My preference is running. It's rather cheep to start, all you need are a good pair of running shoes. (But get a good pair, from a running store, fitted to your foot and stride type.) Other than that, you really only need a track or some roads. I hadn't run since high school, and now, 15 years later i am thinking about trying for a half marathon before the end of the year. I also love the fact that just about every weekend there is a 5k or 10k race near me, which not only helps to motivate, but also are usually created around some charity, so it is good karma as well to help raise money for a cause.
If you want some guidance getting started, cool running has a great starter guide. Link
I have also become a big fan on the Nike+ sport band, since i can check my distance and pace while i am running. I find that instant feedback about having run farther and or faster than my last run helps to motivate me during the run, and the ability to track my run history online helps motivate me between runs. I think that this ends up being one of the most important things about exercise, make sure you like it, because if you don't then you won't stick with it.
My advice, get out and run. But short of that, just make sure your doing something. That is the really important bit.
i wish i had mod points for this post. We are in essence hiding fuel sources that will be very usable in 10 or so years. All of this because of the short sightedness of the enviro movement. I really can't believe exactly how much we have F'd up this planet with all the carbon burning power sources while we let nuclear power rot in the corner like an unwanted step child.
Please keep in mind that while positive attitude certainly doesn't seem to hurt your chances with cancer, it also really doesn't seem to help at all. Source.
And what the parent post is referring to seems very very far outside the pale as far as any info we have on the causes of cancer. It to me even seems to be a bit of blaming the victim for the disease.
Attitudes like that will not help in any way to actually progress our attempts to cure cancer. Science, like the topic of this thread, hopefully will. That is assuming that this turns out to work. Lets hope.
Maybe, just maybe, people are a little put off by the current administration's habit of censoring and twisting science to it's own political stances. You can only abuse science and technology so long before the people who do the science and create the technology start to seriously resent you. Maybe we will see a change after this election, i don't know. But i hope we do.
i was standing in the supermarket about a week ago, looking over my shopping list on my palm phone, and as i read the next item i had to get, i wondered why everything in the supermarket couldn't be available to my phone, such as where it is, if it is on sale, if it has been moved from it's regular spot in the isle to the end of the isle to attempt to make it more visible when on sale. It would make shopping more easy, but that is just one tiny way the world could be organized, i am not going to say that as i wandered around looking for the crushed tomatoes isle i thought off uses like this town is using, but it did get me longing for a more organized world. Of course those hopes were dashed when i thought of all the groups and companies that would have to come together to agree on one easy format, or at least formats that would mesh with each other. In the end i figured it was just either not going to happen, or a long way off. Shame i never thought about google being the driving force behind something like this.
Sadly, this will continue to happen for a lot of reasons, but mostly, like all conspiracy theories, it actually is comforting to believe that a shadowy world government is in charge. Or to think that the reason people are autistic, or get cancer, is because of vaccines. It lets people know that there are reasons for otherwise random events, events that could happen to them any day now, or to those they love. But if you can have something concrete to blame it on, instead of just the randomness and uncertainty of life, well, then you can get angry at whatever tangible entity you want.
And things like youtube are perfect for the type of disinfo that these theories represent. The question now is how do we counter these claims? I would highly suggest listening to the Skepticality podcast ( http://www.skepticality.com/p_listentopast.php )ablout the documentary Flock of Dodos. The main theme is a discussion about how real science needs to learn to present its information and findings in a far more entertaining and easily digestible format. Just throwing facts and numbers at people, while it makes me happy, turns off the majority.
This is kind of like the whole 9/11 truth issue. People who have seen the conspiracy videos on youtube can be almost immune to evidence about physics, metallurgy, demolitions, and such. Their eyes just glaze over when you try to use facts and numbers and evidence. But if you point them towards a source like http://www.youtube.com/user/RKOwens4 which is comprised of simple arguments against the 9/11 truth theories, in easy to understand 3 minute chapters, then you start to make headway.
This is the course science must take with the public. Like it or not. The alternative is far to dangerous.
well, as far as the whole season ticket issue goes, i wonder if part of getting the tickets is that you sign a contract with the team about what you can and can not do with those tickets. And if one of the things you can not do is resell them for a profit over the legal state limit, there might be some very worried season ticket holders out there right now. As a contrast to this, the philadelphia phillies use stubhub as their official 'reseller' and even sent out links to stubhub's website in some of their post season emails. This could be an interesting one to watch.
Yes, and I would hope that most parents, if they were going to write legislation on this subject, would have the same grasp of the issues. However, since most aren't, and many consider things like computers and xbox's to be "new stuff the kids are good at", i think that the ESRB alone fails mightily.
"Sen. Yee: No. Time and time again, the ESRB has proven it can not be trusted and is not a very valuable tool for parents."
I think he kinda nails it right there. Sure, there should be involvement by the retailer, the ESRB, and the parents, but if that is all failing? What then? I have yet to see any store not sell a rated M game to someone who wants to buy one. of course the same could be said for a fair amount of the movies these stores stock. But the rating system should not only be there to inform parents of minors, should they even know about it, but it should also be a guide as to what the minor can buy. i have no problem with that.
Waiting for some idiot to post a link to the Zeitgeist movie's section on the federal reserve. Seriously hoping it doesn't happen, but i have a strange feeling that at least one person on here has fallen victim to the allure of spooky music mixed with insane and unfounded assertions.
The NASA folks have done absolute wonders with UNMANED missions. The ones with people on board on the other hand...
Here we are reading about expanded missions, the potential for more data than initially thought, the ability to retask a probe on another planet, or out in space, for a uses that no one even thought of when it was launched years before. And we are getting real and useful information from these missions. All without risking a single life, and at fractions of the cost of manned missions.
I realize that i sound like a broken record on this topic, but really, is there anyone left who doesn't think that one of the biggest roadblocks in the way of our learning about other planets and our solar system is the push for manned space exploration? We are putting people in a tin fort at the edge of our atmosphere, and celebrating it as an accomplishment? What is that going to get us at the moment? Can anyone really justify it as fiscally sound, without having to resort to either 1) technology we don't have yet like a space ship to get us to mars, 2) study of the effects of low gravity on humans (hint, it's bad, we know that), 3) or as a staging area for mars? (it won't be)
I am not saying we should never think about going out into space, but now is not the time. Lets work on designing the ships that will take us there, and figuring out how we are going to do it first. Most of that can be done in labs and in virtual reality, only towards the end of the design cycle will we have to go back out there, and i can almost guarantee you we will not need to stop off at the ISS.
Please write your congress people about the need to fund NASA, and the need to not sacrifice good unmanned missions in the face of wasteful and dangerous manned missions.
A few billion, and the human lives we have lost in the accidents with attempting maned space flight. And the loss of knowledge from blowing serious wads of cash on an almost useless project, as opposed to sending robots and satalites to get us real and useful information. The ISS is a waste and it is keeping us from truly learning as much as we can in space, all so that people can feel good about having humans uselessly in space. I think that if we didn't put people in space for the next 30 years, we would probebly increase what we know about space, other planets, space flight, the origins of the universe, and countless other things, since all the robot/satalite/telescope projects wouldn't have to compete with the useless but warm and fuzzy feeling ISS and space shuttle projects.
What are we going to do about getting there? Unless we can figure out some way to travel faster than the speed of light, i doubt any human will ever step foot on a planet outside our solar system. I think it far more likely that we will have to terraform one of the ones near us, and even then, we seem to messing this one up way faster than we could even start that process. I think hawkins may be right, 1000 years at most left for us. Although that really may have been a bit optimistic.
you did catch the "current incarnation" bit right?
I am also an atheist, and while not refusing to recite the pledge, i do leave the god part out. That part by definition excludes me, and as such i feel no need to include it. I don't really care when other people continue to leave it in, since it really just serves to prove the point that much of what people do with, and believe about, religion is truly bullshit. Most believers, and to be fair some unbelievers as well, would have no idea what the original pledge was, why it was written, or when and why the "under god" bit was added.
sadly, and getting back to the main point of this article, faith in magical sky wizzards if in this day and age not so much a statement of faith as it is of ignorance. Believers that i talk to have no sense of the history of their own religion, or even of any other religions. I can think of one christian in the last year that i have talked to who had even heard of the council of Nicaea. They don't know how or why their bible was put together the way it was, or their quran, or whatever 'sacred' book they happen to believe in. And as far as science goes, most people also don't have a clue, how else to explain the penetration that intelligent design has made into our society. I was watching The View a few days ago, don't ask, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck was happily promoting ID to the millions of people watching the show, that in my mind is simply a failure of people to grasp the very concepts of science, and the scientific process. And this was after she said "Look at the constitution, god is written all over the constitution." I have no idea what their real viewership is, but it scares me that there are people out there that now think that is fact.
I don't know if it is a good thing or not that there is not a creation museum, on the one hand it keeps all the nut jobs in one place, with their own made up versions of history, science, geology, cosmology, anthropology, and biology. On the other hand, we are letting them indoctrinate their children with lies and half truths. All so they will unquestioningly believe a myth. Many will never question it, or even bother to learn about it, or any of the other myths out there. They will just go through life with irrational beliefs that etiquette says we are not to question, which helps to keep the whole thing going.
Religion played a roll in our development as a society, but then again so did slavery. It is time to let religion go as well. My only fear is that in the end that will leave a gap in peoples lives that will still be taken advantage of frauds and con men, with scams like scientology and raelienism. But those at lease we feel less of a need to grant pardons to in the free exchange of ideas. And while they may be sue happy, no one has any problem pointing out that they are bat sh*t crazy. Although really, is it any sillier than the idea that a god sent 1/3 of himself to earth, to be born of a virgin, so that he could sacrifice himself to himself to pardon all of humanity for something he was punishing them for in the first place?
Quite frankly, i think the 3rd point was one of the biggest. I am rather good with computers, and networking, but getting my acer laptop to work with the wireless b/g card in it under any distro is more than i am willing to do. I can NDISwrapper the drivers, and have a card that will only work in b mode under linux, if i go in and mess about with the conf files. But even then there are seemingly random times where it will just stop working. And going between multiple networks without stopping and restarting the service is simply an exercise in futility, something windows doesn't have a problem with at all. I realize that without driver support from the manufacturers this will continue to be a problem, but non the less, it is a reason for the lack of market share, because if i don't fell like going through the hassle, i feel most users wouldn't even get far enough along to realize that all this work is far more than should be needed.
Yeah, the soccer was a definite miss, but for those of use who think a work out is more than just moving a desktop from one cubicle to another, brazilian ju-jitsu is not only a great workout, but one of the best and most usable martial art out there. I would say that with the rise of MMA in this country, more Americans would relate BJJ with Brazil than soccer.
i actually like that idea, kinda wish it was a standard feature. Well without the diamond at least. Maybe get 2 of them with your laptop just like when you buy a new car. I know you can do the same with USB sticks, but something non standard for and with an encrypted key could be very usefull for high security laptops.
there are some things that i really would not want to have to write into the code for a driver less car, but that would need to be addressed. What happens if you are driving along a road and someone jumps out in front of you while you are passing a car going the opposite direction? Does the car swerve to the right to attempt to miss the person, and risk running itself into an object that could kill it's driver? Does it swerve to the left and hit the other car? Does it drive into the person? What about an accident that happens on a free way at rush hour at high speeds like a blown tire, or broken drive train? The chances are small, but things like that will have to be written in. I would love to be able to get in my car, tell it a destination and go, especially if i could go out to a bar, put back a few too many, and not have to worry about how i am getting home. I just don't see it any time soon, sadly.
actually, the main point of the story is that it has changed, has evolved. There is no reason to believe that evolution stops if there is no sex, natural selection is quite happy to use mutation as a tool for evolution, just as it does sex. The difference being that sex tends to speed the process up with different combinations of genes with most offspring.
Seeing as it was the teachers unions that helped to create mazes like this when trying to remove a bad teacher, i think you might have a really good idea.
i am wondering if it is to much for me to ask for some semblance of reality injected into the comic industry. With the frequency that characters are killed, resurrected, killed again, cloned, or brought in from another universe, i highly doubt that Cap will make it more than 6 months before someone finds him under a rock somewhere, most likely with amnesia if i had to guess.
of course is the fact that most people simply refer to digital music, regardless of format, as MP3's. Most people already have a digital music player that will not play FLAK or OGG. People have no desire, or know how to turn their multiple gig music collection into a new format.
Trust me, i would rather FLAK was the standard, but at least for the moment, it seems to have missed the boat.
maybe instead of blaming the lack of federal support, we should consider the fact that NASA tends to blow money in frivolous ways on things like ISS and the space shuttle missions, instead of things that are more cost effective?
" A lot of vehicles that I've seen with televisions or whatnot have them mainly for the people who sit behind the driver and person sitting shotgun. So if they keep the monitors away from the front, I don't think this will be as big a problem."
Well, first off, anyone who thinks that people who custom mod cars wouldn't be able to simply route this to a display to the front seats is out of there minds. We are basicly talking about the equivilent of the types of people who overclock their CPUs to get more FPSs for quake. They know how to do it, they will do it, and they will teach their friends how to do it. This will end up in the front seat, and it will end up being a cause for accidents. There is no way around that. I have already barely avoided 2 accidents in the past year in situations where I was wondering "what the hell was taht person smokeing", only to realize that they had a portable DVD player mounted on the dashboard.
God help us if the old people who only have their drivers liscenses thanks to the fact that the AARP is a huge lobying block ever get turned on to this. I really will quit driveing.
And yet people wonder why windows has the market share it does on the desktop. My mom, and everyone in her office would never be able to figure this out, but IE can do it all automaticly. Hell, I am useing Mandrake 9.0 and this is a chore. And thats suposed to be the easy desktop distro.
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My preference is running. It's rather cheep to start, all you need are a good pair of running shoes. (But get a good pair, from a running store, fitted to your foot and stride type.) Other than that, you really only need a track or some roads. I hadn't run since high school, and now, 15 years later i am thinking about trying for a half marathon before the end of the year. I also love the fact that just about every weekend there is a 5k or 10k race near me, which not only helps to motivate, but also are usually created around some charity, so it is good karma as well to help raise money for a cause.
If you want some guidance getting started, cool running has a great starter guide. Link
I have also become a big fan on the Nike+ sport band, since i can check my distance and pace while i am running. I find that instant feedback about having run farther and or faster than my last run helps to motivate me during the run, and the ability to track my run history online helps motivate me between runs. I think that this ends up being one of the most important things about exercise, make sure you like it, because if you don't then you won't stick with it.
My advice, get out and run. But short of that, just make sure your doing something. That is the really important bit.
i wish i had mod points for this post. We are in essence hiding fuel sources that will be very usable in 10 or so years. All of this because of the short sightedness of the enviro movement. I really can't believe exactly how much we have F'd up this planet with all the carbon burning power sources while we let nuclear power rot in the corner like an unwanted step child.
Please keep in mind that while positive attitude certainly doesn't seem to hurt your chances with cancer, it also really doesn't seem to help at all. Source.
And what the parent post is referring to seems very very far outside the pale as far as any info we have on the causes of cancer. It to me even seems to be a bit of blaming the victim for the disease.
Attitudes like that will not help in any way to actually progress our attempts to cure cancer. Science, like the topic of this thread, hopefully will. That is assuming that this turns out to work. Lets hope.
Maybe, just maybe, people are a little put off by the current administration's habit of censoring and twisting science to it's own political stances. You can only abuse science and technology so long before the people who do the science and create the technology start to seriously resent you. Maybe we will see a change after this election, i don't know. But i hope we do.
i was standing in the supermarket about a week ago, looking over my shopping list on my palm phone, and as i read the next item i had to get, i wondered why everything in the supermarket couldn't be available to my phone, such as where it is, if it is on sale, if it has been moved from it's regular spot in the isle to the end of the isle to attempt to make it more visible when on sale. It would make shopping more easy, but that is just one tiny way the world could be organized, i am not going to say that as i wandered around looking for the crushed tomatoes isle i thought off uses like this town is using, but it did get me longing for a more organized world. Of course those hopes were dashed when i thought of all the groups and companies that would have to come together to agree on one easy format, or at least formats that would mesh with each other. In the end i figured it was just either not going to happen, or a long way off. Shame i never thought about google being the driving force behind something like this.
Sadly, this will continue to happen for a lot of reasons, but mostly, like all conspiracy theories, it actually is comforting to believe that a shadowy world government is in charge. Or to think that the reason people are autistic, or get cancer, is because of vaccines. It lets people know that there are reasons for otherwise random events, events that could happen to them any day now, or to those they love. But if you can have something concrete to blame it on, instead of just the randomness and uncertainty of life, well, then you can get angry at whatever tangible entity you want.
And things like youtube are perfect for the type of disinfo that these theories represent. The question now is how do we counter these claims? I would highly suggest listening to the Skepticality podcast ( http://www.skepticality.com/p_listentopast.php )ablout the documentary Flock of Dodos. The main theme is a discussion about how real science needs to learn to present its information and findings in a far more entertaining and easily digestible format. Just throwing facts and numbers at people, while it makes me happy, turns off the majority.
This is kind of like the whole 9/11 truth issue. People who have seen the conspiracy videos on youtube can be almost immune to evidence about physics, metallurgy, demolitions, and such. Their eyes just glaze over when you try to use facts and numbers and evidence. But if you point them towards a source like http://www.youtube.com/user/RKOwens4 which is comprised of simple arguments against the 9/11 truth theories, in easy to understand 3 minute chapters, then you start to make headway.
This is the course science must take with the public. Like it or not. The alternative is far to dangerous.
well, as far as the whole season ticket issue goes, i wonder if part of getting the tickets is that you sign a contract with the team about what you can and can not do with those tickets. And if one of the things you can not do is resell them for a profit over the legal state limit, there might be some very worried season ticket holders out there right now. As a contrast to this, the philadelphia phillies use stubhub as their official 'reseller' and even sent out links to stubhub's website in some of their post season emails. This could be an interesting one to watch.
Yes, and I would hope that most parents, if they were going to write legislation on this subject, would have the same grasp of the issues. However, since most aren't, and many consider things like computers and xbox's to be "new stuff the kids are good at", i think that the ESRB alone fails mightily.
"Sen. Yee: No. Time and time again, the ESRB has proven it can not be trusted and is not a very valuable tool for parents."
I think he kinda nails it right there. Sure, there should be involvement by the retailer, the ESRB, and the parents, but if that is all failing? What then? I have yet to see any store not sell a rated M game to someone who wants to buy one. of course the same could be said for a fair amount of the movies these stores stock. But the rating system should not only be there to inform parents of minors, should they even know about it, but it should also be a guide as to what the minor can buy. i have no problem with that.
Waiting for some idiot to post a link to the Zeitgeist movie's section on the federal reserve. Seriously hoping it doesn't happen, but i have a strange feeling that at least one person on here has fallen victim to the allure of spooky music mixed with insane and unfounded assertions.
The NASA folks have done absolute wonders with UNMANED missions. The ones with people on board on the other hand...
Here we are reading about expanded missions, the potential for more data than initially thought, the ability to retask a probe on another planet, or out in space, for a uses that no one even thought of when it was launched years before. And we are getting real and useful information from these missions. All without risking a single life, and at fractions of the cost of manned missions.
I realize that i sound like a broken record on this topic, but really, is there anyone left who doesn't think that one of the biggest roadblocks in the way of our learning about other planets and our solar system is the push for manned space exploration? We are putting people in a tin fort at the edge of our atmosphere, and celebrating it as an accomplishment? What is that going to get us at the moment? Can anyone really justify it as fiscally sound, without having to resort to either 1) technology we don't have yet like a space ship to get us to mars, 2) study of the effects of low gravity on humans (hint, it's bad, we know that), 3) or as a staging area for mars? (it won't be)
I am not saying we should never think about going out into space, but now is not the time. Lets work on designing the ships that will take us there, and figuring out how we are going to do it first. Most of that can be done in labs and in virtual reality, only towards the end of the design cycle will we have to go back out there, and i can almost guarantee you we will not need to stop off at the ISS.
Please write your congress people about the need to fund NASA, and the need to not sacrifice good unmanned missions in the face of wasteful and dangerous manned missions.
A few billion, and the human lives we have lost in the accidents with attempting maned space flight. And the loss of knowledge from blowing serious wads of cash on an almost useless project, as opposed to sending robots and satalites to get us real and useful information. The ISS is a waste and it is keeping us from truly learning as much as we can in space, all so that people can feel good about having humans uselessly in space. I think that if we didn't put people in space for the next 30 years, we would probebly increase what we know about space, other planets, space flight, the origins of the universe, and countless other things, since all the robot/satalite/telescope projects wouldn't have to compete with the useless but warm and fuzzy feeling ISS and space shuttle projects.
What are we going to do about getting there? Unless we can figure out some way to travel faster than the speed of light, i doubt any human will ever step foot on a planet outside our solar system. I think it far more likely that we will have to terraform one of the ones near us, and even then, we seem to messing this one up way faster than we could even start that process. I think hawkins may be right, 1000 years at most left for us. Although that really may have been a bit optimistic.
you did catch the "current incarnation" bit right?
I am also an atheist, and while not refusing to recite the pledge, i do leave the god part out. That part by definition excludes me, and as such i feel no need to include it. I don't really care when other people continue to leave it in, since it really just serves to prove the point that much of what people do with, and believe about, religion is truly bullshit. Most believers, and to be fair some unbelievers as well, would have no idea what the original pledge was, why it was written, or when and why the "under god" bit was added.
sadly, and getting back to the main point of this article, faith in magical sky wizzards if in this day and age not so much a statement of faith as it is of ignorance. Believers that i talk to have no sense of the history of their own religion, or even of any other religions. I can think of one christian in the last year that i have talked to who had even heard of the council of Nicaea. They don't know how or why their bible was put together the way it was, or their quran, or whatever 'sacred' book they happen to believe in. And as far as science goes, most people also don't have a clue, how else to explain the penetration that intelligent design has made into our society. I was watching The View a few days ago, don't ask, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck was happily promoting ID to the millions of people watching the show, that in my mind is simply a failure of people to grasp the very concepts of science, and the scientific process. And this was after she said "Look at the constitution, god is written all over the constitution." I have no idea what their real viewership is, but it scares me that there are people out there that now think that is fact.
I don't know if it is a good thing or not that there is not a creation museum, on the one hand it keeps all the nut jobs in one place, with their own made up versions of history, science, geology, cosmology, anthropology, and biology. On the other hand, we are letting them indoctrinate their children with lies and half truths. All so they will unquestioningly believe a myth. Many will never question it, or even bother to learn about it, or any of the other myths out there. They will just go through life with irrational beliefs that etiquette says we are not to question, which helps to keep the whole thing going.
Religion played a roll in our development as a society, but then again so did slavery. It is time to let religion go as well. My only fear is that in the end that will leave a gap in peoples lives that will still be taken advantage of frauds and con men, with scams like scientology and raelienism. But those at lease we feel less of a need to grant pardons to in the free exchange of ideas. And while they may be sue happy, no one has any problem pointing out that they are bat sh*t crazy. Although really, is it any sillier than the idea that a god sent 1/3 of himself to earth, to be born of a virgin, so that he could sacrifice himself to himself to pardon all of humanity for something he was punishing them for in the first place?
Okay, ranted long enough.
Quite frankly, i think the 3rd point was one of the biggest. I am rather good with computers, and networking, but getting my acer laptop to work with the wireless b/g card in it under any distro is more than i am willing to do. I can NDISwrapper the drivers, and have a card that will only work in b mode under linux, if i go in and mess about with the conf files. But even then there are seemingly random times where it will just stop working. And going between multiple networks without stopping and restarting the service is simply an exercise in futility, something windows doesn't have a problem with at all. I realize that without driver support from the manufacturers this will continue to be a problem, but non the less, it is a reason for the lack of market share, because if i don't fell like going through the hassle, i feel most users wouldn't even get far enough along to realize that all this work is far more than should be needed.
Yeah, the soccer was a definite miss, but for those of use who think a work out is more than just moving a desktop from one cubicle to another, brazilian ju-jitsu is not only a great workout, but one of the best and most usable martial art out there. I would say that with the rise of MMA in this country, more Americans would relate BJJ with Brazil than soccer.
(yes, this is an Americentric post)
i actually like that idea, kinda wish it was a standard feature. Well without the diamond at least. Maybe get 2 of them with your laptop just like when you buy a new car. I know you can do the same with USB sticks, but something non standard for and with an encrypted key could be very usefull for high security laptops.
there are some things that i really would not want to have to write into the code for a driver less car, but that would need to be addressed. What happens if you are driving along a road and someone jumps out in front of you while you are passing a car going the opposite direction? Does the car swerve to the right to attempt to miss the person, and risk running itself into an object that could kill it's driver? Does it swerve to the left and hit the other car? Does it drive into the person? What about an accident that happens on a free way at rush hour at high speeds like a blown tire, or broken drive train? The chances are small, but things like that will have to be written in. I would love to be able to get in my car, tell it a destination and go, especially if i could go out to a bar, put back a few too many, and not have to worry about how i am getting home. I just don't see it any time soon, sadly.
actually, the main point of the story is that it has changed, has evolved. There is no reason to believe that evolution stops if there is no sex, natural selection is quite happy to use mutation as a tool for evolution, just as it does sex. The difference being that sex tends to speed the process up with different combinations of genes with most offspring.
Seeing as it was the teachers unions that helped to create mazes like this when trying to remove a bad teacher, i think you might have a really good idea.
i am wondering if it is to much for me to ask for some semblance of reality injected into the comic industry. With the frequency that characters are killed, resurrected, killed again, cloned, or brought in from another universe, i highly doubt that Cap will make it more than 6 months before someone finds him under a rock somewhere, most likely with amnesia if i had to guess.
of course is the fact that most people simply refer to digital music, regardless of format, as MP3's. Most people already have a digital music player that will not play FLAK or OGG. People have no desire, or know how to turn their multiple gig music collection into a new format.
Trust me, i would rather FLAK was the standard, but at least for the moment, it seems to have missed the boat.
I may of course be entirely wrong.
maybe instead of blaming the lack of federal support, we should consider the fact that NASA tends to blow money in frivolous ways on things like ISS and the space shuttle missions, instead of things that are more cost effective?
-justin
" A lot of vehicles that I've seen with televisions or whatnot have them mainly for the people who sit behind the driver and person sitting shotgun. So if they keep the monitors away from the front, I don't think this will be as big a problem."
Well, first off, anyone who thinks that people who custom mod cars wouldn't be able to simply route this to a display to the front seats is out of there minds. We are basicly talking about the equivilent of the types of people who overclock their CPUs to get more FPSs for quake. They know how to do it, they will do it, and they will teach their friends how to do it. This will end up in the front seat, and it will end up being a cause for accidents. There is no way around that. I have already barely avoided 2 accidents in the past year in situations where I was wondering "what the hell was taht person smokeing", only to realize that they had a portable DVD player mounted on the dashboard.
God help us if the old people who only have their drivers liscenses thanks to the fact that the AARP is a huge lobying block ever get turned on to this. I really will quit driveing.
Justin
And yet people wonder why windows has the market share it does on the desktop. My mom, and everyone in her office would never be able to figure this out, but IE can do it all automaticly. Hell, I am useing Mandrake 9.0 and this is a chore. And thats suposed to be the easy desktop distro.
Justin