You can hold a piece of plutonium or americium in your hand and the radiation won't penetrate past your dead skin cells, so it could be called 'safe' purely from an emitted radiation standpoint, but inhale a microscopic dust particle of the stuff, and you will die. So these substances are not safe in that respect.
An earthquake that would kill 50000 in Iran, would produce only 6 or 7 deaths in California.
The same earthquake in New York City would probably cause much more damage than it would even in Iran. Even though there has never been a large earthquake in New York City, it *is* possible. That's why I believe Californians have less to worry about from earthquakes than those on the east coast where building codes do not require anti-earthquake measures.
It's a 100 yr old drug that is already approved to treat *SOME* illness. Therefore somebody must make it already for that other purpose. Doctors can prescribe drugs for purposes other than that for which they were designed. They don't need anyone's permission. So where's the issue?
I got a rather large set of blocks for X-mas when I was a kid made by Tyco. They were even 100% compatible with Lego, had lots of generic pieces and even some 'specialty pieces' I dumped them into my regular legos and never noticed any quality difference. I don't know if Tyco still makes them or if they lost an IP war with Lego, but it would seem any patents lego had should have run out by now. If not, it should be easy enough to come up with something similar but different enough to avoid a lawsuit that could leave lego in the dust.
Yes. Price. Legos are really cool, but they have always been way overpriced. They are lil' plastic blocks. They should be like 10 bucks for a five gallon pail of them, not 40 bucks for three handfuls.
Doubt they could involve all of mission control etc without a mole. More likely, the landing site is somewhere inside Area 51. Filters are placed on the lenses to make the sky and ground look funny. Coffee breaks are timed so as to shave off the time difference between the martian day and the earth day, though after a while we'd be out of sync. Maybe they put a big white dome over the area and have it illuminated with mercury vapor lamps. The site may have been the government's experimental/medical marijuana farm before it was hastily converted to a 'landing site'
It's tied to the landing pad. Supposedly 'explosive knives' are gonna cut the cables. But you and I know that it usually takes 3 or 4 'Estes solar ignitors' to get anything to light. It's gonna be a dud.
Wouldn't you feel silly having spent billions upon billions of dollars to build your lunar helium 3 mine and then having a method of fusion developed a few years later that did not require helium 3?
Though I think he is an idiot for other reasons, I don't think it's possible to become president of the U.S. without political smarts. Proposing something popular with a minority that will certainly get quashed might get him the votes of those for whom 'going to the moon and to mars' is their most important issue. Since it is almost certain to be quashed, it won't become a contentious election issue either as long as he is vague and does not put a money value on it that can be paraded around in the press. ( eg Bush wants to spend 500 billion on a trip to mars while is being cut )
Going to mars is WAY too expensive to even consider. Fuggeddabouwdit. At least until we have something better than rockets. There aren't going to be any spin off technologies because the basic technology for space travel using rockets has already been invented. Spending that amount of money in an attempt to force something better than rockets to be developed ( by throwing money at it ) might be justified, but I bet that anything you could discover by throwing money at a problem would just have fallen into your lap for a $1.95 worth of radio shack parts in 10-15 years anyway.
A base on the moon is as pointless as the space station. The space station turkey is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist. Why repeat the same mistake by building an even bigger money sucking hole on the moon?
There are people, 'astro-nuts', who are really energetic about anything 'cool' that involves space. They would fund manned-space-exploration related stuff at war-on-iraq levels every year.
What these people really want is for their universe to be more star-trek like. They want to go to outer space themselves in their lifetime.
If this is what you want then why not steer your enthusiasm away from big budget turkey projects that will only allow you to live your dream vicariously through images of floating dudes in orange suits on TV? If you think the government should spend other people's money to further that goal ( and I have no problem with lobbying gub'mint to spend other people's tax money on things they may not want to fund since other people lobby government to spend my tax money on stuff I don't want to fund. ) Why not support spending money on things that are likely to make space travel possible for you personally? There are many things in the running: Lightcraft, Space Elevators, Woodward-impulse drives, Pure physics research that may come up with a new and unexpected breakthrough at any time.
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Yeah, without international cooperation, we wouldn't have a space station in orbit at all. And that would be a good thing.
Regular expressions ( using mathematical definition ) are not turing complete. They can only be used to specify regular languages. But the 'Regex' packages of the world are far more powerful. I do not know if perl's is turing complete but I wouldn't be suprised..
You need a car. Honk your horn and she gets in your car. Then you drive to a secluded spot on the grass. Stop. Then the car starts rocking - your health goes up and your money goes down. When your health reaches 125 she gets out. Then you should kill and steal back all the money you spent getting laid to supercharge your health to 125 points ( normal max health is 100 )
Yes it is acceptable. Computer games are no different from cartoons. The Hentai animation from Japan is as bad as GTA yet more explicit, and we allow that. Who would argue that just because 'Legend of the Overfiend' is a cartoon, that it is made for kids?
And cartoons are not a far throw from comic books which are not a far throw from regular books.
You can ban games from being sold to minors, but you can't ban them from adults. Or put it this way: If you took my copy of GTA Vice City away I would be very pissed since it is the main reason I bought a Playstation 2.
Never done it crosseyed. Tried, but never saw 3D. I can see it paralell though. What I have to do is stick the palm of my hand between my eyes, That way, the only way the images can come into focus is when I am looking at them paralelly ( is that a word? )
Most people are born with the smarts you speak of, but what they use it on is a personal choice. Some people get the same thrill out of attaining the strategic position neccesary to extract money from others - some from solving nuclear physics problems. Same intelligence, different applications. Some use it to get laid.
But seriously, this is about the cost of three or four space shuttle missions. The choice is ours: Study how ants build colonies in zero G for this price, or discover earth like planets around other stars..
There may be something to that. Most cigarrettes put urea or ammonia in the tobacco to raise the PH. At a high PH, the nicotine assumes the free-base form which is more quickly absorbed. The same trick ( using baking soda instead of dried piss to raise the PH ) is used to turn cocaine into the more potent and addictive crack form.
I started smoking a few years ago with cigars. At first I would puff one once in a while because it was something to do with my friends. I would not inhale ( who the hell inhales cigars anyway? - Ouch! )
I did enjoy cigars. I did eventually form a habit for them. Basically any chemical you ingest that you enjoy is habit forming since once you learn that in certain situations a substance can make you feel better, it takes willpower to not ingest that substance when it is available in those situations.
Tobacco to smoke can make you less bored when 'hanging out' aka 'listening to boring people jabber'.
A Pepsi can make you cool and refreshed on a hot summer day, or cleanse your mouth with bubbles after some food. One could say I am addicted to Pepsi too. Water will meet my biological needs but soda is more refreshing.
I felt my addiction begin with cigars. I could feel the mild 'nic-fit' feelings I had at the time. I didn't know if this was as bad as a nic fit could get or not, but I didn't think it was *THAT* bad. I tested whether or notI could quit or not. After a day the 'nic-fit' feeling went away. Soon, nicotine's effect was gone without a trace. Downtime still exists. Not hungry but wanna take the eyes off the screen for a while at lunch anyway. I'll just go outside and smoke a cigar. It's winter? I'd sit in the car and listen to the radio smoking a cigar.
After the thrill of quitting successfully would wear off, I'd be bored and realize that there was no 'nic-fit' 'compelling' me to want to smoke. But I was bored, and could enjoy a cigar or a pipe and it wouldn't be that bad. I stayed away from cigarrettes at the time because I didn't want to inhale or mess up my lungs. A couple or three cigars a day or even a pack of 8 Backwoods Wild Rum Flavored if I happened to be bored and was 'hanging out' with a bunch other smokers wouldn't give me mouth cancer. Or it might, but I was willing to take that small chance for the added pleasure it gave my life.
Let me clarify: 'Hanging out' is boring - not constantly, but with many periods of boredom in there. Boredom and natural restlessness - not peer pressure is what makes the tobacco intake go up in a crowd. Smokers generally don't give a damn if you smoke ciggarettes or not.
'Ciggarettes' is the operative word. Smokers won't care if you smoke a cigarrette, but they often object to a stinky cigar or pipe. I was a cigar smoker 'hanging out' his friends who was not inconsiderate enough to light up a stogie. I was bored, restless and slightly nic-fitting, of course I would pick up a pack of camels on a beer run.
Wow! Ciggarettes sure are convienient! You can smoke em lots of places you can't light a cigar or pipe. Maybe they don't have the flavor of gourmet tobaccos but they are still something to do when there is nothing else to do. You have to smoke like a chimny though to have enough smoke coat your mouth to get a relaxing buzz and that's expensive! Have to start inhaling... Oh well there go my lungs... But I've been known to smoke a joint now and then. If I only use cigarettes at those social times when I might smoke a joint then that's once-in-a-while and isn't likely to cause the health problems associated with chronic smoking. I don't like pot that much though. Haven't smoked it in about 6 months and wouldn't miss it if I never smoked it again in my life.. I don't like being impared. Rather smoke a ciggarette.
Gee these cigarette things are potent. I smoke one and it gives quite a buzz.
Notice nic-fits in no-smoking zones are getting a bit worse. Better try quitting again. Can't concentrate for a day, but then all better. Yup still ca
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A 'Barelysolid'. Supersolid sounds like it is only vulnerable to Kryptonite or something.
You can hold a piece of plutonium or americium in your hand and the radiation won't penetrate past your dead skin cells, so it could be called 'safe' purely from an emitted radiation standpoint, but inhale a microscopic dust particle of the stuff, and you will die. So these substances are not safe in that respect.
And windy as hell.. Yeah, the boogers froze alright.
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They should see if mussels can attach to vaseline
An earthquake that would kill 50000 in Iran, would produce only 6 or 7 deaths in California.
The same earthquake in New York City would probably cause much more damage than it would even in Iran. Even though there has never been a large earthquake in New York City, it *is* possible. That's why I believe Californians have less to worry about from earthquakes than those on the east coast where building codes do not require anti-earthquake measures.
It's a 100 yr old drug that is already approved to treat *SOME* illness. Therefore somebody must make it already for that other purpose. Doctors can prescribe drugs for purposes other than that for which they were designed. They don't need anyone's permission. So where's the issue?
I got a rather large set of blocks for X-mas when I was a kid made by Tyco. They were even 100% compatible with Lego, had lots of generic pieces and even some 'specialty pieces' I dumped them into my regular legos and never noticed any quality difference. I don't know if Tyco still makes them or if they lost an IP war with Lego, but it would seem any patents lego had should have run out by now. If not, it should be easy enough to come up with something similar but different enough to avoid a lawsuit that could leave lego in the dust.
Yes. Price. Legos are really cool, but they have always been way overpriced. They are lil' plastic blocks. They should be like 10 bucks for a five gallon pail of them, not 40 bucks for three handfuls.
Doubt they could involve all of mission control etc without a mole. More likely, the landing site is somewhere inside Area 51. Filters are placed on the lenses to make the sky and ground look funny. Coffee breaks are timed so as to shave off the time difference between the martian day and the earth day, though after a while we'd be out of sync. Maybe they put a big white dome over the area and have it illuminated with mercury vapor lamps. The site may have been the government's experimental/medical marijuana farm before it was hastily converted to a 'landing site'
It's tied to the landing pad. Supposedly 'explosive knives' are gonna cut the cables. But you and I know that it usually takes 3 or 4 'Estes solar ignitors' to get anything to light. It's gonna be a dud.
Wouldn't you feel silly having spent billions upon billions of dollars to build your lunar helium 3 mine and then having a method of fusion developed a few years later that did not require helium 3?
They should have shot off MPL again instead. That one would have been more intersting. Then we'd have pictures of - ice!
Going to mars is WAY too expensive to even consider. Fuggeddabouwdit. At least until we have something better than rockets. There aren't going to be any spin off technologies because the basic technology for space travel using rockets has already been invented. Spending that amount of money in an attempt to force something better than rockets to be developed ( by throwing money at it ) might be justified, but I bet that anything you could discover by throwing money at a problem would just have fallen into your lap for a $1.95 worth of radio shack parts in 10-15 years anyway.
A base on the moon is as pointless as the space station. The space station turkey is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist. Why repeat the same mistake by building an even bigger money sucking hole on the moon?
There are people, 'astro-nuts', who are really energetic about anything 'cool' that involves space. They would fund manned-space-exploration related stuff at war-on-iraq levels every year.
What these people really want is for their universe to be more star-trek like. They want to go to outer space themselves in their lifetime.
If this is what you want then why not steer your enthusiasm away from big budget turkey projects that will only allow you to live your dream vicariously through images of floating dudes in orange suits on TV? If you think the government should spend other people's money to further that goal ( and I have no problem with lobbying gub'mint to spend other people's tax money on things they may not want to fund since other people lobby government to spend my tax money on stuff I don't want to fund. ) Why not support spending money on things that are likely to make space travel possible for you personally? There are many things in the running: Lightcraft, Space Elevators, Woodward-impulse drives, Pure physics research that may come up with a new and unexpected breakthrough at any time.
Yeah, without international cooperation, we wouldn't have a space station in orbit at all. And that would be a good thing.
Regular expressions ( using mathematical definition ) are not turing complete. They can only be used to specify regular languages. But the 'Regex' packages of the world are far more powerful. I do not know if perl's is turing complete but I wouldn't be suprised..
You need a car. Honk your horn and she gets in your car. Then you drive to a secluded spot on the grass. Stop. Then the car starts rocking - your health goes up and your money goes down. When your health reaches 125 she gets out. Then you should kill and steal back all the money you spent getting laid to supercharge your health to 125 points ( normal max health is 100 )
And cartoons are not a far throw from comic books which are not a far throw from regular books.
You can ban games from being sold to minors, but you can't ban them from adults. Or put it this way: If you took my copy of GTA Vice City away I would be very pissed since it is the main reason I bought a Playstation 2.
You can write an infinite loop in alot of regexp packages. They would have to have a way of detecting that ( or a very inefficiently written regexp )
Never done it crosseyed. Tried, but never saw 3D. I can see it paralell though. What I have to do is stick the palm of my hand between my eyes, That way, the only way the images can come into focus is when I am looking at them paralelly ( is that a word? )
Most people are born with the smarts you speak of, but what they use it on is a personal choice. Some people get the same thrill out of attaining the strategic position neccesary to extract money from others - some from solving nuclear physics problems. Same intelligence, different applications. Some use it to get laid.
But seriously, this is about the cost of three or four space shuttle missions. The choice is ours: Study how ants build colonies in zero G for this price, or discover earth like planets around other stars..
Could it be that it actually produces 1.21 GW and the value was merely rounded down?
Could it be used to power a Delorian?
Isn't safari just a spinoff of konqueror anyway???
I started smoking a few years ago with cigars. At first I would puff one once in a while because it was something to do with my friends. I would not inhale ( who the hell inhales cigars anyway? - Ouch! )
I did enjoy cigars. I did eventually form a habit for them. Basically any chemical you ingest that you enjoy is habit forming since once you learn that in certain situations a substance can make you feel better, it takes willpower to not ingest that substance when it is available in those situations.
Tobacco to smoke can make you less bored when 'hanging out' aka 'listening to boring people jabber'.
A Pepsi can make you cool and refreshed on a hot summer day, or cleanse your mouth with bubbles after some food. One could say I am addicted to Pepsi too. Water will meet my biological needs but soda is more refreshing.
I felt my addiction begin with cigars. I could feel the mild 'nic-fit' feelings I had at the time. I didn't know if this was as bad as a nic fit could get or not, but I didn't think it was *THAT* bad. I tested whether or notI could quit or not. After a day the 'nic-fit' feeling went away. Soon, nicotine's effect was gone without a trace. Downtime still exists. Not hungry but wanna take the eyes off the screen for a while at lunch anyway. I'll just go outside and smoke a cigar. It's winter? I'd sit in the car and listen to the radio smoking a cigar.
After the thrill of quitting successfully would wear off, I'd be bored and realize that there was no 'nic-fit' 'compelling' me to want to smoke. But I was bored, and could enjoy a cigar or a pipe and it wouldn't be that bad. I stayed away from cigarrettes at the time because I didn't want to inhale or mess up my lungs. A couple or three cigars a day or even a pack of 8 Backwoods Wild Rum Flavored if I happened to be bored and was 'hanging out' with a bunch other smokers wouldn't give me mouth cancer. Or it might, but I was willing to take that small chance for the added pleasure it gave my life.
Let me clarify: 'Hanging out' is boring - not constantly, but with many periods of boredom in there. Boredom and natural restlessness - not peer pressure is what makes the tobacco intake go up in a crowd. Smokers generally don't give a damn if you smoke ciggarettes or not.
'Ciggarettes' is the operative word. Smokers won't care if you smoke a cigarrette, but they often object to a stinky cigar or pipe. I was a cigar smoker 'hanging out' his friends who was not inconsiderate enough to light up a stogie. I was bored, restless and slightly nic-fitting, of course I would pick up a pack of camels on a beer run.
Wow! Ciggarettes sure are convienient! You can smoke em lots of places you can't light a cigar or pipe. Maybe they don't have the flavor of gourmet tobaccos but they are still something to do when there is nothing else to do. You have to smoke like a chimny though to have enough smoke coat your mouth to get a relaxing buzz and that's expensive! Have to start inhaling... Oh well there go my lungs... But I've been known to smoke a joint now and then. If I only use cigarettes at those social times when I might smoke a joint then that's once-in-a-while and isn't likely to cause the health problems associated with chronic smoking. I don't like pot that much though. Haven't smoked it in about 6 months and wouldn't miss it if I never smoked it again in my life.. I don't like being impared. Rather smoke a ciggarette.
Gee these cigarette things are potent. I smoke one and it gives quite a buzz.
Notice nic-fits in no-smoking zones are getting a bit worse. Better try quitting again. Can't concentrate for a day, but then all better. Yup still ca