Of course, by then you won't want to buy just any SPCs, it will have been proven that Monster premium SPCs superconduct much better than cheapo cables...
...and a wooden stake, I'll put it out of our misery.
Said music industry is conceptually bankrupt. Far removed from its golden years (pick your decade: 60s or 80s, [70s/90s spit!]), it has resorted to promoting Britney Spears, rap music, and the 900-year-old Mick Jagger prancing around on stage in skin-tight leathers. It doesn't deserve to exist, let alone reach into my pocket.
Let artists market their music over the internet, those with talent will do well, the others get to keep their day jobs.
The director of D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams's constituent services office resigned after being accused of using a racial slur, the mayor's office said yesterday.
David Howard, head of the Office of Public Advocate, said he used the word "niggardly" in a Jan. 15 conversation about funding with two employees.
"I used the word 'niggardly' in reference to my administration of a fund," Howard said in a written statement yesterday. "Although the word, which is defined as miserly, does not have any racial connotations, I realize that staff members present were offended by the word.
"I immediately apologized," Howard said. " . . . I would never think of making a racist remark. I regret that the word I did use offended anyone."
If someone punches you in the face, do you beat them to death with a crowbar? No, you punch them back. If someone pulls a knife on you, do you pull out your grenade launcher?
Yeah, well... You're not from Chicago.
They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way... Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?
Surprisingly, I'm not willing to accept your passionately stated opinion without at least one example. Calling someone else's opinion "BS" does not trump the debate.
As for bias, the attempt by CBS to smear Bush with forged documents is just one example, there are so many others it's no wonder people don't trust the mainstream media.
The cowardice can be seen in how many news programs and newspapers ran the Mohammed cartoons: by my last count it was two in the US. They sneer at Christians and Jews because they can safely do so, but because Muslims show their displeasure with criticism by killing the critics, our fearless media chose not to report a major story.
Bit O' anecdotal evidence: I just bought my third DVD player in 14 months. The first two were LG upconverter models (one with Best Buy's Insignia label) that cost about 70 bucks each. Each worked great for a few months, then playback degraded (pixellation, skipping, failing to mount, etc.) until total blackout.
I just got a Samsung model to replace them because I've been happy with their LCD 1080p TV, here's hoping.
One thing though: why don't DVD players come with sleep timers? None of the models I looked at had one, yet having one would protect the units from playing while the viewer is asleep or not in the room. Is it simply planned obsolescence? (I know I know, "Who is John Galt?")
I totally disagree - they can tell the difference (from my experience), and I'd be completely shocked if double-blind tests didn't bear this out. The color space and resolution differences alone are _very_ apparent to anyone who's looking at the test material.
I think you're mistaken, or if they can tell the difference, they don't care about it.
When I finally decided to buy a large screen LCD last year, I was shocked at the poor quality of the images on all sets. I work in graphic design, so I'm more sensitive to muddy and overly compressed images, but I couldn't believe that people would buy what was then high-end plasma and LCD TVs. I was about to leave when I saw a Samsung 1080p unit and fell in love. So you could say that until the 1080p models arrived, people buying lower resolution sets were getting screwed in image quality, HD or not, yet there were no loud complaints.
Also, when you consider how many TVs are set to stretch video so it fills the screen (regardless of what that does to image proportions) it's obvious that people don't care that much about image quality. )Heck even the "pros" at the Weather Channel set their monitors to stretch images so the video looks squashed!)
This being the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Michael Palin first discussing the "Life of Brian" draft at Oxford, and Christmas being nigh, that nova can only mean there are three wise men are en route to Bethlehem, bearing gold and frankincense, and leading a balm on a leash.
In fifty years robots will morph their shapes to match desires of the moment, exude pheromones tailored to the individual human, and use psychology to be the perfect companion. The question isn't whether humans will learn love their robot better halves (that's nearly guaranteed), but will artificial insemination become the primary method of reproduction. Future births may consist of men copulating with robots that cryostore the semen for later use, then, as dictated by the Junior Anti-Sex League, said sperm will be combined with carefully selected ova in artificial wombs for the perfect test-tube baby.
It'll be a vast improvement over the Orgasmatron, because you'll never need to leave home.
Since knowing these waves are coming may enable ships to avoid them, I expect they'll be putting cameras and radar sets on the SkySails as an early warning system.
Thought he swore he'd never do another program for FOX again after the treatment Firefly got http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon#_note-3!?
And what's wrong with the other networks that only FOX will run Whedon's stuff lately?
Earth was pummeled by several strikes similar to the Shoemaker-Levy comet fragments that hit Jupiter back in 1994 instead of just one big strike. The resulting craters could be smaller than Chicxulub while causing enough shock damage to eventually set off every VEI 8 mega-colossal volcano there was.
Since the Toba eruption 75K years ago lowered average global temps by 3 to 3.5 degrees Celsius for several years, nearly wiped out humanity, and may have caused a planet-wide die-off, a chain of similar eruptions over the next few thousand years resulting from the comet strikes could easily have led to a series of ELEs.
Use of lasers to blind soldiers is against the geneva convention. Unsurprisingly people have thought of this before you.
Your mild sarcasm was wasted, I acknowledged in my point that using the weapons to blind was against the law:
They don't mention using the truck lasers as anti-personnel blinding weapons in the article (probably because that would be against international law?) but I'm sure that's what would happen if a position was being overrun.
My point was that the truck mounted lasers would be used as a last-ditch defense, international law or no, and that they'd be nearly unbeatable against infantry. A beam that can destroy an incoming artillery shell can just as easily boil eyeballs and brains, whether the victim's head is turned away or not.
They don't mention using the truck lasers as anti-personnel blinding weapons in the article (probably because that would be against international law?) but I'm sure that's what would happen if a position was being overrun. Hard to imagine how infantry could defend against a beam powerful enough to zap artillery shells, certainly sunglasses wouldn't work, maybe welding goggles?
Like using gas in WWI, the element of surprise might save the day one time (imagine if MacArthur had had these lasers when the Chinese People's Volunteer Army swarmed across the Yalu in the Korean War), but eventually both sides would have the weapons and it would be suicidal to cross a no-man's land under those circumstances.
War has become far too deadly for fragile wetware, so now that the U.S. is fielding squadrons of drone aircraft, isn't it time to develop Wii-Remote Controlled T2000 combots? Talk about yer first-person shooters!
Terminator and humans on a ship battle a creature that has acid for blood and uses humans as hosts for breeding. Carnage ensues in ship corridors and machinery rooms until the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. After Terminator sinks in ocean, in surprise ending, sole survivor is blowing on whistle for help when alien bursts from her chest.
Series potential.
It might have been interesting to have a back-and-forth with you, but when somebody calls me a "denier," suggesting that my skepticism about AGW can in any way be compared with holocaust denial, well, there are less obnoxious people in the world to have a conversation with.
Clearly such mundane and well-researched explanations for warming as carbon-driven greenhouse effect must not be right, if far-fetched ideas like cosmic rays could be invoked to magically produce clouds that give us the explanation we hope is true.
A team of more than 60 scientists from around the world are preparing to conduct a large-scale experiment using a particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland, to replicate the effect of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere.
They hope this will prove whether this deep space radiation is responsible for changing cloud cover. If so, it could force climate scientists to re-evaluate their ideas about how global warming occurs.
Mr Svensmark's results show that the rays produce electrically charged particles when they hit the atmosphere. He said: "These particles attract water molecules from the air and cause them to clump together until they condense into clouds."
Mr Svensmark claims that the number of cosmic rays hitting the Earth changes with the magnetic activity around the Sun. During high periods of activity, fewer cosmic rays hit the Earth and so there are less clouds formed, resulting in warming.
Low activity causes more clouds and cools the Earth.
Here's more detail on Svensmark's experiment that prompted the larger test:
In a box of air in the basement, they were able to show that electrons set free by cosmic rays coming through the ceiling stitched together droplets of sulphuric acid and water. These are the building blocks for cloud condensation. But journal after journal declined to publish their report; the discovery finally appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society late last year.
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Superconducting speaker cables! Woohooo!
Of course, by then you won't want to buy just any SPCs, it will have been proven that Monster premium SPCs superconduct much better than cheapo cables...
...and a wooden stake, I'll put it out of our misery.
Said music industry is conceptually bankrupt. Far removed from its golden years (pick your decade: 60s or 80s, [70s/90s spit!]), it has resorted to promoting Britney Spears, rap music, and the 900-year-old Mick Jagger prancing around on stage in skin-tight leathers. It doesn't deserve to exist, let alone reach into my pocket.
Let artists market their music over the internet, those with talent will do well, the others get to keep their day jobs.
Thanks to slavery Greeks were able to experience democracy.
Greek slavery made Greek democracy
Yeah, well... You're not from Chicago.
They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way... Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?
Surprisingly, I'm not willing to accept your passionately stated opinion without at least one example. Calling someone else's opinion "BS" does not trump the debate.
Liberal bias and cowardice.
As for bias, the attempt by CBS to smear Bush with forged documents is just one example, there are so many others it's no wonder people don't trust the mainstream media.
The cowardice can be seen in how many news programs and newspapers ran the Mohammed cartoons: by my last count it was two in the US. They sneer at Christians and Jews because they can safely do so, but because Muslims show their displeasure with criticism by killing the critics, our fearless media chose not to report a major story.
Bit O' anecdotal evidence: I just bought my third DVD player in 14 months. The first two were LG upconverter models (one with Best Buy's Insignia label) that cost about 70 bucks each. Each worked great for a few months, then playback degraded (pixellation, skipping, failing to mount, etc.) until total blackout.
I just got a Samsung model to replace them because I've been happy with their LCD 1080p TV, here's hoping.
One thing though: why don't DVD players come with sleep timers? None of the models I looked at had one, yet having one would protect the units from playing while the viewer is asleep or not in the room. Is it simply planned obsolescence? (I know I know, "Who is John Galt?")
I think you're mistaken, or if they can tell the difference, they don't care about it.
When I finally decided to buy a large screen LCD last year, I was shocked at the poor quality of the images on all sets. I work in graphic design, so I'm more sensitive to muddy and overly compressed images, but I couldn't believe that people would buy what was then high-end plasma and LCD TVs. I was about to leave when I saw a Samsung 1080p unit and fell in love. So you could say that until the 1080p models arrived, people buying lower resolution sets were getting screwed in image quality, HD or not, yet there were no loud complaints.
Also, when you consider how many TVs are set to stretch video so it fills the screen (regardless of what that does to image proportions) it's obvious that people don't care that much about image quality. )Heck even the "pros" at the Weather Channel set their monitors to stretch images so the video looks squashed!)
If the spray actually does replace sleep, it'd be like extending your life by 30%. I wouldn't mind an additional 20 years.
http://spanish.about.com/cs/culture/a/chevy_nova.htm
This being the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Michael Palin first discussing the "Life of Brian" draft at Oxford, and Christmas being nigh, that nova can only mean there are three wise men are en route to Bethlehem, bearing gold and frankincense, and leading a balm on a leash.
In fifty years robots will morph their shapes to match desires of the moment, exude pheromones tailored to the individual human, and use psychology to be the perfect companion. The question isn't whether humans will learn love their robot better halves (that's nearly guaranteed), but will artificial insemination become the primary method of reproduction. Future births may consist of men copulating with robots that cryostore the semen for later use, then, as dictated by the Junior Anti-Sex League, said sperm will be combined with carefully selected ova in artificial wombs for the perfect test-tube baby. It'll be a vast improvement over the Orgasmatron, because you'll never need to leave home.
On average, more than 50 ships are lost at sea every year, many of which are sunk by freak waves that can be more than a hundred feet high http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/freakwave.shtml.
Since knowing these waves are coming may enable ships to avoid them, I expect they'll be putting cameras and radar sets on the SkySails as an early warning system.
Thought he swore he'd never do another program for FOX again after the treatment Firefly got http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon#_note-3!? And what's wrong with the other networks that only FOX will run Whedon's stuff lately?
Earth was pummeled by several strikes similar to the Shoemaker-Levy comet fragments that hit Jupiter back in 1994 instead of just one big strike. The resulting craters could be smaller than Chicxulub while causing enough shock damage to eventually set off every VEI 8 mega-colossal volcano there was. Since the Toba eruption 75K years ago lowered average global temps by 3 to 3.5 degrees Celsius for several years, nearly wiped out humanity, and may have caused a planet-wide die-off, a chain of similar eruptions over the next few thousand years resulting from the comet strikes could easily have led to a series of ELEs.
The ideal solution is to use an ad blocker so you don't have to see the ads, then have an Electric Monk on-hand to watch the ads for you later....
They don't mention using the truck lasers as anti-personnel blinding weapons in the article (probably because that would be against international law?) but I'm sure that's what would happen if a position was being overrun. Hard to imagine how infantry could defend against a beam powerful enough to zap artillery shells, certainly sunglasses wouldn't work, maybe welding goggles? Like using gas in WWI, the element of surprise might save the day one time (imagine if MacArthur had had these lasers when the Chinese People's Volunteer Army swarmed across the Yalu in the Korean War), but eventually both sides would have the weapons and it would be suicidal to cross a no-man's land under those circumstances. War has become far too deadly for fragile wetware, so now that the U.S. is fielding squadrons of drone aircraft, isn't it time to develop Wii-Remote Controlled T2000 combots? Talk about yer first-person shooters!
In honor of Robert Heinlein's 100th birthday:
Use gyroscopes to stabilize the cylinders. They'd have to be big and durable, but should do the trick.
Terminator and humans on a ship battle a creature that has acid for blood and uses humans as hosts for breeding. Carnage ensues in ship corridors and machinery rooms until the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. After Terminator sinks in ocean, in surprise ending, sole survivor is blowing on whistle for help when alien bursts from her chest. Series potential.
If I had mod points, you'd get "Insightful."
It might have been interesting to have a back-and-forth with you, but when somebody calls me a "denier," suggesting that my skepticism about AGW can in any way be compared with holocaust denial, well, there are less obnoxious people in the world to have a conversation with.
Here's more detail on Svensmark's experiment that prompted the larger test:
After all, first they'll have to take pics of all the houses in Canada--that'll take years, then they can do the other 50 states.