Way at the bottom of the thread, where nobody will ever see save the three people that read all 900 comments, I have this to say:
It was good. I liked it. Go see it.
The first matrix movie was a stupid idea presented in an awesome way. The second movie was the same, but the way was less awesome. This third movie, its awesome again. Very awesome.
"It's just a matter of scale as far as the rockets are concerned. The laws of physics don't change,"
Except that gravity is in m/s(2). So if you change the height of the rocket, gravity effects it differently. Also, air, a fluid, is more viscous at a smaller scale.
The ACLU opperates on pure principle. In this I think they're right. We need anti-child porn laws, but it's important that the laws don't go beyond what they were intended to. Too many blanket laws, like the patriot act (any substance that can harm humans is a chemical weapon) make it possible to prosecute anyone without charging them with anything they actually did.
Which leads to a situation there was in the Soviet Union, where anyone they didn't like was charged with treason, which was really easy to pin on someone.
Just like it's really easy to call someone a 'terrorist' or 'enemy combatant'. We need laws that make bad things illegal, not laws that make innocent people criminals. That kind of thing is a real threat the country. While child abuse is terrible and very ugly, it isn't exactly about tear our country apart.
Not cooler, but better. More important ones, like folding, for instance. A very (VERY) small chance of finding intelligent life out there isn't quite worth it, I don't think.
From this computer, it's gone. It's back to the normal error. Maybe they just couldn't handle the traffic. I know this is way far down the list of comments, but does anyone else see it anymore?
In the dying days of napster, that actually worked. They were banning songs, and the only way to still find popular music was to misspell it. They started catching on to that after a while to.
Given how widespread mobile phone use has become, will we even have an adequate control group 50 years from now to gauge what the effects have been?"
No, of course not. Cities (everywhere) are full of mobile phones. The country (everywhere) is not. However, people living in the city get much different carcinogens than those living in the country, so people in the country aren't a good control group. Any place where people are packed but there aren't mobile phones is likely to be very poor, and thus, different living conditions. So no control group.
Telemarketers don't make money answering phones, they make money calling people. They don't have to answer phones to make money. So this probably didn't actually put a dent in thier operation.
I BELIEVE he said "Won't somebody please think of the children". That just about settles it, and clearly outweighs any so called 'facts' you can come up with.
Slashdot Mirror
You do realize porno includes naked women, right? Right?
And they're all Slashdotted! How is that even possible?
I'd like to RTFAs, I really would.
Way at the bottom of the thread, where nobody will ever see save the three people that read all 900 comments, I have this to say:
It was good. I liked it. Go see it.
The first matrix movie was a stupid idea presented in an awesome way. The second movie was the same, but the way was less awesome. This third movie, its awesome again. Very awesome.
"It's just a matter of scale as far as the rockets are concerned. The laws of physics don't change,"
Except that gravity is in m/s(2). So if you change the height of the rocket, gravity effects it differently. Also, air, a fluid, is more viscous at a smaller scale.
340 billion billion billion billion
How about 3.4 x 10^38? We all know what that means. We're geeks. Damnit.
The ACLU opperates on pure principle. In this I think they're right. We need anti-child porn laws, but it's important that the laws don't go beyond what they were intended to. Too many blanket laws, like the patriot act (any substance that can harm humans is a chemical weapon) make it possible to prosecute anyone without charging them with anything they actually did.
Which leads to a situation there was in the Soviet Union, where anyone they didn't like was charged with treason, which was really easy to pin on someone.
Just like it's really easy to call someone a 'terrorist' or 'enemy combatant'. We need laws that make bad things illegal, not laws that make innocent people criminals. That kind of thing is a real threat the country. While child abuse is terrible and very ugly, it isn't exactly about tear our country apart.
Not cooler, but better. More important ones, like folding, for instance. A very (VERY) small chance of finding intelligent life out there isn't quite worth it, I don't think.
The OSX build of MPlayer is very useful, it's the best DivX player for OSX! Of course it plays other formats as well. Thanks MPlayer team!
You don't have to say that. You have free speach. Your safe. They can't come after you.
What? You can't destroy energy, like you said. Hurricane's move energy around, they don't get rid of it.
But yeah, preventing hurricanes might be a bad thing.
Boy, I sure hope you recall correctly.
You, my friend, are FUCKING FIRED.
Each joke alone, is not funny. Putting them together does not make them suddenly funny.
FIRED!
I, for one, don't think these jokes are funny anymore and don't know why they keep getting modded as such.
Kinda like the fact that most electronics will last longer if you don't turn them on.
I believe in quality over quantity for most things, including life.
Why did you rtfa? You shouldn't have rtfa!!!!
Those didn't look very good at all, at least compared to the movies. This was more a obviously student kung fu flick, with lightsabers.
Have the moderators even seen star wars?
Try it, type in a non existant .com, it no longer works.
Yes, but only 4096 colors. That's not a whole lot, only ~16 bit.
That's silly.
It's always popular to pick on republicans, with good reason.
From this computer, it's gone. It's back to the normal error. Maybe they just couldn't handle the traffic. I know this is way far down the list of comments, but does anyone else see it anymore?
In the dying days of napster, that actually worked. They were banning songs, and the only way to still find popular music was to misspell it. They started catching on to that after a while to.
What a crappy fantasy. Wouldn't you rather own one, and live somewhere in the midwest with straight highways hundreds of miles long?
Given how widespread mobile phone use has become, will we even have an adequate control group 50 years from now to gauge what the effects have been?"
No, of course not. Cities (everywhere) are full of mobile phones. The country (everywhere) is not. However, people living in the city get much different carcinogens than those living in the country, so people in the country aren't a good control group. Any place where people are packed but there aren't mobile phones is likely to be very poor, and thus, different living conditions. So no control group.
Or maybe they have more than one phone line.
I don't think many people call them to buy stuff, so this probably isn't much of a problem.
This is cool, and beautifully ironic, but...
Telemarketers don't make money answering phones, they make money calling people. They don't have to answer phones to make money. So this probably didn't actually put a dent in thier operation.
I BELIEVE he said "Won't somebody please think of the children". That just about settles it, and clearly outweighs any so called 'facts' you can come up with.