You know, normally I disagree with antihawk, ultra anstist liberal crap, but I might actually agree. The bombing of Iraq was a bad idea, but I think the current war in Iraq is doing quite well. *shrugs*
Damn. Why for fuck's sake the best arguement from Bowling for Columbine? Bowling for Columbine is a piece of misinformed garbage. Get a better source. Now.
Woohooo! I misspelled the name of my own party. It's libertarian, sorry for the spam! Anyway I still stand by what I said. It is not the goverments fault if you are unhealthy, obese, poor or otherwise suffering from life's suckages. 9 times out of 10, it is your own sorry self's fault... And that ends your daily dose of double post spam. Sorry!
Oh BTW Libertarian not libretarean, need to slow down on the caffiene.
Repeat after me, "It is not the government's fault I am fat, It is not the government's fault I am fat. It is not the fast food industry's fault I am fat, it is not the fast food industry's fault I am fat. My body is my own responsibility, My body is my own responibility. "
That said I disagree with all government driven scientific efforts, not only because of their terrible ineffeciency and failures in the past, but because I'm a libretarean. I would go into a long winded speach about the glories of small government and how we'll get there anyway, but I'd just be getting off topic.
This is all interesting, it realy is, BUT what can you apply this to? Better sliced bread? Clean fuel? Cure for cancer? I know my expectations are a little high, but can't this be applied to anything?
Maybe I just lack the imagination.
Wait, if it constantly moves when enery is applied without stopping... perpetual motion device, anyone? But the conditions are just so hard to maintain that this could be a problem, maybe the energy used to freeze would be inadequate compared to the energy it produced.
However in space, viscosity might not be as big of a deal in the first place, though I might not understand how it works.
Okay/.ers tear this post to shreads and enlighten me on the subject.
A madrake is a plant once thought to make women fertile. In popular mythology a mandrake is a human/ plant thingy, though for aesthetic reasons are usually drawn as babies.
Ofcourse more likely than not your wondering about why it's called Mandrake Move, but that's already been said.
have Yes, but on the consumer side of things the X Box is awesome, if I can ever weight my ass down I'll be able to use a LinBox as a far superior machine to what I have now(and then adding more memory, extra hard drives, ect.) Microsoft has said themselves that they don't expect to make cash until the X Box 2 comes out. Remember this is microsoft we're talking about. It's the one company that can afford things like this.
Strange... there were no shortage of articles on the subject, but the most recent was in febuary... am I not looking hard enough or am I just completely wrong because of information I heard almost a year ago? Information would be much appreciated.
AOL loses money every year, as far as I know they haven't made a cent yet. Granted, not as much the X Box, but still quite a lot, I should be a ble to google up a few links in a second or two...
I found this post very informative and interesting, too bad I lack the Mod Points to help ya' out. I remember Earth Link and MindSpring merger. It was a very painful day for all Mind Spring fans, of course, now cable's cheap enough that Mozilla is enough, so it's irrelevant. _
Yes, but they always offer broadband or net services (such as crappy @hotmail adresses) I've never seen them actually say,"AFORDABLE, RELIABLE DUI ACCESS, LESS THAN TEN DOLLARS A MONTH!" Or anything like that. Still, they put all that advertisement for popup and spamblockers when I can get that for free from Mozilla(may he live forever.)
Also, whoever modded me up, thankyou soooo much, I might be back to normal karma now. Might.
The X Box, while not cost effective at the moment, is actually superior to the other 'big three' consoles. Many see it as the future of gaming because it's basically a standardized CPU. With the right mod chips, you can even run Linux. Not to mention people have actually heard of the X Box and this MS Dialup thing seems a little obscure. Dial up as others have mentioned is becoming more aniquated and obscure as time goes on. With the growing availibility of WiFi, satelite, DSL and cable, dial up'll go into the tech tar pits in the next decade.
Microsoft had a dial up bussiness? I'm curious how many/.ers heard of it. While this is a prime example of over hyping a product through expensive and ineffective advertising, I would think BG would know better. AOL has been doing this for years, but they haven't made a cent yet. Ofcourse, Microsoft actually makes easy to use (though flawed) and popular software....
I see alot of 'Bill Gates is Satan' replies... *braces self*
I think Bush honestly intends to do this. I really do, but this'll probably get pushed underneath all the of other crap. Bush has been tossing money at Education for the last three years with no demands on improvement or on reform and they still SUCK ASS.
People have said that there are better things to spend our money on, but whenever the government gives money away to introduce a new public service it creates a lack of competition and suckage ensues. Education has been raped, where ever the moneys going public school is STILL failing to teach our children and teachers are STILL underpaid. SS has hell to pay, it bites, save your money now kiddies, cuz Uncle Sam wants to keep his cash. Free Med has been tried in Europe and then research died. Oh and what about that billion we sent to Haiti? Or the two billion to China we send every year? Their military seems to have reached the cosmic level, but Human Rights still aren't nearly what they should be. Or how about the billions sent to small farmers so they won't become god damn busboys?
Ofcourse there are still plenty of other scientific efforts that are worth going at. Medical research is still alive and well in the US of A and while alternative energy resources are being researched, with economics the way they are they'll never be commercially applied to anything useful. Then there's the ultimate technology we've only started researching as of late - nanotechnology. One or two slashdotters proposed that this may be a chimera, but to me, the science is sound and the possibilities seem limitless. And there's a whole slew of ways to get to space that are better/ cheaper/ more practical. The most notable of which is the 'space elevator' idea that was being tossed around in the late 90s, and while by no means new, seems sound and, *gasp*, safe. This could get very interesting.
Politics seem to be the nut of this. While I don't think he did this soley to get votes, I do think he'll pull this out of his hat later this year when election season gets warmed up. Honestly, I don't think the budget would be a problem if he would cut out the fat. Maybe, he might even do that. Maybe.
Oh yeah, and before you vote Dean, remember even an Idiot is better than a poll drone. *gets modded for flamebait*
"I want better education, cheaper college tuitition, free health care for the working poor and senior citizens, and social security when I retire. YEs, its going to be gone very very fast at this rate of spending!"
Solution: Pay for it.
Any idiot can see that SS has been dead for a long time. Get over it, you should of been less short sighted and saved/ bought stocks in advanced. If you have a real vital need for money and have a real reason you can't work, then charities would make up the difference.
Education sucks because of lack of competition, if we all had to pay for it then there would be competitive schools out there, plus probably charitable scholarship for the intelligent who can't afford the prices of such schools.
If you want cheap college tuition then just go to state or community college, problem solved. Not to mention tons of scholarships and government programs for those who really need it. I'll admit it, my parents paid for my tuition, but they themselves had worked hard to do so. My family is by no means rich, but they work hard and don't expect anything for free. I'll probably do the same for my cildren. I worked for my grades and I'm proud of it. If your such a bad student that you can't get of your ass and do some work, you should be flipping burgers.
Free health care means the death of medical research. Socialism is a short sighted ideal born of ignorant European spoon feeding and constant protection by the US. The European economy will die very soon, because of the lack of economic competition.
People are not freezing to death on the streets of America, and if they were/ are then it wouldn't/ isn't because the door of oppurtunity isn't open. There are plenty of private shelters for the homeless and programs that don't require me to pay an extra few hundred dollars a year to the government. To be fair, I think donating to charity is a great way to spend your money and every American who can afford to should do so. However I was kinda disturbed when you mentioned: "a free society with access to equal priveledges. That's not what America's about. People do not have equal priveledges and shouldn't have them. It denotes any insentive to acquire and spend money. Granted the economy's in the toilet already.
*Notices other people in debates are getting modded as flamebait by the ones they argue against*
*Really, really doesn't wanna get modded for flame bait*
*Crosses fingers*
Finally, someone is thinking about the Chinese! I don't have any doubts that they will cheerfully make heavy use of the profits from selling the USA shoes and such to make themselves the leading space power of the 21st century.
There may be hard core communists still running things, but they damned well have learned to compete in a capitalistic world environment, and do it quite well. Just check the balance of trade figures if you don't think they learn quick.
I couldn't agree more, if China keeps doing what there doing I have no doubt that they will become the leading military and economic power within the next few decades.
As for their Russian made rockets, how long have you been hiding in a closet with your tinfoil hat shoved squarely down over your ears? IIRC, the so-called Long March heavy lifter can outlift our old Saturn by a factor or two or more in terms of weight to a geosync orbit. And its been around in commercial use for what, 15 years now?
Bet on it, they WILL go to the moon. And if that works, I don't think it will get dropped like the Apollo did once it had done what JFK wanted to do, which was show the Russians who was boss. They will have a plan that will make a profit on it once established.
I made a point to correct a minor spelling error. Anyway, what is this plan? While I believe they'll be ruling the world in thirty years, (Sort of like the way the US is now.)I'm not so sure they'll make money off this in the forseeable future.
I see going back to the moon, and beyond, as being competitive.
But what some aren't seeing is that maybe we can bring in all those "raw materials", but whose going to remedy the environmental damage the processing here will no doubt cause?
Somebody else back up the page here said we should goto the oceans and exploit them better. We have, and we've screwed them up to the point we are exterminating whole species of fish, like the North Atlantic Cod, which the last I read were at less than.1% of their numbers from 100 years ago.
Okay, I agree, butexactly what would happen if a bunch of fish died? Really? We overfished them, which is a big bummer for the fish. But darwin steps in kills the fish and we're still number one on the planet. Unless it's something like:
1. Humans overfish cod.
2. NACs die.
3.Other animal life (including humans) due to starvation.
Just doesn't make sense to me. While there might be other, more subtle reprecusions, but if your stats are accurate (I have no reason to believe their not)then they've already occured. Now pollution is bad, but will continue to occur no matter what happens. Also, the raw materials main purpose is for other planets, earth doesn't need more rocks or pollution.
Between the blatant overfishing, and the sewage being dumped by our shoreside cities, the most important areas of the ocean, the continental shelves, are being decimated of their normal fish populations. The oceans need our help alright, but the help is to stay the hell out of them, both with our fishing boats, and our sewage. Even the whales, which we've almost quit hunting, are not going to recover anytime soon to even half their numbers in the 1800's because we're killing their food supplies all the way from plankton for the Baleen whale to the deep ocean squid favored by the big blues, all with our man made pollution.
No, we don't need to exploit the oceans any more, but less, far far less. This planet can only support maybe 1/3rd of its present population and do it in a fully sustainable way. Thats another lesson the chinese learned a couple of decades back when they instituted the one ch
Humble Greetings from Emporer Cheesy Poof of Hatia, if one of your foolish Clintonite leaders offer us ten billion dollars, then Governor Dorito gets to retire early and we can still treat our people like dirt. Hurray!
I wonder if this'll be on the first page? Oh wait, I'm supposed to say something semi- important here aren't I? This will never sell in the US. Buy a tivo and a PS2 and woopada-freakin'-do, you've saved a few hundred bucks. You can thank me later.
What AC said, plus space isn't just nifty in Japan - it's an obsession. They need space so bad that they actually RENT breifcases. No, I'm not being cute! Why are you looking at me like that? *People throw rocks at Zack*
The Play Station Xtra was originally an addition to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo got cold feet and we Nintendo funs got stuck with the far inferior Nintendo 64. For more information poke around a bit around GameFaqs.
TiVos been around in Japan since the stone(d) ages. I'm pretty sure it's a japanese company that makes American TiVos. Theres just no way an American would come up with such an original(Japanese) name.
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You know, normally I disagree with antihawk, ultra anstist liberal crap, but I might actually agree. The bombing of Iraq was a bad idea, but I think the current war in Iraq is doing quite well. *shrugs*
Damn. Why for fuck's sake the best arguement from Bowling for Columbine? Bowling for Columbine is a piece of misinformed garbage. Get a better source. Now.
I'm curious if anyone has some good websites for starting hardware/ software hacking. Let's save these guys som cash, people!
Let the karma whoring begin!
Woohooo! I misspelled the name of my own party. It's libertarian, sorry for the spam! Anyway I still stand by what I said. It is not the goverments fault if you are unhealthy, obese, poor or otherwise suffering from life's suckages. 9 times out of 10, it is your own sorry self's fault... And that ends your daily dose of double post spam. Sorry!
Oh BTW Libertarian not libretarean, need to slow down on the caffiene.
That said I disagree with all government driven scientific efforts, not only because of their terrible ineffeciency and failures in the past, but because I'm a libretarean. I would go into a long winded speach about the glories of small government and how we'll get there anyway, but I'd just be getting off topic.
This is all interesting, it realy is, BUT what can you apply this to? Better sliced bread? Clean fuel? Cure for cancer? I know my expectations are a little high, but can't this be applied to anything?
/.ers tear this post to shreads and enlighten me on the subject.
Maybe I just lack the imagination.
Wait, if it constantly moves when enery is applied without stopping... perpetual motion device, anyone? But the conditions are just so hard to maintain that this could be a problem, maybe the energy used to freeze would be inadequate compared to the energy it produced.
However in space, viscosity might not be as big of a deal in the first place, though I might not understand how it works.
Okay
If anyone wonders what 'mandrake' means:
A madrake is a plant once thought to make women fertile. In popular mythology a mandrake is a human/ plant thingy, though for aesthetic reasons are usually drawn as babies.
Ofcourse more likely than not your wondering about why it's called Mandrake Move, but that's already been said.
have Yes, but on the consumer side of things the X Box is awesome, if I can ever weight my ass down I'll be able to use a LinBox as a far superior machine to what I have now(and then adding more memory, extra hard drives, ect.) Microsoft has said themselves that they don't expect to make cash until the X Box 2 comes out. Remember this is microsoft we're talking about. It's the one company that can afford things like this.
Strange... there were no shortage of articles on the subject, but the most recent was in febuary... am I not looking hard enough or am I just completely wrong because of information I heard almost a year ago? Information would be much appreciated.
AOL loses money every year, as far as I know they haven't made a cent yet. Granted, not as much the X Box, but still quite a lot, I should be a ble to google up a few links in a second or two...
I found this post very informative and interesting, too bad I lack the Mod Points to help ya' out. I remember Earth Link and MindSpring merger. It was a very painful day for all Mind Spring fans, of course, now cable's cheap enough that Mozilla is enough, so it's irrelevant.
_
Also, whoever modded me up, thankyou soooo much, I might be back to normal karma now. Might.
The X Box, while not cost effective at the moment, is actually superior to the other 'big three' consoles. Many see it as the future of gaming because it's basically a standardized CPU. With the right mod chips, you can even run Linux. Not to mention people have actually heard of the X Box and this MS Dialup thing seems a little obscure. Dial up as others have mentioned is becoming more aniquated and obscure as time goes on. With the growing availibility of WiFi, satelite, DSL and cable, dial up'll go into the tech tar pits in the next decade.
Microsoft had a dial up bussiness? I'm curious how many /.ers heard of it. While this is a prime example of over hyping a product through expensive and ineffective advertising, I would think BG would know better. AOL has been doing this for years, but they haven't made a cent yet. Ofcourse, Microsoft actually makes easy to use (though flawed) and popular software. ...
I see alot of 'Bill Gates is Satan' replies... *braces self*
I think Bush honestly intends to do this. I really do, but this'll probably get pushed underneath all the of other crap. Bush has been tossing money at Education for the last three years with no demands on improvement or on reform and they still SUCK ASS.
People have said that there are better things to spend our money on, but whenever the government gives money away to introduce a new public service it creates a lack of competition and suckage ensues. Education has been raped, where ever the moneys going public school is STILL failing to teach our children and teachers are STILL underpaid. SS has hell to pay, it bites, save your money now kiddies, cuz Uncle Sam wants to keep his cash. Free Med has been tried in Europe and then research died. Oh and what about that billion we sent to Haiti? Or the two billion to China we send every year? Their military seems to have reached the cosmic level, but Human Rights still aren't nearly what they should be. Or how about the billions sent to small farmers so they won't become god damn busboys?
Ofcourse there are still plenty of other scientific efforts that are worth going at. Medical research is still alive and well in the US of A and while alternative energy resources are being researched, with economics the way they are they'll never be commercially applied to anything useful. Then there's the ultimate technology we've only started researching as of late - nanotechnology. One or two slashdotters proposed that this may be a chimera, but to me, the science is sound and the possibilities seem limitless. And there's a whole slew of ways to get to space that are better/ cheaper/ more practical. The most notable of which is the 'space elevator' idea that was being tossed around in the late 90s, and while by no means new, seems sound and, *gasp*, safe. This could get very interesting.
Politics seem to be the nut of this. While I don't think he did this soley to get votes, I do think he'll pull this out of his hat later this year when election season gets warmed up. Honestly, I don't think the budget would be a problem if he would cut out the fat. Maybe, he might even do that. Maybe.
Oh yeah, and before you vote Dean, remember even an Idiot is better than a poll drone. *gets modded for flamebait*
PS. Are the Mars Chronicles any good?
Solution: Pay for it.
Any idiot can see that SS has been dead for a long time. Get over it, you should of been less short sighted and saved/ bought stocks in advanced. If you have a real vital need for money and have a real reason you can't work, then charities would make up the difference.
Education sucks because of lack of competition, if we all had to pay for it then there would be competitive schools out there, plus probably charitable scholarship for the intelligent who can't afford the prices of such schools.
If you want cheap college tuition then just go to state or community college, problem solved. Not to mention tons of scholarships and government programs for those who really need it. I'll admit it, my parents paid for my tuition, but they themselves had worked hard to do so. My family is by no means rich, but they work hard and don't expect anything for free. I'll probably do the same for my cildren. I worked for my grades and I'm proud of it. If your such a bad student that you can't get of your ass and do some work, you should be flipping burgers.
Free health care means the death of medical research. Socialism is a short sighted ideal born of ignorant European spoon feeding and constant protection by the US. The European economy will die very soon, because of the lack of economic competition.
Wait isn't this a tad off topic?
*Gets modded for trolling be BG*
People are not freezing to death on the streets of America, and if they were/ are then it wouldn't/ isn't because the door of oppurtunity isn't open. There are plenty of private shelters for the homeless and programs that don't require me to pay an extra few hundred dollars a year to the government. To be fair, I think donating to charity is a great way to spend your money and every American who can afford to should do so. However I was kinda disturbed when you mentioned: "a free society with access to equal priveledges. That's not what America's about. People do not have equal priveledges and shouldn't have them. It denotes any insentive to acquire and spend money. Granted the economy's in the toilet already.
*Really, really doesn't wanna get modded for flame bait*
*Crosses fingers*
Finally, someone is thinking about the Chinese! I don't have any doubts that they will cheerfully make heavy use of the profits from selling the USA shoes and such to make themselves the leading space power of the 21st century.
There may be hard core communists still running things, but they damned well have learned to compete in a capitalistic world environment, and do it quite well. Just check the balance of trade figures if you don't think they learn quick.
I couldn't agree more, if China keeps doing what there doing I have no doubt that they will become the leading military and economic power within the next few decades.
As for their Russian made rockets, how long have you been hiding in a closet with your tinfoil hat shoved squarely down over your ears? IIRC, the so-called Long March heavy lifter can outlift our old Saturn by a factor or two or more in terms of weight to a geosync orbit. And its been around in commercial use for what, 15 years now?
Bet on it, they WILL go to the moon. And if that works, I don't think it will get dropped like the Apollo did once it had done what JFK wanted to do, which was show the Russians who was boss. They will have a plan that will make a profit on it once established.
I made a point to correct a minor spelling error. Anyway, what is this plan? While I believe they'll be ruling the world in thirty years, (Sort of like the way the US is now.)I'm not so sure they'll make money off this in the forseeable future.
I see going back to the moon, and beyond, as being competitive.
But what some aren't seeing is that maybe we can bring in all those "raw materials", but whose going to remedy the environmental damage the processing here will no doubt cause?
Somebody else back up the page here said we should goto the oceans and exploit them better. We have, and we've screwed them up to the point we are exterminating whole species of fish, like the North Atlantic Cod, which the last I read were at less than .1% of their numbers from 100 years ago.
Okay, I agree, butexactly what would happen if a bunch of fish died? Really? We overfished them, which is a big bummer for the fish. But darwin steps in kills the fish and we're still number one on the planet. Unless it's something like:
1. Humans overfish cod.
2. NACs die.
3.Other animal life (including humans) due to starvation.
Just doesn't make sense to me. While there might be other, more subtle reprecusions, but if your stats are accurate (I have no reason to believe their not)then they've already occured. Now pollution is bad, but will continue to occur no matter what happens. Also, the raw materials main purpose is for other planets, earth doesn't need more rocks or pollution.
Between the blatant overfishing, and the sewage being dumped by our shoreside cities, the most important areas of the ocean, the continental shelves, are being decimated of their normal fish populations. The oceans need our help alright, but the help is to stay the hell out of them, both with our fishing boats, and our sewage. Even the whales, which we've almost quit hunting, are not going to recover anytime soon to even half their numbers in the 1800's because we're killing their food supplies all the way from plankton for the Baleen whale to the deep ocean squid favored by the big blues, all with our man made pollution.
No, we don't need to exploit the oceans any more, but less, far far less. This planet can only support maybe 1/3rd of its present population and do it in a fully sustainable way. Thats another lesson the chinese learned a couple of decades back when they instituted the one ch
*Builds Shrine to Sim Meyer as the 32nd wonder of the internet world*
*Geeks Beet Zack to it*
*Switches to fundementalism and delivers Slashdot from the Comunist open sourcers*
On a completely unrelated note (or is it?) why don't non breaking spaces work? Anyone know why?
Humble Greetings from Emporer Cheesy Poof of Hatia, if one of your foolish Clintonite leaders offer us ten billion dollars, then Governor Dorito gets to retire early and we can still treat our people like dirt. Hurray!
I wonder if this'll be on the first page? Oh wait, I'm supposed to say something semi- important here aren't I? This will never sell in the US. Buy a tivo and a PS2 and woopada-freakin'-do, you've saved a few hundred bucks. You can thank me later.
What AC said, plus space isn't just nifty in Japan - it's an obsession. They need space so bad that they actually RENT breifcases. No, I'm not being cute! Why are you looking at me like that? *People throw rocks at Zack*
The Play Station Xtra was originally an addition to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo got cold feet and we Nintendo funs got stuck with the far inferior Nintendo 64. For more information poke around a bit around GameFaqs.
More stuff that I need to google. Ofcorse if you wouldn't mind putting up some links...
TiVos been around in Japan since the stone(d) ages. I'm pretty sure it's a japanese company that makes American TiVos. Theres just no way an American would come up with such an original(Japanese) name.