"Professor David Nutt"
We're supposed to give our kids injections based on the recommendations of a Professor Nutt. Come on, the guy sounds like he's from a TinTin book.
Play some old soul using the plants that grew from the grapes you threw out a few years ago - you really can say you "heard it on the grape vine"...
Please - if you're going to throw tomatoes can you make sure they're GM free ones...
Because an adult having sex with a child will hurt that child - both physically and developmentally. There is a great deal of correlation between those who are abused during or before their formative years and those who develop sexual problems later in life.
On a purely physical level the sheer size difference causes trauma that leads to scarring and in females fertility problems in later life.
Our instinct towards the next generation should be to protect and nurture, not use them for gratification of desires. We are not apes. We go on and on about how we're better than animals, yet people use animal behaviour to justify the worst excess of human behaviour.
Ducks have been known to have sex with the corpses of dead ducks. Many animals kill each other. By your argument that means you don't mind if I beat your brains in and repeatedly rape your corpse.
It's an issue of control - control of somebody's sexuality is one of the basic ways to have power over them.
Parents have an extremely hard time coming to terms with the fact that their little boy/girl/hermaphrodite is growing up and becoming a sexual creature, and so there's all sorts of FUD about the subject.
16 is an arbitrary limit set by the Victorians when there was an outcry about the number of child prostitutes working in London at the time.
People mature at different rates - some people aren't ready for sexual experiences till they're 18-20. Some a lot longer before. Until society has a way of looking at the situation on a case-by-case basis we have to work with an arbitrary number which means that 90-95% of those over it are "ready".
And instead of villifying those labelled as paedophiles, we should be trying to work out what has gone so badly wrong in their sexuality that they are attracted to a person who hasn't developed sexual characteristics yet, and see if they could be cured.
"Kids messing about"...I know somebody who was told that was all that happened to her. She still wakes up crying sometimes, 10 years later. No simple rule will suffice to adjudicate all cases.
30 seconds with google reveals that he's very much against VOIP, and very much a supporter of the phone industry.
God I love the internet - every opinion you've ever had displayed for the world to take out of context forever...
"you can't 'mate 'em, but they can 'mate you in 12."
What a coincidence - that's almost certainly what they said to "Shower Bitch Bobby" was told as he was escorted to his cell.
ICANN and Verisign are behaving in the same way as a pair of spoilt toddlers. What the world needs is for their teacher to come along and give the pair of them a slap
Actually (Radiation)C(UV) would be more accurate.
Radiation is a woefully inexact word since it encompasses high energy particles and Electromagnetic Radiation - of which UV is simply one range of frequencies.
So UV is a subset of Radiation.
And BTW - I haven't been a junior schooler for a long while, and I prefer UseNet for Trolling.
Nope - just the DNA in the outer few millimeters of your body.
The penetration isn't good because they expend all their energy quickly.
Think of it like birdshot from a shotgun - the penetration isn't exactly great but you'd rather be hit on an armoured bit any day
Hell, who needs skin anyway? It's so...millenial.
I was actually talking about high energy particles - the "solar wind" - more than EM radiation.
UV is filtered mostly by ozone, the magnetic field (I think it's the Van Allen belt) catches the particles.
Their penetration isn't that great on solids/liquids so a decent thick layer of sunblock should help a lot.
Of course the main danger is atmospheric ablation - the current theory is that the reason Mars can't hold an atmosphere is cos' it has no magnetic field. It (probably) wouldn't be enough to totally strip the atmosphere - at least it hasn't before - but with the increasing toxicity of our atmosphere any change could be catastrophic.
"since the magnetic field will be weakened"
You better pray not. The magnetic field is what keeps some of the nasty radiation in space out of our safe(ish) little bubble. If the magnetic field does weaken signifigantly, may I suggest investing in some Factor 3000 sunblock...
So now, everyone is going to encode their products' internal software so that any attempt to access it in any way to service it can be construed as attempting to circumvent a protection system.
Nice.
Okay, ignoring the "first world war" mistake that's been so kindly pointed out by so many people, the main problem with this post is...it's wrong.
Japan was on the verge of surrendering. Russia was thinking of getting involved so that they could claim credit. The nice scientists had given the generals a shiny new toy to play with. And the generals decided to use it...to see what it did.
Everything else you've been told has just been a rationalisation - the boys in charge saw opportunities to use their new play toy running out, so made a grab for one. That's why two cities died.
In retrospect tho you've got to wonder - if Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't been turned into glass craters, where would the first nukes have been used in anger. Russia? Vietnam? Cuba?
It could have been worse.
Well yeah - it doesn't get hit by a meteorite, sucked through a wormhole and spat out near a machine civilisation that repair it and send it back to find The Creator for a good few years yet:)
"Doohan, 84, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's "within the last couple months," agent Steven Stevens told The Associated Press.(...snip...)Doohan has lived in Redmond for almost a dozen years with his wife, Wende. They have a 4-year-old daughter and two older sons, and Doohan has four children from a previous marriage, Stevens said."
A 4 year old kid at 84? Go the Irascible Scotsman!!!
Both links down already.
Guess that'll tell me not to answer an e-mail just as a new story comes in.
Oh well, at leat I'll be able to get the info from the first few posters - after all, nobody would first post without RTFA'ing would they..?
Nope. The best idea would be to search for.mp3's, or.jpg's that have a lot of "flesh tones" and corrupt them.
After all, killing someone's OS is annoying, but deleting someone's pr0n collection is tantamount to declaration of war.
Either that or randomly e-mail samples from said collection out as well as copies of itself with a header "Do you know what has hidden on his computer?"
I really shouldn't be giving people ideas should I...
Because a rope is not a totally solid system the fibres can and will slip against each other . If a fibre has a 1% chance of having a flaw in a 1' length, it stands to reason that a 100' length has a good chance of having a flaw somewhere along it's length - 73% to be precise.
If your rope has 100 strands then 73 of those strands have a flaw. The more flaws you have, the more chance of several flaws close enough together to seriously compromise the strength of the rope.
It's all about probabilities and statistical averages. And yes, that weight of the rope increases as the length increases, but the weight of the rope is usually trivial compared to the usable loading.
The degradation rule is based on small defects in the rope - your rope may be able to hold 500lbs but every 10' has small flaws that weaken that by 25 lbs...
It's the same principle as the chain rule - in that it's only as strong as the weakest link. Think of the rope as a bundle of miniscule chains and you're halfway there.
In theory a nanotube shouldn't have these defects. In practice...yeah right. I figure there will have to be a fairly major degree of over-engineering with regards to stress tolerances in this.
Projects like this are possible - hell even feasable, but humanity needs to pull it's finger out of it's ass to get these up and running. It's really simple - barring a sudden discovery of practical anti-gravity or some other esoteric technology we have until the fossil fuels run out to work out a way of getting bulk loads out of the gravity well. Otherwise, we're gonna be stuck here wallowing in our own filth forever.
We have passed the peak of oil production - easy to get supplies are starting to run low, and the rest of the oil is bound in things like "dirty shale" and are increasingly difficult to access. Time is running short, and posing and posturing do nobody any good.
We get paid to fix bugs, true enough. But when somebody else's lack of foresight makes our job so much harder do you expect us to just stand there and say "Thanks for giving me another job to do. That'll keep me busy till your next product comes out."?
If you really think that people are like that, I suggest you wander around with a bag full of rubbish until you find a street sweeper and scatter the bag around in fron of them. Then see if they thnk you profusely, or if the next thing you hear is your proctologist asking just how they fitted the entire broom head up there...
"Would AMERICA attack? "
It would depend on whether the other planet had resources that we could use and it's inhabitants weren't prepared to just hand them over.
Then America would attack, kill off any of the population that dared to argue, and take what they wanted.
Just like the British Empire taught them.
It's all very well saying that America's gunboat diplomacy is deplorable, but let's not forget that they learned it from us in the first place.
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"Professor David Nutt"
We're supposed to give our kids injections based on the recommendations of a Professor Nutt. Come on, the guy sounds like he's from a TinTin book.
Play some old soul using the plants that grew from the grapes you threw out a few years ago - you really can say you "heard it on the grape vine"...
Please - if you're going to throw tomatoes can you make sure they're GM free ones...
Because an adult having sex with a child will hurt that child - both physically and developmentally. There is a great deal of correlation between those who are abused during or before their formative years and those who develop sexual problems later in life.
On a purely physical level the sheer size difference causes trauma that leads to scarring and in females fertility problems in later life.
Our instinct towards the next generation should be to protect and nurture, not use them for gratification of desires. We are not apes. We go on and on about how we're better than animals, yet people use animal behaviour to justify the worst excess of human behaviour.
Ducks have been known to have sex with the corpses of dead ducks. Many animals kill each other. By your argument that means you don't mind if I beat your brains in and repeatedly rape your corpse.
It's an issue of control - control of somebody's sexuality is one of the basic ways to have power over them.
Parents have an extremely hard time coming to terms with the fact that their little boy/girl/hermaphrodite is growing up and becoming a sexual creature, and so there's all sorts of FUD about the subject.
16 is an arbitrary limit set by the Victorians when there was an outcry about the number of child prostitutes working in London at the time.
People mature at different rates - some people aren't ready for sexual experiences till they're 18-20. Some a lot longer before. Until society has a way of looking at the situation on a case-by-case basis we have to work with an arbitrary number which means that 90-95% of those over it are "ready".
And instead of villifying those labelled as paedophiles, we should be trying to work out what has gone so badly wrong in their sexuality that they are attracted to a person who hasn't developed sexual characteristics yet, and see if they could be cured.
"Kids messing about"...I know somebody who was told that was all that happened to her. She still wakes up crying sometimes, 10 years later. No simple rule will suffice to adjudicate all cases.
"They woke up next to the severed heads of their favorite boy band."
Hell I'd pay to see that happening.
30 seconds with google reveals that he's very much against VOIP, and very much a supporter of the phone industry.
God I love the internet - every opinion you've ever had displayed for the world to take out of context forever...
"you can't 'mate 'em, but they can 'mate you in 12."
What a coincidence - that's almost certainly what they said to "Shower Bitch Bobby" was told as he was escorted to his cell.
Maybe it's time to call up the 1337 h4x0rs and send them in...
ICANN and Verisign are behaving in the same way as a pair of spoilt toddlers. What the world needs is for their teacher to come along and give the pair of them a slap
Actually (Radiation)C(UV) would be more accurate.
Radiation is a woefully inexact word since it encompasses high energy particles and Electromagnetic Radiation - of which UV is simply one range of frequencies.
So UV is a subset of Radiation.
And BTW - I haven't been a junior schooler for a long while, and I prefer UseNet for Trolling.
Nope - just the DNA in the outer few millimeters of your body.
The penetration isn't good because they expend all their energy quickly.
Think of it like birdshot from a shotgun - the penetration isn't exactly great but you'd rather be hit on an armoured bit any day
Hell, who needs skin anyway? It's so...millenial.
Yeh I think that's on the BOFH's excuse calender...
I was actually talking about high energy particles - the "solar wind" - more than EM radiation.
UV is filtered mostly by ozone, the magnetic field (I think it's the Van Allen belt) catches the particles.
Their penetration isn't that great on solids/liquids so a decent thick layer of sunblock should help a lot.
Of course the main danger is atmospheric ablation - the current theory is that the reason Mars can't hold an atmosphere is cos' it has no magnetic field. It (probably) wouldn't be enough to totally strip the atmosphere - at least it hasn't before - but with the increasing toxicity of our atmosphere any change could be catastrophic.
"since the magnetic field will be weakened"
You better pray not. The magnetic field is what keeps some of the nasty radiation in space out of our safe(ish) little bubble. If the magnetic field does weaken signifigantly, may I suggest investing in some Factor 3000 sunblock...
Christ I feel old. My first PC was an old XT, and i remember when VGA cards and monitors were about 5000 each.
So now, everyone is going to encode their products' internal software so that any attempt to access it in any way to service it can be construed as attempting to circumvent a protection system.
Nice.
Okay, ignoring the "first world war" mistake that's been so kindly pointed out by so many people, the main problem with this post is ...it's wrong.
Japan was on the verge of surrendering. Russia was thinking of getting involved so that they could claim credit. The nice scientists had given the generals a shiny new toy to play with. And the generals decided to use it...to see what it did.
Everything else you've been told has just been a rationalisation - the boys in charge saw opportunities to use their new play toy running out, so made a grab for one. That's why two cities died.
In retrospect tho you've got to wonder - if Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't been turned into glass craters, where would the first nukes have been used in anger. Russia? Vietnam? Cuba?
It could have been worse.
Well yeah - it doesn't get hit by a meteorite, sucked through a wormhole and spat out near a machine civilisation that repair it and send it back to find The Creator for a good few years yet :)
"Doohan, 84, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's "within the last couple months," agent Steven Stevens told The Associated Press.(...snip...)Doohan has lived in Redmond for almost a dozen years with his wife, Wende. They have a 4-year-old daughter and two older sons, and Doohan has four children from a previous marriage, Stevens said."
A 4 year old kid at 84? Go the Irascible Scotsman!!!
Both links down already.
Guess that'll tell me not to answer an e-mail just as a new story comes in.
Oh well, at leat I'll be able to get the info from the first few posters - after all, nobody would first post without RTFA'ing would they..?
Nope. The best idea would be to search for .mp3's, or .jpg's that have a lot of "flesh tones" and corrupt them.
After all, killing someone's OS is annoying, but deleting someone's pr0n collection is tantamount to declaration of war.
Either that or randomly e-mail samples from said collection out as well as copies of itself with a header "Do you know what has hidden on his computer?"
I really shouldn't be giving people ideas should I...
Because a rope is not a totally solid system the fibres can and will slip against each other . If a fibre has a 1% chance of having a flaw in a 1' length, it stands to reason that a 100' length has a good chance of having a flaw somewhere along it's length - 73% to be precise. If your rope has 100 strands then 73 of those strands have a flaw. The more flaws you have, the more chance of several flaws close enough together to seriously compromise the strength of the rope.
It's all about probabilities and statistical averages. And yes, that weight of the rope increases as the length increases, but the weight of the rope is usually trivial compared to the usable loading.
The degradation rule is based on small defects in the rope - your rope may be able to hold 500lbs but every 10' has small flaws that weaken that by 25 lbs...
It's the same principle as the chain rule - in that it's only as strong as the weakest link. Think of the rope as a bundle of miniscule chains and you're halfway there.
In theory a nanotube shouldn't have these defects. In practice...yeah right. I figure there will have to be a fairly major degree of over-engineering with regards to stress tolerances in this.
Projects like this are possible - hell even feasable, but humanity needs to pull it's finger out of it's ass to get these up and running. It's really simple - barring a sudden discovery of practical anti-gravity or some other esoteric technology we have until the fossil fuels run out to work out a way of getting bulk loads out of the gravity well. Otherwise, we're gonna be stuck here wallowing in our own filth forever.
We have passed the peak of oil production - easy to get supplies are starting to run low, and the rest of the oil is bound in things like "dirty shale" and are increasingly difficult to access. Time is running short, and posing and posturing do nobody any good.
We get paid to fix bugs, true enough. But when somebody else's lack of foresight makes our job so much harder do you expect us to just stand there and say "Thanks for giving me another job to do. That'll keep me busy till your next product comes out."?
If you really think that people are like that, I suggest you wander around with a bag full of rubbish until you find a street sweeper and scatter the bag around in fron of them. Then see if they thnk you profusely, or if the next thing you hear is your proctologist asking just how they fitted the entire broom head up there...
"Would AMERICA attack? "
It would depend on whether the other planet had resources that we could use and it's inhabitants weren't prepared to just hand them over.
Then America would attack, kill off any of the population that dared to argue, and take what they wanted.
Just like the British Empire taught them.
It's all very well saying that America's gunboat diplomacy is deplorable, but let's not forget that they learned it from us in the first place.