Or 3D digitize our human features, then contact the base station so that they can begin fabricating replicas. Considering how many times even semi-autonomous robots have conspired to overthrow humans, you'd think that researchers would stop giving them the tools to try, try again.
I, for one, do NOT welcome our human form replicated robot overlords. Who's with me? John and Sarah Conner? That makes three. Who else?
Like the other Microsoft WMA music stores (BuyMusic, etc.), Napster 2.0 uses the DRM intrinsic to WMA 9. Microsoft has not ported this to Mac OS and probably won't. Since the DRM relies on hooks into the OS (which, oddly enough, Microsoft also controls), they are disinclined to work on a different OS solution.
They are pressuring, cajoling and enticing labels to release music in WMA with the promise of it being pirate-proof. At that same time, they hope this will marginalize Mac OS and Linux (which also doesn't have a WMA 9 port).
Right at the beginning of the article was the discussion of the 15% mortality rate of mice exposed to nanotubes. It was, according to the DuPont researcher leader, "the highest death rate we had ever seen" (and this is a man who started out researching asbestos). Seems they clump up in the lungs and this suffocated 15% of the mice. This doesn't seem nebulous. This seems quite specific.
And I'll note that 24 hours later, the other 85% seemed perfectly healthy, the assumption being that the nanotubes clumping stopped them from getting into deep regions of the lungs and allowed them to be expelled by coughing.
So, with specifics of 15% mortality in mice from nanotube exposure, does that warrant concern?
Don't ask, don't tell is the operating mode for much of the nanotechnology industry these days when it comes to where discarded products end up. Many companies assume that because they are working with compounds that are deemed safe in larger sizes or because the nanomaterials are embedded in larger products, the particles will not pose environmental threats.
So, let me see if I get it: We haven't proven our nanotech products are safe, but nobody can afford to prove that they aren't. Since there is no proof that they aren't, we'll assume they're safe and dump them wherever it's cheapest. By the time anyone can prove that they aren't safe, we'll have made our money and then some.
Well, I consider this a perfectly acceptable mortality rate extrapolated up to humans considering the vast array of benefits that will be derived from nanotubes, like...ummm, well, I'm sure there are really fantastic benefits to be derived from nanotubes or researchers wouldn't be working on them so fervently. And that's good enough for me.
And what exactly is the official, from Diebold ...
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explanation as to why there is no paper audit trail? Since that is the clearest, easiest, most obvious sore point, the first element to raise big, flappin' red flags with the most lay of lay-persons, what official explanation has Diebold come up with as to why there is no paper audit trail?
Main Entry: dystopia
Pronunciation: (")dis-'tO-pE-&
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from dys- + -topia (as in utopia)
Date: circa 1950
1 : an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives
(from www.m-w.com)
Imaginary place? You haven't been living in Patriot Act America for the last for years, have you partner? We have U.S. citizens held on U.S. soil without charges and access to lawyers all on the say-so of the Selected President* declaring them enemy combatants. We have hundreds of foreign nationals detained on a off-shore base for an undefined period of time, declaring them to not be prisoners of war so that they receive none of the protections of the Geneva Convention. And we have the Ashcroft "Justice" Department figuring out new ways of taking the measures of the Patriot Act and applying them to non-terrorist prosecutions.
Can't you just see Ashcroft drooling at the possibilities? As he sits in a darkened room illuminated only by 1000 little monitors constantly shifting back and forth with the views of tens of thousands of video surveillance cameras around the country, as the muted audio from hundreds of roving wiretaps fills the air, can't you just see him leaping to his feet from his crouched position on the cold marble floor and screaming YES!.
Well, I can. I've got a secret surveillance camera watching him right now.
They don't think that their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid. They know their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid. They count on the fact that their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid. They are founded upon the principle that their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid.
It's news because one branch of Fox came very close to suing one of the most popular, profitable shows ever on the Fox Network. It's news because a supposed news(tm) organization was prepared not only to sue to stop free speech (of the well-supported parody class) but were actually considering doing this against a component of their parent corporation. It's news because the whining, bedwetting, crybabies of Fox News are so supremely "Can dish it out but can't take it" that they were actually going to go toe-to-toe with a cartoon.
They don't. They've been peddling the same load of... news(tm) for years now.
The only thing original on the whole network is how they claim to be "Fair and Balanced" without breaking out into giggles and shooting spitballs at the teacher.
was over copyright infringement. All of those crawls were actual Fox News crawls that just hadn't been used yet. Because they are Fair and Balanced(tm), they are not bound by "journalistic" concerns about timeliness, relevancy or facts. They write their news(tm) days, weeks, months in advance, just waiting for the right moment to announce it. Obviously, someone from the The Simpsons snuck in and pilfered valuable Fox News content.
If you'd read the article, you'd see that Varadarajan considered the Intel Itanium II but found "(The G5) is extremely faster than the Itanium II, hands down.". The AMD Opteron was too expensive. And for boxes, Dell and a bunch of other PC manufacturers quoted prices in the $10 million to $12 million dollar range.
So he went full price with the G5 ($3000 apiece) and for only $5.2 million has the number 3 slot and is shooting for a 10% boost.
I don't understand this article at all. There have been talking shopping carts for years. Most of their recommendations have been quite effective/helpful. The occassional request to slaughter a particular other patron in service to the dark lord Satan can be a bit problematic, but as long as I keep my eyes forward and just keep walking, there's no problem at all.
So where is the news in this? What? No, no, I won't pick up the knife. I WON'T PICK UP THE KNIFE!
which I understand is Republican for "Great Evil" and is required by your bylaws, but which is so 3 years ago get on with your life already, and you talk about ad hominem?
I'm sorry if I'm paying attention to the issue at hand: W, the Selected President*.
So why WAS he in the ejector seat? Hmm?
Oh, and where is Osama, Mullah Omar, Saddam, and WMD?
anyone flying in an ejection seat is mandated by navy rules to wear a flight suit
What is the Selected President* doing in an ejection seat? He didn't need to be in it. The ship was close enough to shore for them to helicopter in (the safe way). Instead, Rove et. al. decided to create a pathetic photo op for your AWOL coke-snorting chicken hawk. The man who slipped into the Air National Guard with the lowest scores possible (displacing someone who deserved the slot), then decided he couldn't be bothered with the last 18 months of his service (so inconvenient).
The guy who failed in business after business (but who was conveniently bailed out each time by another friend of daddy who was willing to throw good money after bad). The guy who "forgot" to file the papers concerning his insider selling, the guy who happened to find an anonymous buyer for all of his (rarely) traded shares just at the moment he needed the money to be let in to the Texas Rangers deal. The guy who, despite putting the least money into the deal, was put in charge. The guy who used all of that fat corporate welfare and eminent domain to make the money he has now.
And let's not forget the guy who got they let into and kept in Philips Andover despite being a Gentleman's C student. The guy who had SATs 180 points below the Yale average of 1968 yet was still accepted, where again he never achieved above a Gentleman's C. Talk about affirmative action: The drunken coke-snorting alumni's son exemption. The guy who actually considers his acceptance by Yale and Hardvard as a sign that he deserved to be there, never noticing that drunken coke-snorting idiot sons of rich guys have to be protected from the big bad world that doesn't always recognize their entitlement.
The SC decided to explicitly ignore the Constitution which had specific instructions on what to do in situations like Florida. It made it up as it went along (Scalia's must have been copping some pills from Limbaugh when he wrote his parts of the decision). They Selected W: hence, he's the Selected President*. If they were concerned with the legitimacy of the situation, they never would have done what they did.
I didn't realize that the SC abrogated the Constitution of the United States, disenfranchised the people of Florida (and other states too, potentially) all because of concerns about what I'd say about the interim appointment of a President. I feel honored.
As for W in 04, I won't consider him legitimate if those Diebold black boxes are being used all over the place. Funny how an electronic voting machine with no possible audit trail and no real security is being put in place all over the country subsidized by the W's Federal Government. Funny how the head of the company is a W state chairman who has vowed to win his state for W.
By the way, laugh of the day: "the setup for those loss of jobs happened under Clintons watch". That's a funny one. And the past three years (3 YEARS) have all been the Clinton recession. W gets all his tax breaks, has control over both houses, has effectively tossed out the Bill of Rights and all we get is a jobless "recovery" that's just about ready for the third dip. 3 years and the first net loss of jobs in 70 years! But thank heaven's that people making more the $200,000 a year off of investments are safe to plan what to do with their tax cuts. That's the important consideration.
What is of course most telling and amusing is the Republican conspiracy mongering (which you gladly handed me) about Hillary. Let's see, the party of Nixon's plumbers and dirty tricks, Lee Atwater, Willy Horton, Florida '00, California uber alles, Diebold, etc. sees the people they hate and fear as engaging in conspiracies. Hmm, where could that idea come from?
He's the Selected President* and all your Clinton whining (Bill and Hillary) won't distract from that. He can't find Osama (the guy who actually is responsible for 9/11), can't find Mullah Omar, can't find Saddam, can't find WMD. He turned the most of Europe, most of Asia, most of South/Central American against us. He's losing the peace in Iraq. He's almost entirely lost Afghanistan (the warlords are cutting it up, the Taliban are back). He's got the biggest deficits in history. But I'm sure that heroic carrier landing and W in a flight suit is a winner.
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you'll see that it has to be a frickin' laser on the head of a frickin' shark.
I, for one, do NOT welcome our human form replicated robot overlords. Who's with me? John and Sarah Conner? That makes three. Who else?
They are pressuring, cajoling and enticing labels to release music in WMA with the promise of it being pirate-proof. At that same time, they hope this will marginalize Mac OS and Linux (which also doesn't have a WMA 9 port).
And I'll note that 24 hours later, the other 85% seemed perfectly healthy, the assumption being that the nanotubes clumping stopped them from getting into deep regions of the lungs and allowed them to be expelled by coughing.
So, with specifics of 15% mortality in mice from nanotube exposure, does that warrant concern?
So, let me see if I get it: We haven't proven our nanotech products are safe, but nobody can afford to prove that they aren't. Since there is no proof that they aren't, we'll assume they're safe and dump them wherever it's cheapest. By the time anyone can prove that they aren't safe, we'll have made our money and then some.
Well, I consider this a perfectly acceptable mortality rate extrapolated up to humans considering the vast array of benefits that will be derived from nanotubes, like ...ummm, well, I'm sure there are really fantastic benefits to be derived from nanotubes or researchers wouldn't be working on them so fervently. And that's good enough for me.
explanation as to why there is no paper audit trail? Since that is the clearest, easiest, most obvious sore point, the first element to raise big, flappin' red flags with the most lay of lay-persons, what official explanation has Diebold come up with as to why there is no paper audit trail?
Under our new W-Ashcroftian Overlords, it's already here.
Obviously, you weren't paying attention to this previous discussion about what's wrong with the Patriot Act.
Pronunciation: (")dis-'tO-pE-&
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from dys- + -topia (as in utopia)
Date: circa 1950
1 : an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives
(from www.m-w.com)
Imaginary place? You haven't been living in Patriot Act America for the last for years, have you partner? We have U.S. citizens held on U.S. soil without charges and access to lawyers all on the say-so of the Selected President* declaring them enemy combatants. We have hundreds of foreign nationals detained on a off-shore base for an undefined period of time, declaring them to not be prisoners of war so that they receive none of the protections of the Geneva Convention. And we have the Ashcroft "Justice" Department figuring out new ways of taking the measures of the Patriot Act and applying them to non-terrorist prosecutions.
Well, I can. I've got a secret surveillance camera watching him right now.
They don't think that their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid. They know their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid. They count on the fact that their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid. They are founded upon the principle that their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid.
It's news because one branch of Fox came very close to suing one of the most popular, profitable shows ever on the Fox Network. It's news because a supposed news(tm) organization was prepared not only to sue to stop free speech (of the well-supported parody class) but were actually considering doing this against a component of their parent corporation. It's news because the whining, bedwetting, crybabies of Fox News are so supremely "Can dish it out but can't take it" that they were actually going to go toe-to-toe with a cartoon.
The only thing original on the whole network is how they claim to be "Fair and Balanced" without breaking out into giggles and shooting spitballs at the teacher.
was over copyright infringement. All of those crawls were actual Fox News crawls that just hadn't been used yet. Because they are Fair and Balanced(tm), they are not bound by "journalistic" concerns about timeliness, relevancy or facts. They write their news(tm) days, weeks, months in advance, just waiting for the right moment to announce it. Obviously, someone from the The Simpsons snuck in and pilfered valuable Fox News content.
John Bigboote points out:
"It's not my goddamn planet, understand, monkey boy?"
Where are we going?
Planet 10!
When?
Real soon!
So he went full price with the G5 ($3000 apiece) and for only $5.2 million has the number 3 slot and is shooting for a 10% boost.
So where is the news in this? What? No, no, I won't pick up the knife. I WON'T PICK UP THE KNIFE!
Alf? What were you thinking? How is that even possible? What, are you some sort of cat?
I feel safer already. Thank you War on Drugs(tm).
Oh, the pain. The pain.
And looking at the final design of this thing, I can see why. How you say ...yechh. Even ignoring the iPod, this thing is just fugly. Damn.
I'm sorry if I'm paying attention to the issue at hand: W, the Selected President*.
So why WAS he in the ejector seat? Hmm?
Oh, and where is Osama, Mullah Omar, Saddam, and WMD?
What is the Selected President* doing in an ejection seat? He didn't need to be in it. The ship was close enough to shore for them to helicopter in (the safe way). Instead, Rove et. al. decided to create a pathetic photo op for your AWOL coke-snorting chicken hawk. The man who slipped into the Air National Guard with the lowest scores possible (displacing someone who deserved the slot), then decided he couldn't be bothered with the last 18 months of his service (so inconvenient).
The guy who failed in business after business (but who was conveniently bailed out each time by another friend of daddy who was willing to throw good money after bad). The guy who "forgot" to file the papers concerning his insider selling, the guy who happened to find an anonymous buyer for all of his (rarely) traded shares just at the moment he needed the money to be let in to the Texas Rangers deal. The guy who, despite putting the least money into the deal, was put in charge. The guy who used all of that fat corporate welfare and eminent domain to make the money he has now.
And let's not forget the guy who got they let into and kept in Philips Andover despite being a Gentleman's C student. The guy who had SATs 180 points below the Yale average of 1968 yet was still accepted, where again he never achieved above a Gentleman's C. Talk about affirmative action: The drunken coke-snorting alumni's son exemption. The guy who actually considers his acceptance by Yale and Hardvard as a sign that he deserved to be there, never noticing that drunken coke-snorting idiot sons of rich guys have to be protected from the big bad world that doesn't always recognize their entitlement.
The SC decided to explicitly ignore the Constitution which had specific instructions on what to do in situations like Florida. It made it up as it went along (Scalia's must have been copping some pills from Limbaugh when he wrote his parts of the decision). They Selected W: hence, he's the Selected President*. If they were concerned with the legitimacy of the situation, they never would have done what they did.
As for W in 04, I won't consider him legitimate if those Diebold black boxes are being used all over the place. Funny how an electronic voting machine with no possible audit trail and no real security is being put in place all over the country subsidized by the W's Federal Government. Funny how the head of the company is a W state chairman who has vowed to win his state for W.
By the way, laugh of the day: "the setup for those loss of jobs happened under Clintons watch". That's a funny one. And the past three years (3 YEARS) have all been the Clinton recession. W gets all his tax breaks, has control over both houses, has effectively tossed out the Bill of Rights and all we get is a jobless "recovery" that's just about ready for the third dip. 3 years and the first net loss of jobs in 70 years! But thank heaven's that people making more the $200,000 a year off of investments are safe to plan what to do with their tax cuts. That's the important consideration.
What is of course most telling and amusing is the Republican conspiracy mongering (which you gladly handed me) about Hillary. Let's see, the party of Nixon's plumbers and dirty tricks, Lee Atwater, Willy Horton, Florida '00, California uber alles, Diebold, etc. sees the people they hate and fear as engaging in conspiracies. Hmm, where could that idea come from?
He's the Selected President* and all your Clinton whining (Bill and Hillary) won't distract from that. He can't find Osama (the guy who actually is responsible for 9/11), can't find Mullah Omar, can't find Saddam, can't find WMD. He turned the most of Europe, most of Asia, most of South/Central American against us. He's losing the peace in Iraq. He's almost entirely lost Afghanistan (the warlords are cutting it up, the Taliban are back). He's got the biggest deficits in history. But I'm sure that heroic carrier landing and W in a flight suit is a winner.