The problem with all of this is scale, right? The energy required to send larger and larger objects would be impractical.
So, what's the smallest thing we can send, then? How small can we make a satellite that can send some information back?
It may not be useful for transporting people to the other end of the universe in a practical amount of time, but I'm sure sending a probe that can check up on Mars every week or so would be of some sort of slight interest to researchers...
Listen, if there were pre-existing regulations that were exempted just for BP, they were obviously in place for a reason, no? I would think local regulations for a lake would be more on par than a federal standard for water levels, overall.
Besides, even diluted across the entire lake, the amount of ammonia and sludge is still enough to do some damage given a good decade or two.
Actually, the idea of a minimal-impact burial is alive and well. Fitting with the tradition, it's called a "green burial". Google isn't all that helpful at this point, but it's essentially being unembalmed, being thrown in a cardboard box and having a tree plotted over you as opposed to a traditional process. I'm not sure how popular it is now, but an article from about a year ago denotes a small, but growing, trend:
Rape implies a loss of power to another person, sexual manipulation without consent, etc
"Virtual Rape" implies watching a graphical avatar that may or may not represent you have another avatar try and have sex with it. No worse than some of that "3D Porn" that pops up online, only its supposed to be criminal because you are in control of one of the avatars?
I am disgusted that this article was even approved. If groundless, thoughtless speculation is what passes for "News For Nerds, Stuff that Matters", I may need to take a few months away from the site.
ScuttleMonkey should be ashamed for even allowing this to float. I understand by your department quip that you obviously find the idea silly -- why approve it, then? It's not like you're censoring the poor fool by not allowing him to pass along his useless article to the/. masses.
" The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
So, does it fit? What was the evidence before the hack? IANAL, just curious.
Space.com is reporting that the Mars Express probe's MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) experiment has detected and measured an enormous amount of water ice near Mars' south pole, which would be sufficient to submerge the whole planet's surface underneath approximately 10m of water on average.
10m = ~32.8ft
From the article:
"The scientists calculated that the water would form a 36-foot-deep ocean of sorts if spread over the Martian globe."
Mars is unlikely to sport beachfront property anytime soon, but the planet has enough water ice at its south pole to blanket the entire planet in more than 30 feet of water if everything thawed out.
Since when are awe, wonder, and analysis incompatible? Just because we can try to make sense of the world doesn't mean we can't still be enthused by it.
"In theory, if a room were to be coated with this material, switching on the lights would only illuminate the items in the room and not the walls, giving a sense of floating free in infinite space."
Outside of that gravity thing. Sounds more like standing outside in the country.
We are analytical creatures. God isn't hardwired into our brains -- deities take so many functions, forms, numbers, etc -- but comes about as the natural result of trying to understand that which is outside of our ability to perceive. For the earlier people, deities served to explain everything about the universe and everything had a strict order. As science began to come about, deities took smaller and smaller roles in our understanding of the universe -- no longer was it required to have a God to explain why something falls. Of course, there are always going to be limits to what we understand, as there is no way to understand when we have reached the boundaries of our knowledge -- only methods of estimation. God now rests and dwells in these positions, taking a smaller role as the spark in the universe, that which lies in the gaps of our knowledge.
If God is hardwired, then at what point does God stop and our natural analysis begin?
Are the systems completely destroyed by the testing, reused, or is there the possibility that they are throwing out half-working laptops that don't meet the minimum requirements to qualify as a Toughbook? If so, I might need to make a few dumpster diving trips...
"Google must blur this area because burglars could use the pictures to plan an escape route along the back of the garden which is hidden from normal view."
Are you kidding me? Ever been Geocaching? I have been to so many locations that I thought were nice, open places to drop a cache, only to find upon arrival that the images were outdated, failed to show an important detail like a wall, or that some plant life has literally grown into an obstacle since the last update. Relying on Google Maps to plan a robbery is possibly one of the dumbest things you can do, especially if you live in a rural area with few map updates or flyovers.
"Of that group, 91 were monolingual and 93 were bilingual. The bilinguals included speakers of 25 different languages, the most prevalent being Polish, Yiddish, German, Romanian and Hungarian."
But the question still stands -- was this a general trend or were certain languages "healthier"?
Were all of the languages the same, or was this a general trend? Like, if you spoke both German and, say, Japanese, would you have a slightly longer or shorter shelf life than, say, Spanish and Portuguese?
It's one thing to say a single post has been deleted. A screenshot cannot prove an inter-administrator conspiracy to delete these specific types of posts, though. I admit evidence to prove this is hard, but I'm just trying to say, why shouldn't we start from the assumption this is false until we see evidence otherwise? I'm more inclined to believe a troll than a conspiracy and I'm going to stick to that.
Who modded this up? If there was a shred of evidence that this was happening, I'd bite, but you can't just claim that Apple is supporting the nuking of driver threads to cover-up some annoying driver bug and not have something to back you up; otherwise, you come off looking like a troll.
Why is a minor forum dispute headlining Slashdot? Just because the poster thinks it's a sign of something bigger doesn't make it so; I'm ashamed of the editors for even letting this hit the front page. Perhaps this article should go the way of the poster's original?
So a post got deleted on a forum and the obvious explanation has to do with an inter-company conspiracy to cover for a driver bug? Didn't you bother to look for more obvious conclusions, like e-mailing an admin for an explanation, or maybe posting it again with an inquiry as the former deletion? There has to be less than this than claimed.
There seems to be an issue with fiber connectivity -- so why not launch a satellite? I mean, while we're on the topic of silly tasks like purchasing nations to support a file sharing website...
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The problem with all of this is scale, right? The energy required to send larger and larger objects would be impractical.
So, what's the smallest thing we can send, then? How small can we make a satellite that can send some information back?
It may not be useful for transporting people to the other end of the universe in a practical amount of time, but I'm sure sending a probe that can check up on Mars every week or so would be of some sort of slight interest to researchers...
Of course, there's the issue of the touchdown...
Listen, if there were pre-existing regulations that were exempted just for BP, they were obviously in place for a reason, no? I would think local regulations for a lake would be more on par than a federal standard for water levels, overall.
Besides, even diluted across the entire lake, the amount of ammonia and sludge is still enough to do some damage given a good decade or two.
"Pretty" is pretty subjective. Some see it as simple, clear, easy to read code. Myself, I find the more esoteric code "pretty" -- Malbolge, anyone?
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It's pretty in that "sick cat curling up next to you" kind of way.
"The company will now be allowed to dump an average of 1,584 pounds of ammonia and 4,925 pounds of sludge into Lake Michigan every day."
"The additional sludge is the maximum allowed under federal guidelines."
This asks the question: What are our federal guidelines based on and why is this okay?
Actually, the idea of a minimal-impact burial is alive and well. Fitting with the tradition, it's called a "green burial". Google isn't all that helpful at this point, but it's essentially being unembalmed, being thrown in a cardboard box and having a tree plotted over you as opposed to a traditional process. I'm not sure how popular it is now, but an article from about a year ago denotes a small, but growing, trend:
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/arti
Rape implies a loss of power to another person, sexual manipulation without consent, etc
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"Virtual Rape" implies watching a graphical avatar that may or may not represent you have another avatar try and have sex with it. No worse than some of that "3D Porn" that pops up online, only its supposed to be criminal because you are in control of one of the avatars?
I am disgusted that this article was even approved. If groundless, thoughtless speculation is what passes for "News For Nerds, Stuff that Matters", I may need to take a few months away from the site.
ScuttleMonkey should be ashamed for even allowing this to float. I understand by your department quip that you obviously find the idea silly -- why approve it, then? It's not like you're censoring the poor fool by not allowing him to pass along his useless article to the
" The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
So, does it fit? What was the evidence before the hack? IANAL, just curious.
10m = ~32.8ft
From the article:
36ft = ~10.9m, closer to 11m.
Thank god.
So how many Hummers are we talking about here?
Since when are awe, wonder, and analysis incompatible? Just because we can try to make sense of the world doesn't mean we can't still be enthused by it.
"So, why did Brazil succeed where the USA failed?"
"It is not possible auditor the voting machine's programs, because the Brazilian Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) doesn't permit it."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Brazil
"In theory, if a room were to be coated with this material, switching on the lights would only illuminate the items in the room and not the walls, giving a sense of floating free in infinite space."
Outside of that gravity thing. Sounds more like standing outside in the country.
We are analytical creatures. God isn't hardwired into our brains -- deities take so many functions, forms, numbers, etc -- but comes about as the natural result of trying to understand that which is outside of our ability to perceive. For the earlier people, deities served to explain everything about the universe and everything had a strict order. As science began to come about, deities took smaller and smaller roles in our understanding of the universe -- no longer was it required to have a God to explain why something falls. Of course, there are always going to be limits to what we understand, as there is no way to understand when we have reached the boundaries of our knowledge -- only methods of estimation. God now rests and dwells in these positions, taking a smaller role as the spark in the universe, that which lies in the gaps of our knowledge.
If God is hardwired, then at what point does God stop and our natural analysis begin?
Are the systems completely destroyed by the testing, reused, or is there the possibility that they are throwing out half-working laptops that don't meet the minimum requirements to qualify as a Toughbook? If so, I might need to make a few dumpster diving trips...
Is there a subtle message in how quickly this was modded up? Apparently everyone has a couple of extra tabs open...
Maybe this is just a clever ploy to bring the War on Terrorism to the front?
Okay, it might help to actually read the article.
"Of that group, 91 were monolingual and 93 were bilingual. The bilinguals included speakers of 25 different languages, the most prevalent being Polish, Yiddish, German, Romanian and Hungarian."
But the question still stands -- was this a general trend or were certain languages "healthier"?
Were all of the languages the same, or was this a general trend? Like, if you spoke both German and, say, Japanese, would you have a slightly longer or shorter shelf life than, say, Spanish and Portuguese?
It's one thing to say a single post has been deleted. A screenshot cannot prove an inter-administrator conspiracy to delete these specific types of posts, though. I admit evidence to prove this is hard, but I'm just trying to say, why shouldn't we start from the assumption this is false until we see evidence otherwise? I'm more inclined to believe a troll than a conspiracy and I'm going to stick to that.
Who modded this up? If there was a shred of evidence that this was happening, I'd bite, but you can't just claim that Apple is supporting the nuking of driver threads to cover-up some annoying driver bug and not have something to back you up; otherwise, you come off looking like a troll.
Why is a minor forum dispute headlining Slashdot? Just because the poster thinks it's a sign of something bigger doesn't make it so; I'm ashamed of the editors for even letting this hit the front page. Perhaps this article should go the way of the poster's original?
So a post got deleted on a forum and the obvious explanation has to do with an inter-company conspiracy to cover for a driver bug? Didn't you bother to look for more obvious conclusions, like e-mailing an admin for an explanation, or maybe posting it again with an inquiry as the former deletion? There has to be less than this than claimed.
There seems to be an issue with fiber connectivity -- so why not launch a satellite? I mean, while we're on the topic of silly tasks like purchasing nations to support a file sharing website...