If Algeria is next, we can hope for Libya too. Unfortunately, Libya's Khaddaffi known for his sex orgies has a likeminded friend in the senile Italian clown Berlusconi.
North African girls?! Who supply them? Are they traded goods?!
Yahoo writes: "Silvio Berlusconi, the long-serving prime minister of Italy, is facing multiple scandals that are entertaining and deadly serious. Italian prosecutors are seeking a fast track trial for Berlusconi on a number of charges. The charges include abuse of power and having sex with an under aged prostitute. On the first charge, Berlusconi is accused of bribing a British lawyer named David Mills to provide favorable testimony in court cases. The more entertaining charge concerns an alleged sexual encounter between the 74-year-old Berlusconi and a 17-year-old night club dancer named Karima El Mahrough, possibly an Egyptian national, and paying for the privilege. Berlusconi and El Mahrough have denied having sex. Berlusconi appears to be trapped in a curious contradiction in Italian law. The age of consent in Italy is 14 and paying for sex is not illegal. But paying for sex with someone under 18 is a crime punishable by three years in jail."
Times of India wrote: "An influential Italian Catholic newspaper said on Tuesday that the prostitution probe into Premier Silvio Berlusconi's encounters with a Moroccan teenager is like a 'devastating tornado' damaging the country's image"
Sorry Italy, the damage is done, years ago by not kicking out that turd.
Let us hope that at least some EU politician have b0ll0cks and can take that little fu**er in his b**** and tell the Algerian leaders and the Libyan Khadaffi pack to take their bags and go to Saudi Arabia for retirement. William Bush Jr is probably already there waiting for them, similing and waiving.
Fathers of three kids, 38 years, newly bought house, new car, new boss, no job. I can sympathize with those who not only dislike but also have no respect for Stephen Elop who does not own any Nokia shares, but several hundred thousand Microsoft shares.
It is about time we have high definition copies of all old texts, like the all hieroglyphs ever documented, all Babylonian texts, all Sanskrit texts, the Dead Sea scrolls, all Medieval hand writings, etc.
I guess all these together could not muster 1% of all the crap that is out there today. I wouldn't be surprised if all the foolish blabber-blobber-blubber on Facebook a single day outcompete all pre-1700 texts combined.
"Ubuntu is debian packaged for (possibly non-tech-savvy) end-users and polished a bit."
Hmmmm. But then Mint would win out. Mint started out as Ubuntu packaged for (possibly non-tech-savvy) end-users and polished a bit. Then they skipped the intermediate step, Ubuntu, and went for the source itself - Debian.
We do get excited easily! But, then none of us are electrical engineers, and none of us are familiar with "capacitive coupling", which from the tone of your message is well known.
Someone had used a programmable curcuit board and let it evolve using some simple evolutionary algorithm. After thousands or perhaps millions of iteration where only the best design solution(s) were allowed to survive they examined the final results. Strangely, one of the finalist could not be understood by the circuit board analysis program. So, they took to analyses the device manually. What they eventually found was that it had designed a little radio telescope of sorts which had sent its signal across an unconnected, empty area without wiring! I have tried several times to find the article again. If someone else remembers it, please, reply and gives us a link.
Anyhow, my friends and I speculated back then - cool what if this would happen in nature! And, wow, it looks like it has!
"it's a near-Earth asteroid that is a type called a chondrite, essentially a stony body that has high silicate content and few metals."
Hmmm. How do they know the content so well. I can understand long distance analyses of planet atmospheres and stars, but this piece of... err chondrite?
Yes, I totally agree. It did bother me too. But the general consensus seem to be that they are much older, which is why the are underlying the craters, not the other wat around.
What was the age of those Mares then? IIRC, the general view was that they are so old that they 'froze' around the birth of Jes, err, The Earth.
But, this molten core could mean the mares are much younger, I guess!
It very much depends on the species concept, and method used.
If you apply a strict monophyletic perspective and use only a few mitochondrial genes, then this may well be correct.
However... And that is a big HOWEVER, a strict monophyletic perspective would miss out on innumerable species, e.g. the polar pear vs brown bear, where the polar bear would not be an admissible species under a strict monophyletic species concept, but only a variety of the brown bear. There are of course many examples of this phenomenon.
The second perspective relates to which genes were analyzed, as they tend to give different results.
" 'mini' hydroelectric dams that can harness the power of a local river for an entire village"
These 'mini' hydroelectric dams can destroy an entire migrating fish fauna because of the power for a village. The migrating fish tend to be the staple food for the neighboring villagers, too...
America and Europe have long since understood the , but can afford building fish ladders.
Not to speak of all the stagnant water, which harbor bilharzia and malaria. Don't forget the rotten acidic waters it produces which erodes high quality steel in a few years.
Urban prison?! Take a little drive through Nevada, and tell me how fertile it is. It doesn't look like Nebraska, at all. We have some time before we we can safely water the deserts and half-deserts around the world.
I dislike almond-shapes here, as the shape itself most probably has little or no bearing on the function. Why did the article mention it, at all? It makes the entire article read like something for a house-wife in the 1950s.
Slashdot Mirror
Motives of Stephen Elop, doesn't own any Nokia shares, but hundreds of thousand Microsoft shares? Where is the loyalty?
From http://www.tracked.com/person/stephen-elop/
Aug 31, 2010: SOLD 23,250 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Jan 21, 2010: SOLD 8,434 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Sep 25, 2009: BOUGHT 136,308 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Sep 25, 2009: SOLD 12,422 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Aug 31, 2009: SOLD 11,614 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Sep 26, 2008: BOUGHT 51,301 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Sep 26, 2008: SOLD 4,675 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Aug 31, 2008: SOLD 6,939 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Aug 29, 2008: BOUGHT 76,141 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Jan 22, 2008: BOUGHT 62,520 MSFT shares [SEC Filing]
Nov 24, 2006: SOLD 1,315 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]
Oct 24, 2006: SOLD 1,315 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]
Oct 16, 2006: BOUGHT 100,000 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]
Oct 16, 2006: SOLD 100,000 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]
Oct 13, 2006: BOUGHT 116,124 ADBE shares [SEC Filing]
and microsoft-beware-stephen-elop-is-a-flight-risk
How do you hijack a group?
If Algeria is next, we can hope for Libya too. Unfortunately, Libya's Khaddaffi known for his sex orgies has a likeminded friend in the senile Italian clown Berlusconi.
North African girls?! Who supply them? Are they traded goods?!
Yahoo writes: "Silvio Berlusconi, the long-serving prime minister of Italy, is facing multiple scandals that are entertaining and deadly serious. Italian prosecutors are seeking a fast track trial for Berlusconi on a number of charges. The charges include abuse of power and having sex with an under aged prostitute. On the first charge, Berlusconi is accused of bribing a British lawyer named David Mills to provide favorable testimony in court cases. The more entertaining charge concerns an alleged sexual encounter between the 74-year-old Berlusconi and a 17-year-old night club dancer named Karima El Mahrough, possibly an Egyptian national, and paying for the privilege. Berlusconi and El Mahrough have denied having sex. Berlusconi appears to be trapped in a curious contradiction in Italian law. The age of consent in Italy is 14 and paying for sex is not illegal. But paying for sex with someone under 18 is a crime punishable by three years in jail."
Times of India wrote: "An influential Italian Catholic newspaper said on Tuesday that the prostitution probe into Premier Silvio Berlusconi's encounters with a Moroccan teenager is like a 'devastating tornado' damaging the country's image"
Sorry Italy, the damage is done, years ago by not kicking out that turd.
Let us hope that at least some EU politician have b0ll0cks and can take that little fu**er in his b**** and tell the Algerian leaders and the Libyan Khadaffi pack to take their bags and go to Saudi Arabia for retirement. William Bush Jr is probably already there waiting for them, similing and waiving.
Fathers of three kids, 38 years, newly bought house, new car, new boss, no job. I can sympathize with those who not only dislike but also have no respect for Stephen Elop who does not own any Nokia shares, but several hundred thousand Microsoft shares.
So, then, get the backlog done.
It is about time we have high definition copies of all old texts, like the all hieroglyphs ever documented, all Babylonian texts, all Sanskrit texts, the Dead Sea scrolls, all Medieval hand writings, etc.
I guess all these together could not muster 1% of all the crap that is out there today. I wouldn't be surprised if all the foolish blabber-blobber-blubber on Facebook a single day outcompete all pre-1700 texts combined.
So, back to work. Get the backlog done.
"Ubuntu is debian packaged for (possibly non-tech-savvy) end-users and polished a bit."
Hmmmm. But then Mint would win out. Mint started out as Ubuntu packaged for (possibly non-tech-savvy) end-users and polished a bit. Then they skipped the intermediate step, Ubuntu, and went for the source itself - Debian.
Excellent!!! Thanks!
Searching for Adrian Thompson led me to the Slashdot article, from 2001: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/01/12/29/007258/Evolutionary-Computing-Via-FPGAs
Ten years ago? I just felt ten years older...
We do get excited easily! But, then none of us are electrical engineers, and none of us are familiar with "capacitive coupling", which from the tone of your message is well known.
Anyhow, thanks for that information!.
I read this on Slashdot more than 5 years ago.
No, not exactly this, but a similar phenomenon.
Someone had used a programmable curcuit board and let it evolve using some simple evolutionary algorithm. After thousands or perhaps millions of iteration where only the best design solution(s) were allowed to survive they examined the final results. Strangely, one of the finalist could not be understood by the circuit board analysis program. So, they took to analyses the device manually. What they eventually found was that it had designed a little radio telescope of sorts which had sent its signal across an unconnected, empty area without wiring! I have tried several times to find the article again. If someone else remembers it, please, reply and gives us a link.
Anyhow, my friends and I speculated back then - cool what if this would happen in nature! And, wow, it looks like it has!
Palindrome and Palindromedary too?
"it's a near-Earth asteroid that is a type called a chondrite, essentially a stony body that has high silicate content and few metals."
Hmmm. How do they know the content so well. I can understand long distance analyses of planet atmospheres and stars, but this piece of... err chondrite?
Why not Mars, as in Martes. The name says it all!
"senior police have been accused of lying to parliament about the deployment of undercover agents"
But, it does sound like he was doing his job well. How could possibly lying to politicians be an offense?
Yes, I totally agree. It did bother me too. But the general consensus seem to be that they are much older, which is why the are underlying the craters, not the other wat around.
What was the age of those Mares then? IIRC, the general view was that they are so old that they 'froze' around the birth of Jes, err, The Earth.
But, this molten core could mean the mares are much younger, I guess!
10 smart can _easily_ outsmart 100 mediocre programmers.
Can the companies afford 100 programmers?! OK, fine with me.
It very much depends on the species concept, and method used.
If you apply a strict monophyletic perspective and use only a few mitochondrial genes, then this may well be correct.
However... And that is a big HOWEVER, a strict monophyletic perspective would miss out on innumerable species, e.g. the polar pear vs brown bear, where the polar bear would not be an admissible species under a strict monophyletic species concept, but only a variety of the brown bear. There are of course many examples of this phenomenon.
The second perspective relates to which genes were analyzed, as they tend to give different results.
Truth with modification, at best...
Not even close. Possibly a matrix, but, there is no spoon.
What is Apple's iPad OS?
That should matter here.
" 'mini' hydroelectric dams that can harness the power of a local river for an entire village"
These 'mini' hydroelectric dams can destroy an entire migrating fish fauna because of the power for a village. The migrating fish tend to be the staple food for the neighboring villagers, too...
America and Europe have long since understood the , but can afford building fish ladders.
Not to speak of all the stagnant water, which harbor bilharzia and malaria. Don't forget the rotten acidic waters it produces which erodes high quality steel in a few years.
The side effects?! Brrr...
I have 'grandfathered' oblivion. I don't exist. I don't have a Facebook account. Zapped future. Amen Ho Tep.
Thanks for the link - psst, don' tell anyone else or else AMD will stop it
Urban prison?! Take a little drive through Nevada, and tell me how fertile it is. It doesn't look like Nebraska, at all. We have some time before we we can safely water the deserts and half-deserts around the world.
I dislike almond-shapes here, as the shape itself most probably has little or no bearing on the function. Why did the article mention it, at all? It makes the entire article read like something for a house-wife in the 1950s.
Unfortunately ethanol requires even more land use, in an already overcrowded planet.
I have an e-mail from Antarcica - from 1994. Yup, I have been thinking of framing it. :)