Either I'm getting older and am becoming more aware of ideas or there is a growing idealistic movement these days which suggests humans are like viruses. It goes something like this: we spread, take over and destroy. Like the comedian Joe Rogan explains, you can see it from an airplane as you look down and see how our cities resemble bacteria spreading. My first reaction was to recoil at this idea but the more I thought, the more I believed that this maybe isn't necessarily wrong. But so what? Even if it's in our nature, we still love and dream. We are what we are and have every right to live out life just as the universe continues to be our home.
The only thing that sucks is that they didn't deploy the pterodactyl recovery force. Raise your POW flags gentlemen. Those brave squirrels deserve the support of their nation!
Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional liberal minority and by the mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Forgive my ignorance. Could someone explain to me whether the Internet2 is compatible (protocol wise) with the current Internet? In other words, will I be able to port into the Internet2 when it becomes more readily available?
It works! I'm sending this message from the future to prove to all you non-believers that our experiment is/was a success! Don't believe me? Just wait, you'll see!
1) find a black hole 50,000 light years away
2) build a telescope big enough to see Earth at 100,000 light years distance
3) look at the edge of the black hole, using it as a mirror to reflect back the light that left Earth 100,000 years ago
Awww, yes -- Cuba. I forgot about all those advances in medical research and complex medical procedures. I wonder if their cutting edge medical equipment compares with their 1950's era automobiles.
I'm afraid we think differently -- you and I. I have no problem with pharm companies researching Viagra because their profits will be used to find the next cure to malaria twice as fast as a researcher who works half as slow in the public sector (because there's no incentive to find the cure quickly). That's just my opinion and we'll have to agree to disagree, I guess.:)
The problem with what you suggest is that once you make this public system, someone will start a company and use their profits to pay the best public researcher more money to work for them. The reason capitolism works is because of competition and incentive. In a public scenario, there's no incentive to work hard. Your checks will always be there and you'll live a modest life and have a modest retirement fund. People aren't like that though. It's more appealing for someone to work for the private sector when they'll make twice as much and there's the chance that hard work and a little luck could spell wealth.
WEALTH = HARDER WORK = MORE DRUGS = MORE LIVES SAVED
Never in the history of the world has a public system out performed a private/free market system. Never! In fact, I could name a lot of public societies that faulter (i.e. USSR and Cuba). The reason is because of incentive. No one wants to work hard when there's no reward. That's human nature.
Stop, slow down and think. Everyone's first reaction is to steal the drugs/patents because it's in the name of life and death. But when the dust settles, what's really going on is you're cheating the very system that developed the drugs in the first place. True humanitarianism is when you coddle what works (a system that provides incentives for people and companies to develop new drugs) that which provides the benefit of saving lives.
It's no different than saying to yourself at midnight in a smoky bar, "I've had 5 beers. 1 more would make me feel so good" and not taking into consideration the hang over if you drink that one more.
There is no reason to track people in Venezuela because there is no crime in Venezuela. Venezuela is perfect. Venezuela is a utopian society. There is nothing to see here. Move along.
How can you explain the recent same climate changes on different planets? I doubt it's all those cars being driven there.
4.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined (source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/i ndex.html)
Is it possible that the warmer temperatures that Earth is experiencing are caused by cyclical natural phenomena? What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years (source: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/21/060821191 826.o0mynclv.html [breitbart.com])? Also, how do you explain huge ice ages on Earth? Were these caused by huge carbon emissions or was it a small natural climate cycle that just happens? Were those climate changes, which are no doubt more extreme than what's going on now, caused by the combustion engine? I don't have answers and everyone seems to have an opinion including a Nobel laureate who says the answer is more pollution (source: http://reports.discoverychannel.ca/servlet/an/disc overy/1/20061117/discovery_pollutionsolution_06111 7/20061117?hub=DiscoveryReport)
One last thing. Lets say we all buy into the fact that we're causing the climate change through CO2. Regardless of what actions we (America) take, China will still produce more CO2 than anyone because they want to get rich. There's no stopping it folks.
Here are some facts about global warming. Some of which you hear and don't hear from the main stream media:
1.) The world appears to be getting warmer with many computer models showing an increase in global temperature.
2.) Tying a trend to warmer temperatures based on older data from the early 1900's is suspect at best. Good, reliable, accurate scientific equipment that measures the temperature wasn't readily available until recently (late 1900's).
3.) Apparently, the Earth magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 150 years (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/earth_magnet ic_031212.html). I'm an electrical engineer and during my studies in particle physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be affected by magnetic fields. I believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetosphere ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_fiel d ) due to it being weaker. If more radiation hits the Earth, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be attributed to this?
4.) Jupitor is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_j r.html [space.com])
5.) Mars is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/ mars_snow_011206-1.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=410901&in_page_id=1770)
How can you explain the recent same climate changes on different planets? I doubt it's all those cars being driven there.
6.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined (source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/i ndex.html)
Is it possible that the warmer temperatures that Earth is experiencing are caused by cyclical natural phenomena? What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years (source: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/21/060821191 826.o0mynclv.html [breitbart.com])? Also, how do you explain huge ice ages on Earth? Were these caused by huge carbon emissions or was it a small natural climate cycle that just happens? Were those climate changes, which are no doubt more extreme than what's going on now, caused by the combustion engine? I don't have answers and everyone seems to have an opinion including a Nobel laureate who says the answer is more pollution (source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11/16/smog.wa rming.ap/index.html)
One last thing. Lets say we all buy into the fact that we're causing the climate change through CO2. Regardless of what actions we (America) take, China will still produce more CO2 than anyone because they want to get rich. There's no stopping it folks.
Too many limits on free markets has historically led to socialism which results in a weak economy. 1 in 5 Europeans live below the poverty line right now. In my opinion, this is their socialist policies catching up with them. It's important to tred lightly on this issue.
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Either I'm getting older and am becoming more aware of ideas or there is a growing idealistic movement these days which suggests humans are like viruses. It goes something like this: we spread, take over and destroy. Like the comedian Joe Rogan explains, you can see it from an airplane as you look down and see how our cities resemble bacteria spreading. My first reaction was to recoil at this idea but the more I thought, the more I believed that this maybe isn't necessarily wrong. But so what? Even if it's in our nature, we still love and dream. We are what we are and have every right to live out life just as the universe continues to be our home.
Glu? No way man. They had to have used staples.
The only thing that sucks is that they didn't deploy the pterodactyl recovery force. Raise your POW flags gentlemen. Those brave squirrels deserve the support of their nation!
Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional liberal
minority and by the mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition
that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Communism
It depends on the gate threshold value of the transistor.
Forgive my ignorance. Could someone explain to me whether the Internet2 is compatible (protocol wise) with the current Internet? In other words, will I be able to port into the Internet2 when it becomes more readily available?
It works! I'm sending this message from the future to prove to all you non-believers that our experiment is/was a success! Don't believe me? Just wait, you'll see!
Yes sir, I watch Lost on TV because it's the best show I've ever seen.
On the other hand, the true test is:
1) find a black hole 50,000 light years away
2) build a telescope big enough to see Earth at 100,000 light years distance
3) look at the edge of the black hole, using it as a mirror to reflect back the light that left Earth 100,000 years ago
Is this possible?!?
Best news all day. I could watch new Star Wars forever just as long as Jar Jars not in it.
Awww, yes -- Cuba. I forgot about all those advances in medical research and complex medical procedures. I wonder if their cutting edge medical equipment compares with their 1950's era automobiles.
I'm afraid we think differently -- you and I. I have no problem with pharm companies researching Viagra because their profits will be used to find the next cure to malaria twice as fast as a researcher who works half as slow in the public sector (because there's no incentive to find the cure quickly). That's just my opinion and we'll have to agree to disagree, I guess. :)
The problem with what you suggest is that once you make this public system, someone will start a company and use their profits to pay the best public researcher more money to work for them. The reason capitolism works is because of competition and incentive. In a public scenario, there's no incentive to work hard. Your checks will always be there and you'll live a modest life and have a modest retirement fund. People aren't like that though. It's more appealing for someone to work for the private sector when they'll make twice as much and there's the chance that hard work and a little luck could spell wealth.
WEALTH = HARDER WORK = MORE DRUGS = MORE LIVES SAVED
Never in the history of the world has a public system out performed a private/free market system. Never! In fact, I could name a lot of public societies that faulter (i.e. USSR and Cuba). The reason is because of incentive. No one wants to work hard when there's no reward. That's human nature.
Stop, slow down and think. Everyone's first reaction is to steal the drugs/patents because it's in the name of life and death. But when the dust settles, what's really going on is you're cheating the very system that developed the drugs in the first place. True humanitarianism is when you coddle what works (a system that provides incentives for people and companies to develop new drugs) that which provides the benefit of saving lives.
It's no different than saying to yourself at midnight in a smoky bar, "I've had 5 beers. 1 more would make me feel so good" and not taking into consideration the hang over if you drink that one more.
Maybe the media laughs because there's not substantial evidence to support such an action.
There is no reason to track people in Venezuela because there is no crime in Venezuela. Venezuela is perfect. Venezuela is a utopian society. There is nothing to see here. Move along.
This is the best post I've ever read on Slashdot!
Outsourcing R&D is a horrible idea. It's our strong suit not to mention our last line of defense against cheap foreign labor.
Here are some facts about global warming. Some of which you hear and don't hear from the main stream media:
t ic_031212.html). I'm an electrical engineer and during my studies in particle physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be affected by magnetic fields. I believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetosphere ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_fiel d ) due to it being weaker. If more radiation hits the Earth, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be attributed to this? j r.html [space.com])/ mars_snow_011206-1.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=410901&in_page_id=1770)
i ndex.html)
1 826.o0mynclv.html [breitbart.com])? Also, how do you explain huge ice ages on Earth? Were these caused by huge carbon emissions or was it a small natural climate cycle that just happens? Were those climate changes, which are no doubt more extreme than what's going on now, caused by the combustion engine? I don't have answers and everyone seems to have an opinion including a Nobel laureate who says the answer is more pollution (source: http://reports.discoverychannel.ca/servlet/an/disc overy/1/20061117/discovery_pollutionsolution_06111 7/20061117?hub=DiscoveryReport)
1.) Apparently, the Earth magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 150 years (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/earth_magne
2.) Jupitor is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_
3.) Mars is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem
How can you explain the recent same climate changes on different planets? I doubt it's all those cars being driven there.
4.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined (source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/
Is it possible that the warmer temperatures that Earth is experiencing are caused by cyclical natural phenomena? What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years (source: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/21/06082119
One last thing. Lets say we all buy into the fact that we're causing the climate change through CO2. Regardless of what actions we (America) take, China will still produce more CO2 than anyone because they want to get rich. There's no stopping it folks.
Here are some facts about global warming. Some of which you hear and don't hear from the main stream media:
t ic_031212.html). I'm an electrical engineer and during my studies in particle physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be affected by magnetic fields. I believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetosphere ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_fiel d ) due to it being weaker. If more radiation hits the Earth, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be attributed to this? j r.html [space.com])/ mars_snow_011206-1.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=410901&in_page_id=1770)
i ndex.html)
1 826.o0mynclv.html [breitbart.com])? Also, how do you explain huge ice ages on Earth? Were these caused by huge carbon emissions or was it a small natural climate cycle that just happens? Were those climate changes, which are no doubt more extreme than what's going on now, caused by the combustion engine? I don't have answers and everyone seems to have an opinion including a Nobel laureate who says the answer is more pollution (source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11/16/smog.wa rming.ap/index.html)
1.) The world appears to be getting warmer with many computer models showing an increase in global temperature.
2.) Tying a trend to warmer temperatures based on older data from the early 1900's is suspect at best. Good, reliable, accurate scientific equipment that measures the temperature wasn't readily available until recently (late 1900's).
3.) Apparently, the Earth magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 150 years (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/earth_magne
4.) Jupitor is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_
5.) Mars is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem
How can you explain the recent same climate changes on different planets? I doubt it's all those cars being driven there.
6.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined (source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/
Is it possible that the warmer temperatures that Earth is experiencing are caused by cyclical natural phenomena? What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years (source: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/21/06082119
One last thing. Lets say we all buy into the fact that we're causing the climate change through CO2. Regardless of what actions we (America) take, China will still produce more CO2 than anyone because they want to get rich. There's no stopping it folks.
This article has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
Free markets work because it provides incentive for individuals and companies to do great things. Great things equates to a benefit for all.
Too many limits on free markets has historically led to socialism which results in a weak economy. 1 in 5 Europeans live below the poverty line right now. In my opinion, this is their socialist policies catching up with them. It's important to tred lightly on this issue.
I can't wait for Halo 3 beta. When beta is over, I'll be using crackdown as a coaster. Crackdown sucks.
You keep telling yourself San Fran and its school system isn't left wing. Say, "hello" to Santa Clause for me while you're at it.