I wonder how long it's going to be before we just do the obvious thing and make spacecraft that rotate to provide the astronauts with a 1G environment for most of their time in space.
Hmm. I had assumed it was just the particular group that the person who told me about it happened to join. I didn't know that was a company-wide problem at IBM.
I've had friends who interned at a lot of different companies. I know someone who interned at IBM and got treated like a clerical temp, despite being two years into his masters. I know a couple of people who interned at Apple and said they learned more in six months than they had in four years of college.
Excellent! That leaves an opening for my half-million dollar turntables with the moonrock platter, musk-ox felt platter isolation pad, maglev suspension, hand-wound drive motor made from.999 fine gold windings and magnets made from civil-war cannonballs, turning a belt made from whale foreskin.
Installation by factory representatives is mandatory. $500/hour per man, minimum crew of 16, travel time included. To ensure that they do the best possible job (you know you can hear the difference), I'll send my crew to you on a private jet.
And of course, that doesn't include the tonearm or cartridge.
Perhaps you could explain how it's possible to make money by starving people? On this planet, you make money by selling your product as widely as possible.
Sorry, didn't mean to use the actual definition of a word, rather than the neo-con Bizarro definition.
You're failing to recognize the difference between subsistence and self-deprivation. People who practice subsistence farming are typically living in appalling conditions, and for you to praise subsistence farming shows a rather shocking lack of compassion on your part. For an encore, how about telling us how good the slaves had it on the cotton plantations?
. But subsistence farming means that people are raising what they need, all that they need, and aren't creating waste.
What you're describing here isn't subsistence farming, it's the kind of hobby farming that hippies living in an industrialized country can indulge in, because they have the option of falling back to food stamps and welfare if they have a crop failure.
I didn't say anything about any other sources, so fuck you too. I was talking about the hockey team specifically. That is Mann, Jones, and the others whose own words damn them in those leaked e-mails.
There are other climate researchers who are still scientists, but the hockey team are not.
And using large machines means there's less damage to the environment? And artificial fertilizers being good for the environment is something I'm sure would be debated, and you state it like an accepted fact.
It's a fact whether you accept it or not. Mechanization and artificial fertilzers, together with insecticides and selective breeding of crop species, are why we're able to feed billions of people. Modern agriculture is vastly more productive than it was even fifty years ago. Google for "Norman Borlaug" and "green revolution" for the details.
Contrary to popular culture, most slaves in the US where fairly well taken care of.
Considerably better than Irish day laborers. There are many stories of Irishmen being given tasks to do that were too dangerous to risk losing a slave.
Are you serious? You never came across the term before?
Subsistence farming is farming by very primitive means, which is terribly labor-intensive, and destructive of the environment. It's the way agriculture used to be in the USA before the industrial revolution, when we acquired tractors, combine harvesters, and artificial fertilizers. That's why we don't need 80% of our population working on farms to keep us fed these days.
When you come down from your adrenaline high, you might realize that you're behaving exactly the way you accuse your opponents of behaving. The evidence of wrongdoing is plain to read, and sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending it's not there isn't going to make it go away.
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Roses seem expensive to you? Maybe you need to find a better job.
-jcr
Plants are the most efficient at collecting solar energy.
I'm not sure that's the case, but what plants are, is cheap.
-jcr
One false positive can ruin your whole day, week, or life.
-jcr
The group I heard about were building ATMs based on OS/2.
-jcr
I wonder how long it's going to be before we just do the obvious thing and make spacecraft that rotate to provide the astronauts with a 1G environment for most of their time in space.
-jcr
Hmm. I had assumed it was just the particular group that the person who told me about it happened to join. I didn't know that was a company-wide problem at IBM.
-jcr
I've had friends who interned at a lot of different companies. I know someone who interned at IBM and got treated like a clerical temp, despite being two years into his masters. I know a couple of people who interned at Apple and said they learned more in six months than they had in four years of college.
-jcr
Not all that new. Benjamin Franklin invented it.
-jcr
The number of shops selling physical CD's is steadily decreasing
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to buy bits pressed into a plastic disk, when you can get the same bits through your internet connection.
In a few more years, people might realize that they have potable water available in their homes, and quit buying it in pretentious little bottles.
-jcr
Excellent! That leaves an opening for my half-million dollar turntables with the moonrock platter, musk-ox felt platter isolation pad, maglev suspension, hand-wound drive motor made from .999 fine gold windings and magnets made from civil-war cannonballs, turning a belt made from whale foreskin.
Installation by factory representatives is mandatory. $500/hour per man, minimum crew of 16, travel time included. To ensure that they do the best possible job (you know you can hear the difference), I'll send my crew to you on a private jet.
And of course, that doesn't include the tonearm or cartridge.
-jcr
I like Mozart on the glass armonica, myself.
-jcr
Kind of depends what you do with it.
-jcr
That's what Fareed Zakaria said Iran has now become.
Iran's had a dictatorship ever since Mossadeq was overthrown by the Shah with British and American help.
-jcr
This reinforces my belief that one should never volunteer any information to any law enforcement official.
-jcr
Your voice traffic will be VOIP as soon as it hits your CO. You don't have to have broadband or DSL to your house for that to happen.
-jcr
Perhaps you could explain how it's possible to make money by starving people? On this planet, you make money by selling your product as widely as possible.
-jcr
Sorry, didn't mean to use the actual definition of a word, rather than the neo-con Bizarro definition.
You're failing to recognize the difference between subsistence and self-deprivation. People who practice subsistence farming are typically living in appalling conditions, and for you to praise subsistence farming shows a rather shocking lack of compassion on your part. For an encore, how about telling us how good the slaves had it on the cotton plantations?
-jcr
. But subsistence farming means that people are raising what they need, all that they need, and aren't creating waste.
What you're describing here isn't subsistence farming, it's the kind of hobby farming that hippies living in an industrialized country can indulge in, because they have the option of falling back to food stamps and welfare if they have a crop failure.
-jcr
Subsistence farming is a good thing.
Tell it to anyone who's in danger of starving if they have a year of drought, you pompous ass.
-jcr
I didn't say anything about any other sources, so fuck you too. I was talking about the hockey team specifically. That is Mann, Jones, and the others whose own words damn them in those leaked e-mails.
There are other climate researchers who are still scientists, but the hockey team are not.
-jcr
And using large machines means there's less damage to the environment? And artificial fertilizers being good for the environment is something I'm sure would be debated, and you state it like an accepted fact.
It's a fact whether you accept it or not. Mechanization and artificial fertilzers, together with insecticides and selective breeding of crop species, are why we're able to feed billions of people. Modern agriculture is vastly more productive than it was even fifty years ago. Google for "Norman Borlaug" and "green revolution" for the details.
-jcr
Contrary to popular culture, most slaves in the US where fairly well taken care of.
Considerably better than Irish day laborers. There are many stories of Irishmen being given tasks to do that were too dangerous to risk losing a slave.
-jcr
Was this a surprise to anyone?
No surprise that they did it, but I'm a bit surprised that someone finally filed the charges. Most Scientology escapees just want to be left alone.
-jcr
Are you serious? You never came across the term before?
Subsistence farming is farming by very primitive means, which is terribly labor-intensive, and destructive of the environment. It's the way agriculture used to be in the USA before the industrial revolution, when we acquired tractors, combine harvesters, and artificial fertilizers. That's why we don't need 80% of our population working on farms to keep us fed these days.
-jcr
When you come down from your adrenaline high, you might realize that you're behaving exactly the way you accuse your opponents of behaving. The evidence of wrongdoing is plain to read, and sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending it's not there isn't going to make it go away.
-jcr