I thought perhaps it might be a great way to deliver THC instead. This whole push to legalize pot for medicinal uses is fine, but the problem is people want to smoke it, and I sure as hell don't want another form of smoking out there.
So, hey, if people can get their THC from their contacts.... maybe they'll drop the pipe?
Won't get much of an argument from me. I love OO.o, but I readily admit that MS Office XP (or even Office 98, really) is a better product.
OO.o has a lot of catching up to do. What really sucks is that MS Office basically kicked every other office suite to the curb and had quite a bit of time to mature without competition.
Like it or not, MS is still king of the hill and it's gonna be hard to knock it off.
MS Office kicks OpenOffice.org's ass two ways to Tuesday.
Don't get me wrong, I love OO.o, especially the price, but MS Office *is* a better product, and there's no denying it. It's more mature, all of the many minor kinks that plague OO.o are ironed out.
You're not prefacing that on the butchery of the books, are you? Because outside of the books, the movie is a decent one, in its own right -- just like the Lord of the Rings series, and they mangle the books worse than the Dune series.
Ok, I'll admit, Leto running across the desert like the Flash was a tad over the top.;)
If you read the article, the idea is to whitelist your friends and mailing lists, and then you personally choose to set a fee that you charge for accepting mail from any person/business unknown to you.
So basically, you get paid for receiving email, but you only need to pay if you are in the habit of sending unsolicited email to random strangers.
If that's really the case, then I'm all for it! Hell, I'll gladly accept every piece of spam the send, as long as they send me some cash for it as well!
I guess people (not just you, although I'm replying to you;)) missed my point. I agree that the preservation of languages for historic reasons is valid. I agree that differences among cultures and people is a good thing as well.
I believe, however, that universal language would be better. It has nothing to do with a hatred of other cultures and everything to do with a hatred of miscommunication. It's hard enough for people to understand each other in the same language. Throw another one in to the mix, or more, and it gets worse. Syntax, emphasis, structure, meaning. All of these change from language to language. All contribute to the "what you meant is not what I understood" syndrome.
Life would be better, IMO, if languages were kept alive strictly for anthropological purposes, but left to die in common practice.
I agree that different cultures and worldviews are good, but everyone should have some common foundation upon which to communicate. Innuendo, slang and colloquialisms can be overcome, but entirely differing languages cannot.
A tribal dialect of swahili used by a tribal village of canabals that died off by eating themselves and never had any texts, OTOH, should not be something worth keeping and studying...
I both agree and disagree. I don't care about dying languages -- good riddance, IMO. Differing languages are too divisive. Everyone should speak Structured English.:D
However, I think older languages should be preserved if only to make sure that archeologists and historians have a way of understanding what they're reading.
Ahh, I see what you meant by the breakage. I thought you were talking about stacked up and topling like a building, not hanging weight.
Still, I don't think it's too hard to believe that the cable will be capable of withstanding the tensile forces of its own weight pulling on it. Individually, a nanofiber might break under its own weight, but collectively, as a woven mesh / rope, it will have a much higher tensile strength.
You missed the point. There will be no breakage "under its own weight" with the space elevator, because there won't be any weight pulling the elevator down to earth. They're not talking about building a tall tower here. They're talking about tying a heavy rock up in orbit to the ground and climbing up the rope. Ever play tether-ball when you were in elementary school? It's the same principle.
That's why the grandparent post mentioned *tensile* strength rather than *load-bearing* capabilities; you need something that's going to flex outwards rather than something that has to stay rigid yet flexible enough to handle the occasional tremor like conventional buildings.
Furthermore, the suggested material will not be solid, like a steel beam. It will be a mesh... a rope. You can get tremendous strength from meshes, much more than from a single solid beam. That's why, for example, the cables that hold suspension bridges aloft are twisted ropes rather than a single solid strand of material -- it's simply much stronger that way.
True, to get the tensile strength they need for this they require a stronger more exotic material than normal cables and ropes are made of, but the principle is the same.
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If you want to find out what it's like wearing contacts, I suggest you watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
You do not know pain until you have gotten a contact stuck behind your eyeball.
I thought perhaps it might be a great way to deliver THC instead. This whole push to legalize pot for medicinal uses is fine, but the problem is people want to smoke it, and I sure as hell don't want another form of smoking out there.
;)
So, hey, if people can get their THC from their contacts.... maybe they'll drop the pipe?
Nah, it'll never happen.
Won't get much of an argument from me. I love OO.o, but I readily admit that MS Office XP (or even Office 98, really) is a better product.
OO.o has a lot of catching up to do. What really sucks is that MS Office basically kicked every other office suite to the curb and had quite a bit of time to mature without competition.
Like it or not, MS is still king of the hill and it's gonna be hard to knock it off.
MS Office kicks OpenOffice.org's ass two ways to Tuesday.
Don't get me wrong, I love OO.o, especially the price, but MS Office *is* a better product, and there's no denying it. It's more mature, all of the many minor kinks that plague OO.o are ironed out.
Deep Space 9 was copying Deep Space 9?
Of course, that could be because they were busy copying Babylon 5.... ;)
You're not prefacing that on the butchery of the books, are you? Because outside of the books, the movie is a decent one, in its own right -- just like the Lord of the Rings series, and they mangle the books worse than the Dune series.
;)
Ok, I'll admit, Leto running across the desert like the Flash was a tad over the top.
Er... I don't mean the reruns. They're premering a miniseries remake in December. It was plastered all over the Dune series last week.
I've seen no footage whatsoever, yet, but I'm kinda hoping it will be decent. SciFi can put on a decent show when it spends the cash...
"I love you, will you marry me?"
O O! "
"Sure, ya big lug!"
"Oh no, we're doomed."
"Hold me tiny dancer!"
*Zap*
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
"Although my armor and weapons are badly in need of repair, I spend my entire reward on ale and whores."
-- Skull, PVP
But... what about Battlestar Galactia? Looks worth waiting for. Dune series? I actually liked it.
Sci Fi may have canceled this show, but they've still got stuff going for it.
And, some day, there will be another show.
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:)
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Bwa-*cough*cough*sputter*
Ahem. You're welcome.
What? OMG!
Turns off compu-
... until everyone's head explodes from all the radiation. ;)
Comedy Gold!
Makes sense. I went ahead and changed it.
;)
I suppose accidentally switching to extrans with my stupid scroll-mouse didn't help either.
I guess people (not just you, although I'm replying to you ;)) missed my point. I agree that the preservation of languages for historic reasons is valid. I agree that differences among cultures and people is a good thing as well.
I believe, however, that universal language would be better. It has nothing to do with a hatred of other cultures and everything to do with a hatred of miscommunication. It's hard enough for people to understand each other in the same language. Throw another one in to the mix, or more, and it gets worse. Syntax, emphasis, structure, meaning. All of these change from language to language. All contribute to the "what you meant is not what I understood" syndrome.
Life would be better, IMO, if languages were kept alive strictly for anthropological purposes, but left to die in common practice.
I agree that different cultures and worldviews are good, but everyone should have some common foundation upon which to communicate. Innuendo, slang and colloquialisms can be overcome, but entirely differing languages cannot.
Modded Flamebait? I conceded a point to the person I was arguing with. That's good debate.
And I get modded Flamebait?
Oyvey.
Agreed.
I both agree and disagree. I don't care about dying languages -- good riddance, IMO. Differing languages are too divisive. Everyone should speak Structured English. :D
However, I think older languages should be preserved if only to make sure that archeologists and historians have a way of understanding what they're reading.
Ahh, I see what you meant by the breakage. I thought you were talking about stacked up and topling like a building, not hanging weight.
Still, I don't think it's too hard to believe that the cable will be capable of withstanding the tensile forces of its own weight pulling on it. Individually, a nanofiber might break under its own weight, but collectively, as a woven mesh / rope, it will have a much higher tensile strength.
You missed the point. There will be no breakage "under its own weight" with the space elevator, because there won't be any weight pulling the elevator down to earth. They're not talking about building a tall tower here. They're talking about tying a heavy rock up in orbit to the ground and climbing up the rope. Ever play tether-ball when you were in elementary school? It's the same principle.
That's why the grandparent post mentioned *tensile* strength rather than *load-bearing* capabilities; you need something that's going to flex outwards rather than something that has to stay rigid yet flexible enough to handle the occasional tremor like conventional buildings.
Furthermore, the suggested material will not be solid, like a steel beam. It will be a mesh... a rope. You can get tremendous strength from meshes, much more than from a single solid beam. That's why, for example, the cables that hold suspension bridges aloft are twisted ropes rather than a single solid strand of material -- it's simply much stronger that way.
True, to get the tensile strength they need for this they require a stronger more exotic material than normal cables and ropes are made of, but the principle is the same.
"bad" combat system? You understate hundredfold. ;)