It is good to see that the US government is finally seeing that people do not want their right to privacy infringed upon. If they want to do something like the CAPPSII program it should be instituted voluntarily. Several airlines are already doing this and a rigorous background check to ensure the passengers are safe when they run them through an express check in. If anything US citizens should have their constitutional rights protected and if THEY should decide to give them up it was their decision for convenience of skipping the line.
This has been been known for a number of years. I believe the way that it works is that certain photons can escape the black hole, I forget exactly what the photon gets away but its too early to look it up right now. Either way this is the way that astronomers discover black holes now days.
The Christians outlawed crossbows in the middle ages, but the Romans looked down upon those who studied astronomy and such other sciences, the gods were unquestionable at the time. What I should have said was development of technology stopped because the Emperors started becoming more interested in bloodshed and controlling the people than devolving the society. This is one of the complicating factors in their downfall.
The issue is that a lot of legislators now days do not understand technology before they start to regulate it. Not understanding the good and the bad and weighing them against each other before outlawing it causes major problems later down the line.
Take the Roman Empire for example, they started outlawing all kinds of technolgy and that later lead to a static society there by leading to their downfall. Evolution is key to any society surviving, but lately it seems that politicians would have otherwise.
According to a couple of studies that I have read eating more calcium triggers a gene in some people that burns more fat. So basically lay off the crap for lunch and eat like 2 low fat yogurts which will give something like 50% of the calcium for the day and take a supplement.
For the study look for 'weight loss calcium' on google it will bring up the study.
Sorry about that I was at work and shouldn't have been posting and didn't have spell check;). Thank you for the correction though. I'll make sure that I get it right for those who are more concerned about my spelling than the idea that I am trying to get across next time.
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I would agree with that statement. The medical community seems to think that everything now days is a disease. Everything must have a cure, or so they say. These doctors cannot even prove that ADD is a real disease caused by some abnormallity in the the body, ovbiously if you give someone Riddlen they are going to concentrate more just look whats in the stuff.
If somone could prove that ADD is an abnormallity I would believe this, until then I will be a dissenter of the pill pushing community.
I am a very dedicated rts and rpg player. I do spend a lot of my time playing Diablo 2, Buldars Gate 2 and the list goes on. As for the Rts games starcraft is well know for being a decent game but the fact remains that it is a blitz game. For those of you looking for a supply line game that doesnt require a mass of troops to win and that every unit has a counter balancing unit in the game look at Sierra Studios Homeworld or Homeworld Cataclysm. The supply line concept exists with the resorce harvesters and the hoard concept is nicely counter balanced with the fact that you can only have so many frigits no matter if you build assault or ion cannon and limited destroyer numbers of either type. I suggest these games if you are hard pressed to find games that suit your need for a more realistic representation of war. You can pick up either of them for around 20 bucks at an electronics store.
Im sittin here wit my 56k modem still looking for Blue Ridge Communications to provide me with the broadband connection thats been comming next month for the last 2 years. Dont complain about being out in the middle of nowhere.
This wouldnt have to do with the X prize would it?
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i have reciently seen an ad that the first person to go into space with a home made rocket will win a 1,000,000 dollar prize and a really neat looking trophy plus a lot of bragging rights. NASA has put up this contest for all of you wanna be rocketteers out there. Hell i'd be there if i had the engineering know how to design something like that.
why or what the hell would posess anyone to pay for bits and bytes. but i suppose that if someone is dumb enough to pay for something that doesnt exist you may as well take advantage of them.
i cant believe that the evil empire is still gonna go through with its plan to conquer the world by buying everything that they can get their grubby little hands on. its bad enought that they bought BUNGI when they were werking on HALO and i cant belive that they would actually try to compete with the rest of the already established consule gaming market. I really hope that this fails and gates goes crying to mommy
hey u guys at slashdot could you at least show the anime community the respect of not putting the face of such a shitty series on your site. that is one of the last things that i need to see. do something kewl like put Kamwi's (for those of you who dont know hes from X) face on i really dont like that sad excuse for a show.
Down with those damn Pokemon too. Watch movies not that worthless series BS.
SETI is a privately funded organization that can only cover 1% of the sky at a time.
For all of you thinking that "Well why not use a laser?" the answer to that is that is WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THIS LITTE WORTHLESS MUDBALL? A laser would be too confined to one area why the hell blow a few million trying to pick up a laser pulse that no one would even bother sending to us?
We are looking for radio waves because they spread out over a great area and they are probably the most crude way of communicating over large distancess. Think what you want but don't go assuming that the program is completly lame by looking for radio signals.
Before everyone goes NASA bashing here let me point out a couple of things.
1. The reason Challenger blew up was the fact that it was so cold outside that the O ring on the booster engine cracked and with that little hole in the engine it ignited the fuel tank. Thats what caused the explosion.
2. There was a lot of political pressure at that time (even though im a little young to remember the explosion i have read a lot of the accounts of the investigations) because the space program was starting to loose popularity among the American people because we have been there and done that. We needed something new to do thats why we sent up the teacher with the crew and they didnt want to delay the launch.
3. If you want to cut NASAs budget further than those short sited politicians you'll have problems with the up keep of equiptment and youll have problems trying to find a way to send satalites to Mars and you just wont advance in the science field. If you look at any great civilization like Rome you see that if the country isnt advancing in science then that civilizaiton is dead. I for one would like to see more funding put into our space program instead of it being the only goverment foundation to have its spending cut every year. I really dont appreciate the fact that congress cant look further than their next term of relection to find things to do that will get them reelected instead of looking out for the good of their country.
What happened to the American curiosity that we once had? I'll tell you what it is its the fact that our pride as a country has gone downhill like the fact that Clinton screwed that intern and didnt even get in trouble for it. Explore expand and conquer new thing instead of sitting here with out thumbs up our asses.
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It is good to see that the US government is finally seeing that people do not want their right to privacy infringed upon. If they want to do something like the CAPPSII program it should be instituted voluntarily. Several airlines are already doing this and a rigorous background check to ensure the passengers are safe when they run them through an express check in. If anything US citizens should have their constitutional rights protected and if THEY should decide to give them up it was their decision for convenience of skipping the line.
Thanks, thats what I get for just skimming the article.
This has been been known for a number of years. I believe the way that it works is that certain photons can escape the black hole, I forget exactly what the photon gets away but its too early to look it up right now. Either way this is the way that astronomers discover black holes now days.
I guess I finally have a good reason to upgrade my video card now.
The FAQ says that there is a white list. I assume from reading it that it means that they do not have to pay.
The Christians outlawed crossbows in the middle ages, but the Romans looked down upon those who studied astronomy and such other sciences, the gods were unquestionable at the time. What I should have said was development of technology stopped because the Emperors started becoming more interested in bloodshed and controlling the people than devolving the society. This is one of the complicating factors in their downfall.
The issue is that a lot of legislators now days do not understand technology before they start to regulate it. Not understanding the good and the bad and weighing them against each other before outlawing it causes major problems later down the line.
Take the Roman Empire for example, they started outlawing all kinds of technolgy and that later lead to a static society there by leading to their downfall. Evolution is key to any society surviving, but lately it seems that politicians would have otherwise.
At school I have people run SETI for me when I end up fixing their machines, any extra processing power is always a welcome thing.
According to a couple of studies that I have read eating more calcium triggers a gene in some people that burns more fat. So basically lay off the crap for lunch and eat like 2 low fat yogurts which will give something like 50% of the calcium for the day and take a supplement.
For the study look for 'weight loss calcium' on google it will bring up the study.
Sorry about that I was at work and shouldn't have been posting and didn't have spell check ;). Thank you for the correction though. I'll make sure that I get it right for those who are more concerned about my spelling than the idea that I am trying to get across next time.
I would agree with that statement. The medical community seems to think that everything now days is a disease. Everything must have a cure, or so they say. These doctors cannot even prove that ADD is a real disease caused by some abnormallity in the the body, ovbiously if you give someone Riddlen they are going to concentrate more just look whats in the stuff.
If somone could prove that ADD is an abnormallity I would believe this, until then I will be a dissenter of the pill pushing community.
I am a very dedicated rts and rpg player. I do spend a lot of my time playing Diablo 2, Buldars Gate 2 and the list goes on. As for the Rts games starcraft is well know for being a decent game but the fact remains that it is a blitz game. For those of you looking for a supply line game that doesnt require a mass of troops to win and that every unit has a counter balancing unit in the game look at Sierra Studios Homeworld or Homeworld Cataclysm. The supply line concept exists with the resorce harvesters and the hoard concept is nicely counter balanced with the fact that you can only have so many frigits no matter if you build assault or ion cannon and limited destroyer numbers of either type. I suggest these games if you are hard pressed to find games that suit your need for a more realistic representation of war. You can pick up either of them for around 20 bucks at an electronics store.
Im sittin here wit my 56k modem still looking for Blue Ridge Communications to provide me with the broadband connection thats been comming next month for the last 2 years. Dont complain about being out in the middle of nowhere.
i have reciently seen an ad that the first person to go into space with a home made rocket will win a 1,000,000 dollar prize and a really neat looking trophy plus a lot of bragging rights. NASA has put up this contest for all of you wanna be rocketteers out there. Hell i'd be there if i had the engineering know how to design something like that.
why or what the hell would posess anyone to pay for bits and bytes. but i suppose that if someone is dumb enough to pay for something that doesnt exist you may as well take advantage of them.
i cant believe that the evil empire is still gonna go through with its plan to conquer the world by buying everything that they can get their grubby little hands on. its bad enought that they bought BUNGI when they were werking on HALO and i cant belive that they would actually try to compete with the rest of the already established consule gaming market. I really hope that this fails and gates goes crying to mommy
hey u guys at slashdot could you at least show the anime community the respect of not putting the face of such a shitty series on your site. that is one of the last things that i need to see. do something kewl like put Kamwi's (for those of you who dont know hes from X) face on i really dont like that sad excuse for a show. Down with those damn Pokemon too. Watch movies not that worthless series BS.
SETI is a privately funded organization that can only cover 1% of the sky at a time.
For all of you thinking that "Well why not use a laser?" the answer to that is that is WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THIS LITTE WORTHLESS MUDBALL? A laser would be too confined to one area why the hell blow a few million trying to pick up a laser pulse that no one would even bother sending to us?
We are looking for radio waves because they spread out over a great area and they are probably the most crude way of communicating over large distancess. Think what you want but don't go assuming that the program is completly lame by looking for radio signals.
Before everyone goes NASA bashing here let me point out a couple of things. 1. The reason Challenger blew up was the fact that it was so cold outside that the O ring on the booster engine cracked and with that little hole in the engine it ignited the fuel tank. Thats what caused the explosion. 2. There was a lot of political pressure at that time (even though im a little young to remember the explosion i have read a lot of the accounts of the investigations) because the space program was starting to loose popularity among the American people because we have been there and done that. We needed something new to do thats why we sent up the teacher with the crew and they didnt want to delay the launch. 3. If you want to cut NASAs budget further than those short sited politicians you'll have problems with the up keep of equiptment and youll have problems trying to find a way to send satalites to Mars and you just wont advance in the science field. If you look at any great civilization like Rome you see that if the country isnt advancing in science then that civilizaiton is dead. I for one would like to see more funding put into our space program instead of it being the only goverment foundation to have its spending cut every year. I really dont appreciate the fact that congress cant look further than their next term of relection to find things to do that will get them reelected instead of looking out for the good of their country. What happened to the American curiosity that we once had? I'll tell you what it is its the fact that our pride as a country has gone downhill like the fact that Clinton screwed that intern and didnt even get in trouble for it. Explore expand and conquer new thing instead of sitting here with out thumbs up our asses.