I love how the average/.er is against the FCC when they're censoring Howard Stern or Janet Jackson, but in favor of their cracking down on "big business".
let's get crazier: how about a trojan planet? usually objects that are trojans are tiny, a requirement of objects existing at lagrange points for two much larger objects. but what if those two objects were so massive that they allowed for the existence of a mass large enough to gravitationally become a sphere and retain an atmosphere at the lagrange point? yes, a trojan planet. now: what is that called in a system that emphasizes "what it orbits" over "what it is composed of"?
Random question: could the Jupiter/Sun combo support something like Pluto or Luna at Jupiter's Trojan points?
The new project is even worse than the old. No software, with the possible exception of truly safety-critical stuff like missle-control or nuclear power plants, needs to cost $425 million and take four years. You could have a custom OS written in pure assembly for a quarter of that!
I call shenanigans on the Times, Science, and the pandering academics who performed this study. The graph (actual numbers have been conveniently withheld) clearly shows that an absolute majority of Americans do believe in evolution. Worse, the "best case", Iceland, has only an 85% uptake rate--it'd be one thing if it was 99% there, but a difference of less than 35% hardly strikes me as a crisis, at least not in the sense the Times clearly thinks it is. If it shows anything, it shows that people everywhere are still bound to irrational, primitive ideas. As long as even the uber-modern Scandanavians have 10% of their populations believeing in pre-rational nonsense, stop picking on America.
To add to the fun, explosions (grenades, rockets, etc.) occured in all overlapping spaces. Whether this was a bug or a feature was debatable. (Hi forrest!)
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It's not the government's place to "optimize" the economy. If you don't get that, please stop pretending to even "lean" toward libertarian.
I love how the average /.er is against the FCC when they're censoring Howard Stern or Janet Jackson, but in favor of their cracking down on "big business".
Those are suicides.
Remember the robot world?
It does now.
My thoughts exactly.
On a separate note, there's something highly ironic about the captcha for my post's being "automata".
Odd thing for Pullman to say, given what the kids in his books are like.
Random question: could the Jupiter/Sun combo support something like Pluto or Luna at Jupiter's Trojan points?
Fine: simple, but completely unhelpful mnemonic. Happy?
Simple mnemonic: to affect is to effect an effect.
At least it wasn't a three-digit percentage....
I see you have a more recent copy of Illuminati than I do.
The new project is even worse than the old. No software, with the possible exception of truly safety-critical stuff like missle-control or nuclear power plants, needs to cost $425 million and take four years. You could have a custom OS written in pure assembly for a quarter of that!
I call shenanigans on the Times, Science, and the pandering academics who performed this study. The graph (actual numbers have been conveniently withheld) clearly shows that an absolute majority of Americans do believe in evolution. Worse, the "best case", Iceland, has only an 85% uptake rate--it'd be one thing if it was 99% there, but a difference of less than 35% hardly strikes me as a crisis, at least not in the sense the Times clearly thinks it is. If it shows anything, it shows that people everywhere are still bound to irrational, primitive ideas. As long as even the uber-modern Scandanavians have 10% of their populations believeing in pre-rational nonsense, stop picking on America.
Yet another TLA....
Have you read The Diamond Age?
Everything over Ethernet!
Diogenes did.
"Send", dammit! What's so hard to get about subject-verb agreement?
A pro-gun dept tag on /.? From Timothy?
Did it take anyone else about five tries to parse that headline?
To add to the fun, explosions (grenades, rockets, etc.) occured in all overlapping spaces. Whether this was a bug or a feature was debatable. (Hi forrest!)
Supplied by Raymond?