You're probably right about not being enough complex elements, unless we're wrong about how matter is organized, or pops into our universe.
"Most wars produce clusters of weapon usage, near the front lines. These so far seem random." Unless the physics of the universe only permit solar destruction in a particular way, and so each advanced species always will eventually come to the same conclusion, and possibly same end. Or the star destroying alien race(s) have almost always existed, and can travel vast distances instantly, and it just takes them a few thousand years here and there to get mad enough or bored enough that they want to smoke a few stars.
But this is of course just my imagination running wild. It's entirely more likely that nature itself is just acting out, much like lightning storms on earth: Flashy, loud, and scary.
I predict that if the explosion is pulsating, then it's likely we'll see pulsating dupe stories about it too. Go ahead, mod me offtopic, but I'll have the last laugh when this story shows up again tomorrow.
If the distant explosions are caused by aliens, like that Slashdot article the other week claimed? When you think about it though, if it is possible to blow up a solar system, such as in the Star Trek 7 movie, then perhaps this is how we're going to find out we're not alone in the Universe - by observing our neighbours knock down a distant tree [proverbially].
It figures Google would be in the battle to find the G spot on the web. Now only have they found it, now they are trying to keep it for themselves. In the name of web-women's lib, I say boycott Google's misappropration of the web's G-spot!
I really don't see how you got three people to mod you up since your post is flamebait.
While it's tempting to label you a southern hick, there's a better way to explain your attitude about nuclear war: ignorance. You're a very ignorant person. You have no idea how to win battles over many generations. You think that a war is something that is won in a year or two when Bush stands on an invincible aircraft carrier in front of a banner saying "Mission Accomplished". Hopefully you start to wake up to reality like Rummy has and realize that 12 years is closer to the truth, but even he doesn't see that it can be decades. [There's a famous war called the Hundred Years War for a reason - it lasted a REALLY long time!] Even WWII spun off of WWI twenty years earlier. And Desert Storm was more than a decade before the War for Oil 2002, but in the grand scheme of history it was the same war, just a different battle. Heck, the Presidents were even the same - practically!
Nuking people creates wars. Wars create feuds. Feuds cause hotheads like yourself to nuke people.
I too have run for years at a time without any AV software and never got an infected computer. Then suddenly javabyte showed up and spoiled my record. Fortunately it was a mild virus, and AVG took care of it easily. Seems it was likely an old version of java I was running while visiting a website, or something along those lines. I now use free AVG grisoft.com because my computer is fast enough to handle it, and hey, it's free. I still know my brain is the best AV scanner available, but in case I want to lend my computer to a friend while I'm out of the room, it doesn't hurt to have a layer of AV software like AVG. Just don't use bloatware like McAfee or Norton;-)
"China: Leading the way in Flying Space Pig Research"
I didn't know Jim Henson was from China, since he pioneered Pigs in Space on the Muppet Show of course. Miss Piggy and Hogthrob among others were in space decades ago. And Dr. Bunsen Honeydew no doubt conducted experiments on thos piggies too.
I'm not saying that this patch is a hoax, I'm saying it's a bad habit to start linking "patches" directly from the front page of news sites. Can you imagine April Fools Day on Slashdot, if they posted a "patch"?
While I always type in potentially system modifying commands into my computer based on what a news site tells me to type, this time I'll give it a day or so in order to let the tech guinea pigs report back just what the changes have done for them.
If the Sulfnbk.exe "virus" taught me anything [and I didn't since I had that hoax figured out when I saw it], it's don't assume someone's helping your computer if you don't know them from a hole in the ground, and you never asked for their help.
If I ever break down and buy a bubble jet printer, I'm going to look at the refill's mL value. Many printers used to have a tank of at least 30 mL, but now you're paying the same price, for 14mL or less! And to top it all off, each picture probably uses more ink too! That's something the printer industry doesn't want you to notice.
I'd even advocate MS writing patch worms that force exposed and flawed computers to close a hole that would cause a destructive worm to tear across the net, such as Zotob and Blaster did. But I know that Microsoft is famous for breaking its own products with its own patches, so I can't really support that method.
I installed SP4's Rollup 1 on W2K the other week, and it broke Office XP's ability to save to the Floppy drive!
Organized religion probably started at least partially as a means to control reproduction. Think about it dispassionately for a moment if you're a strongly religious person and take offence to a question like that.
Who determines who can marry or not? Is it a sin to reproduce before the coupling is sanctioned by the church?
Society also had built in predjudices which we've since lost [I'm not saying losing the predjudices has been bad, it just has consequences that might not have yet been countered in other ways], such as scorn for unwed mothers. Now that reproduction is available to anyone, whether or not they have money or a permanent partner, there are very few controls on who actually can have a child. This has very serious implications on society, when a parent who has no regard for societal norms raises many children with the same disregard for their fellow humans. These kids can wreak terror on schools, peers, and property. And they can grow up to be George W. Bush.
I remember just a year or two ago, there was a planet discovered in the Kuiper Belt, given a name starting with a 'Q' if I recall correctly. Then the media started hyping a 10th planet just this year with a new KBO, forgetting the previous discovery.
The problem is that so many of these new KBOs could be larger than Pluto once we find them, even though they might not fit other criteria we'd been using for planetary designation. It actually makes more sense to downgrade Pluto to a simple KBO, and create a more rigid definition of a major planet.
Fossil fuels are an energy carrier too though, they need to be pumped out of the ground which takes energy, floated or driven to the point of use, and they store the energy absorbed by life forms millions of years ago from the Sun mostly.
Don't belittle the benefits of hydrogen just because it doesn't come in a pure state where we want it to be - in our fuel tanks.
Actually I was being quite serious and didn't even thing Rype was funny, I was trying to be creative off the cuff. Seems rype.com is already used, but something as a play on Skype's success could work, without gettin' sued.
Human nature being what it is, the city will be rebuilt right where this disaster happened. Yes it's the death of a city, but humans are pig-headed and will rebuild in the same spot just to try to prove a point against nature. Sometimes lessons learned can prevent an exact reoccurance, and the next disaster might not be quite as defined, but they'll rebuild the city, mark my words.
Besides if they built in a new location they'd have to call it New New Orleans, and that just ain't going to happen. The old city would be Old New Orleans, and that won't happen either.
It is only on the opposite side of the card from the other info, so if you only have the image of the front side, you can't use the card in some places.
Slashdot Mirror
You're probably right about not being enough complex elements, unless we're wrong about how matter is organized, or pops into our universe.
"Most wars produce clusters of weapon usage, near the front lines. These so far seem random."
Unless the physics of the universe only permit solar destruction in a particular way, and so each advanced species always will eventually come to the same conclusion, and possibly same end. Or the star destroying alien race(s) have almost always existed, and can travel vast distances instantly, and it just takes them a few thousand years here and there to get mad enough or bored enough that they want to smoke a few stars.
But this is of course just my imagination running wild. It's entirely more likely that nature itself is just acting out, much like lightning storms on earth: Flashy, loud, and scary.
I predict that if the explosion is pulsating, then it's likely we'll see pulsating dupe stories about it too. Go ahead, mod me offtopic, but I'll have the last laugh when this story shows up again tomorrow.
If the distant explosions are caused by aliens, like that Slashdot article the other week claimed? When you think about it though, if it is possible to blow up a solar system, such as in the Star Trek 7 movie, then perhaps this is how we're going to find out we're not alone in the Universe - by observing our neighbours knock down a distant tree [proverbially].
It figures Google would be in the battle to find the G spot on the web. Now only have they found it, now they are trying to keep it for themselves. In the name of web-women's lib, I say boycott Google's misappropration of the web's G-spot!
I really don't see how you got three people to mod you up since your post is flamebait.
While it's tempting to label you a southern hick, there's a better way to explain your attitude about nuclear war: ignorance. You're a very ignorant person. You have no idea how to win battles over many generations. You think that a war is something that is won in a year or two when Bush stands on an invincible aircraft carrier in front of a banner saying "Mission Accomplished". Hopefully you start to wake up to reality like Rummy has and realize that 12 years is closer to the truth, but even he doesn't see that it can be decades. [There's a famous war called the Hundred Years War for a reason - it lasted a REALLY long time!] Even WWII spun off of WWI twenty years earlier. And Desert Storm was more than a decade before the War for Oil 2002, but in the grand scheme of history it was the same war, just a different battle. Heck, the Presidents were even the same - practically!
Nuking people creates wars.
Wars create feuds.
Feuds cause hotheads like yourself to nuke people.
You do the math.
I too have run for years at a time without any AV software and never got an infected computer. Then suddenly javabyte showed up and spoiled my record. Fortunately it was a mild virus, and AVG took care of it easily. Seems it was likely an old version of java I was running while visiting a website, or something along those lines. I now use free AVG grisoft.com because my computer is fast enough to handle it, and hey, it's free. I still know my brain is the best AV scanner available, but in case I want to lend my computer to a friend while I'm out of the room, it doesn't hurt to have a layer of AV software like AVG. Just don't use bloatware like McAfee or Norton ;-)
;-)4
And as for the Condom lacking guy, he must be new here - no slashdot user has a girlfriend
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/14/14325
"China: Leading the way in Flying Space Pig Research"
I didn't know Jim Henson was from China, since he pioneered Pigs in Space on the Muppet Show of course. Miss Piggy and Hogthrob among others were in space decades ago. And Dr. Bunsen Honeydew no doubt conducted experiments on thos piggies too.
I'm not saying that this patch is a hoax, I'm saying it's a bad habit to start linking "patches" directly from the front page of news sites. Can you imagine April Fools Day on Slashdot, if they posted a "patch"?
While I always type in potentially system modifying commands into my computer based on what a news site tells me to type, this time I'll give it a day or so in order to let the tech guinea pigs report back just what the changes have done for them.
If the Sulfnbk.exe "virus" taught me anything [and I didn't since I had that hoax figured out when I saw it], it's don't assume someone's helping your computer if you don't know them from a hole in the ground, and you never asked for their help.
If I ever break down and buy a bubble jet printer, I'm going to look at the refill's mL value. Many printers used to have a tank of at least 30 mL, but now you're paying the same price, for 14mL or less! And to top it all off, each picture probably uses more ink too! That's something the printer industry doesn't want you to notice.
When will Gates finally just buy out Google?
Then we'll have Googlesoft or Microogle to complain about.
I'd even advocate MS writing patch worms that force exposed and flawed computers to close a hole that would cause a destructive worm to tear across the net, such as Zotob and Blaster did. But I know that Microsoft is famous for breaking its own products with its own patches, so I can't really support that method.
I installed SP4's Rollup 1 on W2K the other week, and it broke Office XP's ability to save to the Floppy drive!
Organized religion probably started at least partially as a means to control reproduction. Think about it dispassionately for a moment if you're a strongly religious person and take offence to a question like that.
Who determines who can marry or not? Is it a sin to reproduce before the coupling is sanctioned by the church?
Society also had built in predjudices which we've since lost [I'm not saying losing the predjudices has been bad, it just has consequences that might not have yet been countered in other ways], such as scorn for unwed mothers. Now that reproduction is available to anyone, whether or not they have money or a permanent partner, there are very few controls on who actually can have a child. This has very serious implications on society, when a parent who has no regard for societal norms raises many children with the same disregard for their fellow humans. These kids can wreak terror on schools, peers, and property. And they can grow up to be George W. Bush.
I remember just a year or two ago, there was a planet discovered in the Kuiper Belt, given a name starting with a 'Q' if I recall correctly. Then the media started hyping a 10th planet just this year with a new KBO, forgetting the previous discovery.
The problem is that so many of these new KBOs could be larger than Pluto once we find them, even though they might not fit other criteria we'd been using for planetary designation. It actually makes more sense to downgrade Pluto to a simple KBO, and create a more rigid definition of a major planet.
"If you mod me down or reply negatively, you lose sex priveledges too :D"
You and I are reading Slashdot. It's safe to assume that no one reading this sentence has sex priveledges as it is.
" Colonel Sanders!"
Actually, he was just Private Sanders back then.
Fossil fuels are an energy carrier too though, they need to be pumped out of the ground which takes energy, floated or driven to the point of use, and they store the energy absorbed by life forms millions of years ago from the Sun mostly.
Don't belittle the benefits of hydrogen just because it doesn't come in a pure state where we want it to be - in our fuel tanks.
Actually I was being quite serious and didn't even thing Rype was funny, I was trying to be creative off the cuff. Seems rype.com is already used, but something as a play on Skype's success could work, without gettin' sued.
Is there at "letter to the editor" section of Slashdot, and if not, would you consider implementing it?
Before releasing it, it better have a simple name like Wengo or Rype.
I think the word Open in the first bit of every free OS software is going to hinder adoption by the unwashed masses.
This is going to completely ruin the blonde joke involving computer screens and white out!
" Technically your card is not valid unless you have signed it."
It is... if his name is Check Id, or Not Authorized.
Mr. Authorized always runs into that problem.
Human nature being what it is, the city will be rebuilt right where this disaster happened. Yes it's the death of a city, but humans are pig-headed and will rebuild in the same spot just to try to prove a point against nature. Sometimes lessons learned can prevent an exact reoccurance, and the next disaster might not be quite as defined, but they'll rebuild the city, mark my words.
Besides if they built in a new location they'd have to call it New New Orleans, and that just ain't going to happen. The old city would be Old New Orleans, and that won't happen either.
It is only on the opposite side of the card from the other info, so if you only have the image of the front side, you can't use the card in some places.
Pardon me, I left off the link to the Zug.com prank(s).
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/