building these windfarms are getting HUGE kickbacks in the form of tax incentives and subsidies...all in a very short-term, short-sighted political game. It is difficult for me to understand how these windfarms would ever pay for themselves otherwise. The whole thing is a pretty bad excuse ("to show we did SOMETHING") to go building ugly aluminum towers that will be abandoned once the sweets run out.
Sunshine, I've got some bad fucking news for you, nukes have been heavily subsidized througout their existence, although not as heavily as hydropower. Subsidies are not necessarily a bad thing, sometimes they allow a technology to get off the ground as witness air travel. Your uncle Jon is a hypocritical asswipe, please post his address so that someone can cut the power lines to his house and dig up any water or gas lines so he can put his money where his mouth is and live off the grid and not have to deal with any of those evil corporate utilities that are getting all of those subsidies.
I don't think that DiVX is a good analogy, but I do think that SACD and DVD-audio is a good one. It's been five years since both formats came out, you can find players from every major manufacturer (except Sony) that will play discs in both formats and no one gives a shit. Really, take a look at how many SACDs or DVD-Audio disks you can buy. A lot of them are multi-channel remixes of older albums such as Dark Side of the Moon (SACD) or Hotel California (DVDA - heh, I love that acronym). You're not finding a significant number of newer releases being mastered in either format, even though they are technically superior because people don't really care about multi-channel and they're definitely down on not being able to rip the music from either one of these DRM laden formats and they don't offer enough of a premium over CDs to make adapting them worthwhile. Same thing with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. I don't think that many people
are going to care. I think the image from DVDs on my 42" Sony is gorgeous, why am I going to spend a bunch of money to replace most of my movies with something that costs more and which may or may not work with my television? I don't think that I'm alone in this either.
The sad thing is, Intel can not do anything to prevent being bent over and screwed here. They have to smile and minimize the damage, but the whole process has been coopted. They were planning on making v1.5 and v2.0 a little better each release, but right now, they are in backpedal so hard it hurts mode, so the chance of them being able to do right is next to zero.
If this is the case then why is Intel putting up with it? Go to any stock board, take a look at Intel's market cap, then take a look at the market caps of Cisco, (CSCO), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG). The total market cap of these companies at close of market today was around $630 billion dollars.
Now, take a look at the market capitalization of Vivendi (V), Sony (SNE), Time Warner (TWX), Viacom (VIA.B), Disney (DIS) and News Corporation (NWS). Total market cap of these, the primary members of the MPAA is around $260 billion. So the four largest tech companies in the country are worth twice the 5 largest members of the MPAA. It seems to me that if Intel and Microsoft are letting themselves be bullied by the MPAA then they're fucking up big time, after all, Microsoft could probably buy either Sony or Disney with its loose cash, or they could buy both Fox (News Corporation) and Viacom. If I were the CEOs at these tech companies I would call up certain members of Congress and say "Look, we're tired of taking shit from the MPAA/RIAA and we're worth way more fucking money than they are and you had better act accordingly and stop passing stupid shit like the DMCA or we'll be doing business with your successors. What's that Congressman, you say you're in a safe seat for your party? Well perhaps you are, but you aren't necessarily safe from a well heeled primary challenger."
Seriously, pick a couple of the worst MPAA/RIAA whores and just destroy them and let the other members of Congress know that the reason these assholes were destroyed is because they were working for the **AAs. I can't see that either Intel or Microsoft would be doing much with DRM if they weren't being forced to by legislation or the threat thereof. What does DRM do for Intel's bottom line? Jack fucking shit, ditto for Microsoft, neither company is a content provider, DRM is not going to help Intel sell chips to anyone, if anything it's just going to hinder them and they could be spending their research dollars somewhere else (like in trying to catch up with AMD). Microsoft might try to get into providing content but their past efforts at doing so (X-Box) and current efforts (X-Box 360) have been huge money pits.
Nobody over 30 spent their allowance at age 15 on anything AMD, junior! Try "Commodore", "Apple", or maybe "IBM".
WRONG: AMD started making better and cheaper versions of the 80386 in 1991, which was 15 years ago, before that, in the 1980s, they were making better 286s than Intel did and cheaper 80287s than Intel. I'm sure that there were lots of young geeks back then who were trying to save up money to buy AMD based PCs from their local white-box shops.
"There were only two things to come out of Berkeley in the 60's, LSD and Unix. I doubt that is a coincidence.
Actually LSD was discovered by Dr. Albert Hofman in Switzerland in 1943. Dr. Hofman, a rather interesting fellow, recently celebrated his 100th birthday.
I think that for a first offense you just break all of his fingers. Then for a second offense you break all of his fingers with a ball peen hammer, then for a third offense he gets the prison sodomy. I'm amazed at the bleeding heart assholes who get so upset by the thought of punks like this getting punished. These are predatory, irresponsible little fucks. If sending a few of them off to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary makes the rest of them think twice before installing botnets (you probably didn't read the article about the botnet that a couple of these punks installed at Northwest hospital) then I'm willing to make that sacrifice.
C.M. Kornbluth wrote two really good stories exploring the idea that while the intelligent had fewer children the
stupid had more and quickly outbred them. The stories are "The Little Black Bag" and "The Marching Morons". There's a lot
to be said for this, just ride any inner city bus and see the number of baby mommas who are 22 years old and already have
three kids and then ask yourself how intelligent those kids must be given that their mother wasn't smart enough to use birth control or to consider the consequences of having children and their father abandoned them.
What's the problem? Again it comes down to the age old statement that defeats the conspiracy theorists who are convinced the government is going to imprison all good americans while the real troublemakers run free.
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."
Rebeka, you stupid fucking cunt, if something like this happened to you you'd piss and shit yourself and scream and wail like a banshee. Oh, and for those who think that I'm stepping out of line by calling Rebeka a "stupid fucking cunt" well she is, and people such as her deserve no civility, only a belt in the chops and a kick in the belly.
Just because it passes by our planet doesn't mean we own it, on that basis i'd own every frickin' car that passes by my house.
Who the fuck else owns it then dipshit? The Martians, the Jovians, or perhaps the Venerians? If you're going to post something so transparently stupid then at least post AC.
I acquired it while I was in the hospital in 2004 to have some more of my leg cut off (although the doctors said I might have colonised me outside of the hospital and gone active once they did the surgery, yeah right). The treatment for MRSA was eight weeks of IV Vancomycin and 1000mg of Cipro every day. Now Vancomycin is nasty, nasty stuff, it's pH is so low that it will kill any veins you have it injected into, so you have to deliver it through a central line. It can also cause liver and hearing damage, so if you're on it for any length of time you have to get your liver enzymes tested and your hearing check. It's the next best thing to being on chemo. Cipro is no fun either and it's really fucking scary that there are bacteria that are resistant to these because these drugs, due to their side effects, are the anti-biotics of last resort, anything stronger would probably kill you outright instead of just damaging your liver and hearing.
The runoff of tainted feedlot manure, containing millions of pounds of diluted antibiotics, enters rivers and watersheds where the world's free bacteria dwell.
One way we could slow this down is to ban the use of anti-biotics in feed for livestock. This practice is insane, it's almost as bad as if farmers and ranchers were deliberately trying to breed anti-biotic resistant bacteria to kill people.
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Kim du Toit is a douchebag who purchases firearms as a way of compensating for his small dick, he is revered and idolized by guys who don't even have the balls to purchase firearms as a means of compensating for their even smaller dicks.
The movie itself would be displayed encrypted, and only viewable by someone trained to decrypt it -- which ability they would naturally lose as the effects of the drug wore off. For future watchings, or party viewings, more pills would be required. (This would suit the studios, as every instance of viewing must be paid for -- someone who watches a movie at a friend's house represents a lost opportunity to sell a movie. This creates a new business model: give away "unwatchable" movies for free and charge for the pills that make them watchable.) If you combined the psychotropic with another substance which reacts with growth hormone to produce nausea or other undesirable effects, you might be able to get enforced age-restriction into the bargain.
There's already a drug that allows you to watch unwatchable movies, and for that matter cable fishing shows. It doesn't render Fox News any more watchable though.
Chernobyl, Windscale, Three Mile Island.
We're told that current nuclear plants are safe, and not like the ones that exploded or went up in flames. At the time the plants which are now acknowledged to be dangerous were being constructed, the public were also told that they were completely safe. The public can be forgiven for not believing that an industry with a history of serial lies on safety is now both safe and truthful about it for once.
Also, I don't suppose they were actually intending to have any accidents, or for some of the radioactive leaks - though BNFL's own propaganda admits they deliberately discharged nuclear waste into the sea. Humans make mistakes, which is another reason nuclear isn't trusted.
Thirdly, terrorism. You don't get coal-fired suicide bombers.
OK, new rule, anyone who says that we shouldn't build nuclear power plants because of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island or Windscale is also, for the sake of intellectual consistency and honesty, required that we shouldn't fly airplanes because of 9/11. Anyone failing to do this will have a 700,000 volt stun baton lubricated with saline and K-Y jelly shoved up their asses and repeatedly triggered until their internal organs are crispy.
Almost 3,000 people died on 9/11, and if things had been different more might have died, imagine the casualty figures if a group of terrorists flew a loaded jet into football stadium or NASCAR track. You could easily go into tens of thousands of casualties, so therefore we should ban all air travel by large jets because there is the potential that these jets will be used as improvised weapons of mass destruction. The airline industry told us before 9/11 that air travel was completely safe, 9/11 proved that they obviously lied.
Seriously though you're a fucking moron (which is probably why you posted AC). Yes, there have been nuclear accidents, there have also been plane crashes. After plane crashes investigations are done to find out why the plane crashed and what can be done to prevent future crashes. After nuclear accidents we've had a bunch of fear-mongering shitheads (Michio Kaku, Helen Caldecott, Greenpeace) whip up public hysteria over how nuclear power is dangerous, how nuclear power and nuclear bombs go hand in hand, how nuclear power is eeeeeevvvvvilllllll and will kill us all. As a gedankenexperiment imagine where the airline industry would be today if everyone collectively shit their pants in fear after Wiley Post and Will Rogers were killed, or Amelia Earhart disappeared or when Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper bought it. Imagine where the airline industry would be if the aforementioned fear-mongering shitheads had been whipping up scares about how horrible, evil and dangerous air travel was, pointing out that airplanes could not only be used to transport passengers, but could also be used to drop bombs, or flown into buildings and claiming that air travel was evil and would kill us all and that man was not meant to fly.
Thirdly, terrorism. You don't get coal-fired suicide bombers.
No, actually I think that most of the suicide bombers are falafel powered, perhaps with a side of lamb and some pita bread. What the fuck are you talking about anyways, "coal-fired suicide bombers"? What the fuck is that? Did you dash that off thinking that it sounded brilliant? It doesn't, it's totally fucking stupid, it's Bill O'Reilly/Sean Hannity/Fox News stupid.
1. Being able to locate passengers in areas that are off-limits
Sounds good on the surface, in reality it's really fucking stupid and it's obvious that you have no idea of how security works. Where I work we wear keycard badges and have access controlled areas (labs, machine rooms, etc) that the badges will let you into. If you are in one of these areas and you see someone who doesn't have a badge and who you don't know you're supposed to ask who they are and what they are doing there, I'm certainly going to do this if I find someone in my machine room and I don't know who they are and they don't have a badge. At the airport you do the same thing, you restrict access to certain areas and you require anyone who works in those areas to wear a badge. Anyone who doesn't have a badge isn't supposed to be there. Passengers shouldn't ever be able to get into areas that are off-limits and placing guards at the access points of the restricted areas and having a few that roam the restricted areas checking up on things is a cheaper, less intrusive and more effective than tagging everyone and implemeting ubiquitous surveillance. Also all someone has to do is take this tag off, in which case your magical locating system doesn't work any more, unless of course you're advocating shoving them up everyone's ass or something.
2. In the event of a catastrophy sic being able to find passengers that are missing or potentially injured and being able to get there quicker to potentially save a life.
Sounds nice, but it's blatantly stupid. What kind of catastrophe are we talking about here? Airports are limited areas, if something bad happens finding people is going to be pretty easy, unless of course it's a WTC style collapse, in which case all that those RFID tags are going to tell you is that you've got a lot of corpses in the rubble. Also if something really bad happens any conscientious group of rescuers is going to have to check the whole area anyways in case someone's RFID tag was damaged or torn from their body.
3. Locating lost children
I'm not wearing a dog collar so that some breeder can find his fucking kids. Keep an eye on your fucking brat and stop trying to restrict my freedom or take away my dignity by saying "it's for the children".
4. Making sure the amount of passengers that are checked in / checked out / boarded at any time eliminating any discrepancies should a problem arise.
We already have this. Well we don't in the US, but that's because our airport security is shit, despite TSA's claims to the contrary. But if you fly through London Heathrow or Munich or Frankfurt or Schiphol your bags don't get on the plane unless you're on the plane. If you are late boarding the plane, and I've had a couple of close calls at LHR, your bags will end up staying at the airport and will go out on the next flight. This is the biggest security threat we have, bombs in luggage, not knowing where everyone is at all times. Implementing positive bag matching would do a lot more to improve secuirty than requirinhg everyone to wear an RFID dog collar.
5) From a marketer's perspective - selling the data to the shops / food stands inside. Selling the data to advertisers and designating high value areas where there is the most traffic.
Marketers are shit and should be rounded up and sent to death camps, anyone who advocates making me wear an RFID dog collar so it's easier for marketers to track me and get data about me without my consent should be gut shot and left to die on a lonely stretch of desert highway on a hot summer's day.
6. If there is a problem, checking that passenger's last known whereabouts to see what they were doing from the moment they checked in. If they met with airport staff posing as an insider prior to boarding etc. With that information, it could lead to the quicker arrest and breakup of other terrorist cells.
Great, ex post facto law enforce
Oh, and despite your Ayn Rand fantasies to the contrary the fact that you own a piece of property, say an airport, doesn't mean that you can do anything you like, if you don't believe me try setting up your own privately owned airport (good luck) and then, once you have it set up, post a sign saying "No niggers, kikes, spics, wops, japs, chinks, gooks" allowed and see how long you stay in business. Perhaps in Libertard fantasy land you get to do this, but we don't live in Libertard fantasy land (or Christard fantasy land or Marxist-Leninist-Tard fantasy land) we live in this imperfect and dirty place called "the real world" where gangs of unruly facts have a nasty way of ganging up to murder beautiful theories.
The laser designator for the Copperheads was quite large, the ones I saw were vehicle mounted. I would imagine that in the 20+ years since I saw them that they've gotten smaller and smarter.
Oh, you mean destroying the moral foundation of our country by soliciting teenage boys? Oh wait, he's a Republican. Whoops, my bad. Are you trying to fuck teenage boys in the ass too? Are you one of those members of "Republicans for NAMBLA" like Mark Foley?
Wasn't there a Dr. Martin Arrowsmith doing a study on the efficacy phages in the treatment of bubonic plague sometime back in the 1920s? What was the result of that?
Yes, but he had to stop when the funding ran out because everyone believed that "It Can't Happen Here".
He's dead. Dead people don't have any rights, even if they were fucking artists. Someone should kick this moron from ARS in the head and groin until he understands this.
Have you? Have any of the other eco-dickheads who get worked up about this?
What? Don't tell me Planesdragon doesn't know! Way to be Scientific about this, moran. Assuming the author is correct is NOT what science is about. Here's some EVIDENCE for you, since you seem to be so firm in your convictions that radiogenic damage can't occur. Louis Slotin, dead. Exposed to 2100 rems.
OK fucktard, there's a huge difference between the radiation exposure that Louis Slotkin got at Los Alamos (BTW, he was a fucking idiot, so was Harry Daghlian, both of them ignored even the rudimentary safety procedures in place at the time) and what the animals at Chernobyl are getting. It's like the difference between having a glass of water thrown in your face versus being dropped into a lake with a pair of concrete swim fins. Your "evidence" is shit and I can't see one single thing that shows that you know what Science is about either. I mean really, you go after Planesdragon for citing the article but your "evidence" is a bunch of Wikipedia links. Do you know the sources for those Wikipedia links, do you know the experience of the authors of those Wikipedia links in this or any pertinent fields? What! Don't tell me that tavor doesn't know!. Nope, you don't know, you're a pig-ignorant dog-fucker. Also anyone who writes a sentence such as "Way to be Scientific about this, moran" should have their reproductive organs removed with a rusty corkscrew so they can't afflict their damaged genome on future generations.
Sunshine, I've got some bad fucking news for you, nukes have been heavily subsidized througout their existence, although not as heavily as hydropower. Subsidies are not necessarily a bad thing, sometimes they allow a technology to get off the ground as witness air travel. Your uncle Jon is a hypocritical asswipe, please post his address so that someone can cut the power lines to his house and dig up any water or gas lines so he can put his money where his mouth is and live off the grid and not have to deal with any of those evil corporate utilities that are getting all of those subsidies.
Yeah, really, if not 'getting any' = homosexual then /. would be the biggest gay site on the web.
Ah, thank you, I hadn't seen that.
to mount the NTFS volume under OS X? Or will you have to use some other mechanism to share files between the two operating systems?
I don't think that DiVX is a good analogy, but I do think that SACD and DVD-audio is a good one. It's been five years since both formats came out, you can find players from every major manufacturer (except Sony) that will play discs in both formats and no one gives a shit. Really, take a look at how many SACDs or DVD-Audio disks you can buy. A lot of them are multi-channel remixes of older albums such as Dark Side of the Moon (SACD) or Hotel California (DVDA - heh, I love that acronym). You're not finding a significant number of newer releases being mastered in either format, even though they are technically superior because people don't really care about multi-channel and they're definitely down on not being able to rip the music from either one of these DRM laden formats and they don't offer enough of a premium over CDs to make adapting them worthwhile. Same thing with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. I don't think that many people are going to care. I think the image from DVDs on my 42" Sony is gorgeous, why am I going to spend a bunch of money to replace most of my movies with something that costs more and which may or may not work with my television? I don't think that I'm alone in this either.
If this is the case then why is Intel putting up with it? Go to any stock board, take a look at Intel's market cap, then take a look at the market caps of Cisco, (CSCO), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG). The total market cap of these companies at close of market today was around $630 billion dollars.
Now, take a look at the market capitalization of Vivendi (V), Sony (SNE), Time Warner (TWX), Viacom (VIA.B), Disney (DIS) and News Corporation (NWS). Total market cap of these, the primary members of the MPAA is around $260 billion. So the four largest tech companies in the country are worth twice the 5 largest members of the MPAA. It seems to me that if Intel and Microsoft are letting themselves be bullied by the MPAA then they're fucking up big time, after all, Microsoft could probably buy either Sony or Disney with its loose cash, or they could buy both Fox (News Corporation) and Viacom. If I were the CEOs at these tech companies I would call up certain members of Congress and say "Look, we're tired of taking shit from the MPAA/RIAA and we're worth way more fucking money than they are and you had better act accordingly and stop passing stupid shit like the DMCA or we'll be doing business with your successors. What's that Congressman, you say you're in a safe seat for your party? Well perhaps you are, but you aren't necessarily safe from a well heeled primary challenger."
Seriously, pick a couple of the worst MPAA/RIAA whores and just destroy them and let the other members of Congress know that the reason these assholes were destroyed is because they were working for the **AAs. I can't see that either Intel or Microsoft would be doing much with DRM if they weren't being forced to by legislation or the threat thereof. What does DRM do for Intel's bottom line? Jack fucking shit, ditto for Microsoft, neither company is a content provider, DRM is not going to help Intel sell chips to anyone, if anything it's just going to hinder them and they could be spending their research dollars somewhere else (like in trying to catch up with AMD). Microsoft might try to get into providing content but their past efforts at doing so (X-Box) and current efforts (X-Box 360) have been huge money pits.
WRONG: AMD started making better and cheaper versions of the 80386 in 1991, which was 15 years ago, before that, in the 1980s, they were making better 286s than Intel did and cheaper 80287s than Intel. I'm sure that there were lots of young geeks back then who were trying to save up money to buy AMD based PCs from their local white-box shops.
Actually LSD was discovered by Dr. Albert Hofman in Switzerland in 1943. Dr. Hofman, a rather interesting fellow, recently celebrated his 100th birthday.
I think that for a first offense you just break all of his fingers. Then for a second offense you break all of his fingers with a ball peen hammer, then for a third offense he gets the prison sodomy. I'm amazed at the bleeding heart assholes who get so upset by the thought of punks like this getting punished. These are predatory, irresponsible little fucks. If sending a few of them off to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary makes the rest of them think twice before installing botnets (you probably didn't read the article about the botnet that a couple of these punks installed at Northwest hospital) then I'm willing to make that sacrifice.
Is it because of its high melting point? What would happen if they used wires made of a denser metal, such as osmium or gold or even uranium?
What's the problem? Again it comes down to the age old statement that defeats the conspiracy theorists who are convinced the government is going to imprison all good americans while the real troublemakers run free.
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."
Rebeka, you stupid fucking cunt, if something like this happened to you you'd piss and shit yourself and scream and wail like a banshee. Oh, and for those who think that I'm stepping out of line by calling Rebeka a "stupid fucking cunt" well she is, and people such as her deserve no civility, only a belt in the chops and a kick in the belly.
Who the fuck else owns it then dipshit? The Martians, the Jovians, or perhaps the Venerians? If you're going to post something so transparently stupid then at least post AC.
I acquired it while I was in the hospital in 2004 to have some more of my leg cut off (although the doctors said I might have colonised me outside of the hospital and gone active once they did the surgery, yeah right). The treatment for MRSA was eight weeks of IV Vancomycin and 1000mg of Cipro every day. Now Vancomycin is nasty, nasty stuff, it's pH is so low that it will kill any veins you have it injected into, so you have to deliver it through a central line. It can also cause liver and hearing damage, so if you're on it for any length of time you have to get your liver enzymes tested and your hearing check. It's the next best thing to being on chemo. Cipro is no fun either and it's really fucking scary that there are bacteria that are resistant to these because these drugs, due to their side effects, are the anti-biotics of last resort, anything stronger would probably kill you outright instead of just damaging your liver and hearing.
One way we could slow this down is to ban the use of anti-biotics in feed for livestock. This practice is insane, it's almost as bad as if farmers and ranchers were deliberately trying to breed anti-biotic resistant bacteria to kill people.