And very quietly, a dark probe floating in the Oort cloud ends it thousands of years long waiting and beams a tight, powerful signal back to its home world informing its creators that the beings of this system have broken out of their bubble.
The kicker is that the poles all seem to be perpendicular to what the presumed orientation of the rotation should have been.
The trick, is figuring out why the poles were aligned with the galactic plane, and not perpendicular to it, which the spinning of the galactic gas cloud would suggest.
In other, more positive news, TEPCO today announced that at the current rate of leakage, and the expected future increase, the entire site should be free of all radioactive elements in only a hundred years or so.
A TEPCO spokeperson was quoted as saying, " Isn't nature wonderful! It created this mess, by bringing the sea up to the reactor, but now it is cleaning it up , by taking the reactor elements out to sea. Such a beautiful circle."
I have NEVER seen any cash I've handed over scanned as it went into the till of the cash register. Once it is there, there is no way for them to track a specific bill from the drawer back to me, especially if it's given to the next person in line as change.
Oh, hush. Don't use logic and facts to disabuse a "typical 'merican" of his world view (USA #1! USA #1! USA #1!)
My fiance and I (American) just spent a month in Ireland. The first trip out of North America for both of us. She's a registered nurse and had a view of "other countries" health care systems that made them out to be little better than dark age medicine, despite my opinion to the contrary. And since neither one of us had any actual experience that was where we left it.
While in Ireland, she came down with a strep throat infection. She was terrified of having to go through "this foreign health care". I called the front desk of the hotel we were in, the hotel doctor came and examined her within an hour, in our room. He checked her throat, agreed that it was strep, wrote down what she needed to get and recommended we see the chemist across the street and a block up from the hotel. We walked over and got a tube of Anesthetic / Antibiotic lozenges... over-the-counter, no prescription required, and cost about $5. The chemist (pharmacist) actually asked her about as many questions as the doctor before selling them to us. She actually ended up using about two tubes until she was fully cured, over the course of about 4 days. The doctor didn't charge me, and I thought it would show up on our hotel bill. It never did, so I don't know what it should have cost and was lost in the process, or if it was free since he only spent about 15-20 minutes with us.
The last time we had to deal with a case of strep was her daughter, and that took getting into our GP schedule, next day was the earliest he could see us, paying the $40 co-pay, getting a prescription, having that filled for $160 (hadn't met the deductible yet), and it taking 4-5 days for the cure. She was so amazed at being able to get an antibiotic over-the-counter, and for such a cheap price, that was so effective she started researching modern Irish (Euro) medicine, and came away very favorably impressed. So much so, that she is now trying to convince me we should immigrate. It helps that she fell in love with absolutely every aspect of Ireland we encountered, except for the roads.
Not only that, but I'm betting he's never tried reporting a found vulnerability in any embedded product.
It's trivially easy to change a file and upload it to a website. It's significantly tougher and more expensive to roll out embedded firmware running in 1.5 million cars across multiple countries, let alone 200,000 pacemakers that would require major surgery to update or replace.
Awfully good thing that someone thought to put a translation on a stone before the last person to be able to read hieroglyphics died... And that we decided to dig a canal right where they buried it.
Yes, because the only thing keeping us from understanding Liber Linteus, Rongorongo, Linear A, or a dozen others is the incredible cost of building reading equipment.
It's entirely possible that the instructions are very clearly documented... in the DEAD language.
Funny, my company is actually being forced to provide MUCH better coverage than we've ever had before. Yes, our premium is going up by 10%, but pretty much across the board, when the employees hear all the extra benefits we are getting that were mandated by the new laws, most of them are OK with the slight increase.
So, you happen to have any history of cancer in your family? Other congenital diseases? You take part in any risky activities or behaviors? Do you maintain an optimal BMI and eat only nutritious foods, while getting the proper amounts and types of exercise?
I shouldn't have to support your bad genetic heritage or poor life choices. If you can't afford any and all future medical costs out of your own pocket, well then, you can just go off and die in a gutter. Or do you prefer the current system, where instead of paying a little extra in your insurance bill to assist in getting all of "those" folks pre-treatment, or preventative care and counseling, instead you pay a huge amount in property taxes each year to treat them as emergencies in your local county hospital? You DO realize that you pay for it either way, right? Even if you don't own property, your rent is based, in part, on the property taxes your landlord has to pay. The prices you pay for groceries, gas, clothes, are in part determined by the property taxes each of the shops has to pay, etc. Multiple studies have show 15-1 or better returns on investment by having preventative care available. Even the much quoted recent Oregon study, if you look at the data and include ALL patients showed significant benefits from preventative care for folks that otherwise would have to rely on only emergency care.
The result of your attitude is either 1) Insurance should be banned totally and everyone should have to pay out of pocket, or 2) Insurance companies, backed by the force of law, should be able to force each and every one who wants pooled protection to live a monitored and restricted life according to the companies actuaries that result in the highest profit to the insurance company.
How about we recognize that we don't want people dying in the gutter around us, that we would prefer to protect children and others who are reliant on guardians from their guardian's poor choices, and that if we are going to end up paying for it anyway, we'd rather pay a lesser amount for better outcomes rather than more for expensive, morally superior, less desirable outcomes.
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Hey, I scream at the TV in outrage. Does that count?
Well, when I turn off the PS3 to take a break from GTA V...
Androidjellies... Is that the next phone from Samsung for the Korean market?
And very quietly, a dark probe floating in the Oort cloud ends it thousands of years long waiting and beams a tight, powerful signal back to its home world informing its creators that the beings of this system have broken out of their bubble.
// I for one welcome....
Like who is going to believe the government these days?
But the point to the rigid hull is to maintain favorable aerodynamic properties.
Especially in near-ground operations.
Chinook, maximum 13 tons of useful cargo capacity.
Aeroscraft, maximum useful cargo capacity 66 tons.
Your argument, is invalid.
The kicker is that the poles all seem to be perpendicular to what the presumed orientation of the rotation should have been.
The trick, is figuring out why the poles were aligned with the galactic plane, and not perpendicular to it, which the spinning of the galactic gas cloud would suggest.
Better than a car that slows periodically to take pictures before driving at speed over any perceived walkers.
The NSA already owns a majority of the nodes...
In other, more positive news, TEPCO today announced that at the current rate of leakage, and the expected future increase, the entire site should be free of all radioactive elements in only a hundred years or so.
A TEPCO spokeperson was quoted as saying, " Isn't nature wonderful! It created this mess, by bringing the sea up to the reactor, but now it is cleaning it up , by taking the reactor elements out to sea. Such a beautiful circle."
[citation needed]
I have NEVER seen any cash I've handed over scanned as it went into the till of the cash register. Once it is there, there is no way for them to track a specific bill from the drawer back to me, especially if it's given to the next person in line as change.
I call BS.
But, but... if they DON'T add sugar, then grandma will think it tastes TERRIBLE when that's all she can afford.
This is slashdot... I'm surprised he even read the summary before posting his hogwash.
Oh, hush. Don't use logic and facts to disabuse a "typical 'merican" of his world view (USA #1! USA #1! USA #1!)
My fiance and I (American) just spent a month in Ireland. The first trip out of North America for both of us. She's a registered nurse and had a view of "other countries" health care systems that made them out to be little better than dark age medicine, despite my opinion to the contrary. And since neither one of us had any actual experience that was where we left it.
While in Ireland, she came down with a strep throat infection. She was terrified of having to go through "this foreign health care". I called the front desk of the hotel we were in, the hotel doctor came and examined her within an hour, in our room. He checked her throat, agreed that it was strep, wrote down what she needed to get and recommended we see the chemist across the street and a block up from the hotel. We walked over and got a tube of Anesthetic / Antibiotic lozenges... over-the-counter, no prescription required, and cost about $5. The chemist (pharmacist) actually asked her about as many questions as the doctor before selling them to us. She actually ended up using about two tubes until she was fully cured, over the course of about 4 days. The doctor didn't charge me, and I thought it would show up on our hotel bill. It never did, so I don't know what it should have cost and was lost in the process, or if it was free since he only spent about 15-20 minutes with us.
The last time we had to deal with a case of strep was her daughter, and that took getting into our GP schedule, next day was the earliest he could see us, paying the $40 co-pay, getting a prescription, having that filled for $160 (hadn't met the deductible yet), and it taking 4-5 days for the cure. She was so amazed at being able to get an antibiotic over-the-counter, and for such a cheap price, that was so effective she started researching modern Irish (Euro) medicine, and came away very favorably impressed. So much so, that she is now trying to convince me we should immigrate. It helps that she fell in love with absolutely every aspect of Ireland we encountered, except for the roads.
If he never posts again, can we assume they got him?
Time to get into the business of selling survivalist rations.
Either you will have helped a lot of people weather the coming disasters, or will have fleeced a lot of gullible suckers. Either way, you win!
Not only that, but I'm betting he's never tried reporting a found vulnerability in any embedded product.
It's trivially easy to change a file and upload it to a website. It's significantly tougher and more expensive to roll out embedded firmware running in 1.5 million cars across multiple countries, let alone 200,000 pacemakers that would require major surgery to update or replace.
Who pays for porn?
Awfully good thing that someone thought to put a translation on a stone before the last person to be able to read hieroglyphics died... And that we decided to dig a canal right where they buried it.
Yes, because the only thing keeping us from understanding Liber Linteus, Rongorongo, Linear A, or a dozen others is the incredible cost of building reading equipment.
It's entirely possible that the instructions are very clearly documented... in the DEAD language.
You need to think more before you post.
Tell that to my girlfriend and my ex-wife...
It wasn't Microsoft.
I wish I'd saved my Mod points.
You. I would back your kickstarter to do a remake.
Funny, my company is actually being forced to provide MUCH better coverage than we've ever had before. Yes, our premium is going up by 10%, but pretty much across the board, when the employees hear all the extra benefits we are getting that were mandated by the new laws, most of them are OK with the slight increase.
So, you happen to have any history of cancer in your family? Other congenital diseases? You take part in any risky activities or behaviors? Do you maintain an optimal BMI and eat only nutritious foods, while getting the proper amounts and types of exercise?
I shouldn't have to support your bad genetic heritage or poor life choices. If you can't afford any and all future medical costs out of your own pocket, well then, you can just go off and die in a gutter. Or do you prefer the current system, where instead of paying a little extra in your insurance bill to assist in getting all of "those" folks pre-treatment, or preventative care and counseling, instead you pay a huge amount in property taxes each year to treat them as emergencies in your local county hospital? You DO realize that you pay for it either way, right? Even if you don't own property, your rent is based, in part, on the property taxes your landlord has to pay. The prices you pay for groceries, gas, clothes, are in part determined by the property taxes each of the shops has to pay, etc. Multiple studies have show 15-1 or better returns on investment by having preventative care available. Even the much quoted recent Oregon study, if you look at the data and include ALL patients showed significant benefits from preventative care for folks that otherwise would have to rely on only emergency care.
The result of your attitude is either 1) Insurance should be banned totally and everyone should have to pay out of pocket, or 2) Insurance companies, backed by the force of law, should be able to force each and every one who wants pooled protection to live a monitored and restricted life according to the companies actuaries that result in the highest profit to the insurance company.
How about we recognize that we don't want people dying in the gutter around us, that we would prefer to protect children and others who are reliant on guardians from their guardian's poor choices, and that if we are going to end up paying for it anyway, we'd rather pay a lesser amount for better outcomes rather than more for expensive, morally superior, less desirable outcomes.