The problem isn't that Beck and Limbaugh are conservative. It is that they are intellectually dishonest. William F. Buckley was conservative as hell, but you had to admire his intellect, education and ability to present a cogent argument. Beck is a buffoon who uses every logical fallacy in the book. As soon as Limbaugh says, "I don't just make this stuff up;" you know he's just making it up.
Rockets with nuclear material are launched all the time by the US, the Russians and, I assume, others. Most or all interplanetary probes have nuclear power plants, just not nuclear propulsion. A goodly number of Earth orbit satellites have nuclear power.
I doubt seriously that this is intended to take off from Earth or any other gravity well. A ship with this kind of power would go from Earth orbit to Mars orbit or Saturn orbit. If you wanted to land on a planetary or moon surface, you would use a lander or shuttle.
and this is different from running rampant in grand theft auto killing innocent citizens.... how... ?
Not very. As I recall, quite a few folks got worked up about that as well. I don't say they are right, but they are consistent. Except Jack Thompson, who's nuts.
...or you could have pulled the emergency brake...
NO SUCH THING !
Parking brake or service brake. That's all there is. Unless you have an anchor.
Sure there is. It's that big red button on the dash that bigholes the air system for the brakes. Bit hard on the axles if you've got any real speed on, of course.
Some feature that would cause my paper books to come flying back after 14 days sounds good to me. I've had too many good books go out on a one way loan. If I give you my book, I don't ever want to see it again. However, if I loan you my book, I want the damn thing back. OK? Like those Baroque Cycle books and the Otherland hardcovers. You know who you are.
The Islamic world's reaction to the Danish cartoons considered to be insulting to Muhammad resulted in 139 deaths and 823 injured in the riots and demonstrations. In addition, there were lots of death threats several arrests for plotting to kill the cartoonists. And that was just this one incident.
>Muslims do not revere Muhammed. They simply believe he delivered the word of God.
However, large numbers of them will happily kill you for insulting him and vastly larger numbers will riot over same. You seem to be using a rather non-standard definition of "revere."
Except that you can bet that new software/games will require that the update be present or it won't run.
> And if the console is still under warranty, they fix it. It it isn't under warranty, they charge. That is pretty standard as far as business practices go. The decent thing would be for Sony to do all these repairs for free if they can tell the console was bricked by the update.
Which is what Nintendo did when their 4.0 update hosed a large number of Wii consoles, including mine.
I support your idea of using short stories. SF is a genre that has an abundance of very good short fiction. For example, The Nine Billion Names of Gos by Arthur C. Clarke is a classic and on 2,586 words. You can probably find it in a relatively cheap paperback edition combined with several other really good pieces by Clarke or others.
I'll second Heinlein, especially some of the early "juveniles," especially given part of the synopsis that state, "recognize how world events have been reflected onto other worlds." A lot of the early Heinlein is reflective of the Cold War mentality.
I'm not sure where you get the idea we're more social. Both members of genus Pan are highly socialized (pygmy chimps are probably more socialized than humans are).
Umm... Do they have Facebook? I thought not. So obviously they are even less social than me.
Perhaps, but Bonobos (pygmy chimps) clearly get laid more than you do.
>as the country has now become a communist dictatorship
You pretty well nailed it with your definition. However, you left out the part where we are not only a communist dictatorship, but Obama is also the reincarnation of Hitler.
No, we're making fun of the video and the asshats in Microsoft Marketing. No one is talking about the OS at all. This could make it so unhip to use it that Apple gains significant market share regardless of the merits of the new system.
It's a naturally occurring sugar found in legumes and other plants. The name comes from the manna of the Bible, a sweet secretion of sap from some desert plants that contains mannose. It is not metabolized well by humans, so it is used sometimes to provide sweetness without calories. A significant portion of the non-metabolized sugar is excreted in the urine, and mannose has some use in treating urinary tract infections.
Yeah that was my first reaction. Half the sugar? I guess corn syrup doesn't count as sugar because what, it's not sold in granulated form?
Fructose != sucrose. They are different sugars. Fructose is a monosaccharide and is extracted primarily form corn. Sucrose is a disaccharide (one glucose + one fructose) and is extracted primarily from sugar cane and sugar beets. Other sugars with commercial uses or significance in human biology are lactose, mannose, galactose, and maltose.
They are good, aren't they? As phoenix321 notes above, you always want to plan these things so at least some of the specimen winds up on your dinner plate. One of my buddies was fond of noting that a collecting permit trumps a fishing license any day of the week.
Nice paper, by the way, and one that makes an important point. Congratulations on a good bit of work.
Back in my biology graduate school days, an important question upon opening the refrigerator was, "Is this dinner or a project?" Not only are salmonids great grilled, but those in the 1-2 kg. range are quite tasty baked in foil with a nicely seasoned bread stuffing.
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The problem isn't that Beck and Limbaugh are conservative. It is that they are intellectually dishonest. William F. Buckley was conservative as hell, but you had to admire his intellect, education and ability to present a cogent argument. Beck is a buffoon who uses every logical fallacy in the book. As soon as Limbaugh says, "I don't just make this stuff up;" you know he's just making it up.
So you met the only guy in town without a gun.
Rockets with nuclear material are launched all the time by the US, the Russians and, I assume, others. Most or all interplanetary probes have nuclear power plants, just not nuclear propulsion. A goodly number of Earth orbit satellites have nuclear power.
I doubt seriously that this is intended to take off from Earth or any other gravity well. A ship with this kind of power would go from Earth orbit to Mars orbit or Saturn orbit. If you wanted to land on a planetary or moon surface, you would use a lander or shuttle.
Probably because gta was not attempting to mimic an actual event
Haven't been to Oakland lately, eh?
and this is different from running rampant in grand theft auto killing innocent citizens .... how ... ?
Not very. As I recall, quite a few folks got worked up about that as well. I don't say they are right, but they are consistent. Except Jack Thompson, who's nuts.
I have an .ost file on my laptop you insensitive MS clods. Does this great revelation include them?
NO SUCH THING ! Parking brake or service brake. That's all there is. Unless you have an anchor.
Sure there is. It's that big red button on the dash that bigholes the air system for the brakes. Bit hard on the axles if you've got any real speed on, of course.
Some feature that would cause my paper books to come flying back after 14 days sounds good to me. I've had too many good books go out on a one way loan. If I give you my book, I don't ever want to see it again. However, if I loan you my book, I want the damn thing back. OK? Like those Baroque Cycle books and the Otherland hardcovers. You know who you are.
Obviously, it's Miss Piggy's hair ribbon.
what large numbers? give me a number.
The Islamic world's reaction to the Danish cartoons considered to be insulting to Muhammad resulted in 139 deaths and 823 injured in the riots and demonstrations. In addition, there were lots of death threats several arrests for plotting to kill the cartoonists. And that was just this one incident.
>Muslims do not revere Muhammed. They simply believe he delivered the word of God.
However, large numbers of them will happily kill you for insulting him and vastly larger numbers will riot over same. You seem to be using a rather non-standard definition of "revere."
>Sony doesn't force the update on anyone.
Except that you can bet that new software/games will require that the update be present or it won't run.
> And if the console is still under warranty, they fix it. It it isn't under warranty, they charge. That is pretty standard as far as business practices go. The decent thing would be for Sony to do all these repairs for free if they can tell the console was bricked by the update.
Which is what Nintendo did when their 4.0 update hosed a large number of Wii consoles, including mine.
I support your idea of using short stories. SF is a genre that has an abundance of very good short fiction. For example, The Nine Billion Names of Gos by Arthur C. Clarke is a classic and on 2,586 words. You can probably find it in a relatively cheap paperback edition combined with several other really good pieces by Clarke or others.
I'll second Heinlein, especially some of the early "juveniles," especially given part of the synopsis that state, "recognize how world events have been reflected onto other worlds." A lot of the early Heinlein is reflective of the Cold War mentality.
Monty Python? "Linear and coherent?" What do I say? I say, "Ni!"
I'm not sure where you get the idea we're more social. Both members of genus Pan are highly socialized (pygmy chimps are probably more socialized than humans are).
Umm... Do they have Facebook? I thought not. So obviously they are even less social than me.
Perhaps, but Bonobos (pygmy chimps) clearly get laid more than you do.
>Also, no one seems to have pointed out, this creature bears a strong resemblance to modern yeti/sasquatch/bigfoot sightings.
Except for the four-foot tall aspect.
>as the country has now become a communist dictatorship
You pretty well nailed it with your definition. However, you left out the part where we are not only a communist dictatorship, but Obama is also the reincarnation of Hitler.
Back when Quake II was released I had a copy that clearly stated on the disc "For sale ONLY in Australia".
Wasn't that the "Mutant Marsupial" version?
Here you are talking about Windows 7.
No, we're making fun of the video and the asshats in Microsoft Marketing. No one is talking about the OS at all. This could make it so unhip to use it that Apple gains significant market share regardless of the merits of the new system.
It's a naturally occurring sugar found in legumes and other plants. The name comes from the manna of the Bible, a sweet secretion of sap from some desert plants that contains mannose. It is not metabolized well by humans, so it is used sometimes to provide sweetness without calories. A significant portion of the non-metabolized sugar is excreted in the urine, and mannose has some use in treating urinary tract infections.
Yeah that was my first reaction. Half the sugar? I guess corn syrup doesn't count as sugar because what, it's not sold in granulated form?
Fructose != sucrose. They are different sugars. Fructose is a monosaccharide and is extracted primarily form corn. Sucrose is a disaccharide (one glucose + one fructose) and is extracted primarily from sugar cane and sugar beets. Other sugars with commercial uses or significance in human biology are lactose, mannose, galactose, and maltose.
They are good, aren't they? As phoenix321 notes above, you always want to plan these things so at least some of the specimen winds up on your dinner plate. One of my buddies was fond of noting that a collecting permit trumps a fishing license any day of the week.
Nice paper, by the way, and one that makes an important point. Congratulations on a good bit of work.
Back in my biology graduate school days, an important question upon opening the refrigerator was, "Is this dinner or a project?" Not only are salmonids great grilled, but those in the 1-2 kg. range are quite tasty baked in foil with a nicely seasoned bread stuffing.