Which is why we need to start building nuclear plants like its nobody's business. Aside from fast integral reactors available with current technology which greatly reduce waste, Dr. Bussard was supposedly on the brink of energy positive fusion reactions before his unfortunate death.
If we upgrade our power grid for more efficient transmission between different areas, built enough nuclear plants so we've got more electricity than we know what to do with, it won't matter as much that our storage mechanism isn't incredibly efficient.
I think in the long term our civilizations energy should come from giant solar collectors built in orbit (Earth, Lunar, Solar, etc.). Once we start collecting enough energy in space and refine our in-situ resource utilization and bootstrapping technologies, we can begin mining asteroids to build more solar arrays.
Of course these are long term plans, 100+ years out maybe before we get this setup expanding at a good rate, but recently a the worlds oldest person died at 115. At age 23, I'm optimistic that as medical technology advances, I'll still be around to see it become a reality.:)
While I agree that you should be prepared for anything that may be obstructing the roadway, that white sign halfway hidden behind a bush as you turn a corner is exactly where your attention should NOT be. If you're having to look away from your vehicles path of travel while making a turn and then rapidly decelerate, you're being dangerously distracted from the much more important task of making sure you're not going to run into anything.
The original purpose of speed limits was to protect people on and around the roadways. Then someone got the bright idea to regulate them to try and reduce fuel consumption. Now they've become so perverted that they seem to only exist in many places as a revenue source for local towns, and in causing drivers to spend more time looking at signs on the side of the road and their speedometer, they actually cause the roads to be LESS safe.
So in effect, what Sony is doing here is trying to stop consumers from copying their content by eliminating their incentive to purchase any more of it. No point in buying any more bluray discs if your player only plays old ones. Brilliant.
My assumption would be the grammatical error in saying "Microsoft destroyed credibility." Within the context of the sentence it would have made much more sense to say "Microsoft's credibility destroyed."
therefore, in your scenario, the woman get sno punishment, the scammers get real punishment, and all the res tis pointless verbiage. ok, the woman is guilty, she's reposnible, she's an albatross, whatever. doesn't matter what you clal her. the point is she doesn't get punished, in your eyes, and the scammers do, which is all that is important. the rest is verbiage
I think all this talk of Nigerian email scams is affecting you...
I used to do QA for Flextronics, so it's no surprise to me that it didn't end well. The majority of their workforce gets brought in from headhunter temp services like Manpower, told they'll be offered a permanent position when their temp contract runs out, and then let go right beforehand. The result is a never ending stream of untrained employees trying to adapt to a new position. The line i was testing (pill dispenser machines for walgreens pharmacies) had so many problems it was a miracle we shipped any machines at all.
On a slightly related note, those pill machines seemed rather unsafe to me. They had a robotic arm such the pills out of a hopper through a plastic tube and shoot them into a waiting pill bottle. While it sounds like a nice idea in principle, the longer i worked there the more i thought about how real pills wouldnt be as resistant to breaking up or just rubbing in the tube and leaving drug residue all on the insides as the plastic fake pills we tested with. The risk for harmful interactions from contamination made me resolve to never get my prescriptions filled at walgreens anymore.
While, the geek in me is enchanted by the mega-engineering aspect of your solution, the part of me that can't get to sleep with the sun up is trembling in fear that somehow this will actually come to pass.
If you look under the sink you'll probably find several bottles of poison in your kitchen (and if you mix the wrong ones together it could even result in toxic gas!). Guns are designed to accelerate and direct a projectile at a high rate of speed, not to kill people. Landmines are a bit more evil, as unlike a gun, they don't require somebody to pull the trigger. I was about to go off into a rant about the dysfunction of society, the human condition, overpopulation, freedom of speech, and possibly a myriad of other things, but then i realized that the sun is up, I haven't been to sleep yet, and I'm responding to somebody who used the word 'erection' in their post without referring to the act of building something...
Things like this, creeping fees, attempting to wrangle everybody into using paypal, and their generally horrid customer service is driving ebays userbase away in droves. Even my dad has commented on how the volume of craigslist ads has been increasing lately. Naturally it will take quite a while for such a juggernaut to die out, but my personal suspicion is that the age of ebay has ended.
Call your provider and scream until they turn text messaging completely off for your phone. The major drawback of this is that anybody sending you a text doesn't know you never received it. SMS could really use a "destination unreachable" response like most communication protocols have.
More importantly, the crack dealers will replace themselves. Despite anything the government does, there will always be a demand for drugs. Considering the relative simplicity of manufacturing most drugs (especially those derived from natural sources such as heroin, cocaine and of course marijuana) it is no surprise that people are going to meet this demand while turning a nice hefty profit due to the illegality of the product.
The ISPs on the other hand, well they're spying on and interfering with the private communications of thousands of upstanding citizens. A bit more serious than Alice buying her crack from Bob instead of Charlie down the road who'll take over the business if Bob gets popped.
Just to add on to that list something that I'm finishing up now and have immensely enjoyed, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. If done right it could be an awesome movie trilogy, or even a multi-season tv series. If one tried to cram the entire thing into a single movie however way too much would be lost.
Tons of people have, but along the way some idiot decided to coin the term "blogger" and who is going to take amateur journalists seriously with a goofy name like that? We're starting to see this new wave of independent reporters be taken seriously, but the healthy skepticism that has been instilled in people reading unverifiable content online need to spread to the masses so they understand that stuff they see in the major media outlets can be just as wrong or at least so narrowly focused as to not paint a complete picture of what is occurring in the world. Also worthy of mention is the zine culture which has been distributing independent accounts of events for decades.
Sorry for the run on sentence i only got 2 hours of sleep last night.
Ahhh, sorry about that then. I tried for a minute to come up with another title instead of mod parent down but my hangover wouldnt let anything come to me (or realize what you were talking about).
You must be reading a different article than I am. All I see is a bunch of chatter about camera, editing software, and video hosting selection. Aside from some brief bit about HD cameras getting cheap so more people are taking up amateur videography, the article has nothing to do with whatever it is you're ranting about.
I really wish people would stop using this analogy. I've been a casual drug user for around 10 years now, and I have never seen any drug dealers intentionally getting children addicted to crack or any other substance for that matter. On the few occasions where I've seen people seemingly intentionally turn others on to highly addictive substances, they were addicted users looking for somebody to share the cost of procuring said substance with. The youngest of these 'victims' that I have personally witnessed being introduced to drugs this way was 15, hardly a 'child' when one considers this is the low end of the sample.
Granted most of my experiences are in central North Carolina and this may occur more often in big cities and such, but the practice is nowhere near as common as it is made out to be from my experience. Constantly repeating it as if it is a common practice in the drug using community reinforces the stereotype of drug users and dealers as horrible people seeking to corrupt our nations youth and feeds ammo to those who have an interest in perpetuating the "war on drugs" that is overcrowding our prisons and ruining countless lives by putting felony criminal charges on the records of citizens who have otherwise done no harm to society.
Sorry for the run on sentences and US-centric viewpoint, just gotta let it all out sometimes you know?
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Which is why we need to start building nuclear plants like its nobody's business. Aside from fast integral reactors available with current technology which greatly reduce waste, Dr. Bussard was supposedly on the brink of energy positive fusion reactions before his unfortunate death.
If we upgrade our power grid for more efficient transmission between different areas, built enough nuclear plants so we've got more electricity than we know what to do with, it won't matter as much that our storage mechanism isn't incredibly efficient.
I think in the long term our civilizations energy should come from giant solar collectors built in orbit (Earth, Lunar, Solar, etc.). Once we start collecting enough energy in space and refine our in-situ resource utilization and bootstrapping technologies, we can begin mining asteroids to build more solar arrays.
Of course these are long term plans, 100+ years out maybe before we get this setup expanding at a good rate, but recently a the worlds oldest person died at 115. At age 23, I'm optimistic that as medical technology advances, I'll still be around to see it become a reality. :)
scientists don't know much about it, but speculate that it is present almost since the beginning of our Universe
BAD BAD BAD... REALLY?! I could've sworn that [it] WAS present.
And here I was thinking that it has been present.
While I agree that you should be prepared for anything that may be obstructing the roadway, that white sign halfway hidden behind a bush as you turn a corner is exactly where your attention should NOT be. If you're having to look away from your vehicles path of travel while making a turn and then rapidly decelerate, you're being dangerously distracted from the much more important task of making sure you're not going to run into anything.
The original purpose of speed limits was to protect people on and around the roadways. Then someone got the bright idea to regulate them to try and reduce fuel consumption. Now they've become so perverted that they seem to only exist in many places as a revenue source for local towns, and in causing drivers to spend more time looking at signs on the side of the road and their speedometer, they actually cause the roads to be LESS safe.
So in effect, what Sony is doing here is trying to stop consumers from copying their content by eliminating their incentive to purchase any more of it. No point in buying any more bluray discs if your player only plays old ones. Brilliant.
My assumption would be the grammatical error in saying "Microsoft destroyed credibility." Within the context of the sentence it would have made much more sense to say "Microsoft's credibility destroyed."
I think all this talk of Nigerian email scams is affecting you...
I used to do QA for Flextronics, so it's no surprise to me that it didn't end well. The majority of their workforce gets brought in from headhunter temp services like Manpower, told they'll be offered a permanent position when their temp contract runs out, and then let go right beforehand. The result is a never ending stream of untrained employees trying to adapt to a new position. The line i was testing (pill dispenser machines for walgreens pharmacies) had so many problems it was a miracle we shipped any machines at all.
On a slightly related note, those pill machines seemed rather unsafe to me. They had a robotic arm such the pills out of a hopper through a plastic tube and shoot them into a waiting pill bottle. While it sounds like a nice idea in principle, the longer i worked there the more i thought about how real pills wouldnt be as resistant to breaking up or just rubbing in the tube and leaving drug residue all on the insides as the plastic fake pills we tested with. The risk for harmful interactions from contamination made me resolve to never get my prescriptions filled at walgreens anymore.
While, the geek in me is enchanted by the mega-engineering aspect of your solution, the part of me that can't get to sleep with the sun up is trembling in fear that somehow this will actually come to pass.
You have clearly not eaten enough of the fungus to understand.
If you look under the sink you'll probably find several bottles of poison in your kitchen (and if you mix the wrong ones together it could even result in toxic gas!). Guns are designed to accelerate and direct a projectile at a high rate of speed, not to kill people. Landmines are a bit more evil, as unlike a gun, they don't require somebody to pull the trigger. I was about to go off into a rant about the dysfunction of society, the human condition, overpopulation, freedom of speech, and possibly a myriad of other things, but then i realized that the sun is up, I haven't been to sleep yet, and I'm responding to somebody who used the word 'erection' in their post without referring to the act of building something...
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Things like this, creeping fees, attempting to wrangle everybody into using paypal, and their generally horrid customer service is driving ebays userbase away in droves. Even my dad has commented on how the volume of craigslist ads has been increasing lately. Naturally it will take quite a while for such a juggernaut to die out, but my personal suspicion is that the age of ebay has ended.
Call your provider and scream until they turn text messaging completely off for your phone. The major drawback of this is that anybody sending you a text doesn't know you never received it. SMS could really use a "destination unreachable" response like most communication protocols have.
If violence doesn't solve your problems you're not using enough of it.
More importantly, the crack dealers will replace themselves. Despite anything the government does, there will always be a demand for drugs. Considering the relative simplicity of manufacturing most drugs (especially those derived from natural sources such as heroin, cocaine and of course marijuana) it is no surprise that people are going to meet this demand while turning a nice hefty profit due to the illegality of the product.
The ISPs on the other hand, well they're spying on and interfering with the private communications of thousands of upstanding citizens. A bit more serious than Alice buying her crack from Bob instead of Charlie down the road who'll take over the business if Bob gets popped.
After reading this, I realize how disturbingly close my recent habit of keeping a pen and paper journal is to IRCing with myself... >.
Just to add on to that list something that I'm finishing up now and have immensely enjoyed, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. If done right it could be an awesome movie trilogy, or even a multi-season tv series. If one tried to cram the entire thing into a single movie however way too much would be lost.
I want the average IQ to be 180.
I guess we could do that.. or.. you know.. leave the definition of I.Q. alone and let the average intelligence be a nice even 100.
Next time you find an all-you-can-eat buffet serving jumbo shrimp and salmon filets give me a call!
Tons of people have, but along the way some idiot decided to coin the term "blogger" and who is going to take amateur journalists seriously with a goofy name like that? We're starting to see this new wave of independent reporters be taken seriously, but the healthy skepticism that has been instilled in people reading unverifiable content online need to spread to the masses so they understand that stuff they see in the major media outlets can be just as wrong or at least so narrowly focused as to not paint a complete picture of what is occurring in the world. Also worthy of mention is the zine culture which has been distributing independent accounts of events for decades.
Sorry for the run on sentence i only got 2 hours of sleep last night.
Sounds a whole lot better than the $900 4 day cruise I was going to take. Who do I make the check out to?
The entire shuttle is a design failure. Why in $diety's name is the payload beside the propellant instead of on top of it?
Ahhh, sorry about that then. I tried for a minute to come up with another title instead of mod parent down but my hangover wouldnt let anything come to me (or realize what you were talking about).
You must be reading a different article than I am. All I see is a bunch of chatter about camera, editing software, and video hosting selection. Aside from some brief bit about HD cameras getting cheap so more people are taking up amateur videography, the article has nothing to do with whatever it is you're ranting about.
I really wish people would stop using this analogy. I've been a casual drug user for around 10 years now, and I have never seen any drug dealers intentionally getting children addicted to crack or any other substance for that matter. On the few occasions where I've seen people seemingly intentionally turn others on to highly addictive substances, they were addicted users looking for somebody to share the cost of procuring said substance with. The youngest of these 'victims' that I have personally witnessed being introduced to drugs this way was 15, hardly a 'child' when one considers this is the low end of the sample.
Granted most of my experiences are in central North Carolina and this may occur more often in big cities and such, but the practice is nowhere near as common as it is made out to be from my experience. Constantly repeating it as if it is a common practice in the drug using community reinforces the stereotype of drug users and dealers as horrible people seeking to corrupt our nations youth and feeds ammo to those who have an interest in perpetuating the "war on drugs" that is overcrowding our prisons and ruining countless lives by putting felony criminal charges on the records of citizens who have otherwise done no harm to society.
Sorry for the run on sentences and US-centric viewpoint, just gotta let it all out sometimes you know?