That's what worries me most about this: the personal information in the database that would of course immediately be stolen. If literally ANY traffic cam can access it, how long will it take the identity thieves?
If you don't know what destroyed the old forests, you'll not have much luck creating new ones. Goats in the area? Fageddaboudit. Villagers chopping down everything to feed animals, cook food, warm huts, make charcoal? That's what makes it impossible to regrow forests in places like Haiti: the people cut them down faster than anyone can grow them.
Agreed. That might be one of the worst "animated" videos I've ever seen! It might be "eligible", but so then might be something created with help of an online animation ap by a bunch of third graders.
Is that so hard to understand? Or do you just hope everything will work out so all those bad contracts won't ever come into play?
When I was an independent software programmer, I'd get all sorts of boilerplate (and totally bogus) contracts from firms who wanted me to do a job for them. You know, "Everything you do and will ever do will belong to us; you can never do anything like this ever again; and we'll own everything you have if you make the slightest objection." I'd drag out ye olde red pencil, slash the hell out of the contract, and mail it back for a redo. (No, I'm not a lawyer.) They'd cry and whine about the delay, I'd send them a nice simple clean contract ("I'll do what you want, you'll own what I do for you and nothing else, you'll pay $xxx at these points, $xxx on final delivery and approval.") They'd always sign my contract, never had a problem.
If you don't like it, don't sign it! If you don't understand it, don't sign it! If you need a lawyer to explain it to you, don't sign it! Doh.
More than I ever wanted to know about Einstein. They just changed characters (Einstein and his first and second wives), and the new Einstein is the spitting image, I swear!
I've been faithfully watching the "Genius" TV series, and they made it very clear (last week I think) that a friend of Einstein definitively proved his Theory of Relativity was correct by photographing a solar eclipse down off Africa Madagascar or some such. Yeah, 1919 or so, just after the end of WW I.
Besides, I don't like that statement:
"It looks like the white dwarf pushed it out of the way," Terry Oswalt, an astronomer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who was not involved in this discovery but wrote a perspective piece in Science, tells The Verge. "That's not what happened, of course. It just looks like that."
Maybe the white dwarf _did_ push it out of the way! I don't see any definitive proof that it didn't!
is what they used to call them as I recall, where a recording asks you a question or gives you options, and then you enter your choice. How smart does a telephone tree have to be before it qualifies to be called a robot?
Big S100 buss box, 2x1.2MB DSDD 8" disk drives, 1x5MB hard drive, 2 serial ports, 64KB RAM, capacitors the size of beer cans. CP/M operating system. Very good keyboard, amber screened monitor, 2xserial ports, 1x1200 baud modem.
I still had the Decision 1 up in the attic of my house (along with a C-64 and a Compupro 8/16 box) until a house fire destroyed them all.
And there's something wrong with that? (The part about extra scrutiny for non-citizens who want to visit us.)
This doesn't address the American citizens who want to go visit the warm friendly beaches and cities of ISIS-occupied territory, of course. Not that they'd make it clear where they were going when they left anyway. (How _does_ one get a visa for Syria or western Iraq anyway?)
Firing ranges on military bases aren't anything like those WW I battlefields in France. But still the number of bullets, fragments, and yes, unexploded ordnance, can be quite astounding.
Years ago contractors actually paid good money to get to go out to the berms (piled up dirt walls) behind rifle and pistol ranges, to dig out and screen the tons of pistol and rifle bullets. Copper and lead: both good scrap sellers.
The artillery ranges are different: they can be quite dangerous because of the duds on the surface and shallowly buried. Nobody wants to dig up duds:-)
Good point, someone above: are the seeds going to sprout plants that become a pest or menace in themselves?
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That's what worries me most about this: the personal information in the database that would of course immediately be stolen. If literally ANY traffic cam can access it, how long will it take the identity thieves?
I read somewhere recently (here?) that yoga can be just as good for back pain as any of many alternatives (including chiropractors).
Not to mention having to scan all them little buggers.
I should feel sorry for those two 13-year-old retards .. why?
If you don't know what destroyed the old forests, you'll not have much luck creating new ones. Goats in the area? Fageddaboudit. Villagers chopping down everything to feed animals, cook food, warm huts, make charcoal? That's what makes it impossible to regrow forests in places like Haiti: the people cut them down faster than anyone can grow them.
Agreed. That might be one of the worst "animated" videos I've ever seen! It might be "eligible", but so then might be something created with help of an online animation ap by a bunch of third graders.
Is that so hard to understand? Or do you just hope everything will work out so all those bad contracts won't ever come into play?
When I was an independent software programmer, I'd get all sorts of boilerplate (and totally bogus) contracts from firms who wanted me to do a job for them. You know, "Everything you do and will ever do will belong to us; you can never do anything like this ever again; and we'll own everything you have if you make the slightest objection." I'd drag out ye olde red pencil, slash the hell out of the contract, and mail it back for a redo. (No, I'm not a lawyer.) They'd cry and whine about the delay, I'd send them a nice simple clean contract ("I'll do what you want, you'll own what I do for you and nothing else, you'll pay $xxx at these points, $xxx on final delivery and approval.") They'd always sign my contract, never had a problem.
If you don't like it, don't sign it! If you don't understand it, don't sign it! If you need a lawyer to explain it to you, don't sign it! Doh.
More than I ever wanted to know about Einstein. They just changed characters (Einstein and his first and second wives), and the new Einstein is the spitting image, I swear!
This.
Amish peaceful? Maybe. Harmless? Hardly.
http://amishamerica.com/do-ami...
I suggest that thou doth not screw with the Amish. They will turn the other cheek only so often, methinks.
I've been faithfully watching the "Genius" TV series, and they made it very clear (last week I think) that a friend of Einstein definitively proved his Theory of Relativity was correct by photographing a solar eclipse down off Africa Madagascar or some such. Yeah, 1919 or so, just after the end of WW I.
Besides, I don't like that statement:
"It looks like the white dwarf pushed it out of the way," Terry Oswalt, an astronomer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who was not involved in this discovery but wrote a perspective piece in Science, tells The Verge. "That's not what happened, of course. It just looks like that."
Maybe the white dwarf _did_ push it out of the way! I don't see any definitive proof that it didn't!
Sheesh, scientists!
is what they used to call them as I recall, where a recording asks you a question or gives you options, and then you enter your choice. How smart does a telephone tree have to be before it qualifies to be called a robot?
Is a light switch a robot?
Absolutely it will increase and increase and increase.
The Homeless Wars (can I trademark that?) will be amusing, to say the least.
Of anything? More fool you.
By the way, just checked at imdb, and The Promise is up to 5.2.
Big S100 buss box, 2x1.2MB DSDD 8" disk drives, 1x5MB hard drive, 2 serial ports, 64KB RAM, capacitors the size of beer cans. CP/M operating system. Very good keyboard, amber screened monitor, 2xserial ports, 1x1200 baud modem.
I still had the Decision 1 up in the attic of my house (along with a C-64 and a Compupro 8/16 box) until a house fire destroyed them all.
And there's something wrong with that? (The part about extra scrutiny for non-citizens who want to visit us.)
This doesn't address the American citizens who want to go visit the warm friendly beaches and cities of ISIS-occupied territory, of course. Not that they'd make it clear where they were going when they left anyway. (How _does_ one get a visa for Syria or western Iraq anyway?)
New refugees? Like polar bears, Inuit, penguins?
and Statistics. What a stupid report.
"Adjustments may be made ..."
Kinda hard to adjust a bulk deletion, ne?
to admit he made a mistake.
Good for ya, Zuckenberg.
Assange never demanded a pardon for Manning. This is exactly what he said:
"If Obama grants Manning clemency, Assange will agree to US prison in exchange -- despite its clear unlawfulness https://t.co/MZU30S3Eia"
He's breaking the agreement: his statement is a lie.
Firing ranges on military bases aren't anything like those WW I battlefields in France. But still the number of bullets, fragments, and yes, unexploded ordnance, can be quite astounding.
Years ago contractors actually paid good money to get to go out to the berms (piled up dirt walls) behind rifle and pistol ranges, to dig out and screen the tons of pistol and rifle bullets. Copper and lead: both good scrap sellers.
The artillery ranges are different: they can be quite dangerous because of the duds on the surface and shallowly buried. Nobody wants to dig up duds :-)
Good point, someone above: are the seeds going to sprout plants that become a pest or menace in themselves?
By George McDonald Fraser. Nothing better. I reread them every few years, just to refresh my Victorian era history :-)
Go check out the statistics on gambling. Or horses. Like, who needs a horse? Really?
Yeah, better be careful out there. They've hit magma in Iceland before.
http://www.livescience.com/301...
And elsewhere they're doing it intentionally! That's the kind of thing that makes me nervous.
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
I'm surprised to hear of them pumping water down a well with a magma chamber and having it work out so well!
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Hitting mud can be just as bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...