Anyone who can get any substantial amount of radioactive material has considerable resources. And all they have to show for it is a box full of old pin ball machine parts and a dead kook.
Can't say I'm a physicist but I think it is bullshit. Cleaning up the mess of any conceivable "dirty bomb" is a mop and bucket affair. There's no possible pay to render a city uninhabitable or anything like that.. shit, a full-on nuclear weapon exploded at altitude didn't render Hiroshima uninhabitable. It's just a retarded idea. And binary liquid explosives are physically impossible on planes. You still don't get to bring water on board.
Don't think about it: Be afraid, citizen. Just be afraid.
Why the fuck do you assume that your ignorance of such an event means that no such event took place? And why did people moderate this ignorant, fallacious comment up, rather than down?
I told her over the phone that since she was only a consultant to the company we weren't required to support her. And you still managed to tell her "reboot" without ever even touching her machine or doing anything technical?
You deserve so much gratitude! You're not an ass at all! She should name her first born after you.
No, there are plenty of reasons to flame Mac fans. [...] Each and every single one of those 40 mac users were pretentious twats. [...] My personal favorite example was a doctor [...] So after exchanging a bunch of phone calls and finally agreeing that there was no other possible time she could do it save for 7:30 at night on one reoccurring day each month, I finally gave in and said I would help her. [...] she opened up whatever the hell the mac equivalent of powerpoint was [...] She threw her hands up in the air and whined "Seeee!!!" at me. "Uh, it crashed. Reboot it."
totally fucking confused for 5 minutes. [...] Idiot. [...] Next thing I know, she's firing up iTunes...and for the finale I thought "I'll bet she's *the* air america listener". Sure enough. Hundreds of air america broadcasts/podcasts/whatever....which of course the playing of caused the laptop to crash. [...]...and all of this without me having to touch the macbook, do anything technical, or provide any advice beyond 'reboot'.
Oh yeah, and when I said "It looks like you're all set", there was no "Thanks" or "Awesome" or really any positive acknowledgment other than "It's about time". [...] And yes, all 39 other mac users displayed the same total lack of technical knowledge and the same "I'm better than you attitude" when really they were just so fucking stupid I'm surprised they didn't die half way through the troubleshooting process because they didn't remember to breathe. [...] hate every other teacher in the school because every one of them is a liberal, whiny, pretentious starbucks-drinking, jetta driving, 'thinking different--just like everyone else' mac user. [...] So no, I'm not a mac-hater. I'm a mac-user-hater. And if you agree, mod this shit up--I'm betting I'm not alone on this one. So, a doctor has to go through many phone calls to get you to agree to work with their busy schedule, then all you do is say "reboot", and you expect them to be grateful?
And of course, your clearly hostile "liberals are all idiot" attitude means she sould, I guess, have given you your own weight in gold for barely agreeing to do your job.
In other words, this is just like Bush's "signing statements"; he has made it clear all along that he'll follow only those laws that allow him to do exactly what he wants. THE PRESIDENT: I feel great. Listen, I think we've had one of the most constructive first six months of any presidency. And we're making great progress on a lot of issues. No, I've always -- a dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
Walking home from a friend's house at 1 a.m. is nothing unusual for me, or for lots of other people. But I wouldn't be able to do it if there weren't decent street lighting. It doesn't have to be very bright to be decent. And it sure doesn't need to be shining up at the sky for you to see where you're going.
When they say "6000K temperature" they mean color temperature, not thermal. When they say (and I cite) "in the middle of the chamber, the plasma will be six thousand kelvin temperature", you don't think they are talking about the temperature of the plasma inside the chamber?
At 6000K, though, it's not going to be in my living room Do you have regular light bulbs in your living room? "When electric current flows through the filament, it heats the filament to a temperature of about 3000 C (about 5000 F), causing the filament to glow and provide light."
I went to the link, but it was just an obnoxious video ad. And no, I didn't sit through it. The story was right after the ad. And no, 30s wasn't too long to wait for it.
I found it interesting that the tiny bulb - at least in the video - was still using 250 watts and internally generated a temperature of 6000K (no they weren't talking color temp; they were talking actual temp). Now that's certainly lower than the 400 watt conventional streetlight they compared it to; but there's no mention in the video about scalability or low-power use. So the submitter's comment about it having advantages over compact fluorescents may have no basis in fact. Stick one right outside your window, pointing in, and you have daylight at night.
that'd be inspire fear in the government leaders that the people might SEE what they're really doing They're actually more "rose tainted glasses" than that: No skeletons allowed in the Chinese WoW localization.
The lawsuits are funny, since the header information will show conclusively that those people intentionally redirected the traffic to this guy. If anything, he can counter-sue. Sounds like a business plan!
And I don't know why you said "your god." I'm fairly sure I never claimed to believe in any such thing. You assume a god, I do not: he's yours, not mine.
To put it somewhat crudely, religion is as good an explanation as anything regarding the ultimate origin of existence. In fact, it is much stronger than many so-called "scientific" explanations (e.g. many-worlds theories which seek to account for the origin of existence, but ultimately only expand the problem domain by failing to deal with "ultimate existence" per se and simply considering a panoply of independent manifestations--begging the question as it were). To be simple, when one asks the question, "Where does it all, ultimately, come from?" or likewise "Why is there something rather than nothing?" there is nothing wrong or unscientific about saying "God," Existence comes from your god, you say? That begs the question: Where did your god come from?
It's a lot harder to "unteach" someone bullshit than it is teach them properly to begin with. So very true. There are so many little false factoids polluting our minds... like this belief that the taste receptors are divided in four distinct regions on our tongues: Anyone can easily test it on themselves to find out that it isn't true, but people still believe and repeat it.
At this point several of the other brilliant individuals grabbed my hard drive magnets to put on their copper pipes because they'd also heard of 'magnetic softening' and wanted to try it out. Good for them! Science is about running experiments to test a theory.
Nonsense, Dawkins is exceedingly smart. What he doesn't have is extensive training in the philosophy of religion, which causes him to make statements that sometimes woefully misrepresent the religious perspective. What Dawkins is, however, is an evolutionary biologist, so you can somewhat understand his ardor in fighting against anti-evolutionary religious zealotry.
Sorry, but if you start spouting off more nonsense than sense, you don't deserve the appelation "smart". If Dawkins had restricted himself to defending evolution, that would be fine. Unfortunately, most of his time now is dedicated to lame attacks against theism in general.
So, you're demonstrating that you aren't smart by saying spouting off nonsense about the man?
When discussing evolution, natural selection, abiogenesis, cosmology, climatology etc. just don't be jerks. Speak with a level head and a personable tone. Speak to what you can prove scientifcally, and don't make things personal by introducing subjectivity. Keep in mind who you are speaking to. We're speaking to shrill jerks incapable of objectivity who take observed facts about reality as personal insults.
If we could have more realistic science fiction television and films There's 2001: A space odyssey, which portrayed space travel realistically (it takes forever to get anywhere). You can't have that in episodic television, you need a new alien species every week.
The difference between the mafia and RIAA is that the RIAA (and MPAA) have had laws passed for their benefit to screw the public (for example, you're not supposed to reverse engineer / break DRM etc.). A black market needs laws to keep stuff illegal so it can run... Gambling, prostitution, drugs, those profitable activities are controlled by organized crime.
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Don't think about it: Be afraid, citizen. Just be afraid.
Why the fuck do you assume that your ignorance of such an event means that no such event took place?
And why did people moderate this ignorant, fallacious comment up, rather than down?
You deserve so much gratitude! You're not an ass at all! She should name her first born after you.
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Each and every single one of those 40 mac users were pretentious twats.
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My personal favorite example was a doctor [...] So after exchanging a bunch of phone calls and finally agreeing that there was no other possible time she could do it save for 7:30 at night on one reoccurring day each month, I finally gave in and said I would help her.
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she opened up whatever the hell the mac equivalent of powerpoint was
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She threw her hands up in the air and whined "Seeee!!!" at me. "Uh, it crashed. Reboot it."
totally fucking confused for 5 minutes.
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Idiot.
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Next thing I know, she's firing up iTunes...and for the finale I thought "I'll bet she's *the* air america listener".
Sure enough. Hundreds of air america broadcasts/podcasts/whatever.
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Oh yeah, and when I said "It looks like you're all set", there was no "Thanks" or "Awesome" or really any positive acknowledgment other than "It's about time".
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And yes, all 39 other mac users displayed the same total lack of technical knowledge and the same "I'm better than you attitude" when really they were just so fucking stupid I'm surprised they didn't die half way through the troubleshooting process because they didn't remember to breathe.
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hate every other teacher in the school because every one of them is a liberal, whiny, pretentious starbucks-drinking, jetta driving, 'thinking different--just like everyone else' mac user.
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So no, I'm not a mac-hater. I'm a mac-user-hater. And if you agree, mod this shit up--I'm betting I'm not alone on this one. So, a doctor has to go through many phone calls to get you to agree to work with their busy schedule, then all you do is say "reboot", and you expect them to be grateful?
And of course, your clearly hostile "liberals are all idiot" attitude means she sould, I guess, have given you your own weight in gold for barely agreeing to do your job.
Fantastic.
Consistently modded up poster complains of being constantly modded down, tonight, on bizarro slashdot.
There is at least ten mac hater for every fanboy, each posting ten whining comment for every adulation of apple.
And it sure doesn't need to be shining up at the sky for you to see where you're going.
"When electric current flows through the filament, it heats the filament to a temperature of about 3000 C (about 5000 F), causing the filament to glow and provide light."
There are so many little false factoids polluting our minds... like this belief that the taste receptors are divided in four distinct regions on our tongues: Anyone can easily test it on themselves to find out that it isn't true, but people still believe and repeat it.
Sorry, but if you start spouting off more nonsense than sense, you don't deserve the appelation "smart". If Dawkins had restricted himself to defending evolution, that would be fine. Unfortunately, most of his time now is dedicated to lame attacks against theism in general.
So, you're demonstrating that you aren't smart by saying spouting off nonsense about the man?You can't have that in episodic television, you need a new alien species every week.
Gambling, prostitution, drugs, those profitable activities are controlled by organized crime.