I think most 'fuel-cell hydrocarbon extraction research' is in the area of extracting hydrogen from Methane, which doesn't come from the Middle East. It's made right here in the good 'ol USA...TOOT!...see, I just made some.
Plus you can make it from decaying stuff. Bacteria produce methane from metabolic processes. Cook up a big vat of those...throw in some food, and collect the gas that comes out of the 'brew'. Hell I could concievably have one in my garage. I just throw my organic garbage in it, and fill my car up with the results, all without leaving my house!
Use your brains people, hydrogen is feesable and cheap to produce...if done the right way.
I just read some speculation on the BBC that says that Pioneer 10, 11 & Voyager 1, 2 will probably outlast the Earth. When the sun goes nova in a few billion years and destroys earth, these craft could still be "floating" through space. Assuming they don't fall into stars, black holes, or come back as sentient machines intent on destroying us pesky Carbon Units.
The space-probes will be all that is left to prove that mankind ever existed.
Substitute "Eva" for "space-probes" in the sentence above...cool huh. Fuyutski and Yui were right!
He's is a prick, not a "cool geek" or whatever your talking about. He's an elitist asshole who thinks that he knows everything (see Meglomaniac). He's another George Lucas...a big kid who's afriad to play and share with others. Just because he knows what a d20 is, does not mean he would hang out with your stupid ass...and that's exactly how he looks at it. Your beneath him, everyone one is, because he is a "genius". He's not, just a "good business man". Which is actually a euphimism for "I know how to legally screw you over before they make it illegal".
And no, he doesn't give money to charity, Melinda does. He never gave shit to anybody till he got married. Bill is not a nice guy, he's an evil nerd who does not like people. You know the type I'm talking about. The guy that got picked on so much, he grows up to hate everyone and becomes a mad scientist who creates a super-bomb to blow up the world. How else would you explain MFC and win32?
Linus Torvalds is a "cool geek". He sees the value in others and shares for "fellowship of the geeks" factor. He's not out to rule the world and take the whole pie, he just wants a piece for himself and a little comfort.
Bill hates you, the world, and himself and wants your bank account, that's all he cares about. He wants to rule all electronic devices, and he's not afraid to kill people or companies to get his way. He's the Sauron of technology. Don't villify the bastard.
Does that scene have some "Fan Service"? I've only made it through disk #7. I've seen the both movies, but they only mention how Asuka ended up in a coma, not show how she got there. "Fan Service" is the best term I've ever heard for, "pay attention fanboy pervs". At least the Japanese are honest about it.
Joking aside, the alternate ending on "End of Evangelion" is the whole reason to watch the series. Anybody into catharsis?
Are those 3 japanese chicks at the beginning of "End" supposed to be Mistao, Rei, and Asuka? Cause they should've at least got actors who resembled the characters, that was the only part that had me confused me. I thought it was an extension of Shinji thinking why he should choose reality.
I'm mostly talking about the 19-28 year old women as my sterotype. Not all women. In fact, I'm looking forward to getting into my 30's, cause that's when women figure out what kinda man they want and start looking for inner qualities. Older chicks seem to actually dig the fact that I'm a geek. I guess they are secure enough that I don't embarass them with geeky antics in public.
I am mostly intimidated by the women in my age group, I think that's my biggest problem. They smell the fear, HAHAHA!
most (ignorant) men depend on a woman's opinion of another man to judge him a man.
I wasn't trying to suggest men depend on women to validate them as men, just as socially acceptable. The two are mutally exclusive. Women like to show off their man to their girlfriends. And generally, if the girlfriends think the guy is a dud, he gets the ejection seat...because he is geeky.
What if you washed the dishes in the restaraunt and were still a geek? I've had every job you can imagine; construction, fast food, office boy, factory...but I wouldn't say that made me stupid or less intelligent. It was what I could handle while working my way through college.
I also disagree with the article about what defines a geek, it's not brains or interests, it's how your rated by the opposite sex. It's not looks it's personality.
In my case, If I'm interested in things that GIRLS think are corney, then I am a geek. Jocks can call you a geek, but only a women can certify your geek status by laughing at your pathetic attempts to hook up with them. This carries over into adult life as well, which is why geeks don't go to clubs(at least I don't).
Looks will not get you geek status either, it is ALL about how you dress and behave. Ugly guys who dress fly and act confident always have chicks, so they cannot be geeks. I'm good looking enough to approach women with confidence, but after about 5 mintues of talking, the women realize I'm a geek and leave...that, and I have no game.
So even though I have been out of school for over 10 years, I am still a geek because I cannot attract the opposite sex because my personality is that of geek.
There is no hope is the point of the article I think.
"We want to remove the government and instill our own government"
It's called "regime change" and the Bush administration reiterates at every press conference that that is their goal in Iraq, not disarmarment.
Disarmarment and U.N. resolutions are just ploys to keep Eroupe and China from feeling scared of American might. We are going to invade Iraq in a couple weeks whether or not we have Eroupe's "permission" or not. It's not like anyone can stop us.
I don't mean balanced as in canceling eachother out. I mean that they compliment eachother at big scales, but at smaller scales electromagnetic force is like 1000 times stronger. It was a really bad analogy.
Most high-energy physicists are bored with the Standard Model.
Then why don't they work on m-theory?
were electromagnetic forces and gravity are balanced (sort of)
Not really.
By that I ment that at macroscopic levels (planets, humans, cars) gravity can act on electromagnetic forces(i.e. planets revolve around star), they seem to effect one another. At a particle level gravity has no effect whatsoever, they don't effect eachother with competing/balancing forces. See what I meant?
I read the first couple chapters of the Elegant Universe and now I like to post buzzwords to piss off the heads. I'm sure in like ten years I might learn enough to make some calculations, but I'm still a youngin.
It didn't take me to long to realise the point the author was trying to make though. That the universe is radically different than what the Standard Model suggests. Most people who've studied that model their whole life don't want to abandon it, because it appears to work at macroscopic levels, were electromagnetic forces and gravity are balanced (sort of). But at the particle level, gravity doesn't seem to really exist, its an effect. I may be full of shit, but it seems pretty basic to assume we are as stalled with Special Relativity as we used to be with Newtonian Physics. Time and Gravity aren't understood at a fundamental level. It requires thinking about them differently.
The still suits were made from worm hide, not cloth. The Sahara is NOT Arakas, and the arabs are not fremen. And I forgot to mention the Crysknives were made of worm teeth in the books and Lynch's movie, in the series they were metal. Just about everything the fremen had was made from either worms or spice in the books...very low tech.
I think Lynch got a lot closer to breaking paradigms in his production design and it was more elegant...very original I thought. Probably reflects budgets. It's a matter of taste I guess. I liked the book, Lynch's movie, and the series all about the same. Each one had something a little different to bring to the table.
I have this theory, that the universe has no beginning or end, and that time and gravity are just side effects of weak/strong/electromagnetic forces.
In my model, quantum energy (particles you can interact with) become dark matter (particles you can't interact with) when they lose momentum (bad analogy, but can't come up with another). Also, light has no speed limit becuase time does not exist, it is a side effect. It changes depending on were your at in the universe from the its center. And gravity is just a side effect of motion through space. "A road without a mile marker is still a road."
Everything from costume design to editing blows away David Lynch's way overdone, tacky style
The costumes were the worst part about the series. The still suits were cloth! Like that'd stand up in a sand storm...as if!
The second worst was that the Sietch walls were natural instead of carved. The book made it quite clear that the Sietch's were carved out of living rock. At least Lynch got those aspects right.
All Lynch did was change 3 things; Spice makes you fold space instead of seeing into the future, the Weirding Way was a force instead of a teaching, and Ornithopters don't have flappy wings.
I didn't really like the whole Messiah story of the first
Then your really going to dislike the rest of the books. I only got through the first 3 books. At the end of the 3rd Pauls son, Leto, becomes a god-worm...no shit. Then from what I understand, he rules the known universe for 10,000 years and then destroys mankinds space-farring ability...and dies. It's all about Messiahs. Hell, the second book is called "Dune Messiah".
Do yourself a favor and go find a book called "The Many Colored Land" by Julian May. It's 1 of 9...Easier reading than Herbert, but not lacking in the details. It's like Lord of the Rings meets Dune meets Star Wars, only better.
I went to a lot of different elementary schools, 8 alltogether. 1 yuppy, 1 getto, 6 average...and they are nothing alike in education quality.
You couldn't flunk at the getto school. Thier budget comes from the state, not property taxes. So poor academic performance(i.e. low GPA's) means less money from the state. So all students pretty much had C's or better. And I never was assigned homework. In PE, we watched movies. And all the text books were falling apart and printed in the 50's (this is middle 80's). The school was dilapidated and had very little extra-caricular activities.
At the yuppy school, they get money from property taxes. And taxes on $300,000+ homes is a lot of money...so the school had no qualms about flunking students. They also assigned homework and had new books, and everthing else you can imagine a school having (gym, playground, extra-caricular activities, band equip...etc).
Point is, your sons school budget is tied to academic performance not geography. So, they don't challenge the children to learn. This is the biggest difference between "white" schools and "minority" schools. Quality of education, IMHO, is the main factor driving racial divide.
Interestingly, at the getto school I was one of 6 white students at a school of 2000+ blacks and hispanics, and I never got picked on...not once. At the yuppy school, I got picked on daily for wearing second hand clothes. I hate rich white kids.
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Nikola Tesla Invented(discovered) radio waves. All Marconi did was figure out how to market 1-way radios to the public. He "invented" radio stations that got paid by airing advertising during radio shows. Before Marconi, 2-way radios were used for communication only, Marconi figured out how to use them for entertainment. Marconi was not an inventor, he was an entrepreneur...and the first corporate pirate...and a big bastard.
I kinda prefer the top loader to the tray. It takes up more height, but you can open and close it with the power off. Sometimes I forget to eject a disc before I power off the PS2...I hate that. My console is on the floor in front of my TV stand, so I have no disc loading height issues.
Plus, I would think it is a lot cheaper to build a top loading console than a tray based one. Smart move on Nintendo's part to get maximum profit.
I love Zelda. I buy Nintendo consoles JUST so I can play it. I bought 2 games for the N64, Zelda games, beat them, and gave the comsole to my niece and nephew.
I went dormant for 2 years and played no games, at all. I bought a Gamecube when Starfox(moan) came out a few moths ago, and got Metroid(yippy!) for holidays. I also bought the PS2 recently for DVD/Gaming. The Gamecube has better sound and graphics. The realtime hair in Starfox had me staring at the title screen for a few minutes the first time.
Nintendo pushes the edge of gaming while others walk the edge. Nintendo games have always set the bar for everyone else. 2 words...Shigeru Miyamoto.
I saw an Xbox once at my cousin's. Couldn't get over the size of it. Good graphics...shitty console IMHO.
leaves strategic buildings intact for use by the bomb's owner.
I was under the impression that the Neutron Bomb was created exactly for this purpose. It sends out a massive wave of radiation killing all living things within a radius, and leaving all the buildings and infastructure behind. They are illegal under convention I think.
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I just discovered the weirdest bug ever. I've tested it with NT4sp6 and win2Ksp2.
Try creating or renaming any file or your system to con.* * could be anything like.html.jpg.txt. The OS won't let you, it'll give an error. NT and 2K give different error mesasages. Under NT it just says the name is used already. Under 2K it says it's a reserved device name.
Oil and Coal are made of dead trees and animals. The Oceans absorb a lot of co2 as well. The earth can handle the co2. It's the Monoxide, Sulfer, and Nitrogen that are the real problem.
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Plus you can make it from decaying stuff. Bacteria produce methane from metabolic processes. Cook up a big vat of those...throw in some food, and collect the gas that comes out of the 'brew'. Hell I could concievably have one in my garage. I just throw my organic garbage in it, and fill my car up with the results, all without leaving my house!
Use your brains people, hydrogen is feesable and cheap to produce...if done the right way.
The space-probes will be all that is left to prove that mankind ever existed.
Substitute "Eva" for "space-probes" in the sentence above...cool huh. Fuyutski and Yui were right!
And no, he doesn't give money to charity, Melinda does. He never gave shit to anybody till he got married. Bill is not a nice guy, he's an evil nerd who does not like people. You know the type I'm talking about. The guy that got picked on so much, he grows up to hate everyone and becomes a mad scientist who creates a super-bomb to blow up the world. How else would you explain MFC and win32?
Linus Torvalds is a "cool geek". He sees the value in others and shares for "fellowship of the geeks" factor. He's not out to rule the world and take the whole pie, he just wants a piece for himself and a little comfort.
Bill hates you, the world, and himself and wants your bank account, that's all he cares about. He wants to rule all electronic devices, and he's not afraid to kill people or companies to get his way. He's the Sauron of technology. Don't villify the bastard.
Joking aside, the alternate ending on "End of Evangelion" is the whole reason to watch the series. Anybody into catharsis?
Are those 3 japanese chicks at the beginning of "End" supposed to be Mistao, Rei, and Asuka? Cause they should've at least got actors who resembled the characters, that was the only part that had me confused me. I thought it was an extension of Shinji thinking why he should choose reality.
I am mostly intimidated by the women in my age group, I think that's my biggest problem. They smell the fear, HAHAHA!
Wil has a posse!
I wasn't trying to suggest men depend on women to validate them as men, just as socially acceptable. The two are mutally exclusive. Women like to show off their man to their girlfriends. And generally, if the girlfriends think the guy is a dud, he gets the ejection seat...because he is geeky.
I also disagree with the article about what defines a geek, it's not brains or interests, it's how your rated by the opposite sex. It's not looks it's personality.
In my case, If I'm interested in things that GIRLS think are corney, then I am a geek. Jocks can call you a geek, but only a women can certify your geek status by laughing at your pathetic attempts to hook up with them. This carries over into adult life as well, which is why geeks don't go to clubs(at least I don't).
Looks will not get you geek status either, it is ALL about how you dress and behave. Ugly guys who dress fly and act confident always have chicks, so they cannot be geeks. I'm good looking enough to approach women with confidence, but after about 5 mintues of talking, the women realize I'm a geek and leave...that, and I have no game.
So even though I have been out of school for over 10 years, I am still a geek because I cannot attract the opposite sex because my personality is that of geek.
There is no hope is the point of the article I think.
It's called "regime change" and the Bush administration reiterates at every press conference that that is their goal in Iraq, not disarmarment.
Disarmarment and U.N. resolutions are just ploys to keep Eroupe and China from feeling scared of American might. We are going to invade Iraq in a couple weeks whether or not we have Eroupe's "permission" or not. It's not like anyone can stop us.
I don't mean balanced as in canceling eachother out. I mean that they compliment eachother at big scales, but at smaller scales electromagnetic force is like 1000 times stronger. It was a really bad analogy.
Then why don't they work on m-theory?
were electromagnetic forces and gravity are balanced (sort of)
Not really.
By that I ment that at macroscopic levels (planets, humans, cars) gravity can act on electromagnetic forces(i.e. planets revolve around star), they seem to effect one another. At a particle level gravity has no effect whatsoever, they don't effect eachother with competing/balancing forces. See what I meant?
And let's face it, the pink frosting makes it easier to swallow.
It didn't take me to long to realise the point the author was trying to make though. That the universe is radically different than what the Standard Model suggests. Most people who've studied that model their whole life don't want to abandon it, because it appears to work at macroscopic levels, were electromagnetic forces and gravity are balanced (sort of). But at the particle level, gravity doesn't seem to really exist, its an effect. I may be full of shit, but it seems pretty basic to assume we are as stalled with Special Relativity as we used to be with Newtonian Physics. Time and Gravity aren't understood at a fundamental level. It requires thinking about them differently.
I think Lynch got a lot closer to breaking paradigms in his production design and it was more elegant...very original I thought. Probably reflects budgets. It's a matter of taste I guess. I liked the book, Lynch's movie, and the series all about the same. Each one had something a little different to bring to the table.
In my model, quantum energy (particles you can interact with) become dark matter (particles you can't interact with) when they lose momentum (bad analogy, but can't come up with another). Also, light has no speed limit becuase time does not exist, it is a side effect. It changes depending on were your at in the universe from the its center. And gravity is just a side effect of motion through space. "A road without a mile marker is still a road."
To hell with the Standard Model!
The costumes were the worst part about the series. The still suits were cloth! Like that'd stand up in a sand storm...as if!
The second worst was that the Sietch walls were natural instead of carved. The book made it quite clear that the Sietch's were carved out of living rock. At least Lynch got those aspects right.
All Lynch did was change 3 things; Spice makes you fold space instead of seeing into the future, the Weirding Way was a force instead of a teaching, and Ornithopters don't have flappy wings.
Then your really going to dislike the rest of the books. I only got through the first 3 books. At the end of the 3rd Pauls son, Leto, becomes a god-worm...no shit. Then from what I understand, he rules the known universe for 10,000 years and then destroys mankinds space-farring ability...and dies. It's all about Messiahs. Hell, the second book is called "Dune Messiah".
Do yourself a favor and go find a book called "The Many Colored Land" by Julian May. It's 1 of 9...Easier reading than Herbert, but not lacking in the details. It's like Lord of the Rings meets Dune meets Star Wars, only better.
You couldn't flunk at the getto school. Thier budget comes from the state, not property taxes. So poor academic performance(i.e. low GPA's) means less money from the state. So all students pretty much had C's or better. And I never was assigned homework. In PE, we watched movies. And all the text books were falling apart and printed in the 50's (this is middle 80's). The school was dilapidated and had very little extra-caricular activities.
At the yuppy school, they get money from property taxes. And taxes on $300,000+ homes is a lot of money...so the school had no qualms about flunking students. They also assigned homework and had new books, and everthing else you can imagine a school having (gym, playground, extra-caricular activities, band equip...etc).
Point is, your sons school budget is tied to academic performance not geography. So, they don't challenge the children to learn. This is the biggest difference between "white" schools and "minority" schools. Quality of education, IMHO, is the main factor driving racial divide.
Interestingly, at the getto school I was one of 6 white students at a school of 2000+ blacks and hispanics, and I never got picked on...not once. At the yuppy school, I got picked on daily for wearing second hand clothes. I hate rich white kids.
Nikola Tesla Invented(discovered) radio waves. All Marconi did was figure out how to market 1-way radios to the public. He "invented" radio stations that got paid by airing advertising during radio shows. Before Marconi, 2-way radios were used for communication only, Marconi figured out how to use them for entertainment. Marconi was not an inventor, he was an entrepreneur...and the first corporate pirate...and a big bastard.
Plus, I would think it is a lot cheaper to build a top loading console than a tray based one. Smart move on Nintendo's part to get maximum profit.
Be glad I didn't go with the instinctive "Yippy Skippy!", ala Baby Piggy. Ah, I miss Satur(n)day Morning Cartoons.
I went dormant for 2 years and played no games, at all. I bought a Gamecube when Starfox(moan) came out a few moths ago, and got Metroid(yippy!) for holidays. I also bought the PS2 recently for DVD/Gaming. The Gamecube has better sound and graphics. The realtime hair in Starfox had me staring at the title screen for a few minutes the first time.
Nintendo pushes the edge of gaming while others walk the edge. Nintendo games have always set the bar for everyone else. 2 words...Shigeru Miyamoto.
I saw an Xbox once at my cousin's. Couldn't get over the size of it. Good graphics...shitty console IMHO.
I was under the impression that the Neutron Bomb was created exactly for this purpose. It sends out a massive wave of radiation killing all living things within a radius, and leaving all the buildings and infastructure behind. They are illegal under convention I think.
Try creating or renaming any file or your system to con.* * could be anything like .html .jpg .txt. The OS won't let you, it'll give an error. NT and 2K give different error mesasages. Under NT it just says the name is used already. Under 2K it says it's a reserved device name.
Oil and Coal are made of dead trees and animals. The Oceans absorb a lot of co2 as well. The earth can handle the co2. It's the Monoxide, Sulfer, and Nitrogen that are the real problem.