Congrats, enjoy being a Father. I know I will when the time comes;). ( i'm assuming your'e serious (btw, why are you here and not with the new mother?! ))
Rave culture havn't grasped it that much (in.au anyway), Alcohol and Caffine are both diuretics(sp?), have too much of it then dance (read sweat) and you will dehydrate very fast, and end up in hospital with a drip and a headach from hell. That said I know ravers who prefer it to the other forms of chemical wakefulness, but they do have to be very carefull to drink enough water.
Could the US citizens even fight back it they wanted to? Through civil action or military action(rebellion)? I mean the US spends obscene amounts of money on its military budget, wouldn't they just have to bring the brainwashed, gun happy, military lads home to go get the "un-american" rebels?
Didn't you notice that you are no longer a "citizen" you are a "consumer", therefore you "consume" be that at you own will or as you are required to do by law to maintain the monopolies of the corperations that own the government.
This appears to be the stance in the States at the moment, from the gov. and big business anyway.
Only sort of joking, Im Australian, and thats how things look from here, and they seem to be getting worse.
I have a feeling that the MPAA may be in on this. How hard is it, after forcing the manufacturers to be able to decode digital, make them make TV's that will only play content from an encrypted watermarked stream, with no analog output, so as to protect the copyright of bradcasted programs?
Hell, if they signal was changed from state to state, or even from city to city, a DVD like zoning system could be introduced, forcing people to buy a new tv when ever they move. I find it dificult to think that the manufactuers would realy mind that, as it would earn them a whole lot more.
I could hold up a book store with a gun and make them give me their books. I've stolen the books and therefore broken copyright. Does that mean we should ban guns since they are a possible copyright protection circumvention device?
No, but there are a lot of other reasons why guns should be banned. But I wont try and list them.
"The aim of the experiment is to achieve the world`s first flight test of air-breathing supersonic ramjet engines, also known as scramjets. These engines could revolutionise the launch of small space payloads, such as communications satellites, by substantially lowering costs."
Its also thought that it could be used as pasenger transport, once the technology has been tested and improved substancially from what it is now.
Man, i dont know what is going on today, thats the second time i've writen a comment pressed submit and then seen someones writen exactly what i was writing and just got there while i was typing, now i look like i aint got an original idea, sheesh, i think i've just got bad luck.;)
IIRC, most of the R&D in the Honda project was/is directed at making the thing walk properly, without much emphasis on it being particularly dexterious (i may be wrong). It seems that the NASA team is more after somthing that will have the level of hand/finger/arm control as a human, so it can do things in space, where the legs don't matter as much.
And considering how expensive Hondas cars are, it may have been cheaper for NASA to develop the robot itself.;)
"Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA. The Robonaut project seeks to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent. Robonaut jumps generations ahead by eliminating the robotic scars (e.g., special robotic grapples and targets) and specialized robotic tools of traditional on-orbit robotics. However, it still keeps the human operator in the control loop through its telepresence control system. Robonaut is designed to be used for "EVA" tasks, i.e., those which were not specifically designed for robots."
ahhhh, you learn somthing new everyday. I actually wondered were the name "Direct Drive" came from, I thought it was pure marketing speak, guess not then.
IANAC, but you mean NO2 would be produced right? That said, whats "not clean" about that, it just means the exust of the car will give the sorounding pedestrians a little bit of a lift, if it doesn't immediatly disperse.
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I just had a mental image of Guy Pearce in drag begind the wheel of a Mad Max style car, very strange.
This formatting is a little strange, anyone else think that looks like "this delicious 350-million-year old Trilobite"? (in the second paragraph)
good to see you interested, but as always google is your friend
IIRC you can telnet into the standard mail tcp port and fake an e-mail, we did it as an exersise at uni. Can't remeber how to do it though. ;)
Congrats, enjoy being a Father. I know I will when the time comes ;). ( i'm assuming your'e serious (btw, why are you here and not with the new mother?! ))
just checking :)
Rave culture havn't grasped it that much (in .au anyway), Alcohol and Caffine are both diuretics(sp?), have too much of it then dance (read sweat) and you will dehydrate very fast, and end up in hospital with a drip and a headach from hell. That said I know ravers who prefer it to the other forms of chemical wakefulness, but they do have to be very carefull to drink enough water.
im on the University of Queensland's in house ISP and im being redirected, but the redirect is in spiritlink.net namespace somwhere.
Im in Australia and im getting a silent redirect, it appears to be somwhere inside spiritlink.net namespace. At least thats where the trace diverges.
Do you have a link to more information on that? it sounds interesting.
Someone mod the parent up as a truely insightfull statement about the US governments view on other countries not doing what it wants.
Could the US citizens even fight back it they wanted to? Through civil action or military action(rebellion)? I mean the US spends obscene amounts of money on its military budget, wouldn't they just have to bring the brainwashed, gun happy, military lads home to go get the "un-american" rebels?
This appears to be the stance in the States at the moment, from the gov. and big business anyway.
Only sort of joking, Im Australian, and thats how things look from here, and they seem to be getting worse.
Hell, if they signal was changed from state to state, or even from city to city, a DVD like zoning system could be introduced, forcing people to buy a new tv when ever they move. I find it dificult to think that the manufactuers would realy mind that, as it would earn them a whole lot more.
No, but there are a lot of other reasons why guns should be banned. But I wont try and list them.
"The aim of the experiment is to achieve the world`s first flight test of air-breathing supersonic ramjet engines, also known as scramjets. These engines could revolutionise the launch of small space payloads, such as communications satellites, by substantially lowering costs."
Its also thought that it could be used as pasenger transport, once the technology has been tested and improved substancially from what it is now.
Man, i dont know what is going on today, thats the second time i've writen a comment pressed submit and then seen someones writen exactly what i was writing and just got there while i was typing, now i look like i aint got an original idea, sheesh, i think i've just got bad luck. ;)
And considering how expensive Hondas cars are, it may have been cheaper for NASA to develop the robot itself. ;)
"Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA. The Robonaut project seeks to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent. Robonaut jumps generations ahead by eliminating the robotic scars (e.g., special robotic grapples and targets) and specialized robotic tools of traditional on-orbit robotics. However, it still keeps the human operator in the control loop through its telepresence control system. Robonaut is designed to be used for "EVA" tasks, i.e., those which were not specifically designed for robots ."
Thats why its human form.
ahhhh, you learn somthing new everyday. I actually wondered were the name "Direct Drive" came from, I thought it was pure marketing speak, guess not then.
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This sounds very simmilar the the way a Technics turtable is driven. If it is I'm getting one just so I can say I have a "direct drive" fan!
Reading is reading. No matter what, and it will always be better than watching TV, movies, etc.
Just remember that books are like paintings, they will "talk" to some people and not to others. I guess this one just doesn't talk to you. Cam
IANAC, but you mean NO2 would be produced right? That said, whats "not clean" about that, it just means the exust of the car will give the sorounding pedestrians a little bit of a lift, if it doesn't immediatly disperse.
just a little tid bit of information.
Bet the provider wasn't expecting that!
Their routers and http servers will be glowing red by the end of this.