It's always nice to see national space agencies working together, it almost gives me hope that the world might one day be united in space exploration."
More bullshit whiney rhetoric from the left.
What in that sentence gave you the impression that the author even supports high taxation of the rich to fund comprehensive public services, let alone workers' control of the means of production?
At any rate, you seem to have overlooked the word 'always' in the sentence, which strongly implies the existence of other cases of international cooperation in space. Such cooperation is always nice to see. Or perhaps you think it's a bad idea?
Be advised, I am aware that members of the spamhaus organization are using my personally identifiable information to fraudelently order products and services on my behalf. I know this is true because I mistakenly provided you with my home address...
Yes, of course. It's members of the Spamhaus organisation. Not, you know, a hundred thousand complete bastards from a wholly unrelated internet entity notorious for its inadvertent DDOSing of countless websites and the merciless persecution of Alan Ralsky, no no not at all...
How do we know a blackhole truly has an infinite density, and not just so incredibly dense that it, in fact, has a stronger gravity than even light can escape? My mind has a difficult time with something becoming infinitely small. I can understand it becoming so tight that there is no space between the smallest particles, but cannot fathom something smaller than that.
'No space between the smallest particles' is basically what a neutron star is. It's essentially a mass of neutrons edge to edge, held up by the quantum-mechanical requirement - the exclusion principle - that no two particles can occupy the same quantum state.
However, there's a limit to this state. In general relativity, mass isn't the only thing that produces gravity: pressure does too. Pile on extra mass to a neutron star and its gravity increases - and so does the internal pressure. The upshot is that the pressure approaches infinity at about five solar masses; the neutron star can only collapse (the actual limit may be much lower, last I heard it wasn't precisely known).
Thus if general relativity is correct there's nothing that can prevent the total collapse of a five-solar-mass neutron star. Propose a force that can resist it, and it can only do it by upping the pressure still further, and hence the gravity it must oppose... The star collapses to zero volume and infinite density, the notorious singularity hidden inside the event horizon.
All that said, though, it's probable that the star does not reach zero volume. General relativity is known to be unreliable on the very small scale of quantum mechanics, and quantum mechanics is known to be unreliable where very large masses are concerned, so the applicable physics when you compact five solar masses to a volume smaller than an atom is anybody's guess...
And it's unlikely that Japan could defend itself successfully against N.Korea if a hot war were to erupt.
Japan spends only a very small portion of its national wealth on defence, but the Japanese economy is so large that this adds up to some serious firepower. I gather they're roughly comparable to Britain or France. Sure, the North Korean army is huge, but I very much doubt any of it would get across the sea to Japan alive. And although Japan isn't nuclear-armed, the whole country runs on nuclear power, they've got no shortage of fissile material, and there's no doubt of their ability with robotics and fine manufacturing; they could probably put together a serious nuclear arsenal on short notice.
If you're actively trying to install lots and lots of toolbars on your own computer, which you have admin access too, there's a very large chance you're going to succeed. This is news?
He got repeatedly warned about what he was doing, had to click through an awful lot of 'Yes, I'm sure'-type dialogue boxes to do it, and at the end was able to wipe out pretty much all of the toolbars very easily.
This is indeed news. It looks like Microsoft are actually getting something right this time!
built by the Industrial Light and Magic Model Shop for "Encounter At Farpoint," the pilot movie for Star Trek: The Next Generation, featured in the show's main title sequence and in many subsequent episodes
That's rediculous for a prop that doesn't serve any functions.
It's... the... ENTERPRISE. The starship Enterprise. Galaxy-class, NCC-1701-D. The actual Enterprise, the one on the screen, this is it. It's not just some prop they used once or twice, it's the STARSHIP. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no-one has gone before.
This is up there with... I don't know. The actual model Enterprise used in all the space scenes from Star Trek... as geek memorabilia goes, this is like having the complete original Darth Vader costume, or the sketchpad on which someone at Nintendo first outlined Donkey Kong, or the sexual favours of Sarah Jane Smith. It's absolutely priceless. Half a million? I'm not surprised at all, I just wish I was that rich.
Which side is right...
Environmentalists :
-> CO2 will cause mass extinctions
but also
-> gsms cause brain cancer (show me one single case...)
-> against nuclear power, the easiest and most economically viable option to stopping global warning
You think you have to actually pick a side, and sign up to a complete party line? Do that and you don't think at all.
Hate to break it to you, but there's a >million solar mass black hole at the center of our galaxy. We're not considered an "Active Galaxy" only because it is on a diet.
Hate to break it to you, but, er, that information's actually a little out of date...
Hey, where the hell did all the puppeteers just go?
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that the lack of this feature will dissappoint, as I know a lot of gamers who prefer having the rumble feature.
Gravis Eliminator Shock.
Project64.
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Epona.
Numb hands.
I don't know if the original N64 rumble pack was that powerful, but the one Gravis packed into that little beast was truly ferocious.
I have just invented a similar program to determine the truthfulness of statements made by politicians. Say the statement out loud and then scroll down to see the percent of accuracy and truthfulness of the politician's statement.
"Tony Blair says: God will never agree that this statement is true."
You'll also notice that the daily show is one of the only "news" outlets that will show a video clip of a public figure saying one thing in 2004, then a new video with them saying something that completely goes against their first comment on the matter in 2004.
I'm appalled if that's the case. Is there really no effort to hold politicians to account in the mainstream media at all? Over here, the news article itself wouldn't raise the issue, but an analysis segment immediately afterwards would. Then Newsnight would go into it at some length, after which some poor junior minister would be grilled over the policy U-turn. Then the government party representative on Question Time that week would probably get some terrible stick.
And that's just the TV. You should see what the tabloids are like when they've got an excuse to call someone a liar without getting sued...
I gather, though, that there's more respect over there. Here the media like nothing better than the downfall of the exalted over a scandal. The head of the Prime Minister himself has been on the block for a while, which is why he's stepping down now - he's after getting out quick before somebody picks up the axe:-)
TDS may be left wing but they do mock the Democrats a lot. Jon Stewart even called them Ewoks once in reference to their powerlessness
These are the same Ewoks who were easily able to capture (among others) a Jedi and a Wookiee? And who then prepared to eat them? And who, shortly afterwards, were confronted by an elite Imperial legion with AT-STs, blaster rifles and a heavily reinforced bunker, and successfully beat the hell out of the lot of them, gained access to the bunker and took down the shield around the Death Star? And who celebrated their victory with a barbecue and a rousing chorus of Yub Yub?
There is always things like apt. No need to have it all on the install media.
Yes... and it seems they've thought of this. There's a single-CD download, which installs a minimal system and then lets you get the rest over the network. I'll be getting this one, I think: I don't care to clutter up my room with unnecessary coasters!
I always play as the Soviets. Partly because nuking the living crap out of America is enormous fun, but also because I've no idea of Russian geography and wouldn't know what to aim at. Is Skahaterakinskograd a major city? Fuck knows, but if I nuke Chicago I know I'm going to piss someone right off.
Tesco are big, but their turnover is around 35 billion pounds. If the one in eight figure was correct national spending would be just 280 billion.
The British GNP is about a trillion pounds, so if Tesco got one pound in eight of all money spent in the UK they'd expect a turnover of some £125 billion. But I doubt that's the statistic used here. Tesco probably do get something like one pound in eight of all retail spending. Money spent in person in shops. Not money spent on, say, insurance, or mortgages, or utility bills, or by the government.
Although Tesco have started selling insurance recently...
None of my 6 children have ever gathered around a campfire with competent musicians and played, sang, and danced til dawn. And they never will. If its not on the radio or their ipod, it doesn't exist.
On a similar note, why is it that probably the best music I heard played in the last couple of years wasn't at a rock festival or a gig of any kind that I'd paid to get into, but came free courtesy of a few guys in a crowded pub in a small town on the Irish west coast?
The record companies are complaining loudly that the piracy culture that's grown up in recent years is really hurting CD sales. Who knows - maybe it is. But over the same timescale, I hear that sales of guitars have gone through the roof. Perhaps this is a good sign for the future. Fewer people buying their homogenised, marketing-driven crap. More people buying instruments and making their own...
The whole point is that the show is 43 years old, so why pretend the other 26 series never happened in the numbering?
1) the format's totally different. Self-contained episodes, the occasional two-parter, no long serials.
2) the Time War is a continuity get-out-of-jail-free card of Crisis proportions. Almost anything established in the old days may be considered up for grabs.
3) most importantly, if you put a DVD boxset on the shelves saying 'Series 27' no bugger'll buy it because they think they'll need to have seen the previous 26.
The biggest security risk I know of, that has gotten a pass so far on airplanes is Laptop batteries. Now that Sony has had a few burn up due to a defect, they are banning certain laptops. But the risk has been there to use a capacitor and turn a laptop battery into a bomb -- they have a lot of energy in them.
Would it be so difficult to actually load a laptop with high explosive? Replace the hard drive with a bomb, boot a minimal system off flash so that if necessary you can say 'look officer, a perfectly normal functioning laptop'. Or perhaps swap in a much smaller battery and use the freed space for your evil device. Book a seat in business class, turn up wearing a nice suit, nobody hassles people with laptops wearing suits and flying business class... then at the time of your choosing just type
$ echo detonate >/dev/bomb
Let me get this straight. You are blaming the unmitigated mess that is Iraq on the UNITED NATIONS?
Re-read the post:
destroying the credibility of international organizations like the United Nations as a restraint on the unilateral militarism of its members
Which UN member state went off on a campaign of unilateral militarism, and should have been restrained? That would be the United States of America. If the UN worked as advertised, there should have been troops sent to Iraq under a UN flag to fight against the Americans if necessary. The UN sent an army to stop the North Korean invasion of South Korea, it sent an army to stop the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, why then should it not send an army to stop the American invasion of Iraq?
The answer, of course, is that the Americans are far too powerful, and the only reason the UN intervened in Korea and in Kuwait was because the Americans wanted it that way. Why, then, should anyone who has a quarrel with the United States even bother going to the UN? It's just a pawn of the imperialists.
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More bullshit whiney rhetoric from the left.
What in that sentence gave you the impression that the author even supports high taxation of the rich to fund comprehensive public services, let alone workers' control of the means of production?
At any rate, you seem to have overlooked the word 'always' in the sentence, which strongly implies the existence of other cases of international cooperation in space. Such cooperation is always nice to see. Or perhaps you think it's a bad idea?
Yes, of course. It's members of the Spamhaus organisation. Not, you know, a hundred thousand complete bastards from a wholly unrelated internet entity notorious for its inadvertent DDOSing of countless websites and the merciless persecution of Alan Ralsky, no no not at all...
'No space between the smallest particles' is basically what a neutron star is. It's essentially a mass of neutrons edge to edge, held up by the quantum-mechanical requirement - the exclusion principle - that no two particles can occupy the same quantum state.
However, there's a limit to this state. In general relativity, mass isn't the only thing that produces gravity: pressure does too. Pile on extra mass to a neutron star and its gravity increases - and so does the internal pressure. The upshot is that the pressure approaches infinity at about five solar masses; the neutron star can only collapse (the actual limit may be much lower, last I heard it wasn't precisely known).
Thus if general relativity is correct there's nothing that can prevent the total collapse of a five-solar-mass neutron star. Propose a force that can resist it, and it can only do it by upping the pressure still further, and hence the gravity it must oppose... The star collapses to zero volume and infinite density, the notorious singularity hidden inside the event horizon.
All that said, though, it's probable that the star does not reach zero volume. General relativity is known to be unreliable on the very small scale of quantum mechanics, and quantum mechanics is known to be unreliable where very large masses are concerned, so the applicable physics when you compact five solar masses to a volume smaller than an atom is anybody's guess...
It took me a while to get this, so I understand, but... Jaheira is not really your girlfriend.
Japan spends only a very small portion of its national wealth on defence, but the Japanese economy is so large that this adds up to some serious firepower. I gather they're roughly comparable to Britain or France. Sure, the North Korean army is huge, but I very much doubt any of it would get across the sea to Japan alive. And although Japan isn't nuclear-armed, the whole country runs on nuclear power, they've got no shortage of fissile material, and there's no doubt of their ability with robotics and fine manufacturing; they could probably put together a serious nuclear arsenal on short notice.
Ian Hislop? Is that you?
He got repeatedly warned about what he was doing, had to click through an awful lot of 'Yes, I'm sure'-type dialogue boxes to do it, and at the end was able to wipe out pretty much all of the toolbars very easily.
This is indeed news. It looks like Microsoft are actually getting something right this time!
Lot Title STARSHIP ENTERPRISE-D
built by the Industrial Light and Magic Model Shop for "Encounter At Farpoint," the pilot movie for Star Trek: The Next Generation, featured in the show's main title sequence and in many subsequent episodes
That's rediculous for a prop that doesn't serve any functions.
It's... the... ENTERPRISE. The starship Enterprise. Galaxy-class, NCC-1701-D. The actual Enterprise, the one on the screen, this is it. It's not just some prop they used once or twice, it's the STARSHIP. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no-one has gone before.
This is up there with... I don't know. The actual model Enterprise used in all the space scenes from Star Trek... as geek memorabilia goes, this is like having the complete original Darth Vader costume, or the sketchpad on which someone at Nintendo first outlined Donkey Kong, or the sexual favours of Sarah Jane Smith. It's absolutely priceless. Half a million? I'm not surprised at all, I just wish I was that rich.
You think you have to actually pick a side, and sign up to a complete party line? Do that and you don't think at all.
Hate to break it to you, but, er, that information's actually a little out of date...
Hey, where the hell did all the puppeteers just go?
-- B. Shaeffer
Gravis Eliminator Shock.
Project64.
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Epona.
Numb hands.
I don't know if the original N64 rumble pack was that powerful, but the one Gravis packed into that little beast was truly ferocious.
True: it's full of lethal radiation. But keep it quiet. Imagine what would happen if the puppeteers got wind of this!
Now, we know that all spelling flames must themselves contain a spelling error, but this is a particularly delightful example...
"Tony Blair says: God will never agree that this statement is true."
This politician's statement is 0% true.
Are you sure? ;-)
I'm appalled if that's the case. Is there really no effort to hold politicians to account in the mainstream media at all? Over here, the news article itself wouldn't raise the issue, but an analysis segment immediately afterwards would. Then Newsnight would go into it at some length, after which some poor junior minister would be grilled over the policy U-turn. Then the government party representative on Question Time that week would probably get some terrible stick.
And that's just the TV. You should see what the tabloids are like when they've got an excuse to call someone a liar without getting sued...
I gather, though, that there's more respect over there. Here the media like nothing better than the downfall of the exalted over a scandal. The head of the Prime Minister himself has been on the block for a while, which is why he's stepping down now - he's after getting out quick before somebody picks up the axe :-)
These are the same Ewoks who were easily able to capture (among others) a Jedi and a Wookiee? And who then prepared to eat them? And who, shortly afterwards, were confronted by an elite Imperial legion with AT-STs, blaster rifles and a heavily reinforced bunker, and successfully beat the hell out of the lot of them, gained access to the bunker and took down the shield around the Death Star? And who celebrated their victory with a barbecue and a rousing chorus of Yub Yub?
Eechawawa!
Yes... and it seems they've thought of this. There's a single-CD download, which installs a minimal system and then lets you get the rest over the network. I'll be getting this one, I think: I don't care to clutter up my room with unnecessary coasters!
http://qa.mandriva.com/torrent/2007/mandriva-fre e-2007-mini.torrent
Soon as the ADSL contention clears tonight at about half-elevenish, I'll totally nab that.
I always play as the Soviets. Partly because nuking the living crap out of America is enormous fun, but also because I've no idea of Russian geography and wouldn't know what to aim at. Is Skahaterakinskograd a major city? Fuck knows, but if I nuke Chicago I know I'm going to piss someone right off.
The British GNP is about a trillion pounds, so if Tesco got one pound in eight of all money spent in the UK they'd expect a turnover of some £125 billion. But I doubt that's the statistic used here. Tesco probably do get something like one pound in eight of all retail spending. Money spent in person in shops. Not money spent on, say, insurance, or mortgages, or utility bills, or by the government.
Although Tesco have started selling insurance recently...
On a similar note, why is it that probably the best music I heard played in the last couple of years wasn't at a rock festival or a gig of any kind that I'd paid to get into, but came free courtesy of a few guys in a crowded pub in a small town on the Irish west coast?
The record companies are complaining loudly that the piracy culture that's grown up in recent years is really hurting CD sales. Who knows - maybe it is. But over the same timescale, I hear that sales of guitars have gone through the roof. Perhaps this is a good sign for the future. Fewer people buying their homogenised, marketing-driven crap. More people buying instruments and making their own...
1) the format's totally different. Self-contained episodes, the occasional two-parter, no long serials.
2) the Time War is a continuity get-out-of-jail-free card of Crisis proportions. Almost anything established in the old days may be considered up for grabs.
3) most importantly, if you put a DVD boxset on the shelves saying 'Series 27' no bugger'll buy it because they think they'll need to have seen the previous 26.
Would it be so difficult to actually load a laptop with high explosive? Replace the hard drive with a bomb, boot a minimal system off flash so that if necessary you can say 'look officer, a perfectly normal functioning laptop'. Or perhaps swap in a much smaller battery and use the freed space for your evil device. Book a seat in business class, turn up wearing a nice suit, nobody hassles people with laptops wearing suits and flying business class... then at the time of your choosing just type $ echo detonate > /dev/bomb
Re-read the post:
destroying the credibility of international organizations like the United Nations as a restraint on the unilateral militarism of its members
Which UN member state went off on a campaign of unilateral militarism, and should have been restrained? That would be the United States of America. If the UN worked as advertised, there should have been troops sent to Iraq under a UN flag to fight against the Americans if necessary. The UN sent an army to stop the North Korean invasion of South Korea, it sent an army to stop the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, why then should it not send an army to stop the American invasion of Iraq?
The answer, of course, is that the Americans are far too powerful, and the only reason the UN intervened in Korea and in Kuwait was because the Americans wanted it that way. Why, then, should anyone who has a quarrel with the United States even bother going to the UN? It's just a pawn of the imperialists.
I bet you said that in 1923, too...
That war which you lot were losing before the French stepped in to help, you mean?