Yeah, that would be cool! And then, we could get like controllers, 'cause, you know, the GBA is a bit small, and it's hard for two people to play at the same time. Maybe it could have rubber pads on the bottom, so it'll stay put on a table, and we'd better make it a bit bigger so it doesn't move around when we pull on the cables.
As per gossip TV, Tara Reid recently had a wardrobe malfunction that is _clearly_ of great import. However, no reasonable google image searches can prvide the information I demand!
Excellent point. As a follow-up thought experiment, what if a virus/worm writer made a program that caused infected machines to write death threats directed toward people on the Secret Services "do not threaten" list? Are the owners of those machines now deserving of questioning? Or what if someone's livejournal username/password is compromised and someone else posts threatening messages? Seems like a mighty easy way to tie up the Secret Service in frivolous activities.
This is not a likely scenario. All it takes is one country to be willing to turn against the rest and accept United States favoritism to crack up the sanctions. All the other countries in Europe participating in embargoes against the US? Maybe Germany would like free grain, or steel, or timber? And in that instant, the group against the US starts to break up.
Fullerenes are no more resistant to damage failure than any other materials. What makes fullerenes great is that they are almost perfectly structured, with very few faults, cracks, mismatched atoms, etc. However, if you try to pull on them near one of these flaws, they fail just like anything else. Trust me, I do research every day pulling apart carbon nano tubes.
Yay, every time she moves or breathes, she's sliced into ribbons by every single kink and fold in the material. And as you reach toward her, thinking to save her and win some booty via chivalry, your fingers are also diced by those same folds and wrinkles.
"perfectly sharp" isn't quite right. If you start w/ a one atom thick sheet, then add 2 sheets offset by half the ring distance, and repeat back and back, you would get a nice pointy edge, but the angle wouldn't be great for cutting. It may be better to theorize the perfect knife as having the additionaly layers offset further, to give a shallower, smaller angle to the taper.
This is the narrow view of natural selection that gets people into trouble, in much the same way as when we introduce new species into ecosystems and then realize 10 yrs later the new species has dramatically altered the place and has not given us the results we wanted.
Genetics and natural selection are COMPLEX. No, not like long division or network configuration or even tensor calculus. The DNA in your body is being effected by not only the DNA in my body, but also the DNA in the trees outside your window, the salmon in Norway, and those bacteria that live in the clouds.
Claiming to know that some gene is more likely to lead to the extinction of the human race is beyond ridiculous. The whole point is that it's all one big interconnected system, and changes in one species ripple out to all the others, then those ripples reflect back, get stretched, squeezed, inverted, etc etc. In our small, personal perspectives, it's easy to say that asthma or diabetes are detrimental to our species. But did you know that sickle cell anemia, so prevalent in Africa, actually helps combat malaria? It is naive and arrogant to think that just because some genetic feature makes you unhappy, that necessarily makes it something we should change.
I am all for genetics, biotechnology, etc, but to take such a short sighted view of things as to think that getting rid of some diseases will overall strengthen the species is beyond me. The prospects of those technologies is incredibly exciting. At the same time, the attitudes we take when approaching the technology must be very carefully examined.
I'll probably vote Democrat this time around, but I registered a few weeks ago as a Republican just so that there's a tiny bit of extra noise in the prediction data used for the future. Not much, I know, but it's what I could do.
Flame me if you will, but, the idea that technological advancement/research is somehow "playing God" is asinine. If you assume that God is an (the) omnipotent, omniscient controller of the universe, how can we possibly do anything that He doesn't want/allow us to do? It may be a bad idea to pursue biotech; bad for the planet, bad for our species, etc..., but it is not something that we have somehow stolen from God. When we start creating the universe, breathing life into things, and know and control everything, THEN we are playing God. Before then, we're playing HUMAN.
There is nothing in most STATE constitutions which say you cannot make a state social security system, state owned roads, state taxes etc
And what happens when I retire from Ohio and want to get a place in Florida? Do I get charged out of state taxes on the roads I travel on between Ohio and Florida? Do the roads through Kentucky or Tennessee have narrower lanes to save on maintenance and cost of materials such that my car is unsafe to drive there? How do my social security benefits follow me to my retirement home? Is the Florida retirement age higher than in Ohio?
Closest I can see is this. Seems that it sets some pretty strict specifications for the material to be conductive AND magnetic, and that it has to fit around the smartcard. Maybe there's wiggle room there for a patent lawyer and an RF engineer to make a few bucks?
The point about colleges and SSN's is very good. At some schools, whenever you call the registrar, financial aid, bursar, etc, the help desk person asks for your student ID, which is, of course, your SSN. The help desk person is invariably a work study student who's having a difficult time buying ramen noodles and beer every week. It's not that hard to write down every 5th SSN, take some time online, and make $$$. You can opt out of the program and use another number for your student ID, but how many students even know they should be concerned?
I have an '02 civic, and have noticed some weirdness in the cruise control (factory installed) at lower speeds. In particular, I used to live on a long stretch of road that had a speed limit of 20 mph. The temptation to speed was too high, so I tried the cruise control. The speed wouldn't fluctuate much more than 3-5 mph around the target, but the RPMs would bounce around alot. Could be that it just happened to be near an automatic shifting speed/load, but it always irritated me to feel the car accelerating then braking over and over for no good reason.
This is exactly wrong. I suppose that you'd like a nice, hi def video of the American flag waving in the wind behind you as you tell a room full of people just how important their vote is. To not discredit their single voices. That if each single person votes, their problems will be solved in whole or in part. Right?
WRONG
What is important is being a pollitician, a lobbyist, or wealthy enough to affect the same. And the proof is in the scenario I just mentioned. You would have more power over the results of a vote by collecting people in a room and telling them to vote than any one of those other people. If you pick your group correctly, and use the right rhetoric, you will get them to vote for what you want. And this is why it's always, ALWAYS better to be the person who influences others' votes. If President Bush didn't vote in the upcoming election, would anyone still doubt his power over the results? Did the Diebold CEO (or whoever he was) promise to delive one vote to Bush, or many votes? Are the Democrats getting Nader taken off of ballots because they don't want him to vote for himself, or because they want others to not be able to vote for him?
Anyone with a slight ability in mathematics can see the obvious: a single vote does not matter in large populations.
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Yeah, that would be cool! And then, we could get like controllers, 'cause, you know, the GBA is a bit small, and it's hard for two people to play at the same time. Maybe it could have rubber pads on the bottom, so it'll stay put on a table, and we'd better make it a bit bigger so it doesn't move around when we pull on the cables.
Oh, wait, that's a retarded idea. Never mind.
What part of portable don't you understand?
For what it's worth, a 1 KB file will also fit on one disc. As will a single 1 or 0.
As per gossip TV, Tara Reid recently had a wardrobe malfunction that is _clearly_ of great import. However, no reasonable google image searches can prvide the information I demand!
You forget, perhaps, that this is, indeed, rocket science.
Excellent point. As a follow-up thought experiment, what if a virus/worm writer made a program that caused infected machines to write death threats directed toward people on the Secret Services "do not threaten" list? Are the owners of those machines now deserving of questioning? Or what if someone's livejournal username/password is compromised and someone else posts threatening messages? Seems like a mighty easy way to tie up the Secret Service in frivolous activities.
Look familiar?
This is not a likely scenario. All it takes is one country to be willing to turn against the rest and accept United States favoritism to crack up the sanctions. All the other countries in Europe participating in embargoes against the US? Maybe Germany would like free grain, or steel, or timber? And in that instant, the group against the US starts to break up.
Fullerenes are no more resistant to damage failure than any other materials. What makes fullerenes great is that they are almost perfectly structured, with very few faults, cracks, mismatched atoms, etc. However, if you try to pull on them near one of these flaws, they fail just like anything else. Trust me, I do research every day pulling apart carbon nano tubes.
Yay, every time she moves or breathes, she's sliced into ribbons by every single kink and fold in the material. And as you reach toward her, thinking to save her and win some booty via chivalry, your fingers are also diced by those same folds and wrinkles.
"perfectly sharp" isn't quite right. If you start w/ a one atom thick sheet, then add 2 sheets offset by half the ring distance, and repeat back and back, you would get a nice pointy edge, but the angle wouldn't be great for cutting. It may be better to theorize the perfect knife as having the additionaly layers offset further, to give a shallower, smaller angle to the taper.
This is the narrow view of natural selection that gets people into trouble, in much the same way as when we introduce new species into ecosystems and then realize 10 yrs later the new species has dramatically altered the place and has not given us the results we wanted.
Genetics and natural selection are COMPLEX. No, not like long division or network configuration or even tensor calculus. The DNA in your body is being effected by not only the DNA in my body, but also the DNA in the trees outside your window, the salmon in Norway, and those bacteria that live in the clouds.
Claiming to know that some gene is more likely to lead to the extinction of the human race is beyond ridiculous. The whole point is that it's all one big interconnected system, and changes in one species ripple out to all the others, then those ripples reflect back, get stretched, squeezed, inverted, etc etc. In our small, personal perspectives, it's easy to say that asthma or diabetes are detrimental to our species. But did you know that sickle cell anemia, so prevalent in Africa, actually helps combat malaria? It is naive and arrogant to think that just because some genetic feature makes you unhappy, that necessarily makes it something we should change.
I am all for genetics, biotechnology, etc, but to take such a short sighted view of things as to think that getting rid of some diseases will overall strengthen the species is beyond me. The prospects of those technologies is incredibly exciting. At the same time, the attitudes we take when approaching the technology must be very carefully examined.
I'll probably vote Democrat this time around, but I registered a few weeks ago as a Republican just so that there's a tiny bit of extra noise in the prediction data used for the future. Not much, I know, but it's what I could do.
Flame me if you will, but, the idea that technological advancement/research is somehow "playing God" is asinine. If you assume that God is an (the) omnipotent, omniscient controller of the universe, how can we possibly do anything that He doesn't want/allow us to do? It may be a bad idea to pursue biotech; bad for the planet, bad for our species, etc..., but it is not something that we have somehow stolen from God. When we start creating the universe, breathing life into things, and know and control everything, THEN we are playing God. Before then, we're playing HUMAN.
There is nothing in most STATE constitutions which say you cannot make a state social security system, state owned roads, state taxes etc
And what happens when I retire from Ohio and want to get a place in Florida? Do I get charged out of state taxes on the roads I travel on between Ohio and Florida? Do the roads through Kentucky or Tennessee have narrower lanes to save on maintenance and cost of materials such that my car is unsafe to drive there? How do my social security benefits follow me to my retirement home? Is the Florida retirement age higher than in Ohio?
Closest I can see is this. Seems that it sets some pretty strict specifications for the material to be conductive AND magnetic, and that it has to fit around the smartcard. Maybe there's wiggle room there for a patent lawyer and an RF engineer to make a few bucks?
Has this idea been patented? Off to uspto.gov I go!
The asteroid one is great! Keep stretching our space abilities and knowledge and we may just spread humanity beyond Earth someday.
fanboy, don't ruin a perfectly fine pair of pants. It's just an iPod. None of the ports are even remotely worthy of this level of adoration.
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The point about colleges and SSN's is very good. At some schools, whenever you call the registrar, financial aid, bursar, etc, the help desk person asks for your student ID, which is, of course, your SSN. The help desk person is invariably a work study student who's having a difficult time buying ramen noodles and beer every week. It's not that hard to write down every 5th SSN, take some time online, and make $$$. You can opt out of the program and use another number for your student ID, but how many students even know they should be concerned?
DODGE - Dig Out of Ditch, Gas Empty
I have an '02 civic, and have noticed some weirdness in the cruise control (factory installed) at lower speeds. In particular, I used to live on a long stretch of road that had a speed limit of 20 mph. The temptation to speed was too high, so I tried the cruise control. The speed wouldn't fluctuate much more than 3-5 mph around the target, but the RPMs would bounce around alot. Could be that it just happened to be near an automatic shifting speed/load, but it always irritated me to feel the car accelerating then braking over and over for no good reason.
... but I say throw in some variety. Maybe a redhead, a brunette, and a sky blue haired girl in a threesome?
This is exactly wrong. I suppose that you'd like a nice, hi def video of the American flag waving in the wind behind you as you tell a room full of people just how important their vote is. To not discredit their single voices. That if each single person votes, their problems will be solved in whole or in part. Right?
WRONG
What is important is being a pollitician, a lobbyist, or wealthy enough to affect the same. And the proof is in the scenario I just mentioned. You would have more power over the results of a vote by collecting people in a room and telling them to vote than any one of those other people. If you pick your group correctly, and use the right rhetoric, you will get them to vote for what you want. And this is why it's always, ALWAYS better to be the person who influences others' votes. If President Bush didn't vote in the upcoming election, would anyone still doubt his power over the results? Did the Diebold CEO (or whoever he was) promise to delive one vote to Bush, or many votes? Are the Democrats getting Nader taken off of ballots because they don't want him to vote for himself, or because they want others to not be able to vote for him?
Anyone with a slight ability in mathematics can see the obvious: a single vote does not matter in large populations.
This must be your first day here, right?