I'm just having a hard time figuring out how ebooks will ever enjoy the same "practical" protection that wood books do.
I think having to point a camera at the screen is on par with photocopying a paper book (I don't know about wood books:P ) as far as practicality is concerned.
I wonder how much of my life I have wasted sitting in the car, surrounded by idiots.
Reminds me of some graffiti I saw on a wall next to a highway, which (roughly translated) said: "You're not IN a traffic jam, you ARE the traffic jam."
Doesn't make that creating a fission bomb extremely easy? Well, as long as you don't mind getting blown up in the process, anyway. I think I know some people who don't.:(
Also, couldn't you just make a bomb by getting two 7.5kg parts of U235, and seperate them by a meter of lead during transport, drop the lead and push the parts together?
You mean you expect these people to look at evidence that *doesn't* support their theory? When does that happen?
On a related note, I've heard the same thing about the Tunguska explosion. Apparantly, they found similarities between Hiroshima and the Tunguska event, so obviously it MUST have been an atomic bomb. Uh, Earth to dipshit: ANY sufficiently powerful explosion will create a mushroom cloud and black rain, there's NOTHING atomic about that. The only surprise about the event is that it wasn't known before that not all big meteorites hit the earth, but some explode high up.
There's something odd about that section though:
3 lines or so later he says the Balrog spreads it's wings from wall to wall, which would indicate that it *does* have wings.
The balrog was done very well indeed (apart from the wings) but the use of it was terrible: first it rescues the Fellowship then it gets lost looking for the stairs.
What's wrong with the wings?
Actually, I loved the part where all the creepy crawlers ran away terrified. That gave a good sense of just how terrible this new threat is. It goes well with the "older and fouler" line too.
I though that this has been done part-way in simulations of earths early atmosphere using electic discharges. At least they made aminoacids that way (I think they did that).
Amino acids are to life as a bolt is to a spaceshuttle, so no, they didn't do this yet.
And why shouldn't there be poor people? If you're lazy, shouldn't you be poor?
Very true... if there's equal opportunity. If Dubya's daddy wasn't a wealthy man, I'm pretty sure he'd be crawling in a gutter right now, instead of playing Wargames.
If someone's unwilling to work, they should be poor. If someone works 12 hours a day for minimum wage, they shouldn't be.
But then again, I guess I'm just a European communist.:P
Don't forget that the human brain is capable of designing devices to do certain things it's bad at (math) at incredible speeds. Which makes determining the intelligence/brain power of humans a recursive problem.
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I'm just having a hard time figuring out how ebooks will ever enjoy the same "practical" protection that wood books do.
:P ) as far as practicality is concerned.
I think having to point a camera at the screen is on par with photocopying a paper book (I don't know about wood books
They shouldn't, but they do. At least, if the guy ever wants to go visit the US.
But this guy is a Darwin Award waiting to happen, for sure.
I doubt they'll kill or castrate him.
Then again, it might be hard to get someone pregnant in prison.
Damn, did I actually say that out loud?
don't forget Klit and WinClit
I think this confirms FreeBSD is dying. Hell, it's less than OS/2
The "humor" icon of the slashdot story.
:P
They thought this was science, so excuse me for not taking their classification for granted.
You forgot:
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I wonder how much of my life I have wasted sitting in the car, surrounded by idiots.
Reminds me of some graffiti I saw on a wall next to a highway, which (roughly translated) said: "You're not IN a traffic jam, you ARE the traffic jam."
Doesn't make that creating a fission bomb extremely easy? Well, as long as you don't mind getting blown up in the process, anyway. I think I know some people who don't. :(
Also, couldn't you just make a bomb by getting two 7.5kg parts of U235, and seperate them by a meter of lead during transport, drop the lead and push the parts together?
You mean you expect these people to look at evidence that *doesn't* support their theory? When does that happen?
On a related note, I've heard the same thing about the Tunguska explosion. Apparantly, they found similarities between Hiroshima and the Tunguska event, so obviously it MUST have been an atomic bomb. Uh, Earth to dipshit: ANY sufficiently powerful explosion will create a mushroom cloud and black rain, there's NOTHING atomic about that. The only surprise about the event is that it wasn't known before that not all big meteorites hit the earth, but some explode high up.
There's something odd about that section though: 3 lines or so later he says the Balrog spreads it's wings from wall to wall, which would indicate that it *does* have wings.
The balrog was done very well indeed (apart from the wings) but the use of it was terrible: first it rescues the Fellowship then it gets lost looking for the stairs.
What's wrong with the wings?
Actually, I loved the part where all the creepy crawlers ran away terrified. That gave a good sense of just how terrible this new threat is. It goes well with the "older and fouler" line too.
I think the confusion here is that you seem to think SETI is useful
I'd sell it to them, but it keeps telling me they'll use it to justify killing more people.
However, that does not mean it is wrong or illegal to sell guns just because someone might use those to deprive someone of their right to live.
What if you know for sure the guy you sell a gun to is going to kill someone with it? Does this still apply then?
and design & implement a compiler (at least not typically - I have a handful of friends who always seem to sidetrack themselves down that path...).
Yeah, when you get a compile error, obviously the compiler needs fixing, doesn't it?
I though that this has been done part-way in simulations of earths early atmosphere using electic discharges. At least they made aminoacids that way (I think they did that).
Amino acids are to life as a bolt is to a spaceshuttle, so no, they didn't do this yet.
When attempts to create life in a petridish are successful, scientists might actually try to create life in a woman.
Can it be used to emulate the universe using a cellular automaton?
Because, obviously, there will never be a false alarm, will there...
And why shouldn't there be poor people? If you're lazy, shouldn't you be poor?
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Very true... if there's equal opportunity. If Dubya's daddy wasn't a wealthy man, I'm pretty sure he'd be crawling in a gutter right now, instead of playing Wargames.
If someone's unwilling to work, they should be poor. If someone works 12 hours a day for minimum wage, they shouldn't be.
But then again, I guess I'm just a European communist.
Don't forget that the human brain is capable of designing devices to do certain things it's bad at (math) at incredible speeds. Which makes determining the intelligence/brain power of humans a recursive problem.
Or someone's in particular?
That's pretty neat, considering it took Hactar millions of years to do this kind of thing.