I think the fact that you used Best Buy's stock symbol as an abbreviation may well speak volumes about a bias. I'm not pointing a finger (yet), but I think it's worth being said.
I would assume that actual soft tissue could be preserved inside a 70 million-year-old fossil/bone if the bone was deposited in conditions where anaerobic bacteria would not have played a large role, the bone was quickly fossilized, and the fossilization process established an air-tight seal in the outer portion of the bone early on. The soft tissue inside could then be preserved, for there would be very little capable of breaking it down to is basic chemical components.
But again, I am hardly a paleontologist, and so this is but a layman's theory.
I started reading a series he wrote before I knew who he was. Around the third book, things suddenly took a turn for the absolutely surreal. The plot was discarded entirely for some very messed up bondage fantasy and conspiracy theory (as I recall).
Needless to say, I put the book down, returned it to the library, and only later heard about who Hubbard was. (I was about thirteen at the time.)
I think I'm going to be staying away from Scientology and its followers for as long as possible.
Pardon me, but you appear to have highlighted the wrong part of the text. Allow me to first remove the highlighting on the applicaple sentence:
Except as provided above, users may not reproduce, publish, sell, distribute or in any way commercially exploit contents from this website without the prior written consent of AFP.
Now, let us highlight another section of text:
Except as provided above,
users may not reproduce, publish, sell, distribute or in any way commercially exploit contents from this website without the prior written consent of AFP.
You could believe the blurb, or you could go to Bungie.net and read the latest "What's Update," which deals with this rumor. While not expressly saying so, Frankie (Bungie representative) implies that the rumored disc is the way Bungie/MS will be distributing the next set of downloadable content (bug fixes, cheat fixes, and some new multiplayer levels have all been (expressly) confirmed).
Using your layman's instructions, I've got the Flux Capacitor working, but I still need a modified DeLorean and a Mr. Fusion. You don't happen to have an instruction set for either one of those, do you?
Is it just me, or does it seem like Apple has a team of people working on *finding* bugs and security holes in OS X? Maybe it's just me, but the first I hear of a greater majority of problems with OS X is when Apple releases an update, which suggests that maybe Apple has something beyond a simple stress-testing beta team.
Presumably, it was either the shape of the carton's interface, the size of the carton, or the ink in the carton that caused the printer to break; otherwise I doubt the tech looking at the printer will be interested in the cartridges or their bays.
If it's the shape of the interface, simply looking at how the printer-side of the carton interface is damaged should reveal that you used a 3rd party carton. If it's the size of the carton... well, the ink carton bays will be broken, and that will be an obvious indication that you put something other than the manufacturer's carton in there--which means that the damage is your fault. If it's the ink in the carton that caused the printer to break, it's likely a different composition or mixture that caused this. In that case, the tech would look at the ink residue to see if it has a different look or feel to it (or feeds it into a sensor to see if something's off). In this case, a Quality Control manager would probably make sure your printer is kept at the repair center until he or she can verify that the batch those ink cartons came from was not bad (unless the chemical signature or appearance/feel is way off, in which case they know that you used a bad 3rd party carton); once it's verified that said batch was not bad, they know that the problem was not a manufacturer's defect, and therefore not covered under warranty.
A tiny bit of investigation is all it takes; whether Lexmark would put effort into such investigation, I don't know. For all I know they'd say, "It's broken, you say? We'll send you a new one," or something to that effect.
I was disappointed with Halo 2's story, the first time through. I felt it needed to be longer and deeper than it was. After playing through a few times, though, my opinion of the story is simply that it ended too soon; I'll leave it up to Bungie to explain or not explain why that was.
My seasoned opinion of the Halo series as a whole is that, like college, what you get out of it depends on how much you put into it. If you only once play through each of the Halo's story modes, and on the Easy difficulty setting, you may not be much impressed, especially if you were expecting the Shakespeare of first-person shooters. The way some people buy into every ounce of hype for a product, I can understand the disappointment with and anger at the Halo series.
On the other hand, if you play through Halo a few times, preferably on Legendary difficulty and with a friend in co-op. mode, and then Halo 2 on Heroic a few times, you have a basis for beginning to understand and appreciate the story a bit more. Add in the ILB story (which turned out not to be canon) and the books, and one can really start to appreciate the Halo story. For a final touch, look into the Halo story speculation and witness things being discussed that you may not have noticed.
As for multiplayer... well, it's good in both. I have had my complaints in each, but the quality of the experience usually boils down to who (or whom) you play with, as I believe it should. Take some time to learn the maps and weapons, and judge not by appearances, and the things which cause complaint are often quickly forgotten in the heat of battle.
It's not just what a state does that makes it facist, it's how that state does it, too. Or would you consider the Kingdom of spain, with its merchant-driven economy in the sixteenth century (when merchants were "big business") facist?
No, Microsoft did not have creative control over either of the Halo games; they had timetable control over the first, and maybe that's what you were thinking of. I'm almost certain that Bungie made sure they kept creative control by the contract.
As for the movie... I'm not holding my breath. Bungie has denied plans are in the works and MS has given a "no comment" statement.
No worries; I had already visited the sites you pointed me to before I'd noticed your reply here.
At any rate, thanks for the information. From what I gather, the articles seem to say that the study indicates an allergic reaction to cockroaches/cockroach dung is causing a disproportionately high percentage of asthma attacks in cities. Now, I didn't read either article carefully (and perhaps I should have), but I'm guessing that anything the study said in regards to causing asthma (the lung disease) was omitted due to journalistic ignorance and/or space limitations in the articles.
At the least, I now have the names attatched to the study; if I somehow get some spare time this week, I'll try to track down the study report itself.
Hold on... roaches cause asthma? They don't just make it worse, they actually cause it?
That's news to me! Would you mind pointing me toward the studies that came to this conclusion? It doesn't matter if they're online or not, I can track them down.
(And no, there is no sarcasm in the above; as an asthmatic, I am genuinely interested.)
If the reason(s) you hold for stopping immigration are good, they should apply to all illegal immigrants. If this is the case, you need to look at why those immigrants are coming, at risk of deportation, imprisonment and, in some cases, death. Then you need to start addressing that problem.
In the past, the primary motivating factor for most immigrants to the US was economic; if this has held true, then the best way to "stem the tide" of immigration--both legal and otherwise--is to economically invest in these other countries. Start companies, build factories, give low-interest loans... any sort of investment along those lines would help both them and you.
The problem, of course, is that in order to save money (on healthcare), you have to spend it (on investment), first. The good news is that, given the relative economies of the world, this shouldn't be too expensive for most Americans (for we are all in this together, citizen, resident alien, and illegal immigrant alike).
CBS News: Exit polls show that Candidate A has taken a COMMANDING lead in Ohio. Supporters of Candidate B: Well, shit, there's no use voting, we're going to lose anyway.
Or...
Supporters of Candidate B: I gotta get to the polls before it's too late!
I'm afraid I must correct you; the press release you mentioned does, in fact, state that Halo 2 was expected to be released in the first quarter of 2004. What is missing is the information that this was the first financial quarter, which lasts from October through December (roughly)--thereby including November 9. As this press release was targeted to the financial press, one assumes that the author(s) of the release merely omitted the word "financial" as a matter of convenience.
(Also notice that there was no release date, only a range of three months, sometime during which Halo 2 was going to ship.)
Correction: Halo 2 was never delayed. Any release date(s) you read about before the November 9 release date was set was pulled out of someone's ass. Nov. 9 was the only release date given by Bungie or Microsoft for Halo 2, and that's a fact, jack.
I just so happen to be taking a Geology course, this semester. As I understand it, while Geologists are rather certain that radioactive materials provide the majority of the Earth's internal heat, they are equally certain that the core consists mostly of iron. The "liquid" outer sphere of iron produces the magnetic field through its motion.
As for the study itself: Wouldn't the Earth's own magnetic field interfere with the experiment, somehow? I saw nothing about this in the article, but I'm assuming that the Earth's magnetic field would either fail to significantly effect the results or the scientists are countering for it somehow, either in the experiment itself or in their calculations.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the fact that you used Best Buy's stock symbol as an abbreviation may well speak volumes about a bias. I'm not pointing a finger (yet), but I think it's worth being said.
~UP
Disclaimer: I am not a paleontologist.
I would assume that actual soft tissue could be preserved inside a 70 million-year-old fossil/bone if the bone was deposited in conditions where anaerobic bacteria would not have played a large role, the bone was quickly fossilized, and the fossilization process established an air-tight seal in the outer portion of the bone early on. The soft tissue inside could then be preserved, for there would be very little capable of breaking it down to is basic chemical components.
But again, I am hardly a paleontologist, and so this is but a layman's theory.
~UP
... the man was insane.
I started reading a series he wrote before I knew who he was. Around the third book, things suddenly took a turn for the absolutely surreal. The plot was discarded entirely for some very messed up bondage fantasy and conspiracy theory (as I recall).
Needless to say, I put the book down, returned it to the library, and only later heard about who Hubbard was. (I was about thirteen at the time.)
I think I'm going to be staying away from Scientology and its followers for as long as possible.
~UP
Now, let us highlight another section of text:
It's all in how the legalize is read, really.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
~UP
Too late, I realized that I left something out of the last sentence; I should have added "to non-Xbox Live subscribers" before the period. Sorry!
~UP
You could believe the blurb, or you could go to Bungie.net and read the latest "What's Update," which deals with this rumor. While not expressly saying so, Frankie (Bungie representative) implies that the rumored disc is the way Bungie/MS will be distributing the next set of downloadable content (bug fixes, cheat fixes, and some new multiplayer levels have all been (expressly) confirmed).
~UP
Using your layman's instructions, I've got the Flux Capacitor working, but I still need a modified DeLorean and a Mr. Fusion. You don't happen to have an instruction set for either one of those, do you?
~UP
Funny, that's what she said....
~UP
Is it just me, or does it seem like Apple has a team of people working on *finding* bugs and security holes in OS X? Maybe it's just me, but the first I hear of a greater majority of problems with OS X is when Apple releases an update, which suggests that maybe Apple has something beyond a simple stress-testing beta team.
Or maybe I just need more sleep.
~UP
Presumably, it was either the shape of the carton's interface, the size of the carton, or the ink in the carton that caused the printer to break; otherwise I doubt the tech looking at the printer will be interested in the cartridges or their bays.
If it's the shape of the interface, simply looking at how the printer-side of the carton interface is damaged should reveal that you used a 3rd party carton. If it's the size of the carton... well, the ink carton bays will be broken, and that will be an obvious indication that you put something other than the manufacturer's carton in there--which means that the damage is your fault. If it's the ink in the carton that caused the printer to break, it's likely a different composition or mixture that caused this. In that case, the tech would look at the ink residue to see if it has a different look or feel to it (or feeds it into a sensor to see if something's off). In this case, a Quality Control manager would probably make sure your printer is kept at the repair center until he or she can verify that the batch those ink cartons came from was not bad (unless the chemical signature or appearance/feel is way off, in which case they know that you used a bad 3rd party carton); once it's verified that said batch was not bad, they know that the problem was not a manufacturer's defect, and therefore not covered under warranty.
A tiny bit of investigation is all it takes; whether Lexmark would put effort into such investigation, I don't know. For all I know they'd say, "It's broken, you say? We'll send you a new one," or something to that effect.
~UP
I was disappointed with Halo 2's story, the first time through. I felt it needed to be longer and deeper than it was. After playing through a few times, though, my opinion of the story is simply that it ended too soon; I'll leave it up to Bungie to explain or not explain why that was.
My seasoned opinion of the Halo series as a whole is that, like college, what you get out of it depends on how much you put into it. If you only once play through each of the Halo's story modes, and on the Easy difficulty setting, you may not be much impressed, especially if you were expecting the Shakespeare of first-person shooters. The way some people buy into every ounce of hype for a product, I can understand the disappointment with and anger at the Halo series.
On the other hand, if you play through Halo a few times, preferably on Legendary difficulty and with a friend in co-op. mode, and then Halo 2 on Heroic a few times, you have a basis for beginning to understand and appreciate the story a bit more. Add in the ILB story (which turned out not to be canon) and the books, and one can really start to appreciate the Halo story. For a final touch, look into the Halo story speculation and witness things being discussed that you may not have noticed.
As for multiplayer... well, it's good in both. I have had my complaints in each, but the quality of the experience usually boils down to who (or whom) you play with, as I believe it should. Take some time to learn the maps and weapons, and judge not by appearances, and the things which cause complaint are often quickly forgotten in the heat of battle.
Carnage Heureux,
UP
Fitz just linked a 38 megabyte file from the front page... does this mean that slashdot just declared war on the U.K.?
~UP
It's not just what a state does that makes it facist, it's how that state does it, too. Or would you consider the Kingdom of spain, with its merchant-driven economy in the sixteenth century (when merchants were "big business") facist?
~UP
No, Microsoft did not have creative control over either of the Halo games; they had timetable control over the first, and maybe that's what you were thinking of. I'm almost certain that Bungie made sure they kept creative control by the contract.
As for the movie... I'm not holding my breath. Bungie has denied plans are in the works and MS has given a "no comment" statement.
~UP
No worries; I had already visited the sites you pointed me to before I'd noticed your reply here.
At any rate, thanks for the information. From what I gather, the articles seem to say that the study indicates an allergic reaction to cockroaches/cockroach dung is causing a disproportionately high percentage of asthma attacks in cities. Now, I didn't read either article carefully (and perhaps I should have), but I'm guessing that anything the study said in regards to causing asthma (the lung disease) was omitted due to journalistic ignorance and/or space limitations in the articles.
At the least, I now have the names attatched to the study; if I somehow get some spare time this week, I'll try to track down the study report itself.
Again, thanks for the information!
~UP
Hold on... roaches cause asthma? They don't just make it worse, they actually cause it?
That's news to me! Would you mind pointing me toward the studies that came to this conclusion? It doesn't matter if they're online or not, I can track them down.
(And no, there is no sarcasm in the above; as an asthmatic, I am genuinely interested.)
~UP
If the reason(s) you hold for stopping immigration are good, they should apply to all illegal immigrants. If this is the case, you need to look at why those immigrants are coming, at risk of deportation, imprisonment and, in some cases, death. Then you need to start addressing that problem.
In the past, the primary motivating factor for most immigrants to the US was economic; if this has held true, then the best way to "stem the tide" of immigration--both legal and otherwise--is to economically invest in these other countries. Start companies, build factories, give low-interest loans... any sort of investment along those lines would help both them and you.
The problem, of course, is that in order to save money (on healthcare), you have to spend it (on investment), first. The good news is that, given the relative economies of the world, this shouldn't be too expensive for most Americans (for we are all in this together, citizen, resident alien, and illegal immigrant alike).
~UP
a democratic totalitarian state
You know, I'm not sure if that's an oxymoron or just an impossibility.
~UP
"Dark energy" and "dark matter" are just ways of saying "energy we can't find" and "matter we can't find," (respectively,) right?
~UP
So buy movies, and have fun!
;-)
Own stock in New Line, eh?
~UP
CBS News: Exit polls show that Candidate A has taken a COMMANDING lead in Ohio.
Supporters of Candidate B: Well, shit, there's no use voting, we're going to lose anyway.
Or...
Supporters of Candidate B: I gotta get to the polls before it's too late!
~UP
I'm afraid I must correct you; the press release you mentioned does, in fact, state that Halo 2 was expected to be released in the first quarter of 2004. What is missing is the information that this was the first financial quarter, which lasts from October through December (roughly)--thereby including November 9. As this press release was targeted to the financial press, one assumes that the author(s) of the release merely omitted the word "financial" as a matter of convenience.
(Also notice that there was no release date, only a range of three months, sometime during which Halo 2 was going to ship.)
~UP
Correction: Halo 2 was never delayed. Any release date(s) you read about before the November 9 release date was set was pulled out of someone's ass. Nov. 9 was the only release date given by Bungie or Microsoft for Halo 2, and that's a fact, jack.
~UP
I just so happen to be taking a Geology course, this semester. As I understand it, while Geologists are rather certain that radioactive materials provide the majority of the Earth's internal heat, they are equally certain that the core consists mostly of iron. The "liquid" outer sphere of iron produces the magnetic field through its motion.
As for the study itself: Wouldn't the Earth's own magnetic field interfere with the experiment, somehow? I saw nothing about this in the article, but I'm assuming that the Earth's magnetic field would either fail to significantly effect the results or the scientists are countering for it somehow, either in the experiment itself or in their calculations.
At any rate, I wish them the best of luck.
~UP
So... what about all the kids who've played Risk(TM) over the years?
~UP