Just order a large popcorn, maybe get a little intoxicated, and go watch the eye-candy.
(emphasis mine)
A little? Every time I see the trailer, I think to myself, I've got to go see that movie when I'm tripping balls. I just hope my eyeballs don't pop out of my head!
Time for all of us to let our laptops boot up into obscure korean, sami or other languages when they are going to inspect them. Maybe a power supply requiring a 400VAC feed too - and no battery:-)
Odd operating systems like AROS or text only interfaces may also do well. You just can't fail the nerdity test then!
Uhhhh, I know you're kidding, but may I remind you that some (most?) TSA thugs are so dense that they couldn't figure out what a MacBook Air was? I'll bet you a beer that the situation turns out something like this:
$RANDOM_GEEK: Here you go, officer. (Laptop boots with Korean-language GRUB bootloader) TSA Guy: Whut the f**k is this? That some sorta Muslamian language? ARE YOU A TERRORIST, BOY? $RANDOM_GEEK: No, it's just... *brrrrrzap* $RANDOM_GEEK: Don't tase me, bro! TSA Guy: BACKUP! I NEED BACKUP!
can you please explain what the actual difference is? I've seen more than one person point out that there is none, and I wouldn't find that hard to believe.
There really isn't that much of a difference. Both main US parties are strongly authoritarian, but the Democrats are slightly more economically liberal than the Republicans are. Both parties fall into the same quadrant of a 2-axis political spectrum like this. The site explains it a lot better than I do; it's worth a look.
Personally I think that it is likely that neanderthals have been given a bad rap and were probably more advanced than we give them credit for. Maybe if they were still around they would be able to fit in quiet nicely in our modern world?
Robert J. Sawyer asks that very question in his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy. It's not quite as good as some of his other works, but it's definitely worth reading. Hominids is the first book if you're interested.
... with so many people at home they'll probably be spending more time slacking off / surfing the net.
Wait, refresh my memory. Is H5N1 the flu strain with the ~70% kill rate, or is that something else? The severity of the illness will definitely affect the amount of network traffic produced from people working from home. 'Cause if 100Ks/millions of people contract a really serious flu strain, I doubt they'll be doing much of anything beyond, you know, screaming, moaning, and dying.
There is no dictatorship. W is doing what he wants and nobody really gives a shit.
But if people began giving a shit, I don't think that would really stop him; he's going to keep going regardless. And that would be a dictatorship. So we'll have to wait and see.
I don't know which is more disturbing: the fact that I would fully expect the record companies to stoop that low or the fact that such a ploy might actually work.
While their reaction cross-sections couldn't be huge, given a few hundred of these and a few decades, one might just be able to take off and make the real thing--that's why serious physicists are worried about this.
Um, don't you think the folks at CERN would notice that they're creating black holes every time they fire the LHC up? And then... you know, stop if they weren't evaporating like they're supposed to? I can envision the scene now:
Dr. Smith: F**k dude, we just created a black hole!
Dr. Heinrich: Cool! But it's not evaporating.
Dr. Smith: Uh oh. Maybe we shouldn't create another one until this one disappears. We wouldn't want them merging and creating a macroscopic black hole!
Dr. Heinrich: Good idea.
Think of one of those black spherical cartoon bombs that Wile E. Coyote uses. In that case, the "fuse" is the piece of string coming out the top that Wile E. has to light to make it explode.
What we sent Taiwan were electronic strings for nuclear bombs.
In the "david vs goliath" scenario, david should never be made to pay and goliath should be made to pay upon loss. That is hard to codify into law.
This is probably a bit simplistic, but how about doing it based on net worth?
If $GOLIATH_ASSETS > 10,000 * $DAVID_ASSETS , assessed by an impartial auditor at the start of the case, then Goliath pays if he loses or drops the case.
Of course, then what do you do if Goliath's assets are hidden offshore somewhere? Like I said, it's simplistic, but you get the drift, right?
It used to be my only complaint about all the sex on TV was falling off, now I've got to worry about an audience. Maybe I can charge them for it, like selling power back to the electric company?
It'd have to be a Faraday Suit to be effective. The electronics to be protected have to be completely surrounded by the cage/mesh/suit/etc., else the electrical signals/current will just enter through the open side. Having a Faraday vest wouldn't do squat unless the mesh extended *through your abdomen*.
what was there 13.74 billion years ago? There could not have been nothing, something had to exist.
The way I understand it, your question is actually meaningless. There is no "13.74 billion years ago", because time itself was created during the Big Bang. Therefore, not only was there nothing, there is no way we can possibly comprehend the nothingness that there was.
Shit, I think I just blew my own mind.
But, I suppose anything is better than coming up with a sensible immigration policy. Gotta keep those high-paying fruit picking, chicken boning , and christmas tree cutting jobs local.
I misread that and now I can't get the visual out of my head.
It breaks water into an -OH and an H, which in turn clean your clothing. Basically, it'll produce bleach vapor from water vapor when sunlight is hitting it.
It will also create hydrogen gas, which tends to, y'know, blow up, possibly shortening the lifespan of the garment.
I can think of a scenario off the top of my head that'd be one plausible explanation for this sort of thing:
1. Egg gets fertilized
2. Egg splits into two fertilized eggs
3. Both eggs start dividing
4. After a few cell divisions, an extremely well-aimed cosmic ray strikes egg #2, shearing off a few base pairs from one of its copies of chromosome 3. Egg #1 is unaffected.
I haven't been in American that long (only almost 20 years). Has there been a worse president than this guy?
Uh, simply put, no. I've heard from people who where around in the 70s that Nixon was almost as bad, but no. The widespread sentiment is that Dubya is, in fact, the worst President ever.
Having specific laws for talking on cell phones while driving vs. a more broad law for distracted and unsafe driving are stupid, for example.
Stupid for the general citizenry, sure.
Stupid for the police? Not so much. In your case of phoning-while-driving, a cop can write you a ticket for both crimes; thus, you pay twice the fine with negligible additional burden on the police department (they process one more ticket, how long does that take?) Therefore, it would be in the police department's best interest to keep both laws on the books.
Furthermore, no politician wants to be seen as "soft on crime", so it's unlikely that they would vote to repeal criminal statutes, even the patently stupid ones.
I can't see how this can be used invasivly. [...] Especially, if it only includes the biometrics of criminals. Any thoughts?
What if disapproval of the government and its methods becomes "sedition" and therefore a crime?
There's an Ayn Rand quote about how many laws are intentionally designed to create criminals. So if there are sufficient laws that one cannot reasonably avoid breaking them, and thus becoming a criminal, then everybody's biometrics are fair game.
the report came from a new UK government agency called the Ministry of Privacy.
You've got to be kidding. I know they're using 1984 as a fraking instruction manual over there, but there's no way they would actually start using the doublespeak Ministry names. That would be double-plus-unsmart.
[Fusion power] just isn't sexy or pressing enough to get much government research dollars
A virtually limitless power source, in a time when we're rapidly running out of fossil fuels and other energy-dense methods of powering human civilization?
No, that's not sexy or pressing at all! Why should the government support that sort of research?
(note: my sarcasm isn't directed at you, just the shortsighted morons who run this country.)
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A little? Every time I see the trailer, I think to myself, I've got to go see that movie when I'm tripping balls. I just hope my eyeballs don't pop out of my head!
I've always wanted my own Flak Cannon! Since when has DARPA been playing Unreal Tournament? It is a great source for crazy-ass weapon ideas, though...
Uhhhh, I know you're kidding, but may I remind you that some (most?) TSA thugs are so dense that they couldn't figure out what a MacBook Air was? I'll bet you a beer that the situation turns out something like this:
$RANDOM_GEEK: Here you go, officer.
(Laptop boots with Korean-language GRUB bootloader)
TSA Guy: Whut the f**k is this? That some sorta Muslamian language? ARE YOU A TERRORIST, BOY?
$RANDOM_GEEK: No, it's just...
*brrrrrzap*
$RANDOM_GEEK: Don't tase me, bro!
TSA Guy: BACKUP! I NEED BACKUP!
There really isn't that much of a difference. Both main US parties are strongly authoritarian, but the Democrats are slightly more economically liberal than the Republicans are. Both parties fall into the same quadrant of a 2-axis political spectrum like this. The site explains it a lot better than I do; it's worth a look.
Personally I think that it is likely that neanderthals have been given a bad rap and were probably more advanced than we give them credit for. Maybe if they were still around they would be able to fit in quiet nicely in our modern world?
Robert J. Sawyer asks that very question in his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy. It's not quite as good as some of his other works, but it's definitely worth reading. Hominids is the first book if you're interested.
... with so many people at home they'll probably be spending more time slacking off / surfing the net.
Wait, refresh my memory. Is H5N1 the flu strain with the ~70% kill rate, or is that something else? The severity of the illness will definitely affect the amount of network traffic produced from people working from home. 'Cause if 100Ks/millions of people contract a really serious flu strain, I doubt they'll be doing much of anything beyond, you know, screaming, moaning, and dying.
There is no dictatorship. W is doing what he wants and nobody really gives a shit.
But if people began giving a shit, I don't think that would really stop him; he's going to keep going regardless. And that would be a dictatorship. So we'll have to wait and see.
I don't know which is more disturbing: the fact that I would fully expect the record companies to stoop that low or the fact that such a ploy might actually work.
Um, don't you think the folks at CERN would notice that they're creating black holes every time they fire the LHC up? And then
Dr. Smith: F**k dude, we just created a black hole!
Dr. Heinrich: Cool! But it's not evaporating.
Dr. Smith: Uh oh. Maybe we shouldn't create another one until this one disappears. We wouldn't want them merging and creating a macroscopic black hole!
Dr. Heinrich: Good idea.
Think of one of those black spherical cartoon bombs that Wile E. Coyote uses. In that case, the "fuse" is the piece of string coming out the top that Wile E. has to light to make it explode.
What we sent Taiwan were electronic strings for nuclear bombs.
This is probably a bit simplistic, but how about doing it based on net worth?
If $GOLIATH_ASSETS > 10,000 * $DAVID_ASSETS , assessed by an impartial auditor at the start of the case, then Goliath pays if he loses or drops the case.
Of course, then what do you do if Goliath's assets are hidden offshore somewhere? Like I said, it's simplistic, but you get the drift, right?
Bravo, sir. I LOLed.
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It'd have to be a Faraday Suit to be effective. The electronics to be protected have to be completely surrounded by the cage/mesh/suit/etc., else the electrical signals/current will just enter through the open side. Having a Faraday vest wouldn't do squat unless the mesh extended *through your abdomen*.
The way I understand it, your question is actually meaningless. There is no "13.74 billion years ago", because time itself was created during the Big Bang. Therefore, not only was there nothing, there is no way we can possibly comprehend the nothingness that there was. Shit, I think I just blew my own mind.
I misread that and now I can't get the visual out of my head.
It will also create hydrogen gas, which tends to, y'know, blow up, possibly shortening the lifespan of the garment.
I can think of a scenario off the top of my head that'd be one plausible explanation for this sort of thing:
...
1. Egg gets fertilized
2. Egg splits into two fertilized eggs
3. Both eggs start dividing
4. After a few cell divisions, an extremely well-aimed cosmic ray strikes egg #2, shearing off a few base pairs from one of its copies of chromosome 3. Egg #1 is unaffected.
5. Egg #2 grows up to be the evil twin.
Uh, simply put, no. I've heard from people who where around in the 70s that Nixon was almost as bad, but no. The widespread sentiment is that Dubya is, in fact, the worst President ever.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 states:
No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
Period.
Stupid for the police? Not so much. In your case of phoning-while-driving, a cop can write you a ticket for both crimes; thus, you pay twice the fine with negligible additional burden on the police department (they process one more ticket, how long does that take?) Therefore, it would be in the police department's best interest to keep both laws on the books.
Furthermore, no politician wants to be seen as "soft on crime", so it's unlikely that they would vote to repeal criminal statutes, even the patently stupid ones.
The Fount of All Knowledge says $14.6B.
That takes into account the sheer, unbridled corruption that was part and parcel of the project, though.
There's an Ayn Rand quote about how many laws are intentionally designed to create criminals. So if there are sufficient laws that one cannot reasonably avoid breaking them, and thus becoming a criminal, then everybody's biometrics are fair game.
A virtually limitless power source, in a time when we're rapidly running out of fossil fuels and other energy-dense methods of powering human civilization?
No, that's not sexy or pressing at all! Why should the government support that sort of research?
(note: my sarcasm isn't directed at you, just the shortsighted morons who run this country.)
According to the Fount of All Knowledge, pitchblende is brownish or black in color.
I don't doubt you about the hot rock, though. Maybe it had some sulfur mixed in or something like that.