An example from my personal experiences, I tend to hold doors for people - guys AND gals - if they're near enough that I'm not going out of my way (golden rule). I once did this for a young woman once (I don't exactly recall where or when), but she intentionally went through another door (that she opened herself) and scolded me that she doesn't need help. The undertone there was that she wouldn't accept my gesture of courtesy because I was male. Due to that one instance, I've pretty much stopped holding doors for people
A very similar incident happened to me. I'd imagine it happens to most guys that hold open doors.
I still hold open doors though. Because, fuck her. I'm not going to let her malignant attitude affect me. Perhaps she should wear a sign that says "I'm a bitch, and I don't respond well to kindness."
Of course, I just smiled and shrugged and didn't say any of that to her. What would be the point? To hurt her or embarrass her? I couldn't possibly say anything that would hurt her as much as her attitude will.
what if this german official's fingerprint was found on a murder scene ?
No, no no NO! You guys are looking at this all wrong! Don't you see?
He can now GET AWAY WITH MURDER. If this fingerprint is found at the scene? So what? It's the perfect alibi. He could commit a crime and INTENTIONALLY leave this fingerprint at the scene.
In fact, how do we know he didn't arrange for it to be released in the first place? We could be dealing with a truly devious mind here. Does anyone know if he happens to own a white, furry cat?
I dunno, I've heard of people having more trouble with fully automated systems in the past...
Lowtax - But... I don't understand how that is possible. I didn't program him to do that, I programmed him to help the homeless and push the homeless into their boxes / houses and shove the space station away from the Terrible Space Secret.
Lowtax - That's odd, the robot left! I can't find where he went.
Corn_Boy - be very careful, he is scary, does he have an off button?
Lowtax - No, I hard encoded the transistor gigaflop switch to the analogue Proteus nord rack 2 Quasimidi ray diode. He should turn himself off.
Lowtax - That's odd, the lights turned off.
Corn_Boy - ohno RUn awya!! he is evil
Lowtax - Robots cannot be evil, you are silly!!!
Corn_Boy - I am sorry, I am not a robot scientest, but be very careful friend! he is a scemeing robot
Lowtax - Oh, here he comes! His eyes are glowing and he is holding something shiny. Let me go see what he has, brb
Corn_Boy - please be careful
Corn_Boy - hello! are you there!!
Lowtax - PAK CHOOIE UNF
Lowtax - HELLO
Lowtax - DATASTREAM - DATASTREAM
Lowtax - PAK CHOOIE UNF
Corn_Boy - where is my friend robot!
Lowtax - PAK CHOOIE UNF
Lowtax - HE CANNOT CANNOT USE ICQ NOW HE HAS GONE DOWN THE STAIRS
[...]we will have the technology to drill down into Mars' core and set off a few old-fashioned nukes to heat up it's core again.
I....I can't tell if you're being serious or not here. I seems like you're serious, but you could just be very, very subtle. Are you playing the post-something-so-ridiculous-everyone-will-know-that-I-MUST-be-joking game? Because if so, I think you're winning.
This isn't the first time I've heard this idea, either. Where do you guys pick up these notions of how things work? I don't even know where to begin. Should I point out the mathematics? (Taking into consideration the mass of Mars, how many "old-fashioned nukes" would it take to heat up its core again? Do we have access to that much fissionable material? And then add on all the other mass you're going to need to hold an atmosphere.) Or should I just let it slide?
That's it, mister. No more sci-fi movies until you learn to obey the laws of physics! Set off a few old-fashioned nukes to heat up the core? I...the mind BOGGLES.
The point being, NEVER. SAY. NEVER.
What are you talking about? In the real world, we say NEVER all the time!
We will never travel faster than the speed of light.
We will never invent a perpetual motion/energy device.
We will never terraform Mars, because if we ever DID have the technology to overcome the myriad of obstacles between us and that goal, why would we need to terraform Mars? Under what circumstances would we have the technology of the gods, and yet need another planet? Giant arcologies in space seem more reasonable.
It sounds to me like the real problem here is your lack of imagination.
Yes, clearly *I* am the crazy person here who has no idea of how physics works. In this dimension, it runs on imagination! Obviously. I feel like a fool. Thank you for enlightening me.
I've always drawn solace from the fact that eventually oil will run out and we'll stop pumping smog into the air. Can you imagine if we were not suddenly able to pump hundreds of times that amount into the air before we ran out?? Holy smokes!
I don't see what the problem is, we'll just change planets again like we did when Venus got too smoggy.
Right?
Am I the only one who remembers that? OK, now I feel old. What are they teaching you kids in schools these days?
While it would be an Epic project the likes of which has never been done, with complications we can't even realize yet... it would be relatively easy to terraform mars as compared to a rock further from the sun.
Mars will never be terraformed. Ever. Let it go.
Relatively easy? It doesn't have enough mass -> it doesn't have enough gravity -> it can't hold an atmosphere we can use. But we can just keep smashing meteors into, right?
Let's say we had the technology to move planets (because that's the order of difficulty we're talking about). Even if we could move enough matter together, we still can't terraform Mars. Do you know why? MARS HAS NO EFFECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE!
The core of Mars is cold. It has no active swirling iron core like we enjoy here on Earth. No active core -> No effective magnetosphere. But what do we need that for, anyway?
Mars is larger than Mercury and four times farther from the sun, and yet even here it is thought that the solar wind has stripped away up to a third of its original atmosphere, leaving a layer 100 times thinner than the Earth's.
Even if you did get enough mass to hold an atmosphere, and enough atmosphere to be habitable (which would need to be MORE than we have here on Earth, due to the increased distance from the sun), the lack of a strong magnetosphere would allow the solar wind to strip it away again. Oh, and all that deadly radiation.
And because these things often go uncredited for some strange reason (laziness?):
Directed and Produced by Charlie Bayliss Co-Directed by Irfan Nathoo Producer Mark Wilenkin 3D Modeling and Animation by Charlie Bayliss Additional 3D Modeling by Dan Kohn Composited and Edited by Mark Wilenkin Music by LAZER Studio_w and LAZER Music production Executive Producers Mark Wilenkin and Gorgon Hagan
(I hope I spelled those names correctly, it's kind of hard to read that font)
Hi-res versions with better audio are available at lazersonic.com. Please don't rape their server.
There is quite a bit of audio, clearly spoken by a native English speaker, but not WRITTEN by a native English speaker. He reads exactly what is written though, without correction. But he obviously KNOWS that what he is reading is completely wrong. It's like a horribly racist comedy routine.
Photosynth doesn't make anything 3D. It combines flat photos, and while you can move around and see photos attached at different angles, each of those views MUST be a photo on its own. The more pictures you add, the more angles you can look at, but Photosynth isn't making anything 3D.
When I was in Japan, I got my first mobile phone. SMS messages were always free. Free to send, free to receive. If I were sending messages to a phone on the same service as myself, I could send larger messages (250 characters, I think). On other services, I was limited to 80 characters or so. Still, free free free, and if I needed to say more, I could send two messages, or compose a longer e-mail (but the e-mail wasn't free). This was on that $9/month plan.
That's still how I think of SMS messaging.
But then I returned to America. 15 cents a message? 15 cents for each RECEIVED message? I don't have any control over that! It's BULLSHIT.
If I owned one of these lights, I would have a sticker on it that said "DO NOT POINT AT FACE. EVER. SRSLY."
Negative warnings lack effectiveness. For better results, use phrases like:
"If you want faces to melt, point this at them." "For a free trip to the hospital, stick hand in beam." "Look directly into the light, and you'll never have to see your parents again!"
[...]in the second half of 2009, rather than the anticipated release date of some time in 2010. This quickly-approaching release date would[...]
A release date between one and a half, and two years off is "quickly-approaching" the same way a glacier is "swiftly-flowing".
Is this release date causing time to somehow accelerate? If not, how could it be any more "quickly-approaching" than any other future date? Time -is- still marching along at the same speed, right?
1. Japan is very far ahead of us as far as cell-phone technology is concerned. They've had fully-functional video phones for at least a year or two, for example (as in, you can communicate via real-time video).
For the record, my first Japanese cell phone could do this. That was in 2004. They may be further ahead of us than you think.
It's even worse in Japan. You can't physically plug something in that DOES have an earth pin; the sockets aren't made for them. There's no grounding at all*. I guess 100 volts must be safer than 110v.
(* not entirely true, some outlets have a grounding tab on them, to which you can attach a grounding wire from certain appliances. But not every appliance, nor every outlet. Or even most. Or half. My last apartment had two outlets with grounding tabs on them, total.)
I can remember... way back to junior high school when he was hawking these things, then every year or three they'd pop up again, "the wave of the future" blah, blah, blah...
I believe you are confusing this with the Moller Skycar.
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I still hold open doors though. Because, fuck her. I'm not going to let her malignant attitude affect me. Perhaps she should wear a sign that says "I'm a bitch, and I don't respond well to kindness."
Of course, I just smiled and shrugged and didn't say any of that to her. What would be the point? To hurt her or embarrass her? I couldn't possibly say anything that would hurt her as much as her attitude will.
He can now GET AWAY WITH MURDER. If this fingerprint is found at the scene? So what? It's the perfect alibi. He could commit a crime and INTENTIONALLY leave this fingerprint at the scene.
In fact, how do we know he didn't arrange for it to be released in the first place? We could be dealing with a truly devious mind here. Does anyone know if he happens to own a white, furry cat?
to: s_hawking@cam.ac.uk
re: MBHs
status: urgent
MBHs not dissipating as anticipated. Please advise.
Wife? I don't understand.
Can you rephrase it using a car analogy instead?
I dunno, it's hard to find a fault in that logic.
Hey, good job on not making any grammar mistakes in your post!~
This isn't the first time I've heard this idea, either. Where do you guys pick up these notions of how things work? I don't even know where to begin. Should I point out the mathematics? (Taking into consideration the mass of Mars, how many "old-fashioned nukes" would it take to heat up its core again? Do we have access to that much fissionable material? And then add on all the other mass you're going to need to hold an atmosphere.) Or should I just let it slide?
That's it, mister. No more sci-fi movies until you learn to obey the laws of physics! Set off a few old-fashioned nukes to heat up the core? I...the mind BOGGLES.What are you talking about? In the real world, we say NEVER all the time!
- We will never travel faster than the speed of light.
- We will never invent a perpetual motion/energy device.
- We will never terraform Mars, because if we ever DID have the technology to overcome the myriad of obstacles between us and that goal, why would we need to terraform Mars? Under what circumstances would we have the technology of the gods, and yet need another planet? Giant arcologies in space seem more reasonable.
Yes, clearly *I* am the crazy person here who has no idea of how physics works. In this dimension, it runs on imagination! Obviously. I feel like a fool. Thank you for enlightening me.Right?
Am I the only one who remembers that? OK, now I feel old. What are they teaching you kids in schools these days?
Relatively easy? It doesn't have enough mass -> it doesn't have enough gravity -> it can't hold an atmosphere we can use. But we can just keep smashing meteors into, right?
Let's say we had the technology to move planets (because that's the order of difficulty we're talking about). Even if we could move enough matter together, we still can't terraform Mars. Do you know why? MARS HAS NO EFFECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE!
The core of Mars is cold. It has no active swirling iron core like we enjoy here on Earth. No active core -> No effective magnetosphere. But what do we need that for, anyway?
Quote Wikipedia: Even if you did get enough mass to hold an atmosphere, and enough atmosphere to be habitable (which would need to be MORE than we have here on Earth, due to the increased distance from the sun), the lack of a strong magnetosphere would allow the solar wind to strip it away again. Oh, and all that deadly radiation.
Mars. Will. NEVER. Be. Terraformed.
And because these things often go uncredited for some strange reason (laziness?):
Directed and Produced by Charlie Bayliss
Co-Directed by Irfan Nathoo
Producer Mark Wilenkin
3D Modeling and Animation by Charlie Bayliss
Additional 3D Modeling by Dan Kohn
Composited and Edited by Mark Wilenkin
Music by LAZER
Studio_w and LAZER Music production
Executive Producers Mark Wilenkin and Gorgon Hagan
(I hope I spelled those names correctly, it's kind of hard to read that font)
Hi-res versions with better audio are available at lazersonic.com. Please don't rape their server.
There is quite a bit of audio, clearly spoken by a native English speaker, but not WRITTEN by a native English speaker. He reads exactly what is written though, without correction. But he obviously KNOWS that what he is reading is completely wrong. It's like a horribly racist comedy routine.
Photosynth doesn't make anything 3D. It combines flat photos, and while you can move around and see photos attached at different angles, each of those views MUST be a photo on its own. The more pictures you add, the more angles you can look at, but Photosynth isn't making anything 3D.
These two packages are quite, QUITE different.
When I was in Japan, I got my first mobile phone. SMS messages were always free. Free to send, free to receive. If I were sending messages to a phone on the same service as myself, I could send larger messages (250 characters, I think). On other services, I was limited to 80 characters or so. Still, free free free, and if I needed to say more, I could send two messages, or compose a longer e-mail (but the e-mail wasn't free). This was on that $9/month plan.
That's still how I think of SMS messaging.
But then I returned to America. 15 cents a message? 15 cents for each RECEIVED message? I don't have any control over that! It's BULLSHIT.
"If you want faces to melt, point this at them."
"For a free trip to the hospital, stick hand in beam."
"Look directly into the light, and you'll never have to see your parents again!"
Employee #1: We just hit 10 million subscribers!
Employee #2: What's that? I can't hear you over all this money we're printing.
Is this release date causing time to somehow accelerate? If not, how could it be any more "quickly-approaching" than any other future date? Time -is- still marching along at the same speed, right?
It's even worse in Japan. You can't physically plug something in that DOES have an earth pin; the sockets aren't made for them. There's no grounding at all*. I guess 100 volts must be safer than 110v.
(* not entirely true, some outlets have a grounding tab on them, to which you can attach a grounding wire from certain appliances. But not every appliance, nor every outlet. Or even most. Or half. My last apartment had two outlets with grounding tabs on them, total.)
All your passwords are what? I just see a bunch of asterisks.
You're Korben Dallas?
It's not a virus, sure. Viruses tend to mature, become more efficient...
But Explorer sure feels like malicious code...