I know this will sound incredibly n00bish of me, but I have no freaking idea what IHBT stands for. Numerous Google searches turn up nothing but Indian universities and German hairdressing colleges.
The last thing I want to do is sound pedantic or trollish, but if you're referring to the amount of people in China, I'm pretty sure the number of people is a little closer to 1 billion.
If RIAA/Skynet sent a terminator to the past (which, being the future's past, would be our past, present, or more impending future), then we should be seeing a terminator either already, or in the near future. Keep an eye on the papers for "Killer robot from files subpoenas with ISPs for file trader identities".
If you really want to trick it up, assume that the future RIAA/Skynet sent the Terminator to our present or our past. Which means that if RIAA/Skynet wanted to send a robot into the past from the future, they would have done it already.
I too am a budding journalist, and I am aiming to be a journalist not because I want the money or the fame (because I know I won't get either), but I just enjoy the process of finding the truth behind a situation; like Woodward and Bernstein, except on an incredibly smaller scale.
Obviously, in this case, the journalist was clearly an asshat with conflict of interest, but like the parent comment said, 99.995% of journalists don't want to screw you over, they just want to tell the reader the story of something they might not necessarily know about.
I know it may be hard to trust journalists when bad seeds make headlines (Jayson Blair, this guy, Connie Chung), but can't you be reassured that a dishonest journalist is a hugely noticed exception rather than the rule?
I mean, didn't any of you guys know that Curt Schilling, one of the star pitchers for the Arizona Diamondbacks, is an avid Everquest fan? Last I heard, his character was a level 50 monk, and he even wrote a review of the latest Everquest release for some gaming magazine.
Geek he's not. I mean, at least he gets exercise and goes outside regularly.
Wife: "Honey, I was just going over our credit card report, and I saw six separate charges to the Marriott hotel in the past week. Are you having an affair?"
*silence for a few moments*
Husband: "Technically? No. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take the laptop on a, uh, business trip. I'll be back in an hour."
The phases that the moon goes through (waxing and waning and whatnot) has nothing to do with the rotation of the moon.
Now, if by 'rotation' you mean 'the moon's orbiting of the earth, such that sometimes the moon is between the sun and the earth (new moon) and sometimes the earth is between the sun and the moon (full moon) and the rest of the time the moon is in a different position in its orbit (waxing or waning)', you're right.
You just need to get a better dictionary.
IIRC, the federal government pays farmers not to grow crops, because if all arable farmland in the United States were used to grow food, then the market would be flooded, cost would plummet, and farmers wouldn't be able to make any money, go out of business, sell the farm, etc. Or so I'm told.
Essentially, we have a significant amount of land that is *not* being used for anything.
If there were a demand for biodiesel though, then subsidized farmers could use land they were paid not to cultivate to instead grow and/or refine biodiesel. There would be no fear of flooding the foodstuff market; they would just be supplying the biodiesel market.
IANAS (I Am Not A Scientist), but I think we could get a heck of a lot more biodiesel annually than fossil fuel annually if we used most or all of the currently unused land for growing fuel. The fact that it's enviro-friendly and relatively cheap to produce is just gravy.
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IN SOVIET RUSSIA... wait, it *was* in Soviet Russia?
Oh crap, never mind.
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I've heard stories about people naming their testicles, but I've never heard one about someone naming Uranus.
*rim-shot*
Thank you, tip your waitress.
...And it would constantly be bitching about how only *it* can save the world and constantly angsting about wanting be just a normal kid.
I know this will sound incredibly n00bish of me, but I have no freaking idea what IHBT stands for. Numerous Google searches turn up nothing but Indian universities and German hairdressing colleges.
Could someone explain it to me?
I don't know what the EFF would do with monkeys, but hey, it's worth a shot.
The last thing I want to do is sound pedantic or trollish, but if you're referring to the amount of people in China, I'm pretty sure the number of people is a little closer to 1 billion.
If RIAA/Skynet sent a terminator to the past (which, being the future's past, would be our past, present, or more impending future), then we should be seeing a terminator either already, or in the near future. Keep an eye on the papers for "Killer robot from files subpoenas with ISPs for file trader identities".
If you really want to trick it up, assume that the future RIAA/Skynet sent the Terminator to our present or our past. Which means that if RIAA/Skynet wanted to send a robot into the past from the future, they would have done it already.
OMG! *head explodes*
Would anyone who *has* registered care to post the text of the story?
I too am a budding journalist, and I am aiming to be a journalist not because I want the money or the fame (because I know I won't get either), but I just enjoy the process of finding the truth behind a situation; like Woodward and Bernstein, except on an incredibly smaller scale.
Obviously, in this case, the journalist was clearly an asshat with conflict of interest, but like the parent comment said, 99.995% of journalists don't want to screw you over, they just want to tell the reader the story of something they might not necessarily know about.
I know it may be hard to trust journalists when bad seeds make headlines (Jayson Blair, this guy, Connie Chung), but can't you be reassured that a dishonest journalist is a hugely noticed exception rather than the rule?
A place where cute girls' names end with a file extension.
How romantic.
I mean, didn't any of you guys know that Curt Schilling, one of the star pitchers for the Arizona Diamondbacks, is an avid Everquest fan? Last I heard, his character was a level 50 monk, and he even wrote a review of the latest Everquest release for some gaming magazine.
Geek he's not. I mean, at least he gets exercise and goes outside regularly.
Just check the arrow in the screenshot. I know I didn't, at first glance.
I see that whoever made that screenshot is downloading a "Fifth Element" DIVX.
The MPAA will be properly notified.
Terrorist.
Wife: "Honey, I was just going over our credit card report, and I saw six separate charges to the Marriott hotel in the past week. Are you having an affair?"
*silence for a few moments*
Husband: "Technically? No. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take the laptop on a, uh, business trip. I'll be back in an hour."
...and forward this message and Slashdot page to ten of your e-mail contacts, you shall be granted eternal life!
I did, and it's working so far!
The phases that the moon goes through (waxing and waning and whatnot) has nothing to do with the rotation of the moon. Now, if by 'rotation' you mean 'the moon's orbiting of the earth, such that sometimes the moon is between the sun and the earth (new moon) and sometimes the earth is between the sun and the moon (full moon) and the rest of the time the moon is in a different position in its orbit (waxing or waning)', you're right. You just need to get a better dictionary.
Are you implying that the original Battlefield Earth was a masterpiece?
Of course, I haven't ever heard of a B.E. manga, so I must be daft.
IIRC, the federal government pays farmers not to grow crops, because if all arable farmland in the United States were used to grow food, then the market would be flooded, cost would plummet, and farmers wouldn't be able to make any money, go out of business, sell the farm, etc. Or so I'm told.
Essentially, we have a significant amount of land that is *not* being used for anything.
If there were a demand for biodiesel though, then subsidized farmers could use land they were paid not to cultivate to instead grow and/or refine biodiesel. There would be no fear of flooding the foodstuff market; they would just be supplying the biodiesel market.
IANAS (I Am Not A Scientist), but I think we could get a heck of a lot more biodiesel annually than fossil fuel annually if we used most or all of the currently unused land for growing fuel. The fact that it's enviro-friendly and relatively cheap to produce is just gravy.