"California's attorney general has sued the six largest U.S. and Japanese automakers for damages related to greenhouse gas emissions. The federal lawsuit alleged that emissions from their vehicles have harmed Californians' health, damaged the environment and cost the state millions of dollars to combat their effects. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, names Chrysler Motors Corp., General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor North America, Honda North America and Nissan North America."
The same type of "sue, countersue" activity has been seen in Europe. Don't know about China, India or Japan though. How safe is it to sue the governement in China nowadays anyway, if you're a Chinese Company?
New research suggests that the highest functions of our brains handle the lowest form of wit. The research has found that the ability to understand sarcasm depends on a carefully orchestrated sequence of complex cognitive skills in specific parts of the brain. Sarcasm is related to our ability to understand other people's mental state and is not just a linguistic form, it is related to social cognition. The research revealed that areas of the brain that decipher sarcasm and irony also process language, recognise emotions and help us understand social cues. So an underdeveloped sarcasm-detector could also be a function of American education and culture, not just normal dementia~;-).
Most whales end up on the ocean bed. No one knows how deep they can go whilst alive ; ). Submarine sonar readings have documented sperm whales at 2500 meters (8200 feet or 27.3 football fields or 1.6 miles below the surface).
Well, the planets of the solar system are going into planetary alignment (Which occurs every 5,000 years), and I can tell you that a secret society called the Illuminati is seeking an ancient talisman that gives its possessor the ability to control time ; ).
In 2006, BBC flagship news programme Newsnight featured Cuba's Healthcare system as part of a series identifying "the world's best public services". The report noted that "Thanks chiefly to the American economic blockade, but partly also to the web of strange rules and regulations that constrict Cuban life, the economy is in a terrible mess: national income per head is minuscule, and resources are amazingly tight. Healthcare, however, is a top national priority" The report stated that life expectancy and infant mortality rates are pretty much the same as the USA's. Its doctor-to-patient ratios stand comparison to any country in Western Europe. Its annual total health spend per head, however, comes in at $251; just over a tenth of the UK's. The report concluded that the population's admirable health is one of the key reasons why Castro is still in power.
Also, re: comparisson with Hubble (or other spacecraft), from an earlier article; "We can do follow-up spectroscopic work with more complex instrumentation that is simply too heavy and too expensive to put aboard a spacecraft," says Eric Becklin, SOFIA chief scientist and director-designate for the University Space Research Association (USRA). USRA will manage SOFIA's science operations for NASA."
Allthough I have to wonder, what would be too expensive to put aboard a spacecraft?
Growing up in Malawi as a young Dutch boy, I once (age seven or so) asked my nanny, a South-African woman, how she could tell other African people apart, as they all looked the same to me. Not the one's I knew personally of course, just the other 99.9%. This is the kind of question only a child can and will ask, and after laughing, she confided in me she had the same thought about Europeans (that they all looked alike).
Somehow, I don't think software is going to have this problem, allthough the prejudices of it's programmers might seep in.
All you who say "THEY all look alike", don't worry, THEY think exactly the same thing about you!
Slashdot Mirror
"And AC said: "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light--"
Slashdotted, or rather electrickery?
"California's attorney general has sued the six largest U.S. and Japanese automakers for damages related to greenhouse gas emissions.
The federal lawsuit alleged that emissions from their vehicles have harmed Californians' health, damaged the environment and cost the state millions of dollars to combat their effects. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, names Chrysler Motors Corp., General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor North America, Honda North America and Nissan North America."
The same type of "sue, countersue" activity has been seen in Europe.
Don't know about China, India or Japan though. How safe is it to sue the governement in China nowadays anyway, if you're a Chinese Company?
Come in tomorrow and sort this godawful Web 2.0 hell hole out.
Bring wine and caviar only.
Sincerly yours
Cmdr. Taco
Q: So when little kids are telling potty jokes, they are actually exercising the highest functions of their brains?
A: Only if they're being sarcastic
Q: When my kid says he's going to pee on me, do I scold him or encourage him?
A: Depends, do you like being peed upon?
YT
Dr. Phil
Government officials of the American Republic swear an oath to the Constitution, NOT to the President or any other individual.
New research suggests that the highest functions of our brains handle the lowest form of wit.
The research has found that the ability to understand sarcasm depends on a carefully orchestrated sequence of complex cognitive skills in specific parts of the brain.
Sarcasm is related to our ability to understand other people's mental state and is not just a linguistic form, it is related to social cognition.
The research revealed that areas of the brain that decipher sarcasm and irony also process language, recognise emotions and help us understand social cues.
So an underdeveloped sarcasm-detector could also be a function of American education and culture, not just normal dementia~;-).
That's no moon. It's a Google Data Centre..
The discovery of an alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, "I'm sorry, but there is bad news,"
Anymore anyway.
The name of the largest of the Russian successors to the KGB is the FSB, est. 1991.
AKA the Federal Smiley Bureau ; ).
Neutrino's with Attitude!
teachers email address:
karenk@karenware.com
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2005/05/09/black-hole
Most whales end up on the ocean bed. No one knows how deep they can go whilst alive ; ).
Submarine sonar readings have documented sperm whales at 2500 meters (8200 feet or 27.3 football fields or 1.6 miles below the surface).
And, I might add
"there ain't no such thing as a free portal"
Well, the planets of the solar system are going into planetary alignment (Which occurs every 5,000 years), and I can tell you that a secret society called the Illuminati is seeking an ancient talisman that gives its possessor the ability to control time ; ).
VP: Donald the Death Knight.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Rumsfeld1.jpg/225px-Rumsfeld1.jpg
In 2006, BBC flagship news programme Newsnight featured Cuba's Healthcare system as part of a series identifying "the world's best public services". The report noted that "Thanks chiefly to the American economic blockade, but partly also to the web of strange rules and regulations that constrict Cuban life, the economy is in a terrible mess: national income per head is minuscule, and resources are amazingly tight. Healthcare, however, is a top national priority" The report stated that life expectancy and infant mortality rates are pretty much the same as the USA's. Its doctor-to-patient ratios stand comparison to any country in Western Europe. Its annual total health spend per head, however, comes in at $251; just over a tenth of the UK's. The report concluded that the population's admirable health is one of the key reasons why Castro is still in power.
Also, re: comparisson with Hubble (or other spacecraft), from an earlier article;
"We can do follow-up spectroscopic work with more complex instrumentation that is simply too heavy and too expensive to put aboard a spacecraft," says Eric Becklin, SOFIA chief scientist and director-designate for the University Space Research Association (USRA). USRA will manage SOFIA's science operations for NASA."
Allthough I have to wonder, what would be too expensive to put aboard a spacecraft?
Osama bin Laden posting on slashdot.
What has the world come to...
Modern art is pointless? Au contraire, mon ami:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism
Or a threesome...
iMicroogle?
No, but I did expect the word "Bitterman" on the side of the vehicle, in large unfriendly letters.
Growing up in Malawi as a young Dutch boy, I once (age seven or so) asked my nanny, a South-African woman, how she could tell other African people apart, as they all looked the same to me. Not the one's I knew personally of course, just the other 99.9%.
This is the kind of question only a child can and will ask, and after laughing, she confided in me she had the same thought about Europeans (that they all looked alike).
Somehow, I don't think software is going to have this problem, allthough the prejudices of it's programmers might seep in.
All you who say "THEY all look alike", don't worry, THEY think exactly the same thing about you!
See also this sentence from TFA
"important progress that may soon turn hype into reality."
Still, good stuff.
Homer:"Hmmm, buckypaper..."