Autism/vaccine linkers don't necessarily tend to be politically left-leaning. If you search around, you'll find just as many Christianist, born-again science-haters as crunchy, tech-hating liberals. In the case of the autism/vaccine crowd, it's more a case of looking for someone, anyone, to blame your child's condition on - more a part of our "blame someone else" culture than a political tendancy.
10) Reclaim the Sahara. via wind mills pump huge quantities of salt water to the desert, grow mangos and salt tolerant algae. Evaporation might cause it to rain there once again. It might also reduce hurricanes.
Except that wind picks up dust from the Sahara and carries it into the Antarctic ocean, where it provides nutrients for the microscopic marine life there. This plan would probably result in a net carbon increase, because the algae around Antarctica would decrease. In fact, a shrinking Sahara is considered one of the global warming "tipping points", since most climate models predict increased rainfall in sub-Saharan Africa.
I think probably nanotechnology would be the best for this. It could be solar powered, and would separate the carbon atoms from the oxygen (being careful to release O2 and not 2 Os). The carbon could then be shaped into something useful, such as bicycle frames or industrial parts.
I used to work at a software store, and the regional manager was very concerned that all employees check signatures for all credit card purchases. We even had this long set of rules, and one of them was, "The credit card must have a valid name in the signature area". It is illegal, after all, to put something besides your signature on your card.
So one day, I'm working and this college girl comes in and picks up Wing Commander 3 from the shelf. She walks up to me, smiles, and gives me her credit card. In the signature area is written: "Please ask for ID". So I ask to see her ID, and she smiles at me and says, "Thank you! You're the first person all day who's asked to see my ID." Now, I'm starting to get a good vibe from her, until I remember the rules. I compare her driver's license signature to her credit card, and I'm about to hand it back to her and ask her about the game as a way to get her to talk to me (she's probably buying the game for someone, but who knows, maybe I'm about to meet a single, female gamer - they DO exist!) when the manager wanders over. I suppose he'd seen her dig out her driver's license. Crap. So now I have a choice - it's really too bad that I loved my job. So I hand her back her license and credit card and say, "I'm sorry, I can't accept this credit card." Well, her smile disappears pretty quick. I try to explain the rule, but she pays with cash and leaves the store pretty quick.
Next time the regional manager was in the store, he complimented me on my performance - my manager must have told him about it. Still, I would have rather had her phone number than a compliment from the sleazy regional manager.
This might be a typical day for some ultra-rich CEO with nothing better to spend his money on. But a humanoid house-cleaning robot? A robo-kitchen? A self-driving car? Brainwave monitoring? Full-wall teleconferencing? Come on. And then there's all the time requered to write all the software that connects everything.
That stuff may be available in 10 years, but only someone with a ton of disposable income would ever be able to afford it. There's no way a mere programmer would ever be able to command that kind of money, unless he won the lottery.
The company I worked for would take any contract that came along, and I mean ANY contract. That was how I got to write the quizzes on the CD-ROMs for the MCSE For Dummies books. In Authorware. There were six of them: MCSE TCP/IP For Dummies, MCSE Windows NT For Dummies, MCSE Networking Essentials For Dummies,... Oh, Lord, I've never known such pain.
I wouldn't worry too much. Any black hole produced in the LHC will have too little mass to do anything destructive. They will 'evaporate' via Hawking radiation in a matter on nanoseconds.
... you can try PitBull from Argus Systems. It's a very good product and free for non-commercial use (I think). If you can live without the source to their module.
Though many $lashdot regulars aren't aware of it, our own beloved CmdrTaco has
long had a second career as an artist -- and a damn good one at that. Much
like acclaimed artist
Keith Boadwee, Taco fills his rectum with paint and than expels it onto a
canvas. The resulting work is gripping, to say the least.
But now, with the imminent demise of $lashdot, his primary source of income --
sitting around the Geek Compound and watching Japanese schoolgirl alien devil
penis tentacle rape cartoons, playing video games, and wanking off -- is about
to end, and he will have only his art career and his programming skills to
support him. As an open source programmer, his chances are pretty slim. He
needs our help!
"What can I do?", you ask? Good question. You can help by buying his
paintings. I just purchased one of his works from his brown period, entitled
"The Day After I Ate Corn". I'm also planning on buying the classic "Mexican
Gothic" when it comes on the auction block at Sotheby's. Imagine the thrill of
owning a CmdrTaco original! From early, obscure works like "Turds, With Jizz"
to acclaimed classics like "Come Pull My Finger - That's Not My Finger", every
one of Taco's shit-smeared, fly-covered, stinking canvases is absolutely
amazing.
I urge you to buy one or more of CmdrTaco's rectal artworks, to support him in
this time of financial crisis!
Every time I read an interview like this, it strikes me how odd my own life is - I'm at least as concerned about the Microsoft trial and the latest versions of software as I am about my relationship w/ my wife. It's a kind of techno-myopia - you get so immersed in it all that priorities become skewed. And I think I'm safe in saying that I share this w/ a large portion of the Slashdot community. Every time I have this insight (about once a month or so), I go get out my guitar and start practicing for a few days, and I think about my life and what's important, and I always resolve to spend less time worrying about the things that don't really matter - like whether an Athlon or Pentium preforms a particular test better. But then I go back to work, and I start worrying about the same old crap again.
I sometimes wonder if the Slashdot community's collective myopia and whether it will lead to the community's downfall - worrying about trivia while the rest just gets ignored. Is the latest version of Linux really more important than getting out and taking a walking holding hands with someoue you love?
I am writing this reply within Opera running on FreeBSD. Works like a champ! Make sure, however, that you have the linux-png and linux-jpeg packages. You can probably wait a few days for a package to appear on freshports. Flash works, too!
Though many $lashdot regulars aren't aware of it, our own beloved CmdrTaco has
long had a second career as an artist -- and a damn good one at that. Much
like acclaimed artist
Keith Boadwee, Taco fills his rectum with paint and than expels it onto a
canvas. The resulting work is gripping, to say the least.
But now, with the imminent demise of $lashdot, his primary source of income --
sitting around the Geek Compound and watching Japanese schoolgirl alien devil
penis tentacle rape cartoons, playing video games, and wanking off -- is about
to end, and he will have only his art career and his programming skills to
support him. As an open source programmer, his chances are pretty slim. He
needs our help!
"What can I do?", you ask? Good question. You can help by buying his
paintings. I just purchased one of his works from his brown period, entitled
"The Day After I Ate Corn". I'm also planning on buying the classic "Mexican
Gothic" when it comes on the auction block at Sotheby's. Imagine the thrill of
owning a CmdrTaco original! From early, obscure works like "Turds, With Jizz"
to acclaimed classics like "Come Pull My Finger - That's Not My Finger", every
one of Taco's shit-smeared, fly-covered, stinking canvases is absolutely
amazing.
I urge you to buy one or more of CmdrTaco's rectal artworks, to support him in
this time of financial crisis!
The script on the ring was in Sindarin, one of the Elvish languages. Gandalf says (p. 80 in my copy of FOTR), "The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here."
Note, however, the commonly used character set in Middle Earth is Tengwar. The characters used on the MIT dome are indeed Tengwar. I haven't been able to find an image of the complete ring on the dome, so I can't fully translate it, but it does appear to be correct, from what I can see.
(Yes, I am truly a geek when it comes to Tolkien).
Slashdot must have some sort of contract to sell only books from FatBrain (stupid name, BTW). If you want the absolute best price on a book, check out Add All.
It seems like everyone is surprised that Harry Potter won a Hugo. Why? I think everyone is forgetting that the Hugo is a People's Choice type of award. The books are quite enjoyable to read - I'm not surprised that the people chose to honor it. Now, if it were to win a Nebula Award (chosen by members of SFWA), then I would be stunned...
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Autism/vaccine linkers don't necessarily tend to be politically left-leaning. If you search around, you'll find just as many Christianist, born-again science-haters as crunchy, tech-hating liberals. In the case of the autism/vaccine crowd, it's more a case of looking for someone, anyone, to blame your child's condition on - more a part of our "blame someone else" culture than a political tendancy.
At least somewhat:
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/06/14/space.sh
10) Reclaim the Sahara. via wind mills pump huge quantities of salt water to the desert, grow mangos and salt tolerant algae. Evaporation might cause it to rain there once again. It might also reduce hurricanes.
Except that wind picks up dust from the Sahara and carries it into the Antarctic ocean, where it provides nutrients for the microscopic marine life there. This plan would probably result in a net carbon increase, because the algae around Antarctica would decrease. In fact, a shrinking Sahara is considered one of the global warming "tipping points", since most climate models predict increased rainfall in sub-Saharan Africa.
I think probably nanotechnology would be the best for this. It could be solar powered, and would separate the carbon atoms from the oxygen (being careful to release O2 and not 2 Os). The carbon could then be shaped into something useful, such as bicycle frames or industrial parts.
http://energybulletin.net/22442.html
I used to work at a software store, and the regional manager was very concerned that all employees check signatures for all credit card purchases. We even had this long set of rules, and one of them was, "The credit card must have a valid name in the signature area". It is illegal, after all, to put something besides your signature on your card.
So one day, I'm working and this college girl comes in and picks up Wing Commander 3 from the shelf. She walks up to me, smiles, and gives me her credit card. In the signature area is written: "Please ask for ID". So I ask to see her ID, and she smiles at me and says, "Thank you! You're the first person all day who's asked to see my ID." Now, I'm starting to get a good vibe from her, until I remember the rules. I compare her driver's license signature to her credit card, and I'm about to hand it back to her and ask her about the game as a way to get her to talk to me (she's probably buying the game for someone, but who knows, maybe I'm about to meet a single, female gamer - they DO exist!) when the manager wanders over. I suppose he'd seen her dig out her driver's license. Crap. So now I have a choice - it's really too bad that I loved my job. So I hand her back her license and credit card and say, "I'm sorry, I can't accept this credit card." Well, her smile disappears pretty quick. I try to explain the rule, but she pays with cash and leaves the store pretty quick.
Next time the regional manager was in the store, he complimented me on my performance - my manager must have told him about it. Still, I would have rather had her phone number than a compliment from the sleazy regional manager.
And I never saw her in the store again.
Although in the case of your stomach, I think the correct word is 'emission', rather than 'radiation'.
This might be a typical day for some ultra-rich CEO with nothing better to spend his money on. But a humanoid house-cleaning robot? A robo-kitchen? A self-driving car? Brainwave monitoring? Full-wall teleconferencing? Come on. And then there's all the time requered to write all the software that connects everything.
That stuff may be available in 10 years, but only someone with a ton of disposable income would ever be able to afford it. There's no way a mere programmer would ever be able to command that kind of money, unless he won the lottery.
The company I worked for would take any contract that came along, and I mean ANY contract. That was how I got to write the quizzes on the CD-ROMs for the MCSE For Dummies books. In Authorware. There were six of them: MCSE TCP/IP For Dummies, MCSE Windows NT For Dummies, MCSE Networking Essentials For Dummies, ... Oh, Lord, I've never known such pain.
I wouldn't worry too much. Any black hole produced in the LHC will have too little mass to do anything destructive. They will 'evaporate' via Hawking radiation in a matter on nanoseconds.
Teslas are a linear scale. The Earth's magnetic field is ~5x10^-5 T, so this magnet's field is approx. 260000 times stronger than Earth's.
Instead of paying too much to Barnes and Noble, you can get it from AddAll for quite a bit cheaper.
... you can try PitBull from Argus Systems. It's a very good product and free for non-commercial use (I think). If you can live without the source to their module.
Though many $lashdot regulars aren't aware of it, our own beloved CmdrTaco has long had a second career as an artist -- and a damn good one at that. Much like acclaimed artist Keith Boadwee, Taco fills his rectum with paint and than expels it onto a canvas. The resulting work is gripping, to say the least.
But now, with the imminent demise of $lashdot, his primary source of income -- sitting around the Geek Compound and watching Japanese schoolgirl alien devil penis tentacle rape cartoons, playing video games, and wanking off -- is about to end, and he will have only his art career and his programming skills to support him. As an open source programmer, his chances are pretty slim. He needs our help!
"What can I do?", you ask? Good question. You can help by buying his paintings. I just purchased one of his works from his brown period, entitled "The Day After I Ate Corn". I'm also planning on buying the classic "Mexican Gothic" when it comes on the auction block at Sotheby's. Imagine the thrill of owning a CmdrTaco original! From early, obscure works like "Turds, With Jizz" to acclaimed classics like "Come Pull My Finger - That's Not My Finger", every one of Taco's shit-smeared, fly-covered, stinking canvases is absolutely amazing.
I urge you to buy one or more of CmdrTaco's rectal artworks, to support him in this time of financial crisis!
Every time I read an interview like this, it strikes me how odd my own life is - I'm at least as concerned about the Microsoft trial and the latest versions of software as I am about my relationship w/ my wife. It's a kind of techno-myopia - you get so immersed in it all that priorities become skewed. And I think I'm safe in saying that I share this w/ a large portion of the Slashdot community. Every time I have this insight (about once a month or so), I go get out my guitar and start practicing for a few days, and I think about my life and what's important, and I always resolve to spend less time worrying about the things that don't really matter - like whether an Athlon or Pentium preforms a particular test better. But then I go back to work, and I start worrying about the same old crap again.
I sometimes wonder if the Slashdot community's collective myopia and whether it will lead to the community's downfall - worrying about trivia while the rest just gets ignored. Is the latest version of Linux really more important than getting out and taking a walking holding hands with someoue you love?
I am writing this reply within Opera running on FreeBSD. Works like a champ! Make sure, however, that you have the linux-png and linux-jpeg packages. You can probably wait a few days for a package to appear on freshports. Flash works, too!
Though many $lashdot regulars aren't aware of it, our own beloved CmdrTaco has long had a second career as an artist -- and a damn good one at that. Much like acclaimed artist Keith Boadwee, Taco fills his rectum with paint and than expels it onto a canvas. The resulting work is gripping, to say the least.
But now, with the imminent demise of $lashdot, his primary source of income -- sitting around the Geek Compound and watching Japanese schoolgirl alien devil penis tentacle rape cartoons, playing video games, and wanking off -- is about to end, and he will have only his art career and his programming skills to support him. As an open source programmer, his chances are pretty slim. He needs our help!
"What can I do?", you ask? Good question. You can help by buying his paintings. I just purchased one of his works from his brown period, entitled "The Day After I Ate Corn". I'm also planning on buying the classic "Mexican Gothic" when it comes on the auction block at Sotheby's. Imagine the thrill of owning a CmdrTaco original! From early, obscure works like "Turds, With Jizz" to acclaimed classics like "Come Pull My Finger - That's Not My Finger", every one of Taco's shit-smeared, fly-covered, stinking canvases is absolutely amazing.
I urge you to buy one or more of CmdrTaco's rectal artworks, to support him in this time of financial crisis!
The script on the ring was in Sindarin, one of the Elvish languages. Gandalf says (p. 80 in my copy of FOTR), "The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here."
Note, however, the commonly used character set in Middle Earth is Tengwar. The characters used on the MIT dome are indeed Tengwar. I haven't been able to find an image of the complete ring on the dome, so I can't fully translate it, but it does appear to be correct, from what I can see.
(Yes, I am truly a geek when it comes to Tolkien).
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Slashdot must have some sort of contract to sell only books from FatBrain (stupid name, BTW). If you want the absolute best price on a book, check out Add All.
What have these Aussies got with 5 letter 'S' names?
Maybe they're Vulcans.
Now I can use all my Cygwin stuff in Linux!
I'll refrain from commenting...
It seems like everyone is surprised that Harry Potter won a Hugo. Why? I think everyone is forgetting that the Hugo is a People's Choice type of award. The books are quite enjoyable to read - I'm not surprised that the people chose to honor it. Now, if it were to win a Nebula Award (chosen by members of SFWA), then I would be stunned...