I know it's very abundant, but is it really *that* abundant? Abundant enough to be used in that kinda ongoing quantity without disrupting the rest of the market for it? I think my titanic apocalypse (pun intended) has some ring of truth.
What's worse is that paving every road worldwide with this stuff will require HOW MUCH titanium? Since road surfaces WEAR, how often will these tiles have to be replaced with more? What will that do to the price of titanium for everything else? When the price skyrockets, how will we cope with people tearing up these fancy new roads to sell off the titanium, as some scavengers do now with catalytic converters and copper pipes and wiring, etc.?
Nope, I can't see how tying up the bulk of the world's titanium supply in road surface could possibly go wrong....
So what if it does? I know, you think you're being funny, but really. They won't be isotopes indicative of where I am or live, will they? They'd be indicative of whatever water source the distiller (Niagara, DS Waters) is using. So DHS would wind up sending the troops to some place on the other side of the country.
(Yes, I really do. I don't like the taste of mineralized "drinking" or tap water, and contrary to marketing the mineralization has no health benefits.)
Nope, he'll announce that he's Locutus of Borg, that he's infected our global Internet with an assimilation virus that activates NOW, and that resistance is futile!
You forgot to mention how dear Ronaldo got to be single in the first place: HE was in the exact same predicament a month before and got licked to the curb by his ex- for Eduardo, who just happened to be eager to tell her she had a nice ass because HE was recently single. It's a pyramid scheme!
I predict this will have the unintended consequence of tripling crop damage by pests, as the microwaves also help keep them warm and toasty - and hungry - through the winter months.:-)
I guess my experience - or lack - with it is demonstrative why it failed to take over the world, eh? IBM thought they could pull that kill-one-standard-and-create-another stunt one more time, but they wuz wrong!
How many people still living even remember the other "local bus" that preceded it, VESA Local Bus? I still have two boxed motherboards with VLB slots and a couple interface cards intended for it.
Every month I see some twit post an ad in the computers-and-tech section of my local Craigslist branch, advertising a disk drive or Flash media pre-loaded with hundreds or thousands of movies or MP3s, and in every instance the asking price is far more than the value of the media itself. Those people, too, are profiting from it; whether they are vacationing members of one of these shady foreign cartels I can't say.
A jihad is rooted in ideology, just as was the Civil War and is the RIAA's campaign.
I did not misuse or overuse the word, AND I explained my usage. You overreacted to its appearance, in trademark political-correctness style. Do you also shirk away from describing yourself as an "atheist" (assuming you are) because you fear the stigma attached to that word, even though the word is accurate? Good grief. Grow a pair of literary cojones, will ya?
Others seem to think you're the terrorist, since you've been modded as Troll not once but twice. It's also worth noting that "jihad" != "terrorism", except in the mind of a poorly educated and/or un-insightful person. To such a person I might have indeed sounded "like those people", but apparently not to visitors here. I think you underestimate your fellow Slashdotters, which is possibly why you were modded as Troll; nobody likes being judged as ignorant, and much less so when it's not true.
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I know it's very abundant, but is it really *that* abundant? Abundant enough to be used in that kinda ongoing quantity without disrupting the rest of the market for it? I think my titanic apocalypse (pun intended) has some ring of truth.
What's worse is that paving every road worldwide with this stuff will require HOW MUCH titanium? Since road surfaces WEAR, how often will these tiles have to be replaced with more? What will that do to the price of titanium for everything else? When the price skyrockets, how will we cope with people tearing up these fancy new roads to sell off the titanium, as some scavengers do now with catalytic converters and copper pipes and wiring, etc.?
Nope, I can't see how tying up the bulk of the world's titanium supply in road surface could possibly go wrong....
You're still a square, and the Summer of Love is over!
So... no invites for old-fart Martian tourists who lost their return ticket and just need to hitch a ride home?
So what if it does? I know, you think you're being funny, but really. They won't be isotopes indicative of where I am or live, will they? They'd be indicative of whatever water source the distiller (Niagara, DS Waters) is using. So DHS would wind up sending the troops to some place on the other side of the country.
... I only drink distilled water.
(Yes, I really do. I don't like the taste of mineralized "drinking" or tap water, and contrary to marketing the mineralization has no health benefits.)
Nope, he'll announce that he's Locutus of Borg, that he's infected our global Internet with an assimilation virus that activates NOW, and that resistance is futile!
... faulty towers? Is John Cleese helping with the advertising?
You forgot to mention how dear Ronaldo got to be single in the first place: HE was in the exact same predicament a month before and got licked to the curb by his ex- for Eduardo, who just happened to be eager to tell her she had a nice ass because HE was recently single. It's a pyramid scheme!
I predict this will have the unintended consequence of tripling crop damage by pests, as the microwaves also help keep them warm and toasty - and hungry - through the winter months. :-)
... that working alongside male geeks didn't actually make them more attractive.
*touches finger to nose*
So the well is alive now and needs to have a platoon of 4-ton robotic pacemakers?
Uh-oh... does this mean he wants more babies? For a geneticist, more babies is like ordering the Sampler Plate at Denny's.
No, Overrated wasn't what I had in mind, either....
Good God... somebody modded me as Informative when I wasn't trying to be!
... and wants its A-Team back. Your meme is violating some copyright somewhere.
I guess my experience - or lack - with it is demonstrative why it failed to take over the world, eh? IBM thought they could pull that kill-one-standard-and-create-another stunt one more time, but they wuz wrong!
I knew about it, serviced machines that had it, but never actually owned a system with it myself. I can't even recall which models used it (PS/2?).
How many people still living even remember the other "local bus" that preceded it, VESA Local Bus? I still have two boxed motherboards with VLB slots and a couple interface cards intended for it.
...considering who we have as a Vice President and who his friends are:
Biden to MPAA: you'll like Obama's pick for copyright czar
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/biden-to-mpaa-youll-like-obamas-copyright-pick.ars
Every month I see some twit post an ad in the computers-and-tech section of my local Craigslist branch, advertising a disk drive or Flash media pre-loaded with hundreds or thousands of movies or MP3s, and in every instance the asking price is far more than the value of the media itself. Those people, too, are profiting from it; whether they are vacationing members of one of these shady foreign cartels I can't say.
You're still here? I repeat:
I did not misuse or overuse the word, AND I explained my usage. You overreacted to its appearance, in trademark political-correctness style. Do you also shirk away from describing yourself as an "atheist" (assuming you are) because you fear the stigma attached to that word, even though the word is accurate? Good grief. Grow a pair of literary cojones, will ya?
There, fixed that for you.
Others seem to think you're the terrorist, since you've been modded as Troll not once but twice. It's also worth noting that "jihad" != "terrorism", except in the mind of a poorly educated and/or un-insightful person. To such a person I might have indeed sounded "like those people", but apparently not to visitors here. I think you underestimate your fellow Slashdotters, which is possibly why you were modded as Troll; nobody likes being judged as ignorant, and much less so when it's not true.