Sure. IBM PC used to mean Plug Compatible- which meant that it would plug straight into an IBM mainframe bus... even the acronyms aren't standard anymore......
The concept of the Cobalt bomb is a dirty nuke. An A-bomb is surrounded with Cobalt 60, which produces a nasty, long-lived fallout. The Cobalt itself doesn't go bang.
No, no, no. The Ozone layer stops UV from the sun. Cosmic rays, being quite, quite cosmic in nature, go where they will - ozone or no. (Behold their speedier cousins the Neutrinos - nothing stops those babies- lead? Pah!).
*sigh* it's easy to get facts confused, especially in such a sticky field as Global Warm/Cooling, but it's fatal to do it on/.;->
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As long as it's not the first inch at the body end..
You don't believe that the NSA exists...surely..?
Ah, spoken like a true consultant ;*)
Hmm. Yeesss!
I likes it...
I'm still waiting for my "Free" Nelson Mandela(s) to arrive....
Too late- Maggie Thatcher beat this by years...bisch-quahn (sic).
Hey! Why not reduce the size & power requirements of the incandescent lamps by replacing them with a LASER! Oh, wait....
Sure. IBM PC used to mean Plug Compatible- which meant that it would plug straight into an IBM mainframe bus... even the acronyms aren't standard anymore......
pants go on the outside, except when worn with cloak.
UNDERpants go UNDER the PANTS. sheesh!
Er..would that be the same EU whose member state govt. departments are changing over to Linux on the desktop..?
The concept of the Cobalt bomb is a dirty nuke. An A-bomb is surrounded with Cobalt 60, which produces a nasty, long-lived fallout. The Cobalt itself doesn't go bang.
GAsp!
True, just as you can breathe any gas you want. But it doesn't work very well.
Not if you mean Banzai!
*sigh* it's easy to get facts confused, especially in such a sticky field as Global Warm/Cooling, but it's fatal to do it on /. ;->
Mod +1, Non-Bullpuckey.
thud.
HA! Hand over the cash! There need not be 'free electrons' to light the lamp, the free space potential (e-m field) does the trick.
I'll bet it was the same one that sucked the cream out of my horn... *OO-er!!*
Cthulhu fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! No Cameras! No Cameras! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Mod +1 Funny. heh heh!
Except Windows, for stability reasons.
2.88 Firkin/cu ounce
walraux, octopeux, cacteau...
..well, it was1935. They don't live for ever, you know..