The TFA isn't confused at all, the summary on slashdot is though.
It was confused this morning. They've changed the headline since; presumably someone noticed the confusion between 'solar system' and 'galaxy' and corrected it. The/. submission preserves the original error.
... there may be hundreds of worlds in the solar system. In the Milky Way, expect trillions. The distinction between the Solar System and the Galaxy is a subtle one, similar to that between a grain of sand and Saudi Arabia, so it's easy for the likes of the BBC to confuse the two.
These guys are the next world power. America: you had a good run, but in the end it was more about SUVs and extra fries than liberty and democracy. Just think, we'll all be choking on this "harmony" and "what's good for society is good for you" shit for the next 100 years.
Don't bet on it, it won't last. China and America are dangerously codependent. If America goes down, China goes with it.
Under the rule of the next superpower, learn to like cricket and curry.
Bush's and his party are the worst threat the United States and its Constitution has ever faced.
Didn't we invade you guys once, and sack Washington, and burn down the White House? I mean, yes, Bush bad and all, but come on. Give us some credit here.
So, even if Bush is as bad as you say he is, he's doing it to protect the country. The Clintons did what they did to blackmail political enemies using the FBI as their hired thugs.
What a wonderful sleight of hand. Almost without anyone noticing, you go from Clinton to The Clintons, singular to plural, this at the time when the other Clinton is looking to become President. Such magnificent subtlety to be found in modern propaganda.
The sad part is that at the time, the percieved alternative was more attacks and possibly your life. And because of what they did when they thought your life was in danger, you mock them because you want to take a high horse. I sometimes wish that they didn't do the things they did so maybe additional attacks would have happen and people like you would be chanting the opposite, or feeding worms. But you see, that would be bad because innocent and undeserving people would have been effected too. So I guess I am glad that they gave you the opportunity to ridicule them.
Literature has Steven King but it also has William Shakespeare.
Bear in mind that Shakespeare was not writing solely for a sophisticated, intellectual elite. He's rightly remembered as one of the crowning glories of human cultural achievement, but when he sat down to write his plays, a large part of his thought was given to how the material would play in front of the half-drunk crowd in the pit in the Globe.
Shakespeare's genius was to create superlative works of art which still appealed to the mass market. He blended in cheap puns and sight gags along with his sophisticated plots and deep philosophical allegories, and made it all work perfectly. That's something we've yet to see in games - we have the occasional Planescape: Torment, but when we do it's never a hit - but then, we rarely enough see it anywhere else. Shakespeare is the kind of thing that happens once a century or so, and gaming's only been around for thirty years.
Wouldn't using these purely to annoy already be outlawed by the same means that blowing airhorns constantly in public spaces is outlawed?
Precisely what I thought; there are already public nuisance laws that criminalise people who deliberately produce obnoxious loud noises like this. The fact that only a certain subset of the population can hear it is neither here nor there.
I'm surprised I've never noticed these things; I used to have the best high-frequency hearing around at school (the ending of Sgt. Pepper really pissed me right off by the way), so even with the passage of time I'd probably still be able to pick this up. I've probably destroyed that for good with far too much heavy metal.
If only this were true. The Brits basically hollowed out the IRA from the inside by infesting it with double agents. The Provos military leadership pretty much collapsed once no-one could be trusted. It was a dirty, vicious and highly effective campaign.
True enough - the IRA was riddled with informers towards the end, and that crippled their operational effectiveness. But having achieved that winning position, how do you finish it? It's a problem straight from Sun Tzu - the defeated enemy with nowhere to go turns vicious. Send in the police and the army and round up the lot of 'em? It'd be a bloodbath, which the next generation would surely grow up to avenge.
Hence the solution: offer them an escape route. Amnesty for past crimes, release of prisoners, political devolution and real power for elected Sinn Fein leaders, in exchange for disarmament and a peace deal.
Overwhelming military force and clever intelligence operations are undoubtedly of great value in fighting a war against terrorists. But to end it, you need a political settlement.
The black hole couldn't be contained or supported (because it sucked in the material), and was basically in an "orbit" that carried it down to the center of the earth, back out the other side until it reached the same distance on the other side, and so on, like a pendulum. The rotation of the earth cause it to cross the surface at various places. The hole was becoming more destructive as it consumed more material and became larger, and the earth was doomed unless a way could be found to get rid of it.
OK, important safety tip for future reference. When conducting experiments that may result in the creation of a black hole, ensure that the experimental frame of reference is such that the hole's orbit around the centre of the earth will give it a gravitational boost, and accelerate it away at the cost of a little rotational angular momentum. It's just a matter of pointing the particle accelerator the right way, and is a cheap and easy way to avoid embarrassing workplace mishaps.
KOTOR featured a Sith army, most of whom were not Force users, just troopers. The leading Sith broadly followed the rule of two: Darth Revan and Darth Malak, then Darth Malak and Darth Bandon, then Darth Dark Side Player and Darth Spoiler. However, they weren't above training a large number of dark-side Force users. Indeed, they ran an academy on Korriban, whose head staff themselves followed a rule of two in microcosm, and were repeating the predictable pattern of the subordinate trying to kill off the superior.
I guess that gives a literal meaning to the term "pirate radio" eh?
It's probably the origin of the term, though I think it was popularised more by the likes of Radio Caroline, which broadcast to London from offshore in the sixties.
Joysticks always worked best in an arcade environment where the rotational forces were absorbed by the heavy machines rather than your hands.
Try the good old NES Advantage. Base made of metal and weighs a ton; indestructible Nintendium alloy. There are plenty around, because they never, ever die, unlike the NES itself which succumbs to contact death and blinking red LED of death. Get one. Rewire it to work on a PC gameport - fun project for the weekend! Then fire up MAME.
If you can fabricate stuff on subatomic levels, there are no barriers to what you can manufacture. Need some atoms of certain element? Just construct it from the subatomic particles which are all the same and abundantly available.
That's... not even remotely realistic. The whole Engines of Creation dream was to manufacture things at the molecular level, atom by atom. But you'd still need the right atoms. Carbon is abundant and cheap, for instance, so a lot of stuff would get made out of diamond. What you propose here is way, way beyond even nanotech: that's nuclear manipulation. Do some arithmetic about binding energies, and remember that in order to create helium from raw protons takes conditions such as exist in the fusion core of a star, and to create gold - or for that matter any element higher than iron - requires energies that only exist in nature in a supernova explosion.
Maybe the Xeelee could do that, or the Monolith, or the Time Lords, but Drexler's nanobots will only work with the atoms they find. Nuclear alchemy is something we'll do when we're gods.
For the politically illiterate, in the rest of the world Republican usually means left wing - I have often wondered how many of the well meaning Americans who gave money to the Irish Republican Army understood that.
If you'll happily donate to right-wing terrorists but baulk at funding left-wing terrorists, how exactly are you 'well-meaning'?
even more so when you consider that the sun is always shining on the day side of mercury
Mercury is not tidally locked. There is no fixed day side; you'd have to have solar cells planetwide, and only 50% would be productive at any one time.
Are you willing to kill other people to stop this kind of thing? Are you willing to give up your life, so that your children, or even the children of your friends, family, and neighbors, can live in a freer society than we? If you hesitated or said "No", or indeed anything other than a forceful "Yes", to either of those questions, you are a part of the problem and have only yourself to blame.
I've read something like that before.
'You are prepared to give your lives?'
'Yes.'
'You are prepared to commit murder?'
'Yes.'
'To commit acts of sabotage which may cause the death of
hundreds of innocent people?'
'Yes.'
'To betray your country to foreign powers?'
'Yes.'
'You are prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to
corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming
drugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venereal
diseases -- to do anything which is likely to cause
demoralization and weaken the power of the Party?'
'Yes.'
'If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests to
throw sulphuric acid in a child's face -- are you prepared to
do that?'
'Yes.'
'You are prepared to lose your identity and live out the
rest of your life as a waiter or a dock-worker?'
'Yes.'
'You are prepared to commit suicide, if and when we order
you to do so?'
'Yes.'
'You are prepared, the two of you, to separate and never
see one another again?'
What? Post a link to support this.
From the CIA, the EU's GDP was $14.4 trillion in 2007. The US on the other hand managed $13.86 trillion. So even the US government thinks the EU's bigger. Wikipedia gives an EU figure of $16.6 trillion for the EU.
Also, since when is the EU a single country? We might as well add in the NAFTA signatories to the US gdp figures then.
Well, you might, but since the discussion here is how the US supposedly being the world's biggest economic superpower means it can bully Canada as it pleases, one has to question the degree of solidarity among NAFTA members. Meanwhile when it comes to trade disputes, EU nations have a habit of dropping their usual bickering to stick one over on the Americans; remember that happy little story of Dubya's steel tariffs and how that ended?
Are you seriously suggesting people will commit premeditated murder rather than copyright infringement?
There's a reason we call these people the MAFIAA.
Think it through. Distribute media for profit in infringement of copyright: very easy to trace back to you. Hire a professional hitman through anonymous middlemen: very hard to trace back to you. And in Hollywood, murder is probably considered the lesser of the two offences.
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It was confused this morning. They've changed the headline since; presumably someone noticed the confusion between 'solar system' and 'galaxy' and corrected it. The /. submission preserves the original error.
... there may be hundreds of worlds in the solar system. In the Milky Way, expect trillions. The distinction between the Solar System and the Galaxy is a subtle one, similar to that between a grain of sand and Saudi Arabia, so it's easy for the likes of the BBC to confuse the two.
Taking? As in, they have the income, and then The Pirate Bay takes the income, and now The Pirate Bay has the income and the other guys don't?
Or is The Pirate Bay doing something entirely separate that has the side-effect of preventing the income from ever coming to exist in the first place?
Well, think about it. You have a problem: there's a bay full of pirates openly looting and plundering and flouting the law. What do you do?
Send for the Navy!
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, it's a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
Don't bet on it, it won't last. China and America are dangerously codependent. If America goes down, China goes with it.
Under the rule of the next superpower, learn to like cricket and curry.
Didn't we invade you guys once, and sack Washington, and burn down the White House? I mean, yes, Bush bad and all, but come on. Give us some credit here.
What a wonderful sleight of hand. Almost without anyone noticing, you go from Clinton to The Clintons, singular to plural, this at the time when the other Clinton is looking to become President. Such magnificent subtlety to be found in modern propaganda.
DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED?
Bear in mind that Shakespeare was not writing solely for a sophisticated, intellectual elite. He's rightly remembered as one of the crowning glories of human cultural achievement, but when he sat down to write his plays, a large part of his thought was given to how the material would play in front of the half-drunk crowd in the pit in the Globe.
Shakespeare's genius was to create superlative works of art which still appealed to the mass market. He blended in cheap puns and sight gags along with his sophisticated plots and deep philosophical allegories, and made it all work perfectly. That's something we've yet to see in games - we have the occasional Planescape: Torment, but when we do it's never a hit - but then, we rarely enough see it anywhere else. Shakespeare is the kind of thing that happens once a century or so, and gaming's only been around for thirty years.
Precisely what I thought; there are already public nuisance laws that criminalise people who deliberately produce obnoxious loud noises like this. The fact that only a certain subset of the population can hear it is neither here nor there.
I'm surprised I've never noticed these things; I used to have the best high-frequency hearing around at school (the ending of Sgt. Pepper really pissed me right off by the way), so even with the passage of time I'd probably still be able to pick this up. I've probably destroyed that for good with far too much heavy metal.
True enough - the IRA was riddled with informers towards the end, and that crippled their operational effectiveness. But having achieved that winning position, how do you finish it? It's a problem straight from Sun Tzu - the defeated enemy with nowhere to go turns vicious. Send in the police and the army and round up the lot of 'em? It'd be a bloodbath, which the next generation would surely grow up to avenge.
Hence the solution: offer them an escape route. Amnesty for past crimes, release of prisoners, political devolution and real power for elected Sinn Fein leaders, in exchange for disarmament and a peace deal.
Overwhelming military force and clever intelligence operations are undoubtedly of great value in fighting a war against terrorists. But to end it, you need a political settlement.
Anonymous is not your private army.
OK, important safety tip for future reference. When conducting experiments that may result in the creation of a black hole, ensure that the experimental frame of reference is such that the hole's orbit around the centre of the earth will give it a gravitational boost, and accelerate it away at the cost of a little rotational angular momentum. It's just a matter of pointing the particle accelerator the right way, and is a cheap and easy way to avoid embarrassing workplace mishaps.
KOTOR featured a Sith army, most of whom were not Force users, just troopers. The leading Sith broadly followed the rule of two: Darth Revan and Darth Malak, then Darth Malak and Darth Bandon, then Darth Dark Side Player and Darth Spoiler. However, they weren't above training a large number of dark-side Force users. Indeed, they ran an academy on Korriban, whose head staff themselves followed a rule of two in microcosm, and were repeating the predictable pattern of the subordinate trying to kill off the superior.
It's probably the origin of the term, though I think it was popularised more by the likes of Radio Caroline, which broadcast to London from offshore in the sixties.
Try the good old NES Advantage. Base made of metal and weighs a ton; indestructible Nintendium alloy. There are plenty around, because they never, ever die, unlike the NES itself which succumbs to contact death and blinking red LED of death. Get one. Rewire it to work on a PC gameport - fun project for the weekend! Then fire up MAME.
I don't recall any version of the Arthur legend that had him going off on the Crusades.
That's... not even remotely realistic. The whole Engines of Creation dream was to manufacture things at the molecular level, atom by atom. But you'd still need the right atoms. Carbon is abundant and cheap, for instance, so a lot of stuff would get made out of diamond. What you propose here is way, way beyond even nanotech: that's nuclear manipulation. Do some arithmetic about binding energies, and remember that in order to create helium from raw protons takes conditions such as exist in the fusion core of a star, and to create gold - or for that matter any element higher than iron - requires energies that only exist in nature in a supernova explosion.
Maybe the Xeelee could do that, or the Monolith, or the Time Lords, but Drexler's nanobots will only work with the atoms they find. Nuclear alchemy is something we'll do when we're gods.
If you'll happily donate to right-wing terrorists but baulk at funding left-wing terrorists, how exactly are you 'well-meaning'?
Mercury is not tidally locked. There is no fixed day side; you'd have to have solar cells planetwide, and only 50% would be productive at any one time.
I've read something like that before.
Is that also your revolutionary manifesto?
No wonder it took so long to sort out the Provos... the bloody Air Force were secretly on their side all along?
Also, since when is the EU a single country? We might as well add in the NAFTA signatories to the US gdp figures then.
Well, you might, but since the discussion here is how the US supposedly being the world's biggest economic superpower means it can bully Canada as it pleases, one has to question the degree of solidarity among NAFTA members. Meanwhile when it comes to trade disputes, EU nations have a habit of dropping their usual bickering to stick one over on the Americans; remember that happy little story of Dubya's steel tariffs and how that ended?
There's a reason we call these people the MAFIAA.
Think it through. Distribute media for profit in infringement of copyright: very easy to trace back to you. Hire a professional hitman through anonymous middlemen: very hard to trace back to you. And in Hollywood, murder is probably considered the lesser of the two offences.