Indeed, I always felt bad for Radio Shack employees for having to ask for all that info. You know that at least 50% of the people asked got hostile to the employee, as though it was his/her own personal policy to gather the info. Rather than be a punk to the employee, I would just tell them that my name was John J Shmidt. Noone ever said "That's my name too!", but it would have been nice.
Please, whatever you in the CBC online news staff do, don't tell me what species of spider it was that built this structure. Oh, and also, don't include a photo, because I'm sure noone would want to see an image of this anomoly. Do your best just to speculate about why they built the web, and make sure to include a funny joke at the end, something about aliens perhaps.
Brian Thair of the College of New Caledonia in Prince George said he saw a silky, white web stretching 60 hectares across a field. This is the end, my friends. Spiders have developed civilization, and their system of measurement is Hectares. Batton down the hatches!
I'm not blind, I can see the potential benefits to nanotech, but my main problem with nanotech, is that there is absolutely no potential defense against nanotech at this time. This is a technology whose application is limited only to the skills of the engineer. Missiles can be shot down. Bio-agents are difficult to implement because they are parts per bill/hojillion if used in water or air respectively. But nanotech gives assymetrical warfare an enormous boon. While only wealthy nations can currently implement this for any kind of task at all, this state of affairs will certainly not last. I hope that the Technological powers of the world will move slowly with nanotech, so that by the time it is a fully functional technology, it's properties are well understood. The grey goo scenario, while disasterous, is the least of my worries. The greatest is that military applications for nanotech will fall into the hands of a country which would use it's inherent ability for covert military actions. Simply put, this technology offers enormous effect, as it is extrordinarily flexible in it's applications.
extinct because of humans. We really are the cancer of this planet. Oh yes, what a shame it is that we no longer have packs of 40-50 giant unafraid hyenas scouring the continent. I for one, plan to cry myself to sleep tonight, for the poor, misunderstood giant hyena. What we did was supplant one pack hunter for another. And I for one, am rooting for the Humans.
Never had Trek ventured so much into politics and religion, never had individuals had so powerful motivations and messages. This is a concise statement about what I didn't like about DS9 in particular, and Star trek on the whole. I grant you, dealing with alien societies and such allows a lot of room for political/religious commentary, but I never felt it was done properly. Star Trek, in any of it's incarnations, never felt like anything more than flight of fancy to me. Too often, a perfectly good sci-fi story about enterprise, DS9, etc got derailed by some half hearted attempt at socio-political commentary.
So if I get in, do I get adamantium claws?
No, but you do stand to gain either #1:Stretching powers #2Invisibility #3:The ability to set yourself on fire #4Super strength and freakish orange features.
would the RIAA/MPAA ever let it happen Okay, this is just silly. The RIAA is not omnipotent. They cannot stop DVD-R's from being produced just because it has the capability to store a movie, nor can they stop Hard Disks from being produced, for the same reason. The RIAA/MPAA is pissed because there are applications out there whose main use (not necessarily intended, but main use) is distributing copyrighted material illegally. They won't sue dell for shipping computers with ethernet connections, just because they facilitate downloading music. Press the pause button on the conspiracy theories.
article states that it currently costs $8-9K to setup the average US home with solar power. Actually, the article said that it cost 8-9k to set up a solar unitThey don't specify what they mean by unit, but I guarantee, if you want to go even partway off the grid, it's going to run you more than 8-9k.
When will someone take one apart Excellent Question, especially given the well publicized trouble government employees have in holding on to their laptops. Just cause it's technically secure doesn't mean the laptop itself can't just get picked from an unnattentive employee.
9. Uttering outrageous statements with no support.
10. Assuming negative motivations for actions when logical reasons exist (terrorism is supported by islamic theocracies)
11. Violent anti-semitism
12. Posting as an anonymous coward.
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You are going to have a tough time trying to stop something on snow in any kind of device. If the snow is deep enough, a rudder would provide you with steering, and if turned to a 90 degree angle, would almost certainly bring the sled to a complete stop, while simultaneously hurdling you through the air, thanks to our friend, inertia. But at least you were able to steer your sled in the moments before your tragic accident. Brakes in the back? Effective for the sled, not for you. Brakes in the front? I hope you like flipping over and having a sled land on you.
It's one thing to shoot down a shell when you know it's path ahead of time, another entirely to get a fix on an unknown, erratic rocket and destroy it. Actually, that depends on how you look at it. A rocket, while certainly being much harder to target and track with the laser, is still holding volatile propellent, which the artillery shell would lack. The artillery shell would also have a thicker casing then a missile. This makes me wonder the same thing as another poster, what they mean when they say the shell was "Destroyed". Still, it is interesting to see lasers coming into use in the military, for purposes other than just targeting things.
Professor: I call it "The smelloscope". Try it! Fry:Just don't point it at Uranus.. Professor:Very funny Fry, we changed that planets name years ago just to get rid of that stupid joke. Fry:What did you call it? Professor:Urectum.
"Most states are running budget deficits, and they're looking ever more aggressively for ways to stem the erosion of their tax bases." Like hell they are trying to stem the "Erosion" of their tax base, they're looking to create a new tax. Rather than just tighten up their states respective budget's, maybe spend less, the politician's natural instinct is to create or raise a new tax. Internet sales will be taxed, now that the politicians understand that the business cycle wasn't eliminated, and that the internet is not some magical money machine for the economy, not to be trifled with. I'm surprised it took this long, but then, these are politicians.
I just finally got hooked up with a cable connection recently, I just called the installer "dude" a lot, and when it came to the installation of software, I just signed off on everything having been installed. He gets the job done quickly, gets a good performance evaluation, I don't have to worry about ad/spyware. Win/Win.
Am I the only person who really wants us to go back to the moon? No sir, no you are not. I think that, while the one space station has it's advantages, I'd rather the money that might go towards any US space station v3.0 project, go instead towards research towards putting together a livable habitat for use on the moon. That way, we can all start a lucrative career as Space Pirates.
I don't ever want to hear anymore sanctimony about from Europeans about how wasteful Americans are. Tossing computers? How is that anything other than wasteful? I'm sure it was a great catharsis for all involved, but c'mon now.
I was of the understanding that, were two galaxies to cross through each other's paths, that it would be more or less clean, due to the sheer ammount of space in comparison to the matter in the galaxies.
Indeed, I think that NASA needs to spend the time being focused on smaller projects, and most importantly, they need to get the cost of a launch down. Way down. Stick with the ISS for a while. Learn how to maintain a space station for longer than a little bit (I'm looking at you Skylab). I see little to no reason why a second space station would be preferable to, say, more Chandras or Hubbles or Voyagers, or god help us all, a space shuttle without 5 hojillian individual thermal tiles.
Book publishers like Baen and O'Reilly, however, have found that they can increase sales of their printed books by giving away the digital versions for free... 'Piracy' is in reality free advertising. Why don't the record companies and movie studios get it?
Well, there is a difference between reading and audio. People don't want to get monitor eyestrain from pleasure reading, and a printed book is usually quite portable. Putting a book out for free will entice a user to purchase the physical copy, for the aforementioned benefits, whereas the same cannot be said for MP3s, which suffer little loss in fidelity or functionality in the trip from.cda to.mp3. Personally, I still wouldn't give the whole book away, I'd pull an Orson Scott Cardand post the first three chapters online to hook in readers.
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Indeed, I always felt bad for Radio Shack employees for having to ask for all that info. You know that at least 50% of the people asked got hostile to the employee, as though it was his/her own personal policy to gather the info.
Rather than be a punk to the employee, I would just tell them that my name was John J Shmidt. Noone ever said "That's my name too!", but it would have been nice.
Please, whatever you in the CBC online news staff do, don't tell me what species of spider it was that built this structure. Oh, and also, don't include a photo, because I'm sure noone would want to see an image of this anomoly. Do your best just to speculate about why they built the web, and make sure to include a funny joke at the end, something about aliens perhaps.
Brian Thair of the College of New Caledonia in Prince George said he saw a silky, white web stretching 60 hectares across a field.
This is the end, my friends. Spiders have developed civilization, and their system of measurement is Hectares. Batton down the hatches!
I'm not blind, I can see the potential benefits to nanotech, but my main problem with nanotech, is that there is absolutely no potential defense against nanotech at this time. This is a technology whose application is limited only to the skills of the engineer. Missiles can be shot down. Bio-agents are difficult to implement because they are parts per bill/hojillion if used in water or air respectively. But nanotech gives assymetrical warfare an enormous boon. While only wealthy nations can currently implement this for any kind of task at all, this state of affairs will certainly not last.
I hope that the Technological powers of the world will move slowly with nanotech, so that by the time it is a fully functional technology, it's properties are well understood. The grey goo scenario, while disasterous, is the least of my worries. The greatest is that military applications for nanotech will fall into the hands of a country which would use it's inherent ability for covert military actions. Simply put, this technology offers enormous effect, as it is extrordinarily flexible in it's applications.
extinct because of humans. We really are the cancer of this planet.
Oh yes, what a shame it is that we no longer have packs of 40-50 giant unafraid hyenas scouring the continent. I for one, plan to cry myself to sleep tonight, for the poor, misunderstood giant hyena.
What we did was supplant one pack hunter for another. And I for one, am rooting for the Humans.
Never had Trek ventured so much into politics and religion, never had individuals had so powerful motivations and messages.
This is a concise statement about what I didn't like about DS9 in particular, and Star trek on the whole. I grant you, dealing with alien societies and such allows a lot of room for political/religious commentary, but I never felt it was done properly. Star Trek, in any of it's incarnations, never felt like anything more than flight of fancy to me. Too often, a perfectly good sci-fi story about enterprise, DS9, etc got derailed by some half hearted attempt at socio-political commentary.
So if I get in, do I get adamantium claws?
No, but you do stand to gain either
#1:Stretching powers
#2Invisibility
#3:The ability to set yourself on fire
#4Super strength and freakish orange features.
would the RIAA/MPAA ever let it happen
Okay, this is just silly. The RIAA is not omnipotent. They cannot stop DVD-R's from being produced just because it has the capability to store a movie, nor can they stop Hard Disks from being produced, for the same reason.
The RIAA/MPAA is pissed because there are applications out there whose main use (not necessarily intended, but main use) is distributing copyrighted material illegally. They won't sue dell for shipping computers with ethernet connections, just because they facilitate downloading music. Press the pause button on the conspiracy theories.
So I guess we no longer have to worry about losing our magnetic field then?
article states that it currently costs $8-9K to setup the average US home with solar power.
Actually, the article said that it cost 8-9k to set up a solar unitThey don't specify what they mean by unit, but I guarantee, if you want to go even partway off the grid, it's going to run you more than 8-9k.
When will someone take one apart
Excellent Question, especially given the well publicized trouble government employees have in holding on to their laptops. Just cause it's technically secure doesn't mean the laptop itself can't just get picked from an unnattentive employee.
9. Uttering outrageous statements with no support.
10. Assuming negative motivations for actions when logical reasons exist (terrorism is supported by islamic theocracies)
11. Violent anti-semitism
12. Posting as an anonymous coward.
You are going to have a tough time trying to stop something on snow in any kind of device. If the snow is deep enough, a rudder would provide you with steering, and if turned to a 90 degree angle, would almost certainly bring the sled to a complete stop, while simultaneously hurdling you through the air, thanks to our friend, inertia. But at least you were able to steer your sled in the moments before your tragic accident.
Brakes in the back? Effective for the sled, not for you. Brakes in the front? I hope you like flipping over and having a sled land on you.
You all laughed when I stuck with the punch card system over your unsecure floppies! Who's laughing now!
It's one thing to shoot down a shell when you know it's path ahead of time, another entirely to get a fix on an unknown, erratic rocket and destroy it.
Actually, that depends on how you look at it. A rocket, while certainly being much harder to target and track with the laser, is still holding volatile propellent, which the artillery shell would lack. The artillery shell would also have a thicker casing then a missile. This makes me wonder the same thing as another poster, what they mean when they say the shell was "Destroyed". Still, it is interesting to see lasers coming into use in the military, for purposes other than just targeting things.
And who could forget one of the greatest controllers ever? The Good old Advantage for the NES...It had a weighted base and everything.
Batman wins through guile
Dude, Guile is part of the Capcom Streetfighter universe. He wouldn't have any place in a fight with Bats or supes.
Professor: I call it "The smelloscope". Try it!
Fry:Just don't point it at Uranus..
Professor:Very funny Fry, we changed that planets name years ago just to get rid of that stupid joke.
Fry:What did you call it?
Professor:Urectum.
"Most states are running budget deficits, and they're looking ever more aggressively for ways to stem the erosion of their tax bases."
Like hell they are trying to stem the "Erosion" of their tax base, they're looking to create a new tax. Rather than just tighten up their states respective budget's, maybe spend less, the politician's natural instinct is to create or raise a new tax.
Internet sales will be taxed, now that the politicians understand that the business cycle wasn't eliminated, and that the internet is not some magical money machine for the economy, not to be trifled with.
I'm surprised it took this long, but then, these are politicians.
I just finally got hooked up with a cable connection recently, I just called the installer "dude" a lot, and when it came to the installation of software, I just signed off on everything having been installed. He gets the job done quickly, gets a good performance evaluation, I don't have to worry about ad/spyware. Win/Win.
Am I the only person who really wants us to go back to the moon?
No sir, no you are not. I think that, while the one space station has it's advantages, I'd rather the money that might go towards any US space station v3.0 project, go instead towards research towards putting together a livable habitat for use on the moon.
That way, we can all start a lucrative career as Space Pirates.
I don't ever want to hear anymore sanctimony about from Europeans about how wasteful Americans are. Tossing computers? How is that anything other than wasteful? I'm sure it was a great catharsis for all involved, but c'mon now.
I was of the understanding that, were two galaxies to cross through each other's paths, that it would be more or less clean, due to the sheer ammount of space in comparison to the matter in the galaxies.
Indeed, I think that NASA needs to spend the time being focused on smaller projects, and most importantly, they need to get the cost of a launch down. Way down. Stick with the ISS for a while. Learn how to maintain a space station for longer than a little bit (I'm looking at you Skylab).
I see little to no reason why a second space station would be preferable to, say, more Chandras or Hubbles or Voyagers, or god help us all, a space shuttle without 5 hojillian individual thermal tiles.
Book publishers like Baen and O'Reilly, however, have found that they can increase sales of their printed books by giving away the digital versions for free... 'Piracy' is in reality free advertising. Why don't the record companies and movie studios get it?
.cda to .mp3.
Well, there is a difference between reading and audio. People don't want to get monitor eyestrain from pleasure reading, and a printed book is usually quite portable. Putting a book out for free will entice a user to purchase the physical copy, for the aforementioned benefits, whereas the same cannot be said for MP3s, which suffer little loss in fidelity or functionality in the trip from
Personally, I still wouldn't give the whole book away, I'd pull an Orson Scott Cardand post the first three chapters online to hook in readers.