Which continent? There's "North American" and "South America". If you don't want to distinguish between the two (leaving us to call our selves Americans), then where is Europe? It looks like one big continent called Asia to me.
[quote]After all south-africans don't call themselves "africans" just because they happen to have the name of a continent in their country's name.[/quote] Yeah, that's why calling a Canadian or Mexican an "American" (because they live in North America) doesn't work.
Yet, if some country decides its inhabitants should be referred to as "Norlats", then that's what we should call them. Just as the people of USA prefer to be called "Americans".
If you don't think a person or people should have control over their own name, then I will forever refer to you as Buttmunch instead of Fred.
So what's wrong with 25GB BDROM right now and 50GB tomorrow? Is that extra 5GB SO important RIGHT NOW? Seems to me we'll see a drive and discs at 25GB BDROM before we'll se 30GB HD-DVDs.
NASA said that they need to put the crew and cargo on top of the rocket, but we also know that reusable "plane" type vehicles are where we'd like to go in the future. Why not combine them? Put a shuttle type vehicle on top of the rocket. Rocket pushes plane into space, plane flys down. None of this "strap a big ship to the side of a rocket and vector the propulsion so it doesn't do loops, and then hope nothing falls off and hits it".
More HD-DVD garbage... They say HD-DVD is cheaper to manufacture because its so similiar to regular DVD that they can reuse equipment... but what DVD equipment can produce a triple-layer disc?
They're just going both ways: we're cheaper, no we're big too... but both?
In the latest news, a security flaw has been revealed in all known browsers. The vulnerability is a weakness in the veracity-sensor code. Apparently information provided and displayed to the user does not have to be true. Unfortunately, this means millions of users are being tricked into...
OK, so at what point do you arbitrarily decide that a company "needs to be forked"? Is it when you say so, or is there a certain level of market capitalization, sales? What exactly is your criteria for saying this?
Yeah, let's define precise criteria for deciding when a company is monopolistic and anti-competitive and "needs to be forked". That way, they can do anything and everything right up until that point and not get sanctions against them.
There are actually colors in between black and white.
That's always been my experience in a 4 cylinder. The type of driving has little to do with fuel efficiency. I think a 4 cylinder has a closer to linear fuel efficiency curve. In most cases though, I think 2500 RPM may actually be bogging the engine down during acceleration, since most 4s like higher RPM.
V6 and larger though, tend to start burning a lot more fuel if you gas it. The effect is less noticeable on non aerodynamic vehicles like trucks and SUVs though. Look at the EPA fuel ranges.
The bigger the difference between city and highway, the more of a difference driving aggresively will make on your mileage.
If there still repaying a loan on the equipment, then its unlikely that ending the program would save money on that. Further, I don't believe federal agencies normally take loans on equipment. The money is already borrowed when they get it--government bonds, etc.
Er.. whatever site told you that is living on Mars. After further research, I'll agree. I had never heard of a full stop before and my searching was limited. However, I will refuse to call it a 'full-stop' because it just doesn't work for me. I will however probably start calling it a dot since I don't like how the origins of using a 'period' started.
The proper term for the (.) is 'full-stop', not 'period'. A full-stop is what you Americans call a period. Your earlier comment was that Americans are incorrect in calling (.) a period. When generations of people in a country of over 200 million people call (.) a period, its not wrong, its just different. Your second comment reflects the facts: there are syntactic and grammatic differences between the countries.
There are countless ways in which the English language has been bastardised by America... Yeah, I hate how we don't say "ye olde english"! I suppose the last grunting caveman was also upset that the others began using words and bastardizing his language....one of the funniest ones I heard recently was when I was on hold waiting to speak to someone over there. The message said: "Please wait, someone will be with you momentarily."It is unlikely that every American uses English improperly and that every Brit speaks perfect English.
As an aside, I guess I should be happy you call us Americans living in America, instead of USians in US.
Further, my wife just overheard a conversation (I live in the South; yes, they capitalize it here): The woman was complaining that she could never remember how to spell it. Was it with a 'y' or an 'i'? F-L-I-E-D or F-L-Y-E-D, you know like 'I just flied on over there!' My wife didn't have the heart to tell her.
Actually, a full stop is any punctuation mark used to end a sentence. This would include (.), (?), (!), etc. According to a google search, it also includes (:) and (;). If you're so inclined, each of these full stops has a name: period, question mark, exclamation point, colon, and semicolon.
I had a Blockbuster Movie pass from the local store for a few months (when I had time to watch movies). You can have 2 out at a time, and you can rent and return all you want in a day. One Saturday I watched 4 movies and still had 2 more that night waiting. Most of the time I just had the movie(s) I watched the night before in the car and I stopped in the store on the way home from work. I only cancelled because fall TV started and I really watch too much TV to be watching movies too.
Think of an ice age with glaciers covering most of the US. Think of thousands of volcanic eruptions and the continents shifting. Oh wait... that happens periodically too.
I assume that HIV doesn't infect mice in that it doesn't attack their immune systems. Considering this is an engineered HIV virus, its been programmed to seek out those cancer glycoproteins, no matter the host.
I think ideally, they would re-engineer FIV or some other non-human immunodeficiency virus to cure cancer with less risk of virus reactivation, etc.
Meanwhile the aliens are waiting until we colonize another planet before initiating First Contact... "don't they realize that planet is dead?...they've had that rover there a year...they're so good at wiping out species on Earth, why worry about Mars..."
If you weren't so ignorant, you'd realize that was the point of my post. I wasn't claiming incontrovertible proof that there were WMD. I was simply sick of politic-obsessed people who claim to have proof that no WMD ever existed and instead of using evidence, you sound just as bad as the other side of the argument. I appreciate you repeating my remark that logic makes it impossible to prove a negative. Didn't realize I needed to spell it out.
I really couldn't give a flying squid what Saddam had over there. I'm glad he's out of power. (Did you forget he invaded Kuwait? Not exactly an ambassador of good will.) I don't work in politics, nor do I usually engage in political discussion, especially on slashdot, where supposedly intelligent people are capable of reducing themselves to opinionated asses and start a discussion by calling people names.
I have an opinion and I expressed it. I guess I should apologize to dear godsquid for disagreeing with him. Thankfully, the extent of your powers seem to be namecalling.
Have a good day. I look forward to more of your colorful writing.
Did you actually read the reports about the buried jets? Most of them were just buried in the sand directly, which means they will never fly again. They could have been sealed properly, their location mapped, etc, but they weren't. They were just covered up to be lost forever. And someone did leak the location.
Yeah, dumbass, I would keep documents on million dollar jets that I ruined by burying in the sand. I think when the shit hit the fan, "documents" were not all that important. Plus, Saddam isn't the guy I'd ask for GPS coordinates for a chemical weapon from. And I doubt any of them are under the illusion they'll be getting a nicer cell or early release.
Further, considering that Iraq is a little less developed than much of the western world, I don't think it would be very hard to destroy documents for programs that were meant to be concealed and strategically spread out in the first place. It's not like they had them on a web server with multiple redundancy. And considering the loss of life, its entirely possible that the only surviving knowledge is a guy saying "there was a program...". Hardly enough evidence to make a press release. I imagine false information is probably more common. I'm sure quite a few captives are willing to completely fabricate stories.
And yeah, you CAN hide an entire program. How do you prove you can't? I'm sure others can name a number of US or even Russian programs that ALMOST were never discovered.
The grandparent was an obviously biased argument. Thanks for submitting an equally biased argument for the other side.
I sure am glad the world and people work in extremes of one direction or the other. It would be really difficult to determine the facts if there were half-truths and exaggeration.
Geez.... no one can be completely right or completely wrong when completely reliable evidence either way will never be available, but everyone sure spends all their time trying.
Iraq buriedfighter jets. How hard would it be to bury a bomb? Or destroy labs? etc It's obvious to me that Saddam was willing to destroy his equipment rather than let it be found. It's lucky we've found things like jets that are fairly easy to track by satellite and determine last known locations, but its quite another thing to track a vehicle that may or may not be carrying a WMD, and then determine where that weapon went. I would venture that there is equipment buried in the sands that will NEVER be found.
Here UPN is on a religious channel, so before each episode, there's this long disclaimer about how the network is obligated to air Enterprise due to contracts. They stress the beliefs represented are not their own, and that they advise parents review the shows their children are watching, noting that this is not suitable for them.
Basically, they're saying if you're Christian, you shouldn't watch the show, nor will you let your kids watch it.
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Which continent? There's "North American" and "South America". If you don't want to distinguish between the two (leaving us to call our selves Americans), then where is Europe? It looks like one big continent called Asia to me.
[quote]After all south-africans don't call themselves "africans" just because they happen to have the name of a continent in their country's name.[/quote]
Yeah, that's why calling a Canadian or Mexican an "American" (because they live in North America) doesn't work.
Yet, if some country decides its inhabitants should be referred to as "Norlats", then that's what we should call them. Just as the people of USA prefer to be called "Americans".
If you don't think a person or people should have control over their own name, then I will forever refer to you as Buttmunch instead of Fred.
So what's wrong with 25GB BDROM right now and 50GB tomorrow? Is that extra 5GB SO important RIGHT NOW? Seems to me we'll see a drive and discs at 25GB BDROM before we'll se 30GB HD-DVDs.
They were working on the Y2K bug in BANKING SOFTWARE!! Transaction Processing Software makes sense.
Here, we work with Test Program Sets.
I don't know what a "Prodecure" is.
You've got to be joking! The WHOLE world is supposed to recognized that WA is Western Australia? A little self-centered are we?
Try using periods (full stops) and maybe something called context. Useful if you want to communicate with "rest-of-world".
NASA said that they need to put the crew and cargo on top of the rocket, but we also know that reusable "plane" type vehicles are where we'd like to go in the future. Why not combine them? Put a shuttle type vehicle on top of the rocket. Rocket pushes plane into space, plane flys down. None of this "strap a big ship to the side of a rocket and vector the propulsion so it doesn't do loops, and then hope nothing falls off and hits it".
More HD-DVD garbage... They say HD-DVD is cheaper to manufacture because its so similiar to regular DVD that they can reuse equipment... but what DVD equipment can produce a triple-layer disc?
They're just going both ways: we're cheaper, no we're big too... but both?
Yeah, Betamax sounds much better than VHS!
In the latest news, a security flaw has been revealed in all known browsers. The vulnerability is a weakness in the veracity-sensor code. Apparently information provided and displayed to the user does not have to be true. Unfortunately, this means millions of users are being tricked into...
OK, so at what point do you arbitrarily decide that a company "needs to be forked"? Is it when you say so, or is there a certain level of market capitalization, sales? What exactly is your criteria for saying this?
Yeah, let's define precise criteria for deciding when a company is monopolistic and anti-competitive and "needs to be forked". That way, they can do anything and everything right up until that point and not get sanctions against them.
There are actually colors in between black and white.
That's always been my experience in a 4 cylinder. The type of driving has little to do with fuel efficiency. I think a 4 cylinder has a closer to linear fuel efficiency curve. In most cases though, I think 2500 RPM may actually be bogging the engine down during acceleration, since most 4s like higher RPM.
V6 and larger though, tend to start burning a lot more fuel if you gas it. The effect is less noticeable on non aerodynamic vehicles like trucks and SUVs though. Look at the EPA fuel ranges.
The bigger the difference between city and highway, the more of a difference driving aggresively will make on your mileage.
If there still repaying a loan on the equipment, then its unlikely that ending the program would save money on that. Further, I don't believe federal agencies normally take loans on equipment. The money is already borrowed when they get it--government bonds, etc.
"the analyzation"?? Is that the same as the analysis? Sounds like Dubya is making these April Fool's stories up now.
Er.. whatever site told you that is living on Mars.
...one of the funniest ones I heard recently was when I was on hold waiting to speak to someone over there. The message said: "Please wait, someone will be with you momentarily."It is unlikely that every American uses English improperly and that every Brit speaks perfect English.
After further research, I'll agree. I had never heard of a full stop before and my searching was limited. However, I will refuse to call it a 'full-stop' because it just doesn't work for me. I will however probably start calling it a dot since I don't like how the origins of using a 'period' started.
The proper term for the (.) is 'full-stop', not 'period'.
A full-stop is what you Americans call a period.
Your earlier comment was that Americans are incorrect in calling (.) a period. When generations of people in a country of over 200 million people call (.) a period, its not wrong, its just different. Your second comment reflects the facts: there are syntactic and grammatic differences between the countries.
There are countless ways in which the English language has been bastardised by America...
Yeah, I hate how we don't say "ye olde english"! I suppose the last grunting caveman was also upset that the others began using words and bastardizing his language.
As an aside, I guess I should be happy you call us Americans living in America, instead of USians in US.
Further, my wife just overheard a conversation (I live in the South; yes, they capitalize it here): The woman was complaining that she could never remember how to spell it. Was it with a 'y' or an 'i'? F-L-I-E-D or F-L-Y-E-D, you know like 'I just flied on over there!' My wife didn't have the heart to tell her.
Actually, a full stop is any punctuation mark used to end a sentence. This would include (.), (?), (!), etc. According to a google search, it also includes (:) and (;). If you're so inclined, each of these full stops has a name: period, question mark, exclamation point, colon, and semicolon.
I had a Blockbuster Movie pass from the local store for a few months (when I had time to watch movies). You can have 2 out at a time, and you can rent and return all you want in a day. One Saturday I watched 4 movies and still had 2 more that night waiting. Most of the time I just had the movie(s) I watched the night before in the car and I stopped in the store on the way home from work. I only cancelled because fall TV started and I really watch too much TV to be watching movies too.
Think of an ice age with glaciers covering most of the US. Think of thousands of volcanic eruptions and the continents shifting. Oh wait... that happens periodically too.
I assume that HIV doesn't infect mice in that it doesn't attack their immune systems. Considering this is an engineered HIV virus, its been programmed to seek out those cancer glycoproteins, no matter the host.
I think ideally, they would re-engineer FIV or some other non-human immunodeficiency virus to cure cancer with less risk of virus reactivation, etc.
Yes, because $350-$400 for a copy of Windows Server 2003 web edition is SO expensive for a company that makes expensive robots.
You mean CalTech? Did you notice the link is to a picture from the Prisoner? Did you notice its on an edu? Not related to the company OR the robot?
Meanwhile the aliens are waiting until we colonize another planet before initiating First Contact... "don't they realize that planet is dead?...they've had that rover there a year...they're so good at wiping out species on Earth, why worry about Mars..."
So yeah, a substantial WMD program might exist.
If you weren't so ignorant, you'd realize that was the point of my post. I wasn't claiming incontrovertible proof that there were WMD. I was simply sick of politic-obsessed people who claim to have proof that no WMD ever existed and instead of using evidence, you sound just as bad as the other side of the argument. I appreciate you repeating my remark that logic makes it impossible to prove a negative. Didn't realize I needed to spell it out.
I really couldn't give a flying squid what Saddam had over there. I'm glad he's out of power. (Did you forget he invaded Kuwait? Not exactly an ambassador of good will.) I don't work in politics, nor do I usually engage in political discussion, especially on slashdot, where supposedly intelligent people are capable of reducing themselves to opinionated asses and start a discussion by calling people names.
I have an opinion and I expressed it. I guess I should apologize to dear godsquid for disagreeing with him. Thankfully, the extent of your powers seem to be namecalling.
Have a good day. I look forward to more of your colorful writing.
Did you actually read the reports about the buried jets? Most of them were just buried in the sand directly, which means they will never fly again. They could have been sealed properly, their location mapped, etc, but they weren't. They were just covered up to be lost forever. And someone did leak the location.
Yeah, dumbass, I would keep documents on million dollar jets that I ruined by burying in the sand. I think when the shit hit the fan, "documents" were not all that important. Plus, Saddam isn't the guy I'd ask for GPS coordinates for a chemical weapon from. And I doubt any of them are under the illusion they'll be getting a nicer cell or early release.
Further, considering that Iraq is a little less developed than much of the western world, I don't think it would be very hard to destroy documents for programs that were meant to be concealed and strategically spread out in the first place. It's not like they had them on a web server with multiple redundancy. And considering the loss of life, its entirely possible that the only surviving knowledge is a guy saying "there was a program...". Hardly enough evidence to make a press release. I imagine false information is probably more common. I'm sure quite a few captives are willing to completely fabricate stories.
And yeah, you CAN hide an entire program. How do you prove you can't? I'm sure others can name a number of US or even Russian programs that ALMOST were never discovered.
The grandparent was an obviously biased argument. Thanks for submitting an equally biased argument for the other side.
I sure am glad the world and people work in extremes of one direction or the other. It would be really difficult to determine the facts if there were half-truths and exaggeration.
Geez.... no one can be completely right or completely wrong when completely reliable evidence either way will never be available, but everyone sure spends all their time trying.
Iraq buried fighter jets. How hard would it be to bury a bomb? Or destroy labs? etc It's obvious to me that Saddam was willing to destroy his equipment rather than let it be found. It's lucky we've found things like jets that are fairly easy to track by satellite and determine last known locations, but its quite another thing to track a vehicle that may or may not be carrying a WMD, and then determine where that weapon went. I would venture that there is equipment buried in the sands that will NEVER be found.
Here UPN is on a religious channel, so before each episode, there's this long disclaimer about how the network is obligated to air Enterprise due to contracts. They stress the beliefs represented are not their own, and that they advise parents review the shows their children are watching, noting that this is not suitable for them.
Basically, they're saying if you're Christian, you shouldn't watch the show, nor will you let your kids watch it.
Ahhh... the Bible Belt.
Normally, I really don't care, but two things caught my eye:
1) "Not trying to troll here..." usually means you are.
2) "Shit-click"... that's just really funny.
Good day.