a lot of the planet detection has been done with comparitively weak earth-based telescopes.
Back before the telescope was even INVENTED people discovered a couple of planets. Most notably: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Oh, you mean Jovian sized planets around OTHER stars. Gotcha.
I get the sinking feeling that most posts will amount to people rolling dice for a response to the article. It reminds me of the first Anthology of Interest on Futurama where Gary Gygax made a guest shot and Al Gore got irritated at his constant dice rolling.
Wait, it's wrong for a/.er to tell you how to raise your kids, or your neighbors and their kids, but it's perfectly acceptable for the government and privatized corporations (read: ESRB) to tell you? I'm confused...
Are you suggesting that the government stop trying to aprehend and prosecute hard drug users/dealers?
I do. If this is supposed to be a free country, why is the government concerned about what I do in my own home with my own money? Legalize drugs and they can start taxing them, then at least the government will get money out of it. I suppose they make more money from privatizing prisons and sticking people there, though.
Science isn't based on morality, it's our actions with our knowledge of the science that causes morality to come into play. The universe is structured exactly the way it is, there's no mysterious evil force behind certain aspects of science that make some more evil than others. Every scientific achievement can be used for benevolence or malevolence. It's up to the scientist doing the research how to proceed, and the people funding the scientist based on their own morality.
Sure, there's the potential for really fucked up shit to happen with cloning. We could start cloning super-humans and use them as slave labor, then everybody could live happily. We could also breed super-humans and get them to have the superior life style, or we could use this technology to find a way to clone stem cells and save a few million lives.
You havn't heard? The OS comes in a box with only a picture of a cat on it, and you won't know what OS you have until you open the box and install the software. But if you actully figure out what OS you're using it'll change for absolutely no reason.
There's no guarentee that the SCOTUS will even SEE this trial. A very small percentage of cases brought before them actully get viewed, and the majority of those are cases involving the Constitutionality of a certain law that got them arrested or fined. The Supreme Court isn't bought and paid for by the **AA's lobbists like Congress is. There's still hope that we won't even have to WORRY about these fuckers doing something stupid like ruling in favor of the **AA.
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Maybe he takes Microsoft's stance on the issue... "It compiles... ship it!"
Either you're high, or these elevated levels of CO2 are making you light headed. We don't have nearly enough data to know if there's any global warming or not. Back in the 70's the average temperature was slowly decreasing, and lots of environmentalists spouted fears that we were on the verge of a new ice age. The planet is a few billion years old, we've only got about 100 years of reliable data for predicting temperature flucuations. We need a hell of a lot more data to come to ANY sort of conclusion.
So we have the Internet, pictures, newsgroups, news articles, email, and now BOOKS?! Why doesn't Google just make a search engine capable of searching the ingredients of every brand of shampoo ever made? How about the specific line of slashcode that allows CmdrTaco to post dupes?
If Google uses those idea I hope I get a kickback, I'd take Google stock.
Why am I addicted to games? Playing inside a virtual world allows me to construct a wall within myself and keep all my problems out of my mind, by not using any brain power to think about them, instead focusing all the energy on killing that fucking spawn camper.
Or the more realistic version without that over-analysis bullshit, VIDEO GAMES ARE FUN. Some people find running around chucking a ball at a person 50 yards away to be fun, still others find it more fun to just WATCH that. Some people think sex is fun, which is certainly a point nobody would argue, what's the big deal? You go watch your football game while having sex, I'll go frag people in UT while I have sex, we're both happy and we're bothing funding people so they can make more fun shit for us to do.
It's impossible to send a corporation to prison, if it were made a criminal action to call someone without their permission. Would you arrest the CEO? The person that made the phone call? The marketing department? The lobbyists that went against the DNC list in the first place? It would be nice for them to spend time in prison along side a spammer and a serial killer, but let's face it, it's impossible to implement.
The courts aren't there to protect you from yourself.
Then how do you explain the war on drugs, or laws against suicide? Sure they might be against what the Constitution spells out, but that hasn't stopped them from stepping out of their boundries in the first place.
Despite what the United States' government is telling you, rights are supposed to be a good thing. YRO is simply a way of informing us about our rights, and in what ways they've changed, or not changed.
Man these rocket scientists and engineers are getting smarter all the time. Space literally has the largest amount of air available in the universe. It's not like it's a rare commodity, in fact on Apollo 12, Armstrong wanted some fresh air, so he opened up an airlock.
Then perhaps you can answer this question. When a law is declared unconstitutional it's supposed to be revoked completely. Even if a tiny portion of the law is unconstitutional, the whole thing is scraped and brought back to the proper Legislative branch, be it Federal or State. Is the PATRIOT act still mostly legal because the Supreme Court hasn't seen it yet, or are they just manipulating the legal system to keep the act alive as long as possible?
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Funny moderations don't have an affect on karma, so how exactly is nmg karma-whoring?
Two words: Fair Use.
Beat up by just four letter... DMCA.
Land of the free, yeah, sure.
The day it's available in a store, November 16th. If some stores actully release it before that day, then it will be unlocked eariler.
a lot of the planet detection has been done with comparitively weak earth-based telescopes.
Back before the telescope was even INVENTED people discovered a couple of planets. Most notably: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Oh, you mean Jovian sized planets around OTHER stars. Gotcha.
I get the sinking feeling that most posts will amount to people rolling dice for a response to the article. It reminds me of the first Anthology of Interest on Futurama where Gary Gygax made a guest shot and Al Gore got irritated at his constant dice rolling.
I heard that the Master Chief fires first, and the Convenant was just acting in self defense.
Wait, it's wrong for a /.er to tell you how to raise your kids, or your neighbors and their kids, but it's perfectly acceptable for the government and privatized corporations (read: ESRB) to tell you? I'm confused...
Are you suggesting that the government stop trying to aprehend and prosecute hard drug users/dealers?
I do. If this is supposed to be a free country, why is the government concerned about what I do in my own home with my own money? Legalize drugs and they can start taxing them, then at least the government will get money out of it. I suppose they make more money from privatizing prisons and sticking people there, though.
Science isn't based on morality, it's our actions with our knowledge of the science that causes morality to come into play. The universe is structured exactly the way it is, there's no mysterious evil force behind certain aspects of science that make some more evil than others. Every scientific achievement can be used for benevolence or malevolence. It's up to the scientist doing the research how to proceed, and the people funding the scientist based on their own morality.
Sure, there's the potential for really fucked up shit to happen with cloning. We could start cloning super-humans and use them as slave labor, then everybody could live happily. We could also breed super-humans and get them to have the superior life style, or we could use this technology to find a way to clone stem cells and save a few million lives.
You havn't heard? The OS comes in a box with only a picture of a cat on it, and you won't know what OS you have until you open the box and install the software. But if you actully figure out what OS you're using it'll change for absolutely no reason.
There's no guarentee that the SCOTUS will even SEE this trial. A very small percentage of cases brought before them actully get viewed, and the majority of those are cases involving the Constitutionality of a certain law that got them arrested or fined. The Supreme Court isn't bought and paid for by the **AA's lobbists like Congress is. There's still hope that we won't even have to WORRY about these fuckers doing something stupid like ruling in favor of the **AA.
Maybe he takes Microsoft's stance on the issue...
"It compiles... ship it!"
Either you're high, or these elevated levels of CO2 are making you light headed. We don't have nearly enough data to know if there's any global warming or not. Back in the 70's the average temperature was slowly decreasing, and lots of environmentalists spouted fears that we were on the verge of a new ice age. The planet is a few billion years old, we've only got about 100 years of reliable data for predicting temperature flucuations. We need a hell of a lot more data to come to ANY sort of conclusion.
What about the "death-in-any-front-collision-greater-than-15-MPH" Voltswagon Beatle?
So we have the Internet, pictures, newsgroups, news articles, email, and now BOOKS?! Why doesn't Google just make a search engine capable of searching the ingredients of every brand of shampoo ever made? How about the specific line of slashcode that allows CmdrTaco to post dupes?
If Google uses those idea I hope I get a kickback, I'd take Google stock.
Why am I addicted to games? Playing inside a virtual world allows me to construct a wall within myself and keep all my problems out of my mind, by not using any brain power to think about them, instead focusing all the energy on killing that fucking spawn camper. Or the more realistic version without that over-analysis bullshit, VIDEO GAMES ARE FUN. Some people find running around chucking a ball at a person 50 yards away to be fun, still others find it more fun to just WATCH that. Some people think sex is fun, which is certainly a point nobody would argue, what's the big deal? You go watch your football game while having sex, I'll go frag people in UT while I have sex, we're both happy and we're bothing funding people so they can make more fun shit for us to do.
My 9600XT ran it pretty well. 1024x768 on high detail without noticable stuttering. That's without AF and FSAA turned on, though.
If that damned Historical Sticklers Society hadn't petitioned enough, the lunar lander would still be on Earth!
It's impossible to send a corporation to prison, if it were made a criminal action to call someone without their permission. Would you arrest the CEO? The person that made the phone call? The marketing department? The lobbyists that went against the DNC list in the first place? It would be nice for them to spend time in prison along side a spammer and a serial killer, but let's face it, it's impossible to implement.
But what if they *have* done something wrong?
That old standby? "Innocent until proven guilty, or they can't afford a lawyer to prove they're innocent." How DirectTV^WDarl of you.
The courts aren't there to protect you from yourself.
Then how do you explain the war on drugs, or laws against suicide? Sure they might be against what the Constitution spells out, but that hasn't stopped them from stepping out of their boundries in the first place.
Despite what the United States' government is telling you, rights are supposed to be a good thing. YRO is simply a way of informing us about our rights, and in what ways they've changed, or not changed.
Man these rocket scientists and engineers are getting smarter all the time. Space literally has the largest amount of air available in the universe. It's not like it's a rare commodity, in fact on Apollo 12, Armstrong wanted some fresh air, so he opened up an airlock.
You'd see so much T&A that sex would be just... boring....
HEFF?! IS THAT YOU?!
Then perhaps you can answer this question. When a law is declared unconstitutional it's supposed to be revoked completely. Even if a tiny portion of the law is unconstitutional, the whole thing is scraped and brought back to the proper Legislative branch, be it Federal or State. Is the PATRIOT act still mostly legal because the Supreme Court hasn't seen it yet, or are they just manipulating the legal system to keep the act alive as long as possible?