I read somewhere that even coal burning plants release MUCH more uranium ion into the air than a a nuclear plant does. Coal is dirty. It gets bits of uranium/radium/whatever in it.
But with nuclear plants they store the radioactive waste somewhere. Coal plants pump it in to the atmosphere.
"What will happen when the the oil is gone? What are they going to do? Die, or find something else?"
I'd assume they'd start to eat the natural oils that birds, fish, etc produce. "But they're only engineered to digest petroleum oils" That's the beauty of biology, it mutates into what you want it to exactly not do. Doesn't take that long either. Chernobyl 4 melted down in '86, and life is already thriving there (bacterial life, but life nonetheless)
You can't seriously believe that every piece of crap fiction out there is better for you than the internet. Like I said earlier, the internet is FULL of information. Sure, there's a ton of porn, but there's also enough scientific research, etc. to even that out. I do NOT believe fiction expands the mind. Helps the imagination, perhaps. But only for visualizing things, not actually making you more creative.
Honestly, which do you think would be better for your mind, reading a science journal, or reading the latest steven king novel?
90% of their time in *THE* top 10 sites, or *THEIR* top 10 sites? I'd agree that I spend a lot of my online time on slashdot and I never go to cnn.com, but my mother couldn't tell slashdot from, say, ars technica. She spends most of her time online either banking, or (thanks to me showing her the wonders of google) looking up recipies and art. My brother spends most of his web time on counterstrike message boards and looking at pr0n.
If it is *their* not *the*, then alternate views are getting out there, not unlike the "glory days" that conservatives (little c) like to talk about, where you had the left wing newspaper, the right wing newspaper, and probably a communist newspaper. People pick and choose what they want to hear. Don't want to hear that in states that adopted CCW permits, violent crime went down? Well you're not likely to be going to pro-gun sites or reading pro-gun newspapers/books anyways.
Oddly enough, I'm that demographic, and then some (I make more money than anyone I know, and I'm 20), but yet, I chose to spend my money on things that the adverzombies never try to sell to me (when was the last time you heard of an advertizer coming to a 20 year old trying to sell aged French wine. Fsck this "beer and coolers" crap.)
"Not that online is any better, but at least you get to choose the crap that infects you.
Advice to all generations: Read a book, quite being sheep.
Not that online is any better, but at least you get to choose the crap that infects you.
Advice to all generations: Read a book, quite being sheep.
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How exactly is it that the internet and tv "infect" you, whereas books don't?
I can, right now, pull up scientific studies, news, works of fiction, etc. online. Generally I just troll around msn and slashdot, but the capability is there, and I do it from time to time. Similarily, most people who read a lot (in my experience) generally read fiction. Fiction is trash, I might as well watch TV. You learn NOTHING from, say, the latest tom clancy, or harry potter. I learn a great deal more from the internet than I could from almost any work of fiction.
Do you mean 'pick up a textbook'? Because I'd like you to show me one child who's going to take that advice
*TRY* to slow down the internet (growth wise, not bandwidth wise... someone already showed me bandwidth slowdown *Cough*Codered*cough*)
The great thing about the internet is that noone controls it. The only way you could slow down internet growth would be to ban new ISP's. And that only works in one country
And besides that, HOW was the videogame industry slowed down?
If you're going to be that pedantic, we should be called Earthans. Or Earthanoids. Or, if you want to use the latin name for our planet, Terrans (I've always been a fan of Terran)
Man has always had a thing for exploration. It's one thing to send cameras and stuff... That'd be more akin to sending slaves to go to the new world, come back, and tell you about it.
Humanity seems to have this innate need to set foot on new ground. As for NASA exploration... I don't know, maybe it has something to do with kids thinking they'll be able to go there some day too.
"Okay! okay! I've got this great idea for a game! You're this guy... okay, now get this... You're trapped inside a generic scientific facility... but there are guns there (for some reason... I've never been to a physics lab that has guns in it. Maybe the labs are in Texas). And monsters! and you have to shoot them to escape!"
No, No... I wasn't judging that particular lifestyle, just saying in my experience, that many people living together (especially mixed gender) tend not to get along without there being a bloodbath or two.
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And the artwork/storyline to korea.
SUPA-HAPPY-FUN-AMERICAN-DANCE-PARTY!!!!!!
Who is driving the car?! OH NO! Bear is driving the car! How can this be?!
Woo hoo... an email reply. They'll take the ramblings of some internet reject REAAAAL serious. Now, if you send them a snail-mail letter, they're MUCH more likely to take you seriously.
I hope you mean family (wife, husband, 2 daughters, one son) and not a huge group of flatmates. I can't imagine that many flatmates getting along peacefully (digression: is it a long, like a lot? or along?)
Reminds me of a MadTV skit. The Gilette Mach 20"The first blade cuts the stubble. The second blade cuts it even shorter. The 5th blade removes the skin. The 12th blade removes the remaining flesh from the bone", etc
Razor blades (especially the Super-mega-penultimate-mach-1000-now-UltraLax(r) ones that you don't need but they try and sell you anyways) are apparantly one of the most stolen items, particularly stolen then returned. Price:size ratio is pretty high (at a 1cm x 5cm x 4cm package costing $20 or so), plus they force obsolescence on you (gilette sensor excel blades are half the price, but try actually picking up a razor for them. and while i'm on that point, why is it that all the acceptable razors (the ones that don't scrape half the layers of your skin off while you try to use them) are expensive as crap... every other product in the world you can find a mostly accepable, affordable alternative for). Not to mention the fact that they're basically required in the western world (like deoderant, or even better example, toilet paper), you'd be a damned fool not to steal them.
See, I actually would like the free trial of VS.net except that I'm happy with VS6, and In 30 days I don't want my IDE telling me "Your trial has expired. Pay us or you can't touch your code anymore" (which I can see happening. MS products don't downgrade easily, trial or not) plus I'm too lazy to read the terms of the trial to see if that is the case.
Microsoft DID pick their marketing audience well when they paid for ads on OSDN (concidering sourceforge and freshmeat iirc are OSDN sites, and that's where a lot of developers hang out)
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I read somewhere that even coal burning plants release MUCH more uranium ion into the air than a a nuclear plant does. Coal is dirty. It gets bits of uranium/radium/whatever in it.
But with nuclear plants they store the radioactive waste somewhere. Coal plants pump it in to the atmosphere.
"What will happen when the the oil is gone? What are they going to do? Die, or find something else?"
I'd assume they'd start to eat the natural oils that birds, fish, etc produce. "But they're only engineered to digest petroleum oils" That's the beauty of biology, it mutates into what you want it to exactly not do. Doesn't take that long either. Chernobyl 4 melted down in '86, and life is already thriving there (bacterial life, but life nonetheless)
You can't seriously believe that every piece of crap fiction out there is better for you than the internet. Like I said earlier, the internet is FULL of information. Sure, there's a ton of porn, but there's also enough scientific research, etc. to even that out. I do NOT believe fiction expands the mind. Helps the imagination, perhaps. But only for visualizing things, not actually making you more creative.
Honestly, which do you think would be better for your mind, reading a science journal, or reading the latest steven king novel?
Scientific journals are availiable online.
"Since this is the rule in Wavelength Land, I can see nothing to stop it becoming the rule in Web Land."
I can see something. TCP/IP. What's the FCC going to rule? You need a liscence to open up port 80 for HTTP traffic?
Even if they did, they'd need to be actively searching for open computers, rather than passively scanning for broadcasting FM stations.
The greatest strength of the internet is the protocols underlying it. That's what makes it invincible.
Actually, semantics aside, the ADVERTIZERS are the consumers. They're the ones that make money for the producers.
What's being produced? Audience. The product being manufactured is YOU.
Far more of a grim outlook on the media industry, don't you think?
90% of their time in *THE* top 10 sites, or *THEIR* top 10 sites? I'd agree that I spend a lot of my online time on slashdot and I never go to cnn.com, but my mother couldn't tell slashdot from, say, ars technica. She spends most of her time online either banking, or (thanks to me showing her the wonders of google) looking up recipies and art. My brother spends most of his web time on counterstrike message boards and looking at pr0n.
If it is *their* not *the*, then alternate views are getting out there, not unlike the "glory days" that conservatives (little c) like to talk about, where you had the left wing newspaper, the right wing newspaper, and probably a communist newspaper. People pick and choose what they want to hear. Don't want to hear that in states that adopted CCW permits, violent crime went down? Well you're not likely to be going to pro-gun sites or reading pro-gun newspapers/books anyways.
You can blame the guy... He's probably just a wee virgin lad anyways. ;)
Oddly enough, I'm that demographic, and then some (I make more money than anyone I know, and I'm 20), but yet, I chose to spend my money on things that the adverzombies never try to sell to me (when was the last time you heard of an advertizer coming to a 20 year old trying to sell aged French wine. Fsck this "beer and coolers" crap.)
"Not that online is any better, but at least you get to choose the crap that infects you.
Advice to all generations: Read a book, quite being sheep. Not that online is any better, but at least you get to choose the crap that infects you.
Advice to all generations: Read a book, quite being sheep. "
How exactly is it that the internet and tv "infect" you, whereas books don't?
I can, right now, pull up scientific studies, news, works of fiction, etc. online. Generally I just troll around msn and slashdot, but the capability is there, and I do it from time to time. Similarily, most people who read a lot (in my experience) generally read fiction. Fiction is trash, I might as well watch TV. You learn NOTHING from, say, the latest tom clancy, or harry potter. I learn a great deal more from the internet than I could from almost any work of fiction.
Do you mean 'pick up a textbook'? Because I'd like you to show me one child who's going to take that advice
*TRY* to slow down the internet (growth wise, not bandwidth wise... someone already showed me bandwidth slowdown *Cough*Codered*cough*)
The great thing about the internet is that noone controls it. The only way you could slow down internet growth would be to ban new ISP's. And that only works in one country
And besides that, HOW was the videogame industry slowed down?
If you're going to be that pedantic, we should be called Earthans. Or Earthanoids. Or, if you want to use the latin name for our planet, Terrans (I've always been a fan of Terran)
Someone left the iron on when they went on vacation ?
Man has always had a thing for exploration. It's one thing to send cameras and stuff... That'd be more akin to sending slaves to go to the new world, come back, and tell you about it.
Humanity seems to have this innate need to set foot on new ground. As for NASA exploration... I don't know, maybe it has something to do with kids thinking they'll be able to go there some day too.
I think what they're getting at is they patented WIPA, but what it looks like to ME (ianal) is they patented 'paying for stuff'
Not think it up. Steal/Buy it.
"Okay! okay! I've got this great idea for a game! You're this guy... okay, now get this... You're trapped inside a generic scientific facility... but there are guns there (for some reason... I've never been to a physics lab that has guns in it. Maybe the labs are in Texas). And monsters! and you have to shoot them to escape!"
No, No... I wasn't judging that particular lifestyle, just saying in my experience, that many people living together (especially mixed gender) tend not to get along without there being a bloodbath or two.
And the artwork/storyline to korea.
SUPA-HAPPY-FUN-AMERICAN-DANCE-PARTY!!!!!!
Who is driving the car?! OH NO! Bear is driving the car! How can this be?!
Don't worry about it... If it's released in 2005, you'll wait until about 2010 at the earliest to get it on your mac.
Ever heard of a "mac gamer"? Neither have we.
Woo hoo... an email reply. They'll take the ramblings of some internet reject REAAAAL serious. Now, if you send them a snail-mail letter, they're MUCH more likely to take you seriously.
You have bras coming within 1 foot of your pocket?
I hope you mean family (wife, husband, 2 daughters, one son) and not a huge group of flatmates. I can't imagine that many flatmates getting along peacefully (digression: is it a long, like a lot? or along?)
Reminds me of a MadTV skit. The Gilette Mach 20 "The first blade cuts the stubble. The second blade cuts it even shorter. The 5th blade removes the skin. The 12th blade removes the remaining flesh from the bone", etc
Razor blades (especially the Super-mega-penultimate-mach-1000-now-UltraLax(r) ones that you don't need but they try and sell you anyways) are apparantly one of the most stolen items, particularly stolen then returned. Price:size ratio is pretty high (at a 1cm x 5cm x 4cm package costing $20 or so), plus they force obsolescence on you (gilette sensor excel blades are half the price, but try actually picking up a razor for them. and while i'm on that point, why is it that all the acceptable razors (the ones that don't scrape half the layers of your skin off while you try to use them) are expensive as crap... every other product in the world you can find a mostly accepable, affordable alternative for). Not to mention the fact that they're basically required in the western world (like deoderant, or even better example, toilet paper), you'd be a damned fool not to steal them.
See, I actually would like the free trial of VS.net except that I'm happy with VS6, and In 30 days I don't want my IDE telling me "Your trial has expired. Pay us or you can't touch your code anymore" (which I can see happening. MS products don't downgrade easily, trial or not) plus I'm too lazy to read the terms of the trial to see if that is the case.
Microsoft DID pick their marketing audience well when they paid for ads on OSDN (concidering sourceforge and freshmeat iirc are OSDN sites, and that's where a lot of developers hang out)