Well, to be fair, that was being applied only to US citizens, which is blatantly vindictive. Not that i agree with our program (or disagree even) but there is a difference. I dont think we would have made any stink about the brazilian measures if they had been blanketed over all foreigners like ours.
Oh please, did you even read the article? This is nothing like the fictional andromeda strain, its not a virus, or a bacteria, i forget which one the andromeda strain was. its a protein that causes other brain proteins to become misshapen, leading to degeneration of the brain, which is bad for obvious reasons. These diseases are non-infectious, they result from either a hereditary problem, or acquiring it from an outside source, e.g. cannibalism, human growth hormone products, and corneal or dural grafts.* So this is really only practical from a research pov to prove that prions can cause diseases like CJD on their own. If "the bad guys" wanted to get their hands on these things, they just need a CJD sufferer's corpse's pituitary glands.* As for the cat being out of the bag, where have you been? Engineered biological and chemical weapons have been a reality for years if not decades. Though i'm probably just wasting my time on a troll.
Without question, our star will last forever, and our planet will always been inhabitable.
Oh please, you cant honestly think this is a viable thing to hold against the bush administration do you? that in 3 billion years when our star collapses we won't be able to escape? As for the planet thing, arent you overstating the problem some?
Sure, we might have the funds for a space station someday, but probably not this one. Who knows what technology will change in ten years to make whats up there difficult to modify, or what sort of international problems there will be with getting support for updating it, after it is supposed to be internation al remember.
Would you like your taxes low or would you like NASA funded properly? It doesn't seem like you can have both.
Does it really have to be an either/or question? Couldn't we cut funding for something else, like say nuclear weapons research/maintenance, ( i mean we could get rid of the nukes, not just stop taking care of them.)? Just get rid of ICBMs all together, i mean, is it all that important that we be able to kill someone in 4 hours instead of 8 hours with a nuclear cruise missile?
I would have to say that what makes a sport a sport is that the people who do it consider it a sport. Take cheerleading for example, for a football game, its not much of a sport, but if performed against other squads as a sport, it becomes one. Similar to musical groups like competitive bands or drum and bugle corps. Sport is more about spirit than about a textbook definition. If you think about it, this holds true for running, throwing, swimming, lifting and any other sport where competition is not part of the actual event, like say baseball or basketball, or any team sport really.
Well, especially when you're dealing with smaller, more expensive private schools, they are competing for the students dollar (or rather the parents dollar) but the students have a large influence on the decision anyway. Most of the people who go to these schools are gonna be either rich kids or kids with parents who are gonna put them through wherever they want to go. So it comes down to offering the best individual experience, which i think comes down into two categories: luxury items (dorms, computers, wifi, cafes, etc) and personal attention to the student, making sure theyre doing alright in class and taking a personal interest in their general well being, which is really more of a bone to throw to over-attentive parents.
Its pretty good, for some things. For quick searches, i'd go with google, the first results tend to be more on target. For research, i might go with vivisimo instead, because of the clustering function.
i mean, jesus christ, people are proud of someone for doing extremely well at something. What the fuck is that? Its like they're inspired by what he's done or something.
frankly i think alot of those examples they are poor ones at best. i think the originals sound best, they are more precise and dont say things more than once. Except for the "put up with" ones.
Oh and uh, so as not to be off-topic
1) Create dual screen hald held game platform
2)????
3) Profit!
Did i pass?
absolutely agree on the heinlein, just got 4 of his books after reading stranger in a strange land, and i'm just floored by some of it. I especially reccomend his short stories collection "The Green Hills of Earth." While he gets alot wrong, he gets a surprising amount right, given when he wrote it (late forties early fifties) Reading this stuff makes me see why people thought after the moon landing that moon colonies were coming. "Job: A comedy of justice" is quite good as well, though i dont think it really belongs in sci-fi, reminded me of Neil Gaiman's "american gods" alot actually. just about to start starship troopers, (mostly so i can be intellectual and condescending when i talk about the movie;) ) though i'm looking forward to that and "The moon is a Harsh Mistress."
One thing that really catches my attention about his forties and fifties sci-fi are his views on workers rights, safety and fair contracts and such, in space and how reminescent of earlier booming industries were, like sailing or the industrial revolution and whatnot. Its not that he agrees with these things, its like they're just facts of life to him, whereas i couldnt imagine it happening today. And this got me to thinking about how hung up on safety our society is, and whether or not that prevents us from developing as far as we can. Or maybe this is more because of the economics of going to space are radically different from the burgeoning industries of the past, and we cant afford to let men waste their lives in pursuit of their dreams, rather than any humanitarian desires. After all, in one story heinlein puts the earth-moon rates at 30 bucks to a lb, granted 30 bucks might just have meant more to him than to me.
To keep this from getting modded off topic to hell, i'll add my two cents on the internet/computing vs. reading scenario. i've noticed i tend to shift between gaming and reading cycles, usually dependent of availability of new titles in either case. So maybe its just that the book has more competition for our time, especially in fantast and sci-fi, now that there is no longer only one way to inhabit our fantasy worlds. Though its definitely wishful thinking that this is the only reason, i think its definitely a contributing factor.
so if i read a book about army tactics, my ideas about army tactics wouldnt change? i wouldn't understand them more, and i wouldn't have a better grasp of how they work in the real world? Or are you saying that people dont incorporate new knowledge into their decision making process?
Or do you just have an extremely low level of reading comprehension?
the elephants. Clearly elephants are attempting to destroy our youth. Before they were content just to spy upon them from afar, but now their sleeper agents are attacking our children in our own homes. Something needs to be done.
Remember, if not us, who? If not now, when? Join G.A.E.I. (Gamers Against Elephant Impalement) today. Get G.A.E.I. today, for the children.
It might have some effect. I know i'd be a helluva lot less willing to record a movie if i knew i was going to get 3-5 years in pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison for it.
I thought they werent that great either, but once you actually hold one, you see what they were talkking about. i wouldn't trade my 40 gig ipod for the world, but the mini is a pretty well designed music player.
So, because he responding to your opinion with one of his own, he's a fascist?
And he has a point too, just because they were never trained for airport security doesn't mean theyre stupid. And either way they deserve a modicum of respect for the commitment that they have made to their country.
That's basically what I just said, only you put a 'no' before it and added more words. In fact most of what you just stated was a confirmation of what I posted. I can't find any conflicts in it.
Then you must not have a very high reading level. You make it seem as though you are required to have ID, you are not. You are required to identify yourself to the police. The ruling said nothing about proving said identity. And i suppose that what i said is almost the same as yours, sans the alarmist outraged tone, and the lack of appreciation for the way the legal system works.
Yes you can be held overnight or pending bail (or whatever the length of time is now) but there is no legal standing to it. it wont hold up in court. a cop could show up and arrest me right now, and just make up a reason. Even if he had no warrant, because he is a cop, and we allow them certain powers. However, it wont lead to any actual legal troubles. Furthermore, as a citizen, there are civil and criminal charges you can level against the officer in question.
You have certain rights, yes, but a cop is not the person you explain that to. That doesnt mean you have to let them search you or testify against yourself. Just tell the officer right then that you dont give permission for what he is requesting in clear, unambiguos terms. Then you have something to stand on when it matters.
Don't have papers? Go to jail.
No. Dont identify yourself, go to jail till they can ascertian your identity. I personally agree that there is a clear public interest in knowing the identities of people involved in police investigations.
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so if other people don't like what you're doing, you're not free to do it, no matter what the law is?
Take that civil rights movements everywhere!
uhhh, as far as i know, flag burning is legal, but frowned upon by many.
Well, to be fair, that was being applied only to US citizens, which is blatantly vindictive. Not that i agree with our program (or disagree even) but there is a difference. I dont think we would have made any stink about the brazilian measures if they had been blanketed over all foreigners like ours.
Oh please, did you even read the article? This is nothing like the fictional andromeda strain, its not a virus, or a bacteria, i forget which one the andromeda strain was. its a protein that causes other brain proteins to become misshapen, leading to degeneration of the brain, which is bad for obvious reasons. These diseases are non-infectious, they result from either a hereditary problem, or acquiring it from an outside source, e.g. cannibalism, human growth hormone products, and corneal or dural grafts.* So this is really only practical from a research pov to prove that prions can cause diseases like CJD on their own. If "the bad guys" wanted to get their hands on these things, they just need a CJD sufferer's corpse's pituitary glands.* As for the cat being out of the bag, where have you been? Engineered biological and chemical weapons have been a reality for years if not decades. Though i'm probably just wasting my time on a troll.
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Information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_Di
Without question, our star will last forever, and our planet will always been inhabitable.
Oh please, you cant honestly think this is a viable thing to hold against the bush administration do you? that in 3 billion years when our star collapses we won't be able to escape? As for the planet thing, arent you overstating the problem some?
Sure, we might have the funds for a space station someday, but probably not this one. Who knows what technology will change in ten years to make whats up there difficult to modify, or what sort of international problems there will be with getting support for updating it, after it is supposed to be internation al remember.
Would you like your taxes low or would you like NASA funded properly? It doesn't seem like you can have both.
Does it really have to be an either/or question? Couldn't we cut funding for something else, like say nuclear weapons research/maintenance, ( i mean we could get rid of the nukes, not just stop taking care of them.)? Just get rid of ICBMs all together, i mean, is it all that important that we be able to kill someone in 4 hours instead of 8 hours with a nuclear cruise missile?
And this has to happen just one month after i bought my brand new 40 gig. Steve Jobs, you fucker!
I would have to say that what makes a sport a sport is that the people who do it consider it a sport. Take cheerleading for example, for a football game, its not much of a sport, but if performed against other squads as a sport, it becomes one. Similar to musical groups like competitive bands or drum and bugle corps. Sport is more about spirit than about a textbook definition. If you think about it, this holds true for running, throwing, swimming, lifting and any other sport where competition is not part of the actual event, like say baseball or basketball, or any team sport really.
Yeah! everyone knows english is the only language all people should be expected to know!
Well, especially when you're dealing with smaller, more expensive private schools, they are competing for the students dollar (or rather the parents dollar) but the students have a large influence on the decision anyway. Most of the people who go to these schools are gonna be either rich kids or kids with parents who are gonna put them through wherever they want to go. So it comes down to offering the best individual experience, which i think comes down into two categories: luxury items (dorms, computers, wifi, cafes, etc) and personal attention to the student, making sure theyre doing alright in class and taking a personal interest in their general well being, which is really more of a bone to throw to over-attentive parents.
Its pretty good, for some things. For quick searches, i'd go with google, the first results tend to be more on target. For research, i might go with vivisimo instead, because of the clustering function.
i mean, jesus christ, people are proud of someone for doing extremely well at something. What the fuck is that? Its like they're inspired by what he's done or something.
Bullshit.
frankly i think alot of those examples they are poor ones at best. i think the originals sound best, they are more precise and dont say things more than once. Except for the "put up with" ones. Oh and uh, so as not to be off-topic 1) Create dual screen hald held game platform 2)???? 3) Profit! Did i pass?
absolutely agree on the heinlein, just got 4 of his books after reading stranger in a strange land, and i'm just floored by some of it. I especially reccomend his short stories collection "The Green Hills of Earth." While he gets alot wrong, he gets a surprising amount right, given when he wrote it (late forties early fifties) Reading this stuff makes me see why people thought after the moon landing that moon colonies were coming. "Job: A comedy of justice" is quite good as well, though i dont think it really belongs in sci-fi, reminded me of Neil Gaiman's "american gods" alot actually. just about to start starship troopers, (mostly so i can be intellectual and condescending when i talk about the movie;) ) though i'm looking forward to that and "The moon is a Harsh Mistress."
One thing that really catches my attention about his forties and fifties sci-fi are his views on workers rights, safety and fair contracts and such, in space and how reminescent of earlier booming industries were, like sailing or the industrial revolution and whatnot. Its not that he agrees with these things, its like they're just facts of life to him, whereas i couldnt imagine it happening today. And this got me to thinking about how hung up on safety our society is, and whether or not that prevents us from developing as far as we can. Or maybe this is more because of the economics of going to space are radically different from the burgeoning industries of the past, and we cant afford to let men waste their lives in pursuit of their dreams, rather than any humanitarian desires. After all, in one story heinlein puts the earth-moon rates at 30 bucks to a lb, granted 30 bucks might just have meant more to him than to me.
To keep this from getting modded off topic to hell, i'll add my two cents on the internet/computing vs. reading scenario. i've noticed i tend to shift between gaming and reading cycles, usually dependent of availability of new titles in either case. So maybe its just that the book has more competition for our time, especially in fantast and sci-fi, now that there is no longer only one way to inhabit our fantasy worlds. Though its definitely wishful thinking that this is the only reason, i think its definitely a contributing factor.
are there any DVDs? I haven't been able to find any.
so if i read a book about army tactics, my ideas about army tactics wouldnt change? i wouldn't understand them more, and i wouldn't have a better grasp of how they work in the real world? Or are you saying that people dont incorporate new knowledge into their decision making process?
Or do you just have an extremely low level of reading comprehension?
the elephants. Clearly elephants are attempting to destroy our youth. Before they were content just to spy upon them from afar, but now their sleeper agents are attacking our children in our own homes. Something needs to be done.
Remember, if not us, who? If not now, when? Join G.A.E.I. (Gamers Against Elephant Impalement) today. Get G.A.E.I. today, for the children.
...of Slashdot being so euro-centric.
i'm just saying that they ought to reserve judgement until they've taken one out for a spin. What's so bad about that?
It might have some effect. I know i'd be a helluva lot less willing to record a movie if i knew i was going to get 3-5 years in pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison for it.
I thought they werent that great either, but once you actually hold one, you see what they were talkking about. i wouldn't trade my 40 gig ipod for the world, but the mini is a pretty well designed music player.
So, because he responding to your opinion with one of his own, he's a fascist?
And he has a point too, just because they were never trained for airport security doesn't mean theyre stupid. And either way they deserve a modicum of respect for the commitment that they have made to their country.
Oops, i'm a fascist.
That's basically what I just said, only you put a 'no' before it and added more words. In fact most of what you just stated was a confirmation of what I posted. I can't find any conflicts in it.
Then you must not have a very high reading level. You make it seem as though you are required to have ID, you are not. You are required to identify yourself to the police. The ruling said nothing about proving said identity. And i suppose that what i said is almost the same as yours, sans the alarmist outraged tone, and the lack of appreciation for the way the legal system works.
Yes you can be held overnight or pending bail (or whatever the length of time is now) but there is no legal standing to it. it wont hold up in court. a cop could show up and arrest me right now, and just make up a reason. Even if he had no warrant, because he is a cop, and we allow them certain powers. However, it wont lead to any actual legal troubles. Furthermore, as a citizen, there are civil and criminal charges you can level against the officer in question.
You have certain rights, yes, but a cop is not the person you explain that to. That doesnt mean you have to let them search you or testify against yourself. Just tell the officer right then that you dont give permission for what he is requesting in clear, unambiguos terms. Then you have something to stand on when it matters.
Don't have papers? Go to jail.
No. Dont identify yourself, go to jail till they can ascertian your identity. I personally agree that there is a clear public interest in knowing the identities of people involved in police investigations.