Im just remembering back to a graph showing average earth temps for the past several million years. When you look at the graph, there are ice ages constantly, with little plataus of warmpth ever so often, in a regular pattern. We appear to be right at the start of one of these plateaus, and there are temperatre spinkes up and down on these. Very interesting.
THis time period also relates bact to the Anasazi indians and such in the southwest USA. In the warm period, they floursed with corn farming, and as the climate cooled, the resources became scarce, and they started fighting with each other. Current issue of discover has an article.
THis is either A: SO expensive that only the very rich will do it, creating a very few people like this. B: It will be cheap enough for everyone to afford an einstein J-lo designer baby, and it will settle itslef out in a generation.
In reality, all that will happen is the bell curve of human intelegence/ability will begin slowly creeping to the right. THere will always be that einstein on one end, and forrest gump at the other, although this may make the differences neglegible for all practical purposes.
Just not well known to anyone who hasnt studied the subject. We may hve jacked global warming up by 1 degree celcius in the last 100 years, but were due to rise 3 degrees anyway due to, well, historical patterns. Look up paleloclimatology(sp) and do your own research. Were just coming out of the ice age that killed off roman civilistaton.
GREAT!!! nOw i know what organization to send the bill to for all this crap about giant penises wanting my credit card. PLus, now we all know where to forward our spam to!!! FANTASTIC!!!!
I get this sort of thing all the time with my friends, and random people on the metro. "WHo you rooting for in the game tonight. Well, i kind like both teams, bu i wonder which is gonna win. I mean, one of ems been having that trouble, and the other ones got the new guy. WHat do you think?" I have no idea what the mans talking about.
Anyone who cant bs his way through an on the spot question like that worries me.
"The point of justice is not actually what you think it is, either. It's rehabilitation."
What country to you live in, hippie!! THis heres america. Whe thro em into overcrowed prisons with basic cable where the classrooms have been turned into bunkrooms, becasue after 10 years of that, theyre bound to come out and not ever want to commit any heinous crimes like pot smoking ever again./sarcasm
" Sebastian Ross remembered their "Field Tests." In the ERTS parking lot, technicians would throw new equipment against the wall, kick it across the concrete, and leave it in a bucket of muddy water overnight. Anything found working the next day was certified as field worthy.
-Michael Crichton, Congo"
Wanna bet that the army does the same thing to their equipment? Id rather have a 10 year old kludge that cant be killed than an new shiny untested watch sized piece of crap.
We regularly have to log in as our users to their systems. They HATE changing their passwords, and have enough trouble remembering them. I usually give them the option of, A: gimme your password, b: Ill change your password, but youll have to make it something different c: Get called ery half hour to come to my office and log into your laptop.
We used this type of system. All controlled via S.S.# Unencrypted on the card, that was it. If you had a cardmaker, and someoes social security number, You can go to town. Use their card for soda, get into their building, you name it.
I was reading one of his critics who said , and i paraquote 'Atkins's low carb diet is actually a low calorie diet, but because there are no carbohydrates to trigger the hunger, you dont notice"
SO le me get this straight, 20 fucking years of struggling with weight loss, on high carb, lofat, low carb diets, and they say that his is wrong because, it dosent do anything special, yOU JUST DONT NOTICE THE FUCKING LOW CALORIES?!?!!?? CARBOHYDRATES TRIGGER HUNGER!! NOONE EVER FUCKING TOLD ME THAT!! SOrry bout the yelling, by my fucking god. I started with atkins, and goddamn, if i dont feel hungy. Ive lost 15 pounds in the past month, and thats with 0 exercise. IM going to star tthat this week i hope. Just spend a week, reading the ingredients on EVERYTHING you eat, and see how much fucking sugar you get in your diet. EVERY processed food has it.
IM not kidding. REporters have called up the irs with the exact same question and gotten completely opposite answers. THis way, if the governemt want to get you nailed for taxes, they can always do it. YEah, im paranoid, but im also not making this up.
than playing football in highschool(which i did). OR watching football, or basketball, or hockey, where watching two people fighting in the middle of a gameis the height of entertainment. Or better yet, a bench clearing brawl. How twisted is that? Boxing dosent count, im my book, because they are both committing acts of controlled violence that are acceptable withn the realms of the rules that have been set out. Meanwhile, most professional sports glorify the players that suddenly get angry, and start beating the shit out of their opposing teammates. I would much rather associe my relaxing brain with the harmless make believe killing of the game, rather than the mindless brutality encouraged by most professional sports.
Half life and counterstrike didnt make me violent. I was a sick evil fuck long before that. ALl the antisocial dangerous stuff i know and think i learned the old fashoned way, From reading dead tree paper books. Yes folks, there was dangerous thoughts around before the internet.
What violent games have done is allwed me an amazingly simple venting system to get rid of stress. Get home from work, and go kill virtual people. Works wonders for relaxation. Exercise would probably work, but hey, im lazy. THey can have my video games over several dead bodies.
Main Entry: sarcasm Pronunciation: 'sär-"ka-z&m Function: noun Etymology: French or Late Latin; French sarcasme, from Late Latin sarcasmos, from Greek sarkasmos, from sarkazein to tear flesh, bite the lips in rage, sneer, from sark-, sarx flesh; probably akin to Avestan thwar&s- to cut Date: 1550 1 : a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain 2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm synonym see WIT
THey reduce rights a bit at a time, in a kneejerk response to something, and you never get them back, because anyone who tries to roll it back gets accused of being immoral, or encouraging crime.
The stupidity comes in because even when you point it out, people say that it dosent affect me, or have been brainwashed enough so that they prefer the new way, same as how people follow religion, even though you can point out where its wrong..
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Im just remembering back to a graph showing average earth temps for the past several million years. When you look at the graph, there are ice ages constantly, with little plataus of warmpth ever so often, in a regular pattern. We appear to be right at the start of one of these plateaus, and there are temperatre spinkes up and down on these. Very interesting.
THis time period also relates bact to the Anasazi indians and such in the southwest USA. In the warm period, they floursed with corn farming, and as the climate cooled, the resources became scarce, and they started fighting with each other. Current issue of discover has an article.
THis is either
A: SO expensive that only the very rich will do it, creating a very few people like this.
B: It will be cheap enough for everyone to afford an einstein J-lo designer baby, and it will settle itslef out in a generation.
In reality, all that will happen is the bell curve of human intelegence/ability will begin slowly creeping to the right. THere will always be that einstein on one end, and forrest gump at the other, although this may make the differences neglegible for all practical purposes.
Just not well known to anyone who hasnt studied the subject. We may hve jacked global warming up by 1 degree celcius in the last 100 years, but were due to rise 3 degrees anyway due to, well, historical patterns. Look up paleloclimatology(sp) and do your own research. Were just coming out of the ice age that killed off roman civilistaton.
I found the needle, its in this cow. My union rep says all i had to do was get it out of the haystack. HAve a nice day.
GREAT!!! nOw i know what organization to send the bill to for all this crap about giant penises wanting my credit card. PLus, now we all know where to forward our spam to!!! FANTASTIC!!!!
Feed hat to a cow. When cow starts bellowing, x-ray cow and remove needle. Cruel though.
X ray haystack
leaf blower.
sort through thm one by one.
tremites
go to store, buy needle. magically find neede after 2 minutes of searching.
Metal detector
Pay a consultant to do it.
Drop moutn Fuji ont to it, pulverixing the hay, so its less to look through
beam microwaves at it untill the needle heats up and sparks.
sit in haystack. Guarenteed to get stuck with it.
I get this sort of thing all the time with my friends, and random people on the metro. "WHo you rooting for in the game tonight. Well, i kind like both teams, bu i wonder which is gonna win. I mean, one of ems been having that trouble, and the other ones got the new guy. WHat do you think?" I have no idea what the mans talking about.
Anyone who cant bs his way through an on the spot question like that worries me.
"The point of justice is not actually what you think it is, either. It's rehabilitation."
/sarcasm
What country to you live in, hippie!! THis heres america. Whe thro em into overcrowed prisons with basic cable where the classrooms have been turned into bunkrooms, becasue after 10 years of that, theyre bound to come out and not ever want to commit any heinous crimes like pot smoking ever again.
Damned slashdot effect.
" Sebastian Ross remembered their "Field Tests." In the ERTS parking lot, technicians would throw new equipment against the wall, kick it across the concrete, and leave it in a bucket of muddy water overnight. Anything found working the next day was certified as field worthy.
-Michael Crichton, Congo"
Wanna bet that the army does the same thing to their equipment? Id rather have a 10 year old kludge that cant be killed than an new shiny untested watch sized piece of crap.
We regularly have to log in as our users to their systems. They HATE changing their passwords, and have enough trouble remembering them. I usually give them the option of,
A: gimme your password,
b: Ill change your password, but youll have to make it something different
c: Get called ery half hour to come to my office and log into your laptop.
Its bad security, but good customer relations.
Ita time to buy a hunk of uranium ore off ebay and carry it around to piss people off.
Valuble people have offices. Expendable resource units have cubicles.
We used this type of system. All controlled via S.S.# Unencrypted on the card, that was it. If you had a cardmaker, and someoes social security number, You can go to town. Use their card for soda, get into their building, you name it.
Youve never worked help desk, have you?
I was reading one of his critics who said , and i paraquote 'Atkins's low carb diet is actually a low calorie diet, but because there are no carbohydrates to trigger the hunger, you dont notice"
SO le me get this straight, 20 fucking years of struggling with weight loss, on high carb, lofat, low carb diets, and they say that his is wrong because, it dosent do anything special, yOU JUST DONT NOTICE THE FUCKING LOW CALORIES?!?!!??
CARBOHYDRATES TRIGGER HUNGER!! NOONE EVER FUCKING TOLD ME THAT!!
SOrry bout the yelling, by my fucking god.
I started with atkins, and goddamn, if i dont feel hungy. Ive lost 15 pounds in the past month, and thats with 0 exercise. IM going to star tthat this week i hope. Just spend a week, reading the ingredients on EVERYTHING you eat, and see how much fucking sugar you get in your diet. EVERY processed food has it.
THe KYjelly is deductable as a medical expense.
IM not kidding. REporters have called up the irs with the exact same question and gotten completely opposite answers. THis way, if the governemt want to get you nailed for taxes, they can always do it. YEah, im paranoid, but im also not making this up.
than playing football in highschool(which i did). OR watching football, or basketball, or hockey, where watching two people fighting in the middle of a gameis the height of entertainment. Or better yet, a bench clearing brawl. How twisted is that?
Boxing dosent count, im my book, because they are both committing acts of controlled violence that are acceptable withn the realms of the rules that have been set out.
Meanwhile, most professional sports glorify the players that suddenly get angry, and start beating the shit out of their opposing teammates.
I would much rather associe my relaxing brain with the harmless make believe killing of the game, rather than the mindless brutality encouraged by most professional sports.
Half life and counterstrike didnt make me violent. I was a sick evil fuck long before that. ALl the antisocial dangerous stuff i know and think i learned the old fashoned way, From reading dead tree paper books. Yes folks, there was dangerous thoughts around before the internet.
What violent games have done is allwed me an amazingly simple venting system to get rid of stress. Get home from work, and go kill virtual people. Works wonders for relaxation. Exercise would probably work, but hey, im lazy. THey can have my video games over several dead bodies.
Main Entry: sarcasm
Pronunciation: 'sär-"ka-z&m
Function: noun
Etymology: French or Late Latin; French sarcasme, from Late Latin sarcasmos, from Greek sarkasmos, from sarkazein to tear flesh, bite the lips in rage, sneer, from sark-, sarx flesh; probably akin to Avestan thwar&s- to cut
Date: 1550
1 : a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm
synonym see WIT
damn i spelled that wrong. Just thry to offer a useless suggestion. THis is slashdot after all. ;)
n/t
Does this have an effect on UV ray exposure?
THey reduce rights a bit at a time, in a kneejerk response to something, and you never get them back, because anyone who tries to roll it back gets accused of being immoral, or encouraging crime.
The stupidity comes in because even when you point it out, people say that it dosent affect me, or have been brainwashed enough so that they prefer the new way, same as how people follow religion, even though you can point out where its wrong..