They could build a base to resist the weight of accumulated snow and ice, and just expand the passageways as the base further gets buried... until they have to move to another ice-shelf.
What's even un-funnier, is that I later received CC's from other recipients of the AMBER alert hoax pointing to the Snopes debunk page for that specific case.
It was like an ever sub-dividing domino-effect from Hell. Chain-email really is the tool of the devil.
I never received much spam until that one day, someone I had emailed ONCE and LONG AGO, who obviously put me in her list of contacts (automatically or not), decided to forward a fake AMBER alert to the hundreds of people in her list, me being one.
Well my home connection is banned from Slashdot through no fault of mine (as is some other people I know across the city who are with the same ISP as me), forcing me to post comments from work. And the Slashdot banning system doesnt seem to have specific provisions from unbanning select users with good karma from a vast swath of IP blocks...
So since Slashdot seems to have banned my whole ISP, maybe soon I'll be able to find another IP address so I can post on Slashdot on evenings and weekends?
This kind of bs doesnt just happen in the game industry, sadly enough.
These marketing tactics are used to promote everything from computer parts to cars to movies...
There are even survey companies who have unscrupulous practices, such as giving clients the survey results they want to get, as opposed to what people are really responding, because clients would otherwise go from one survey company to the next until they got the results they expected.
There are even other less scrupulous "award/review" companies who hold "best business" surveys, then call each business in order to tell them they were "chosen". If this business accepts to pay the fee, they can put the Award logo up in their ads, on their premises, etc. If the top business declines, they just go on to the next one, and so on.
Gizmodo reports that Apple has announced new aluminim displays to match their G5 PowerMacs. Along with the 20-inch ($1299) and the 23-inch ($1999), a new 30-inch mega-display has been announced that will be driven by a customer dual-DVI video card that will cost $600. I'll get you pictures as soon as I can.
The 30-inch display will cost $3299 without the necessary $600 video card and will be available in August. Unconfirmed resolution is 2560 x 1600.
Looks like the video card is from Nvidia, which would explain that announcement earlier today about SLI, I bet.
Each time I go out after sunset with my bicycle, a lot of people ask me how I power the two 12" green Cold Cathodes I attached to the front main bar and under the rear rack.
Two 8xAA battery holders filled with 1800mA NiMH AA batteries, one for each Cold Cathode. Each time I'm asked, I take the time to explain the value of NiMH.
Even though cold cathode specs say they need 12V, with freshly charged batteries (8x1.2V=9.6V), I've been able to power my cathodes at least 4 hours continuously.
It also makes me VERY visible on the road, and on very dark bikepaths, I illuminate a 6-7' radius!
I had a similar experience when I worked at a summer job at industrial egg incubator facilities... we had to clean everything with bleach and even with all the protective clothing and gloves, we still all lost the friction ridges on our fingers and hands.
Fastforward to years later, I have to get a security clearance, and therefore have to get fingerprinted... So I asked the cop about this sort of situation.
He told me that if they can't let a suspect go until they can ascertain his/her identity. So it's in the suspect's best interest to have printable fingerprints.
Obviously this cop wasnt very forthcoming with answers for all possible situations, but I would assume that if your prints have to be scanned to open some sort of security mechanism or to obtain access to a secure area, you have to have readable fingerprints, otherwise you're S.O.L.
(OT side note: at that summer job, I also learned that egg incubator facilities have to employ specially trained Japanese sex differentiators, and that the best ones all come from Japan, with a less than 1% margin of error -- they pick up each chick, and look at its ass, then put it on the male or female conveyor belt. Don't ask me what they look for to make the difference between males and females, they never told me.)
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Is there such a hurry to put more wastes in this area of the world?
If you wait a couple of millenia, this waste becomes priceless treasure for archeologists.
No worries.
It's the Norwegians who dig weird things up.
Just make sure you shoot and burn any strange dogs that come your way.
They could build a base to resist the weight of accumulated snow and ice, and just expand the passageways as the base further gets buried... until they have to move to another ice-shelf.
What's even un-funnier, is that I later received CC's from other recipients of the AMBER alert hoax pointing to the Snopes debunk page for that specific case.
It was like an ever sub-dividing domino-effect from Hell. Chain-email really is the tool of the devil.
I never received much spam until that one day, someone I had emailed ONCE and LONG AGO, who obviously put me in her list of contacts (automatically or not), decided to forward a fake AMBER alert to the hundreds of people in her list, me being one.
I still rue the day I emailed her.
are you suggesting that the photos are taken with the antenna?
yea but isnt the probe supposed to fly through a gap in the rings? it'd be great to get a photo taken "at level".
I want to see photos of the rings from inside (the rim? the gap?)...
BTW, how thick are the rings at the point where the probe is passing through them? How long will it take to clear that space?
why should I be the one forced to jump through hoops?
Now I can be banned from Slashdot wherever I go!
Well my home connection is banned from Slashdot through no fault of mine (as is some other people I know across the city who are with the same ISP as me), forcing me to post comments from work. And the Slashdot banning system doesnt seem to have specific provisions from unbanning select users with good karma from a vast swath of IP blocks...
So since Slashdot seems to have banned my whole ISP, maybe soon I'll be able to find another IP address so I can post on Slashdot on evenings and weekends?
Jeez, which problem should they tackle first?
Maybe it's not so much a question of priorities but just that the media is getting tired of reporting news of bombings, shootouts and beheadings?
You can also spell Iraq --> Irak
.iq and use .ik instead?
So why don't they just drop the
This kind of bs doesnt just happen in the game industry, sadly enough.
These marketing tactics are used to promote everything from computer parts to cars to movies...
There are even survey companies who have unscrupulous practices, such as giving clients the survey results they want to get, as opposed to what people are really responding, because clients would otherwise go from one survey company to the next until they got the results they expected.
There are even other less scrupulous "award/review" companies who hold "best business" surveys, then call each business in order to tell them they were "chosen". If this business accepts to pay the fee, they can put the Award logo up in their ads, on their premises, etc. If the top business declines, they just go on to the next one, and so on.
Never believe the hype.
Gizmodo reports that Apple has announced new aluminim displays to match their G5 PowerMacs. Along with the 20-inch ($1299) and the 23-inch ($1999), a new 30-inch mega-display has been announced that will be driven by a customer dual-DVI video card that will cost $600. I'll get you pictures as soon as I can.
The 30-inch display will cost $3299 without the necessary $600 video card and will be available in August. Unconfirmed resolution is 2560 x 1600.
Looks like the video card is from Nvidia, which would explain that announcement earlier today about SLI, I bet.
Each time I go out after sunset with my bicycle, a lot of people ask me how I power the two 12" green Cold Cathodes I attached to the front main bar and under the rear rack.
Two 8xAA battery holders filled with 1800mA NiMH AA batteries, one for each Cold Cathode. Each time I'm asked, I take the time to explain the value of NiMH.
Even though cold cathode specs say they need 12V, with freshly charged batteries (8x1.2V=9.6V), I've been able to power my cathodes at least 4 hours continuously.
It also makes me VERY visible on the road, and on very dark bikepaths, I illuminate a 6-7' radius!
is that this scheme does not allow us to send spammers to Abu Graib.
Why would you want to photocopy the fingerprint of the severed finger when you can just place the severed finger on the fingerprint scanner?
I had a similar experience when I worked at a summer job at industrial egg incubator facilities... we had to clean everything with bleach and even with all the protective clothing and gloves, we still all lost the friction ridges on our fingers and hands.
Fastforward to years later, I have to get a security clearance, and therefore have to get fingerprinted... So I asked the cop about this sort of situation.
He told me that if they can't let a suspect go until they can ascertain his/her identity. So it's in the suspect's best interest to have printable fingerprints.
Obviously this cop wasnt very forthcoming with answers for all possible situations, but I would assume that if your prints have to be scanned to open some sort of security mechanism or to obtain access to a secure area, you have to have readable fingerprints, otherwise you're S.O.L.
(OT side note: at that summer job, I also learned that egg incubator facilities have to employ specially trained Japanese sex differentiators, and that the best ones all come from Japan, with a less than 1% margin of error -- they pick up each chick, and look at its ass, then put it on the male or female conveyor belt. Don't ask me what they look for to make the difference between males and females, they never told me.)
yahoo, MSN, ICQ and AIM.
The Roman Empire had figured that out, too... though it didnt help much against the barbarians.
Does anyone know if it will be featured at the Montreal FantAsia Festival?
I submitted this story with a better headline... /one ticket to slashdot hell, aisle seat, please.
so, the next question is, are we going to evolve into Battle-Axe People?
It would certainly satisfy my Dungeons&Dragons fantasies...
All you people did not see the most obvious use for this new coffee bean:
Surreptitious replacement of the caffeinated coffee brewed by your PHB.
he made several tv appearances... I'm sure there are video files out there.