We have been seeing ** lots ** more jellyfish the last several years in SE Alaska. This summer we kayaked through a half kilometer long field of them. Very, very trippy but fisherman absolutely hate them. You can't get them to move. If you net them you can't get their slimy bodies off the net. Nothing local eats them very effectively. Shooting at them with a shotgun doesn't do much except waste ammo and scare tourists.
IF THE IMAGE ISN'T INDICATIVE OF YOUR COMMENT IT DOESN'T BELONG THERE.
Cut the cutsey, generic picture crap. We all know what an airplane looks like. Hire a graphics artist like Aurich on Ars (or make it a game here or something) but if all you can do is find some random picture on Flickr, cut it out. If I want to look at random stupid pictures, I know where to look.
Look, whoever you hired is not smoking the same thing the rest of us are. Can you maybe take a spin through a local nursing home and see what the smart people are doing?
Yeah, you probably are. If you've been following Copenhagen Suborbitals for a while you will realize that the only people they are likely going to kill are themselves.
No, you don't have to go a restaurant. Just a food store - getting Nitrous oxide is trivial around here. Hell, I can go to the welding store and get a entire cylinder of the stuff. Really, He is way down on the list of things I worry about even stupid people possessing.
Seems pretty energetically expensive. Is He in Europe so expensive that compressing it down is economically feasible given your traditionally high energy costs? Or is compression not that difficult (from a power expenditure view)?
Don't ever make the mistake of linking medical profitability with ANY other metric in the US. It's completely divorced from reality and impossible to pin down.
Rather like the US Government budget. And people say we don't have socialized healthcare.
Out here in the Wild and Woolly World of America, we sell all sorts of dangerous things that can kill you if you breath them - we laugh at silly things like helium (and especially nitrous oxide). Hell son, we'll even sell you a gun.
We can do this because we're exceptional. We're Americans. We can do things that nobody else in the frikk'in world can do.
Like shut down the entire government over health care.
Funny, you don't see many dead diabetics in the waiting area, do you? You'd think with all of the media coverage given to people who just get stared at wrong by the TSA we would see a couple more of these sorts of disasters on CNN.
I'm not any friend of Medtronic - they seem to do a barely adequate job on a day to day basis. But give the engineers a bit of credit - they don't just stick these things on a bunch of rabbits and then go out to the bar (the engineers, not the rabbits). The certification process actually does include running the devices by airport scanners these days. Who would have guessed?
Hard to keep horses in the garage in the unlikely event of a (insert specifics here) apocalypse. Horses are a lifestyle - great if you can pull it off. Hay is getting incredibly expensive in a lot of places. Your neighbor might not want their lawn and garden clipped quite so close.
Besides, if you're a real survivalist, you won't touch a horse. They're pretty high maintenance. You want a donkey. Or some goats.
Me, I'll stick to my pickup truck for as long as I can.
Really doesn't take too much power to keep a good freezer cold. If you run the generator an hour or so per day and don't leave the door open, you can freeze stuff for a long time.
And if you do lose power, you invite the neighbors over and have a big almost-end-of-the-world party.
Funny, in the "related articles" section on TFA, they had a blurb on exactly that.
The problem with the Unimog is that any non paraplegic zombie can outrun one and, if something does break, you'll never find the parts. It's basically a tractor with four wheels.
Somehow I'm less upset that Amazon thinks I'm a 'Hello Kitty' addict because, last year I bought some USB sticks embedded in the stupid animal to keep people from stealing them (sort of worked). Now, every time I log in, I get greeted with the stupid feline despite the fact that I have purchased many other things in the interim.
If that's the level of integration and coordination that Amazon has, if Experion still thinks I started working for Boeing when I was ten years old (confusing my father with me, completely different names), then I'm not too awfully worried.
If the feds think that I'm still in contact with the weirdo pot dealer from college, I'm less amused. Hell, at least they could give me a decent phone number for her.
And exactly what do the tens of thousands of random fire arms do for you in an attempt to foil the powers that be?
Planning on taking over the neighborhood Air Force base with a few of your friends and convincing the pilots to bomb DC? Overrun the National Guard Armory and steal some Vietnam era trucks and a few radios (oops, wrong frequency..)
The reason that Afghanistan is so fucked up and will remain a fucked up, neo feudal society is that they are stuck in small squad infantry tactics (along with a bizarre misogynist, xenophobic religion). Yes, then can fight a asymmetric war, but clean water and power, not so much. For better or worse, the standard of living in the US and similar countries is dependent on a complicated weave of people, business and law. You can break the system, but then you've bought it. How are all the disconnected angry people with guns going to rebuild a society?
Is it really going to be better than what we have? Can you think of some, perhaps less violent ways of accomplishing something useful?
I don't think that an armed citizenry is keeping the government from doing what it wants. Remember, the powers that be don't want any drastic change - it's how they make their money. We still need to role back the intrusiveness of government in the world, but it's a slow, messy process.
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It may well be more complicated than global warming and / or overfishing, although both are likely to be an issue.
We have been seeing ** lots ** more jellyfish the last several years in SE Alaska. This summer we kayaked through a half kilometer long field of them. Very, very trippy but fisherman absolutely hate them. You can't get them to move. If you net them you can't get their slimy bodies off the net. Nothing local eats them very effectively. Shooting at them with a shotgun doesn't do much except waste ammo and scare tourists.
Goddamnit yes.
IF THE IMAGE ISN'T INDICATIVE OF YOUR COMMENT IT DOESN'T BELONG THERE.
Cut the cutsey, generic picture crap. We all know what an airplane looks like. Hire a graphics artist like Aurich on Ars (or make it a game here or something) but if all you can do is find some random picture on Flickr, cut it out. If I want to look at random stupid pictures, I know where to look.
Look, whoever you hired is not smoking the same thing the rest of us are. Can you maybe take a spin through a local nursing home and see what the smart people are doing?
Exactly this. And this was on my plain vanilla IE 8 browser at work. God knows what will happen when it hits a modified Firefox.
Still don't work for me. Oh wait. Maybe it is is working.
Ouch. My eyes! The goggles! They do nothing.
(Slashdot devs - don't quit your day job.)
Yeah, you probably are. If you've been following Copenhagen Suborbitals for a while you will realize that the only people they are likely going to kill are themselves.
Mostly harmless.
No, you don't have to go a restaurant. Just a food store - getting Nitrous oxide is trivial around here. Hell, I can go to the welding store and get a entire cylinder of the stuff. Really, He is way down on the list of things I worry about even stupid people possessing.
What do you all do about glue?
Just the wee little engineering issues of working at temperatures and pressures where we don't understand the basic physics well.
No problem, we'll just use the tractor beam.
Seems pretty energetically expensive. Is He in Europe so expensive that compressing it down is economically feasible given your traditionally high energy costs? Or is compression not that difficult (from a power expenditure view)?
Don't ever make the mistake of linking medical profitability with ANY other metric in the US. It's completely divorced from reality and impossible to pin down.
Rather like the US Government budget. And people say we don't have socialized healthcare.
Read the parent post again until you understand it.
Out here in the Wild and Woolly World of America, we sell all sorts of dangerous things that can kill you if you breath them - we laugh at silly things like helium (and especially nitrous oxide). Hell son, we'll even sell you a gun.
We can do this because we're exceptional. We're Americans. We can do things that nobody else in the frikk'in world can do.
Like shut down the entire government over health care.
USA! USA! USA!
Well, breathe easy dude. The tablets aren't controlling anything.
They're electronic manuals. No more, no less.
We at the Slashdot Moderation Group do not have a sense of humor that we are aware of, ma'am.
Funny, you don't see many dead diabetics in the waiting area, do you? You'd think with all of the media coverage given to people who just get stared at wrong by the TSA we would see a couple more of these sorts of disasters on CNN.
I'm not any friend of Medtronic - they seem to do a barely adequate job on a day to day basis. But give the engineers a bit of credit - they don't just stick these things on a bunch of rabbits and then go out to the bar (the engineers, not the rabbits). The certification process actually does include running the devices by airport scanners these days. Who would have guessed?
Remain classy, AC and stay on topic.
If you can't blame either Apple or the NSA, wait until the next post comes up.
Sharks don't use plasma cutters.
Just say'in.
Hard to keep horses in the garage in the unlikely event of a (insert specifics here) apocalypse. Horses are a lifestyle - great if you can pull it off. Hay is getting incredibly expensive in a lot of places. Your neighbor might not want their lawn and garden clipped quite so close.
Besides, if you're a real survivalist, you won't touch a horse. They're pretty high maintenance. You want a donkey. Or some goats.
Me, I'll stick to my pickup truck for as long as I can.
Really doesn't take too much power to keep a good freezer cold. If you run the generator an hour or so per day and don't leave the door open, you can freeze stuff for a long time.
And if you do lose power, you invite the neighbors over and have a big almost-end-of-the-world party.
Funny, in the "related articles" section on TFA, they had a blurb on exactly that.
The problem with the Unimog is that any non paraplegic zombie can outrun one and, if something does break, you'll never find the parts. It's basically a tractor with four wheels.
Somehow I'm less upset that Amazon thinks I'm a 'Hello Kitty' addict because, last year I bought some USB sticks embedded in the stupid animal to keep people from stealing them (sort of worked). Now, every time I log in, I get greeted with the stupid feline despite the fact that I have purchased many other things in the interim.
If that's the level of integration and coordination that Amazon has, if Experion still thinks I started working for Boeing when I was ten years old (confusing my father with me, completely different names), then I'm not too awfully worried.
If the feds think that I'm still in contact with the weirdo pot dealer from college, I'm less amused. Hell, at least they could give me a decent phone number for her.
That's what he said.
And exactly what do the tens of thousands of random fire arms do for you in an attempt to foil the powers that be?
Planning on taking over the neighborhood Air Force base with a few of your friends and convincing the pilots to bomb DC? Overrun the National Guard Armory and steal some Vietnam era trucks and a few radios (oops, wrong frequency ..)
The reason that Afghanistan is so fucked up and will remain a fucked up, neo feudal society is that they are stuck in small squad infantry tactics (along with a bizarre misogynist, xenophobic religion). Yes, then can fight a asymmetric war, but clean water and power, not so much. For better or worse, the standard of living in the US and similar countries is dependent on a complicated weave of people, business and law. You can break the system, but then you've bought it. How are all the disconnected angry people with guns going to rebuild a society?
Is it really going to be better than what we have? Can you think of some, perhaps less violent ways of accomplishing something useful?
I don't think that an armed citizenry is keeping the government from doing what it wants. Remember, the powers that be don't want any drastic change - it's how they make their money. We still need to role back the intrusiveness of government in the world, but it's a slow, messy process.
I'm trying to respond to your post with the proper gravity, but having a bit of a hard time.
OTOH, I could have lived without the bunny sled.
THAT was not necessary.