Check the bible. Surely as the authoritative source on everything, it has something to say about eating synthetic meat?
I'm kidding, as someone who was raised a Catholic I know that that particular church doesn't emphasise the Bible as much as Protestant denominations, and places more emphasis on tradition since the church is supposed to be the inheritor of St Peter.
I never said anything about the "dangers" or otherwise of GE crops. I'm talking about Monsanto's unscrupulous tactics in suing defenceless farmers for acts of nature over which they have no control.
Al Jazeera will probably pick it up, I'm sure the BBC will too. USAian networks don't seem as interested in this sort of thing, except for Comedy Central.
I hear that Monsanto's "seed police" are usually heavily built ex-military types driving black SUVs with tinted windows and hired to be as intimidating as possible.
I'm always a pretty critical thinker and always question the source, but based on everything I've seen and read on this topic this seems to be the real deal. Monsanto is a company with the ethics of Enron and the reach of Exxon. They've got to be stopped. Period.
You just stepped into the world of metaphysics. Purely from personal faith, I believe in the afterlife. The continuation of the consciousness in one form or another. But let's place that aside and go with what we do know. You are not but one being. Rather, you are a collection of cells ranging in count up to 100 trillion. Many of which die and are replaced asynchronously. So, perhaps consciousness is an illusion? Maybe that copy thinks he is the real you. Ponder that for a moment. Who's right all things being equal? Perhaps it's both now that each brain is taking on new information from a now different vantage point. As they age, they become different people.
Many of us have been taught that we are born, live, and die under one life. However, I've heard it stated that each new day is a new life. Each day marks the beginning of a new direction in our lives. It's sort of like a mini death followed by a mini rebirth. I suppose you could break down that concept into hours, minutes, and then seconds if you wish. At some point however, you just have to leave it up to faith regardless how you wish to solve this issue scientifically.
You know what I always wondered about? When the guys in Star Trek go through the transporter, do they die and be reborn on the other side? Does their "real" self get destroyed in the matrix and a new "self" get constructed which just happens to have the memories of the original?
Now it is an intensely irritating site with all the crap that is posted and re-posted at the start of every comment page on every story. For fuck sake grow up or fuck off and let some intelligent - and sometimes funny - comment return to what once was a great site.
Preach it brother! Every time something remotely cool is posted (like a pair of kids doing a cool science experiment just because they feel like it) along some the jackasses to piss on it or pick pedantic holes in the wording of the article or try to gain karma points by way of some sad attempt at humour. I used to come here to see informed opinion, nowadays I'm more inclined to just RTFA and ignore the inevitable inane comments.
I glanced at the article and the first word was "Toronto". Apparently that's why this isn't a story about them getting arrested.
Actually, their landing site was going to be in New Hampshire and they didn't like the idea of having to deal with Homeland Security. So they waited a few weeks for the conditions to change so that it would land on Canadian soil. So there's still an element of sadness to this very cool story.
I use Overplay for region-restricted web content. Very useful when watching British TV shows on the BBC iPlayer and Irish Gaelic sports like hurling and Gaelic football which saves me the trouble of having to go to a pub and pay $20 per game.
the problem is more just that it's old and is still based on design decisions made years ago. the lack of capacity and the higher cost are just by products of this.
The height of trains is limited by all the tunnels about, which will be a major engineering work to increase, the length is limited by most platforms and the width is limited by the gauge. these things were all chosen a long time ago and we just keep trying to sticky plaster over it.
basically, we got stiffed because we were early adopters
Should have listened to Brunel and adopted his gauge. To this day the pillars in Bristol Temple Meads station still accommodate it!
Exactly. I've often wondered why people get so nostalgic for BR. I clearly remember how detested British Rail was by the public, it was synonymous with poor service and a complete absence of reliability. I remember sitting on a train that was stuck in the middle of the Peak District for over an hour because of a points failure and a businessman screaming at the conductor "the sooner you lot get bloody privatised the better!"
If a pyramid scheme can give itself a fancy name like Scientology and claim the status of religion and get the free pass that goes with it, why shouldn't file-sharers? If anything I hope this highlights the undue respect that is given to religion and the inappropriate treatment of "faith" as a virtue.
Our company attends conferences but not trade shows anymore. We used to have a big rush to get our marketing material and booth ready every year for the Design Automation Conference (DAC) but even the big vendors have long pulled out of that one and we abandoned it before that. It's just too much effort (and expense) for very little benefit. The only people going to the trade shows in the last few years were existing customers who would come by for a chat. New customers just go to the web.
Maybe you can help me with this. I've always wondered why space launches have always been from a vertical take-off. From what I know about Harrier jump jets you can get a heavier payload into the air from a horizontal take-off (assisted in the Harrier's case by a ski-jump deck on the ship). When I first saw the Pegasus launch system I wondered why that hadn't been a standard launch method before. Is it down to the size of aircraft needed to get the heavy rocket stage to a high enough altitude? IIRC the Pegasus system could only lift very light payloads.
We are allowed less freedoms every day, and if you want out, we are even going to be denied that?
Everything is illegal. You can barely do anything without the approval of a government and/or bank. And if you are sick of it, it's not even legal to kill yourself!
I remember the first time I tried to watch NYPD Blue. It was also the last. I got motion sickness after about five minutes. How anyone watched that whole show on a regular basis I do not know.
I agree. I always preferred the models in the original Star Trek movies, I really had a sense of a giant spaceship. I never quite got the same sensation from later Star Trek incarnations. TNG's ship was cool to look at but in my mind there was something cartoonish about it. I hear that that was a model too but there must have been something about the way they did their post production that put the wrong kind of shimmer or light on it. There was something about the Enterprise D that never quite sat well with me, and I suspect it was the light. It was always the exact same colour no matter how deep into space it got, whereas NCC 1707 showed the light sources because they were built into the model.
The Star Wars prequels are terrible. The CGI edits are so easy to spot, and as the guy on youtube says they just keep showing more shit into your face to distract you. Luke and Obi-Wan sitting in a non-descript room on Tatooine had far more character development going on than Chancellor Velorum sitting in the oppulent senate chamber surrounded by a squillion muppets.
Speaking of muppets, why did every single alien and bad guy in the prequels have to be a monster? I seem to remember the bad guys in the original Star Wars only needed an English accent and a bit of arrogant bickering going on between them. They were far more interesting. Remember the admiral of the imperial fleet and one of the commanders of the Death Star getting into a pissing contest over who's weapon was bigger? That was freaking awesome! And it took place in a drab grey room with simple but sinister looking high backs on the chairs. Genius.
Did they nominate themselves for any award? I went hunting for the list of 2011 contenders and it took about four clicks of links, each of which promised me I was going to get to the 2011 contenders. Every time I clicked a link it opened it in a new window. The ads were so intrusive I didn't know if they were bitching about the companies advertising on their page or something else.
As others have mentioned, it slows down their program by making them dig deeper to hide it. This is especially important in Iran's case because its regime is on borrowed time. The longer the mullahs and their presidential puppet hang on to power, the more the pressure builds from the people who are increasingly disaffected by the dictatorship they're living under. They're especially frustrated after the last "election" when they defied the regime and protested but didn't succeed in having Ahmedinijad "Mubaraked". Maybe next time. Iran may not be an Arab country but the Arab spring will have certainly lifted the spirits of the Iranian opposition. The hope is that the regime will fall before it arrives at nuclear capability.
He had worked on Flash for many years since Macromedia owned the project.
Is he one of the people I can blame for the bugs from back then that still exist today? I kind of feel like a dick for saying it, but maybe if his team were better at their jobs then they would still have them.
As well you might. Do you write perfect bug-free code?
Why does everyone think that HTML5 is the answer when even desktop browsers can't get it uniformly implemented? Mobile browsers are still mostly shit from a compliance and capability perspective compared to the desktop browsers that still can't get it right. Not sure where all this pie in the sky idealism comes from
It comes from open source fundamentalism. Anything proprietary is evil in the/. mind. Flash has taken a lot of flak here over the years for that reason. In fact Flash is probably one of the most unfairly maligned products I've ever seen mentioned on/.
HTML 5 has taken a long time to come around, Flash was a great interim measure that allowed us to spend the last 5 years watching video and enjoying interactivity on the web in the days when a HTML page was written in stone once it was rendered. Sure, some people abused it with annoying "skip intro" pages and springing audio on the unsuspecting user, but that's not the technology's fault. JavaScript has been abused a whole lot more (popups, pop-unders) but it never seemed to generate the same amount of vitriol. I think it was just a personal thing. Flash was beloved of the more artistic types and the engineering types didn't like it or their creations.
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Check the bible. Surely as the authoritative source on everything, it has something to say about eating synthetic meat?
I'm kidding, as someone who was raised a Catholic I know that that particular church doesn't emphasise the Bible as much as Protestant denominations, and places more emphasis on tradition since the church is supposed to be the inheritor of St Peter.
I never said anything about the "dangers" or otherwise of GE crops. I'm talking about Monsanto's unscrupulous tactics in suing defenceless farmers for acts of nature over which they have no control.
Al Jazeera will probably pick it up, I'm sure the BBC will too. USAian networks don't seem as interested in this sort of thing, except for Comedy Central.
I hear that Monsanto's "seed police" are usually heavily built ex-military types driving black SUVs with tinted windows and hired to be as intimidating as possible.
I'm always a pretty critical thinker and always question the source, but based on everything I've seen and read on this topic this seems to be the real deal. Monsanto is a company with the ethics of Enron and the reach of Exxon. They've got to be stopped. Period.
There are creative ways to be interesting and interactive with a large group. I've seen it done, it can be done.
You just stepped into the world of metaphysics. Purely from personal faith, I believe in the afterlife. The continuation of the consciousness in one form or another. But let's place that aside and go with what we do know. You are not but one being. Rather, you are a collection of cells ranging in count up to 100 trillion. Many of which die and are replaced asynchronously. So, perhaps consciousness is an illusion? Maybe that copy thinks he is the real you. Ponder that for a moment. Who's right all things being equal? Perhaps it's both now that each brain is taking on new information from a now different vantage point. As they age, they become different people.
Many of us have been taught that we are born, live, and die under one life. However, I've heard it stated that each new day is a new life. Each day marks the beginning of a new direction in our lives. It's sort of like a mini death followed by a mini rebirth. I suppose you could break down that concept into hours, minutes, and then seconds if you wish. At some point however, you just have to leave it up to faith regardless how you wish to solve this issue scientifically.
You know what I always wondered about? When the guys in Star Trek go through the transporter, do they die and be reborn on the other side? Does their "real" self get destroyed in the matrix and a new "self" get constructed which just happens to have the memories of the original?
Mind-blowing stuff.
Now it is an intensely irritating site with all the crap that is posted and re-posted at the start of every comment page on every story. For fuck sake grow up or fuck off and let some intelligent - and sometimes funny - comment return to what once was a great site.
Preach it brother! Every time something remotely cool is posted (like a pair of kids doing a cool science experiment just because they feel like it) along some the jackasses to piss on it or pick pedantic holes in the wording of the article or try to gain karma points by way of some sad attempt at humour. I used to come here to see informed opinion, nowadays I'm more inclined to just RTFA and ignore the inevitable inane comments.
I glanced at the article and the first word was "Toronto". Apparently that's why this isn't a story about them getting arrested.
Actually, their landing site was going to be in New Hampshire and they didn't like the idea of having to deal with Homeland Security. So they waited a few weeks for the conditions to change so that it would land on Canadian soil. So there's still an element of sadness to this very cool story.
I use Overplay for region-restricted web content. Very useful when watching British TV shows on the BBC iPlayer and Irish Gaelic sports like hurling and Gaelic football which saves me the trouble of having to go to a pub and pay $20 per game.
the problem is more just that it's old and is still based on design decisions made years ago. the lack of capacity and the higher cost are just by products of this.
The height of trains is limited by all the tunnels about, which will be a major engineering work to increase, the length is limited by most platforms and the width is limited by the gauge. these things were all chosen a long time ago and we just keep trying to sticky plaster over it.
basically, we got stiffed because we were early adopters
Should have listened to Brunel and adopted his gauge. To this day the pillars in Bristol Temple Meads station still accommodate it!
Exactly. I've often wondered why people get so nostalgic for BR. I clearly remember how detested British Rail was by the public, it was synonymous with poor service and a complete absence of reliability. I remember sitting on a train that was stuck in the middle of the Peak District for over an hour because of a points failure and a businessman screaming at the conductor "the sooner you lot get bloody privatised the better!"
Nope, here is the title: "What Does Sunset On an Alien World Look Like?"
Where did you read anything about "what would we see on a sunset on an alien world?"
I realize that as a geek (whatever that means) i tend to read the question to the letter, as any normal computer would do, hence my confusion.....
Hence your not getting laid. *roll eyes*
If a pyramid scheme can give itself a fancy name like Scientology and claim the status of religion and get the free pass that goes with it, why shouldn't file-sharers? If anything I hope this highlights the undue respect that is given to religion and the inappropriate treatment of "faith" as a virtue.
Our company attends conferences but not trade shows anymore. We used to have a big rush to get our marketing material and booth ready every year for the Design Automation Conference (DAC) but even the big vendors have long pulled out of that one and we abandoned it before that. It's just too much effort (and expense) for very little benefit. The only people going to the trade shows in the last few years were existing customers who would come by for a chat. New customers just go to the web.
Please tell Irish women. They slather their makeup on with a trowel until they look like Data.
Finally someone in the field!
Maybe you can help me with this. I've always wondered why space launches have always been from a vertical take-off. From what I know about Harrier jump jets you can get a heavier payload into the air from a horizontal take-off (assisted in the Harrier's case by a ski-jump deck on the ship). When I first saw the Pegasus launch system I wondered why that hadn't been a standard launch method before. Is it down to the size of aircraft needed to get the heavy rocket stage to a high enough altitude? IIRC the Pegasus system could only lift very light payloads.
Thanks.
Why, oh why is it a good thing?
We are allowed less freedoms every day, and if you want out, we are even going to be denied that?
Everything is illegal. You can barely do anything without the approval of a government and/or bank. And if you are sick of it, it's not even legal to kill yourself!
Let the motherfuckers die in peace.
Hey idiot! Suicide is no longer illegal!
I remember the first time I tried to watch NYPD Blue. It was also the last. I got motion sickness after about five minutes. How anyone watched that whole show on a regular basis I do not know.
I agree. I always preferred the models in the original Star Trek movies, I really had a sense of a giant spaceship. I never quite got the same sensation from later Star Trek incarnations. TNG's ship was cool to look at but in my mind there was something cartoonish about it. I hear that that was a model too but there must have been something about the way they did their post production that put the wrong kind of shimmer or light on it. There was something about the Enterprise D that never quite sat well with me, and I suspect it was the light. It was always the exact same colour no matter how deep into space it got, whereas NCC 1707 showed the light sources because they were built into the model.
The Star Wars prequels are terrible. The CGI edits are so easy to spot, and as the guy on youtube says they just keep showing more shit into your face to distract you. Luke and Obi-Wan sitting in a non-descript room on Tatooine had far more character development going on than Chancellor Velorum sitting in the oppulent senate chamber surrounded by a squillion muppets.
Speaking of muppets, why did every single alien and bad guy in the prequels have to be a monster? I seem to remember the bad guys in the original Star Wars only needed an English accent and a bit of arrogant bickering going on between them. They were far more interesting. Remember the admiral of the imperial fleet and one of the commanders of the Death Star getting into a pissing contest over who's weapon was bigger? That was freaking awesome! And it took place in a drab grey room with simple but sinister looking high backs on the chairs. Genius.
Starting with Web Pages That Suck and learning there before doing anything.
Did they nominate themselves for any award? I went hunting for the list of 2011 contenders and it took about four clicks of links, each of which promised me I was going to get to the 2011 contenders. Every time I clicked a link it opened it in a new window. The ads were so intrusive I didn't know if they were bitching about the companies advertising on their page or something else.
As others have mentioned, it slows down their program by making them dig deeper to hide it. This is especially important in Iran's case because its regime is on borrowed time. The longer the mullahs and their presidential puppet hang on to power, the more the pressure builds from the people who are increasingly disaffected by the dictatorship they're living under. They're especially frustrated after the last "election" when they defied the regime and protested but didn't succeed in having Ahmedinijad "Mubaraked". Maybe next time. Iran may not be an Arab country but the Arab spring will have certainly lifted the spirits of the Iranian opposition. The hope is that the regime will fall before it arrives at nuclear capability.
He had worked on Flash for many years since Macromedia owned the project.
Is he one of the people I can blame for the bugs from back then that still exist today? I kind of feel like a dick for saying it, but maybe if his team were better at their jobs then they would still have them.
As well you might. Do you write perfect bug-free code?
Why does everyone think that HTML5 is the answer when even desktop browsers can't get it uniformly implemented? Mobile browsers are still mostly shit from a compliance and capability perspective compared to the desktop browsers that still can't get it right. Not sure where all this pie in the sky idealism comes from
It comes from open source fundamentalism. Anything proprietary is evil in the /. mind. Flash has taken a lot of flak here over the years for that reason. In fact Flash is probably one of the most unfairly maligned products I've ever seen mentioned on /.
HTML 5 has taken a long time to come around, Flash was a great interim measure that allowed us to spend the last 5 years watching video and enjoying interactivity on the web in the days when a HTML page was written in stone once it was rendered. Sure, some people abused it with annoying "skip intro" pages and springing audio on the unsuspecting user, but that's not the technology's fault. JavaScript has been abused a whole lot more (popups, pop-unders) but it never seemed to generate the same amount of vitriol. I think it was just a personal thing. Flash was beloved of the more artistic types and the engineering types didn't like it or their creations.
F111 Thunder Chief
Do you mean the F105 Thunder Chief? The F111 was a bomber.
(Pssst! Reagan used F111s to bomb Libya!)
At one point Whole Foods was sourcing their frozen "Organic" vegetables from China
The only reason to shop at Whole Paycheck is if you want to pick up chicks of the human type.
If the dollar devalues...
"If"? Where have you been for the last ten years?