When they settle the issue of who gets the hydrocarbons beneath the Siberian permafrost, we can be sure that the Bear and the Dragon are firm friends. Until then, it's history yet to be made...
I despair of some of the shite written on/. these days. Fundamentalism my backside. China has simply moved from zero off-planet science to basic off-planet science, with a putative Martian project that is so far just a press release. When the big dragon lands some bots on another planet, feel free to post again but until then, save your paranoia for someone who cares to read it.
And you are rather overlooking tha fact that Russia is a mature, pioneering space nation whose program has given the best bang-for-buck in history. It was communist fundamentalism that put Yuri in orbit, not religious waffle.
This comment is overrated as the poster has failed to address his own question, and thus makes a ludicrously inappropriate suggestion that the guinea pigs were properly informed of the risks.
They were not. In fact they were specifically told there would be no danger at all to their long term health, a false proposition for any physician to make and especially in the case of a novel drug that produced anomalies in animal testing.
I suggest you consult the copious heavyweight UK media coverage for the chain of ethical and clinical failures. The immediate aftermath will be an eye-opener for anyone who thinks unease with Big Pharma is some kind of luddite plot.
Every 15 million scrips put a billion in their laps to spend on keeping their OS fixed. They have outsourced the financing of security directly to the user!
Well, if they don't value their security sufficiently, their privacy will be moot because they will be dead. So this 63% are not stupid, as the liberal left constantly alleges, but happy for the powers that be to use one of the few tools they have to give us some small protection from suicidal, religiously deranged nihilists.
It surprises me just how poorly the reality of global jihad has sunk into American mainstream consciousness. I stongly urge those of you utterly against the very concept of the NSA to surf around and find yourself the AlQ Nick Berg beheading video. Fellow travellers of the people who did that are in the US and EU right now.
Personally, I can't wait for the day Hilary walks into the White House and gets an eye opener. Then we will see whether the measures taken under Bush are an overreaction or just the start.
And a big shout out to the guys at GCHQ and the NSA if you are reading this. More power to your elbows.
Bogus! Blair actually said he sought comfort in his faith when having to make horrible decisions; the BBC newsies spun it as "God told me to do it" and a myth was born.
Indeed. Apparently sending live meat to dead rocks is seen as more important than continuing with NASA's fabulously successful exobot ideas. The Webb 'scope will also be killed, probably about the time Hubble de-orbits.
... because it's unlikely anyone "disappeared" by the secret police will have the opportunity to ask why the Google millionaires dropped the dime on them.
>> Criminals use the train/Bus network for their nefarious activities and have done for years.
Big Crime have had to move drug distribution off the rail network because there is now a small chance that the courier will have to walk past a sniffer dog at some point. Capturing drug vehicle movement is a useful way of assessing a drug network after an arrest, ie you're nicked, and where else have you been in the last year sonny jim... It creates an audit trail basically.
Your comment is incomplete. The police arrested and subsequently released the original hirer.
Gangs are already blackmailing and coercing people to do many nasty things such as sex slavery and drug muling; the presence or absence of cameras won't change that.
Criminals have "habitually" carried false plates since plates were introduced; it is now a serious criminal offence punishable by prison, as is the unofficial supply of number plates.
Another idiocy is the assertion that an Aum-level body could go plutonium. The detonation timing to achieve a perfectly spherical implosion and the precision milling / metallurgy required for the neutron reflector are a very very big deal which is why Iran is going for the U weapon. Anyone who has read a bit of Tom Clancy knows this:)
Save your BBC News criticism for their apologist posture on religious fascism.
Bush has handed a political stick to his opponents. Kerry would be well advised to promise to revisit the Death of Hubble decision: it will get him a lot of votes.
There is no sense in killing Hubble to add 1 or 2% to the Mars / Moon missions that might launch sometime in the 2010's. Webb may be killed for its money as well.
NASA is using Hubble as a political lever, and the argument that space is a dangerous place for shuttle nauts does not stand up: remember the burned Apollo crew anyone? Maybe NASA believes Bush wants stuff in orbit that points down and not up.
I know this is flamebait and I'm gonna let you have it.
You see the expression "Mac Zealot" posted here a lot, like the only zealot is a Mac zealot. Here's the news buddy: every time a maladjusted teen or unemployed KGB coder pastes up some Windows malware, a good percentage of the World who actually work catches a cold thanks to the shit Redmond robber-baroned onto the majority of desktops yet M$ still has a big pack of cheerleaders and apologists/.-ing away. If that aint zealotry then the Ayatollah must be a reasonable man.
Get this will ya: Mac users
don't give a shit about terahertz Walmart beige boxes costing $50
don't give a shit who uses them
don't want the gadzillions of super-dense worker drones incapable of comprehending the expression "update definitions" polluting the X-sphere with their wanton stupidity
do want Apple to stay niche - we like it that way
Get this as well: Steve-O just unleashed the Mother of All Big Revenue Plans Part Deux. Did you get that part where he said 50% of US homes have a music dabbler? Did you get what Apple are selling for $49? The very niche model Apple has used so well in the past is coming good again cos when there are 50 million iTunes potentials, the niche market starts to earn big: Pope's speeches in Latin anyone (300 million + Catholics) How about the kid in Africa that hacks together the biggest global single in 2005? How about those Burberry Ltd Ed miniPods, the Pepsi branded miniPods, the Nike versions, the Rolling Stones miniPod preloaded with the whole Stones oeuvre (plus the creds at iTMS to desktop them)? Once the iTMS network is mature they can diversify in 4 dimensions, you name it, it can be value added and shipped through the store. Like the bling on the new 50c CD cover? Click here and BUY.
Whether it's $50 for an official NFL shirt versus $5 for a generic, +25% for a German performance car versus Mercan or twice as much for handmade British hifi against Japanese electronics, we all have our prefs. Jobs has hit gold with music and it will drive sales of high quality, high markup Apple hardware. Frankly, none of us Mac "zealots" wants feedback from people who choose to go M$, but we'll take the warm glow of satisfaction over those who have to suffer Redmondware. Enjoy the next Blaster suckah!
Totally. Different hardware levels, emulation layers (classic Premiere), mall product vs niche mailorder. They could not be less relevant if the test crew had set out to lean on the Mac...
Obviously, asshole. Find me a mac thread at./ that doesn't have some retard trolling on about WalMart P boxes blowing Macs away because they retail at less than the build cost of the Apple?
Give it up phD Lit eggheads...
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$20 for 900pp is better than a buck a page!
Seriously, the density and non-linearity bear multiple reads. I've enjoyed all of Iain M Banks several times, ditto Crypto and Diamond Age, and every time I pick up a dog-eared Ellroy I'm shocked and thrilled again. Lots of potential for mindscaping in a work of fiction is an invitation to return again and again, like a favourite piece of music.
I'm not impressed with proto-critic literary crotch thrusters: the academic reverence given to Dostoevsky does not mean normal people are stupid for liking great yarn - written way better than you or whoever's 9 year old could manage. And puhleez, if you are going to diss a work, better finish it off first.
NS is good and I particularly like the long convoluted ones; glad to see other people feel the same.
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Rubbish. The high kill scenario is using the water fog system in a stadium, hence the extraordinary security around these systems at the Oz Olympics.
When they settle the issue of who gets the hydrocarbons beneath the Siberian permafrost, we can be sure that the Bear and the Dragon are firm friends. Until then, it's history yet to be made...
I despair of some of the shite written on /. these days. Fundamentalism my backside. China has simply moved from zero off-planet science to basic off-planet science, with a putative Martian project that is so far just a press release. When the big dragon lands some bots on another planet, feel free to post again but until then, save your paranoia for someone who cares to read it.
And you are rather overlooking tha fact that Russia is a mature, pioneering space nation whose program has given the best bang-for-buck in history. It was communist fundamentalism that put Yuri in orbit, not religious waffle.
Dirty, nasty newspaper, overblown story. Kids snap branches in nice tree, get told off by police, go home. What is this doing in ./?
This comment is overrated as the poster has failed to address his own question, and thus makes a ludicrously inappropriate suggestion that the guinea pigs were properly informed of the risks. They were not. In fact they were specifically told there would be no danger at all to their long term health, a false proposition for any physician to make and especially in the case of a novel drug that produced anomalies in animal testing. I suggest you consult the copious heavyweight UK media coverage for the chain of ethical and clinical failures. The immediate aftermath will be an eye-opener for anyone who thinks unease with Big Pharma is some kind of luddite plot.
Not for Adobe competitors - there aren't any.
Every 15 million scrips put a billion in their laps to spend on keeping their OS fixed. They have outsourced the financing of security directly to the user!
Well, if they don't value their security sufficiently, their privacy will be moot because they will be dead. So this 63% are not stupid, as the liberal left constantly alleges, but happy for the powers that be to use one of the few tools they have to give us some small protection from suicidal, religiously deranged nihilists. It surprises me just how poorly the reality of global jihad has sunk into American mainstream consciousness. I stongly urge those of you utterly against the very concept of the NSA to surf around and find yourself the AlQ Nick Berg beheading video. Fellow travellers of the people who did that are in the US and EU right now. Personally, I can't wait for the day Hilary walks into the White House and gets an eye opener. Then we will see whether the measures taken under Bush are an overreaction or just the start. And a big shout out to the guys at GCHQ and the NSA if you are reading this. More power to your elbows.
Funniest comment I've seen anywhere on this subject. Virtual karma to you.
Bogus! Blair actually said he sought comfort in his faith when having to make horrible decisions; the BBC newsies spun it as "God told me to do it" and a myth was born.
Indeed. Apparently sending live meat to dead rocks is seen as more important than continuing with NASA's fabulously successful exobot ideas. The Webb 'scope will also be killed, probably about the time Hubble de-orbits.
... because it's unlikely anyone "disappeared" by the secret police will have the opportunity to ask why the Google millionaires dropped the dime on them.
That was the good old days. Max fine now £5000!
Big Crime have had to move drug distribution off the rail network because there is now a small chance that the courier will have to walk past a sniffer dog at some point. Capturing drug vehicle movement is a useful way of assessing a drug network after an arrest, ie you're nicked, and where else have you been in the last year sonny jim... It creates an audit trail basically.
Your comment is incomplete. The police arrested and subsequently released the original hirer. Gangs are already blackmailing and coercing people to do many nasty things such as sex slavery and drug muling; the presence or absence of cameras won't change that. Criminals have "habitually" carried false plates since plates were introduced; it is now a serious criminal offence punishable by prison, as is the unofficial supply of number plates.
Another idiocy is the assertion that an Aum-level body could go plutonium. The detonation timing to achieve a perfectly spherical implosion and the precision milling / metallurgy required for the neutron reflector are a very very big deal which is why Iran is going for the U weapon. Anyone who has read a bit of Tom Clancy knows this :)
Save your BBC News criticism for their apologist posture on religious fascism.
Bad day for Intelsat, great day for the Chinese No4 Celestial Dragon ASAT ploglam.
Bush has handed a political stick to his opponents. Kerry would be well advised to promise to revisit the Death of Hubble decision: it will get him a lot of votes. There is no sense in killing Hubble to add 1 or 2% to the Mars / Moon missions that might launch sometime in the 2010's. Webb may be killed for its money as well. NASA is using Hubble as a political lever, and the argument that space is a dangerous place for shuttle nauts does not stand up: remember the burned Apollo crew anyone? Maybe NASA believes Bush wants stuff in orbit that points down and not up.
I know this is flamebait and I'm gonna let you have it. You see the expression "Mac Zealot" posted here a lot, like the only zealot is a Mac zealot. Here's the news buddy: every time a maladjusted teen or unemployed KGB coder pastes up some Windows malware, a good percentage of the World who actually work catches a cold thanks to the shit Redmond robber-baroned onto the majority of desktops yet M$ still has a big pack of cheerleaders and apologists /.-ing away. If that aint zealotry then the Ayatollah must be a reasonable man.
Get this will ya: Mac users
don't give a shit about terahertz Walmart beige boxes costing $50
don't give a shit who uses them
don't want the gadzillions of super-dense worker drones incapable of comprehending the expression "update definitions" polluting the X-sphere with their wanton stupidity
do want Apple to stay niche - we like it that way
Get this as well: Steve-O just unleashed the Mother of All Big Revenue Plans Part Deux. Did you get that part where he said 50% of US homes have a music dabbler? Did you get what Apple are selling for $49? The very niche model Apple has used so well in the past is coming good again cos when there are 50 million iTunes potentials, the niche market starts to earn big: Pope's speeches in Latin anyone (300 million + Catholics) How about the kid in Africa that hacks together the biggest global single in 2005? How about those Burberry Ltd Ed miniPods, the Pepsi branded miniPods, the Nike versions, the Rolling Stones miniPod preloaded with the whole Stones oeuvre (plus the creds at iTMS to desktop them)? Once the iTMS network is mature they can diversify in 4 dimensions, you name it, it can be value added and shipped through the store. Like the bling on the new 50c CD cover? Click here and BUY.
Whether it's $50 for an official NFL shirt versus $5 for a generic, +25% for a German performance car versus Mercan or twice as much for handmade British hifi against Japanese electronics, we all have our prefs. Jobs has hit gold with music and it will drive sales of high quality, high markup Apple hardware. Frankly, none of us Mac "zealots" wants feedback from people who choose to go M$, but we'll take the warm glow of satisfaction over those who have to suffer Redmondware. Enjoy the next Blaster suckah!
Totally. Different hardware levels, emulation layers (classic Premiere), mall product vs niche mailorder. They could not be less relevant if the test crew had set out to lean on the Mac...
Obviously, asshole. Find me a mac thread at ./ that doesn't have some retard trolling on about WalMart P boxes blowing Macs away because they retail at less than the build cost of the Apple?
$20 for 900pp is better than a buck a page! Seriously, the density and non-linearity bear multiple reads. I've enjoyed all of Iain M Banks several times, ditto Crypto and Diamond Age, and every time I pick up a dog-eared Ellroy I'm shocked and thrilled again. Lots of potential for mindscaping in a work of fiction is an invitation to return again and again, like a favourite piece of music. I'm not impressed with proto-critic literary crotch thrusters: the academic reverence given to Dostoevsky does not mean normal people are stupid for liking great yarn - written way better than you or whoever's 9 year old could manage. And puhleez, if you are going to diss a work, better finish it off first. NS is good and I particularly like the long convoluted ones; glad to see other people feel the same.