Rally cars contain their own power source, an engine. Oil/Gasoline is acquired externally. Do Cheetahs breed their own food? No, they go somewhere and get it, just like Rally cars.
Look at the massive damage we humans are causing to life on Earth through our (objectively small) changes to the environment. Change the average temperature by a few degrees, and poof, hundreds of species vanish.
The second sentence is not a logical conclusion from the first. There is still no proof that the average temperature would not have risen gradually over the past 100 years if there were no humans at all. I can't wait for a few consecutive cool years so people like you will be worrying about another ice age like you did in the 70's.
Yes, you're right. No one on Earth has exhibited bad judgement on a rare occasion, learned a lesson from it and changed their ways. Everyone should be forced to wear Scarlet-Letter-style clothing with built-in LCD screens detailing their life's misfortunes and bad decisions up to the present day for all to see. What have they to lose? The fact that something happened is justification enough right?
I just think its funny that people are speculating on making a CAR using nanotechnology - as if the development of this technology must be used to improve upon 100+ year old ideas rather than be applied to something newer, better, and altogether different. Somewhat akin to developing a touchscreen P4 computer with 32 bit graphics to simulate a better abacus and thus improving your ability to solve math problems. True nanotechnology (grey goo and all) would allow Dr. Scholl's Levitation Insoles to become a reality, but we need to work on atom-level improvements to under-car neon accessories......
The first line of the post: Emails and invitations sent to Hotmail from Gmail accounts do not bounce, but nor do they arrive in the recipient's Inbox - they vanish mysteriously into the aether.
I'm guessing he thought emails and invitations were both bounced because it SAYS emails and invitations were both bounced. This is one of those funny ones because you don't even have to read the article - the SUBJECT says this as well. What exactly DID you read?
Cable companies will never discourage anyone from hooking anything up to a cable modem as long as they can charge for it.
You think MS should be allowing pirated copies to update? OK. If I steal your car, can I bring it back to you to have the oil changed when I need it?
I'm surprised the GPL/Nazi crowd hasn't pointed out that Beta was a closed standard/proprietary Sony standard whereas VHS was open to many manufacturers and gave consumers more brand choices. Along with the fact the VHS gear was cheaper out-of-the-gate and got more so compared to Beta as time went on, it was easy to see how we got here.
Like all Sony gear, you paid a premium for the name. Once competition lowered prices to mass-market levels and everyone had to have one, cost was the only factor (or more recently look at long-duck-dong brand DVD players for $39 selling out at every Wal-Mart in America - in an A/B test the Average person could probably see a quality difference between that POS and a $500 B&O DVD deck, but nobody cares)
What? The only thing EDIT.COM can do that Notepad can't is split the window, which isn't required since you can open 10 notepad sessions quite easily, while only one EDIT.COM can be run in a DOS box at a time. EDIT.COM is bare-bones, has no syntax highlighting or any other neat features other editors have. Change the 'File Type' drop-down to '*.* All Files' and you can save with any extension you want. And as far as large files go, I just opened an 80MB file in Notepad that caused EDIT.COM to puke with an out-of-memory error......
Right, and we all know that thousands of users of word processors are editing HTML because they're so scary-much better than, say, Dreamweaver, and almost all of the HTML in the world is edited using Word and Wordperfect, right?
OK. Let's now discuss how much better a Ratchet is for driving nails into wood than a hammer.....
And even this sad, unfulfilled engine of discovery can still find a purpose: to remain here on Earth, to stand as a monument to human exploration, and inspire in all who visit the sense of greatness appropriate to the endeavor it represents.
AGREED! Maybe some kid will see it on a trip with his folks and think "Hey! The dumb dicks that run this country got it wrong" and vow to himself then and there to change it. Objects like this inspire those kinds of life-changing moments in those at pivotal points in their lives.
If nothing else it was testament to the ability of the government to spend tons of money without killing innocents en masse or making the world hate us - rich politicians got to funnel money to their defense corp buddies AND the average American had something they were proud of, it was win-win!
Yeah man, I know what you mean. What kind of a fool would think that? When I see "Buy one jar of Jiff and get one free" I am certain it means that if I buy one, another will be allowed to do as it pleases.
Now that's not even speaking of my stance on Bush's drop of the Kyoto accord after taking millions of campaign funding from Exxon-Mobil.
The Kyoto accord would have been financially devastating for US corporations, who, operating on a profit motive, would pass their expenses on to their customers - gas going to $5 or $6+ a gallon overnight and home heating oil at $10 would not hurt a single millionaire....but lots of low-income and even middle class Americans would be killed by it (quite literally). As it is there are stories on the news every night of someone who has to decide whether or gas up the work truck or buy food, and this is at $2/gallon levels.
We need an international environmental protocol that doesn't punish wealthy countries for the inability of poorer nations to comply. Kyoto ain't it.
This is just wrong, the deadline was reached days before, in fact, it was reached just as the supreme court was getting involved. The supreme court ruling was simply a correction of the Florida court's very liberal definition of "seven days". Even for very large values of 7, you're really limited to something less than a month, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of where they were when the SC was able to establish the value of the number 7 clearly enough to be understood by everyone concerned.
That's a problem, there is so much talent and brainpower being wasted because we can't even come up with a way to feed people in in the third world, let alone educate them to the extent that they can exploit their abilities.
We've come up with plenty of ways to do both, the problem is that none of them make anyone any money, and until someone figures out how to feed & educate people AND turn a profit, they'll be deserts full of starving illiterates.
I have faith in humans, we all have wonderous natural capabilities, we just aren't encouraging, developing, or taking advantage of them in the optimal way.
Again, until "encouraging, developing, and taking advantage of them" allows the person doing the encouraging and developing to buy a new BMW, you won't find the most talented of society lined up to work on it. We all have wonderous capabilities, but 80% of the jobs out there don't require many of them, and this percentage will only go up as specialization increases - yes, your job is going to get more specialized and boring, and it will become more and more difficult to be able to see how that little thing you do, whatever it may be, makes a difference to anything or any one at all.
It seems we are currently trying to change the education system
Too little, too late.
I don't know, that may be true for CEOs, or actors to some extent, but most creative people I've seen seem don't seem to have a self-defensive attitude - in fact, they often encourage everyone to expose themselves to their specific field.
Of course, most of the actors and Musicians you know will make like $20k and kill themselves for it, sure join the fun, if you can manage to eat while you're doing it, so much the better. CEO's don't have to be defensive, the market takes care of that for them.
This will enable the rich to gradually kill off wholesale portions of the population as they are marginalized and can do nothing to defend themselves. Eventually, a small minority of people will live a lifestyle surprisingly similar to that which they live in present-day, they just won't have the inconvenience of having to deal with the peasants. Then one day, something will break in such a way that the machines can't deal with and a cascading failure of some sort will result in the human race being existinguished with a wimper, an evolutionary blue-screen....
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You come here expecting some new security news, but this is the same old song and dance.
Not that I don't appreciate a BSD is sick/broken/dead Troll as much as the next guy.....
Rally cars contain their own power source, an engine. Oil/Gasoline is acquired externally. Do Cheetahs breed their own food? No, they go somewhere and get it, just like Rally cars.
The second sentence is not a logical conclusion from the first. There is still no proof that the average temperature would not have risen gradually over the past 100 years if there were no humans at all. I can't wait for a few consecutive cool years so people like you will be worrying about another ice age like you did in the 70's.
Here's a good link for people who actually needed to use the 3 previous 'good links'
Yes, you're right. No one on Earth has exhibited bad judgement on a rare occasion, learned a lesson from it and changed their ways. Everyone should be forced to wear Scarlet-Letter-style clothing with built-in LCD screens detailing their life's misfortunes and bad decisions up to the present day for all to see. What have they to lose? The fact that something happened is justification enough right?
I just think its funny that people are speculating on making a CAR using nanotechnology - as if the development of this technology must be used to improve upon 100+ year old ideas rather than be applied to something newer, better, and altogether different. Somewhat akin to developing a touchscreen P4 computer with 32 bit graphics to simulate a better abacus and thus improving your ability to solve math problems. True nanotechnology (grey goo and all) would allow Dr. Scholl's Levitation Insoles to become a reality, but we need to work on atom-level improvements to under-car neon accessories......
I'm guessing he thought emails and invitations were both bounced because it SAYS emails and invitations were both bounced. This is one of those funny ones because you don't even have to read the article - the SUBJECT says this as well. What exactly DID you read?
Cable companies will never discourage anyone from hooking anything up to a cable modem as long as they can charge for it. You think MS should be allowing pirated copies to update? OK. If I steal your car, can I bring it back to you to have the oil changed when I need it?
Not to mention all of the networking code that actually works is from BSD....
Like all Sony gear, you paid a premium for the name. Once competition lowered prices to mass-market levels and everyone had to have one, cost was the only factor (or more recently look at long-duck-dong brand DVD players for $39 selling out at every Wal-Mart in America - in an A/B test the Average person could probably see a quality difference between that POS and a $500 B&O DVD deck, but nobody cares)
What? The only thing EDIT.COM can do that Notepad can't is split the window, which isn't required since you can open 10 notepad sessions quite easily, while only one EDIT.COM can be run in a DOS box at a time. EDIT.COM is bare-bones, has no syntax highlighting or any other neat features other editors have. Change the 'File Type' drop-down to '*.* All Files' and you can save with any extension you want. And as far as large files go, I just opened an 80MB file in Notepad that caused EDIT.COM to puke with an out-of-memory error......
Right, and we all know that thousands of users of word processors are editing HTML because they're so scary-much better than, say, Dreamweaver, and almost all of the HTML in the world is edited using Word and Wordperfect, right? OK. Let's now discuss how much better a Ratchet is for driving nails into wood than a hammer.....
AGREED! Maybe some kid will see it on a trip with his folks and think "Hey! The dumb dicks that run this country got it wrong" and vow to himself then and there to change it. Objects like this inspire those kinds of life-changing moments in those at pivotal points in their lives. If nothing else it was testament to the ability of the government to spend tons of money without killing innocents en masse or making the world hate us - rich politicians got to funnel money to their defense corp buddies AND the average American had something they were proud of, it was win-win!
Sink the Spinx? Might well sink Ali also....
Yeah man, I know what you mean. What kind of a fool would think that? When I see "Buy one jar of Jiff and get one free" I am certain it means that if I buy one, another will be allowed to do as it pleases.
The Kyoto accord would have been financially devastating for US corporations, who, operating on a profit motive, would pass their expenses on to their customers - gas going to $5 or $6+ a gallon overnight and home heating oil at $10 would not hurt a single millionaire....but lots of low-income and even middle class Americans would be killed by it (quite literally). As it is there are stories on the news every night of someone who has to decide whether or gas up the work truck or buy food, and this is at $2/gallon levels.
We need an international environmental protocol that doesn't punish wealthy countries for the inability of poorer nations to comply. Kyoto ain't it.
This is just wrong, the deadline was reached days before, in fact, it was reached just as the supreme court was getting involved. The supreme court ruling was simply a correction of the Florida court's very liberal definition of "seven days". Even for very large values of 7, you're really limited to something less than a month, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of where they were when the SC was able to establish the value of the number 7 clearly enough to be understood by everyone concerned.
We've come up with plenty of ways to do both, the problem is that none of them make anyone any money, and until someone figures out how to feed & educate people AND turn a profit, they'll be deserts full of starving illiterates.
I have faith in humans, we all have wonderous natural capabilities, we just aren't encouraging, developing, or taking advantage of them in the optimal way.
Again, until "encouraging, developing, and taking advantage of them" allows the person doing the encouraging and developing to buy a new BMW, you won't find the most talented of society lined up to work on it. We all have wonderous capabilities, but 80% of the jobs out there don't require many of them, and this percentage will only go up as specialization increases - yes, your job is going to get more specialized and boring, and it will become more and more difficult to be able to see how that little thing you do, whatever it may be, makes a difference to anything or any one at all.
It seems we are currently trying to change the education system
Too little, too late.
I don't know, that may be true for CEOs, or actors to some extent, but most creative people I've seen seem don't seem to have a self-defensive attitude - in fact, they often encourage everyone to expose themselves to their specific field.
Of course, most of the actors and Musicians you know will make like $20k and kill themselves for it, sure join the fun, if you can manage to eat while you're doing it, so much the better. CEO's don't have to be defensive, the market takes care of that for them.
Because they're the ones who decide who gets outsourced goofy! Hello? McFly? Anybody Home?
This will enable the rich to gradually kill off wholesale portions of the population as they are marginalized and can do nothing to defend themselves. Eventually, a small minority of people will live a lifestyle surprisingly similar to that which they live in present-day, they just won't have the inconvenience of having to deal with the peasants. Then one day, something will break in such a way that the machines can't deal with and a cascading failure of some sort will result in the human race being existinguished with a wimper, an evolutionary blue-screen....
No...Asgard is a piece of ABS plastic that hangs from the back of your belt, often used in conjunction with the Manssiere (or the Bro)
and in your case you're right at home; anyone who thinks air hockey is a sport is right at home on Slashdot....
Capitalism would work a lot better if this joke were literally true......
They're likely "Enemy Robatants" and you'll find them in Cuba.