I'll start seeing PETA as having more credibility when they stop being hypocrites and quit supporting vandalists from destroying research facilities and killing humans. If an animal has more rights to live than a human, then PETA should convince its members to commit mass suicide. Otherwise, if animals have the same rights as humans, it shouldn't be supporting the murder of people.
Another problem is that PETA is horribly stupid in its logic. Several years ago some animal rights activists released over a thousand minks from a farm. What happened to all of the minks? They all died because they had to either be killed to protect other animals, or because they couldn't survive in the wild.
Sure, let us save the animals, only to have them die in massive numbers out in the wild.
meh, not to mention that PETA also once pissed off MADD by trying to get college kids to drink beer instead of milk.
There are three types of hydrogen: Protium, or the most common one, and the one we often associate with Hydrogen, has only a proton in it's nucleus.
Deuterium has one neutron in the nucleus, as well as one proton. It is found in "Heavy Water".
Tritium has two neutrons and one proton in the nucleus, and is radioactive.
Re:I'm all for science/technology/astronomy but...
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Reread the grandparent again. You'd use uranium because of the fission that it could undergo, thus creating heat. Also, some of the daughter isotopes could be vented out as well for propellant (Krypton is a gas and can be formed from fission).
The only problem I would see would be the danger of an uncontrolled fission reaction, resulting in a dangerous meltdown.
Yes, the server is going to go down heavily. But this is slashdot, not... hmm... I can't think of any other news site forum like slashdot but with less of a punch..
Pardon me, but I read that as flying carcasses. It took me 3 times to read it over to realize that it said car cases. Most hilarious misread I've had in quite a while though.
Imagine what would happen if the Goatse Man walked through that x-ray machine. The security to the Airport would be disabled because the person checking the x-rays would go blind.
Your sig seems to indicate that you might have been infected by a new worm already. I'd suggest turning off your computer so General Failure can not continue reading your hard drive.
I see a loophole to that idea, and some other ideas as well.
1. Campaign contributions should only be able to be made by those legally able to vote.
While excluding corporations, it would not exclude a member of the corporation. Merely set aside the money that a corporation wants to give to a politicians campaign to one of it's lobbyists or members, and under a sharp eye, have that person make the donation. The corporation didn't make the donation, a single person who has the right to vote did.
2. Limit campaign donations to $X
Again, easily beaten by giving $X to trusted members of a corporation and under a careful eye of the corporation they each donate $X to the campaign.
I really can't think of any foolproof way to keep corporations from using their checkbooks to buy out politicians except to outlaw all campaign contributions, but that may do more harm than good.
So if someone took a Mersenne prime and used it as an expontent to find a Mersenne prime, would the resulting number then be a Mersenne Mersenne Prime?
".... they looked similar to footage from the big Mississipi flood of '95 (or what that 94).
Try the Great Flood of '93, which created what appeared to be a sixth great lake. Of course, the damage caused by this tsunami will most definately exceed the damage caused by the Great Flood.
"This is probably going to be the biggest natural disaster in human history." Unlikely, as I am willing to bet that there have been incidents where more humans were killed than this one. This is going to rank up amongst the top though, and is certainly going to be memorable for the reason that it is recent.
It actually all depends on how you try to look at the wave. Tsunamis (or tidal waves) travel extremely fast, over 100 mph (approx. 160 km/h) in some cases. While yes, in areas of the ocean or sea which are deep they are barely noticeable if you consider height, they are likely to be travelling a LOT faster than the normal waves around them. So you could indeed notice a difference between the waves out in the deep sea.
I find the indea of this technology is wonder, but I must question some of the aspects of it. It is most certainly going to be a slight nightmare for people interested in astronomy, taking nightly photos and thinking that they've discovered a new asteroid only to find out that it's a blimp. I also believe that there might be a few times where winds or at least atmospheric "currents" might drag several blimps to cluster together and create visible specks in the sky, or maybe even eclipse the Sun.
Nice website, and I like the pop-up, but I can see the possibility for people to/. this guy's entire Christmas light set-up. Either the constant turning it on/off will burn out more than quite a few bulbs (hope they aren't the kind where if one goes, they all go). But yeah.. I'm sure what with all the slashdotters there that the neighbors are probably going to be seeing a nice strobelight-like effect. Scare the hell out of anyone who's driving by because of the chaotic patterns of the lights turning on and off. Whee.. slashdotting fun.
... essentially, we can create 'doppelganger' blocks (my term)... Doppelganger is a term that I have seen used on the TV show Sealab 2021 quite a few times.
www.adultswim.com has information on the TV show of Sealab 2021 if anyone is interested.
Quite interesting to see someone go around and claim words as their own. In that case, I claim the word "the". Anyone who wishes to use the word "the" can submit enough money to fill a Library of Congress for a lincense.
> Who wants a damn pedegere, get a nice normal moggie from the rescue center:)
You mean pedigree, yes? And what the Hell is a "Moggie"? Sounds like the name of someone's really hairy aunt.
Solar shingles... check... Low roofs... problem..
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Now how to keep kids with ladders from walking on your roof scuffing up the solar shingles.. Or people who have low roofs (there's one near my house, actually it's right across the street) where you can walk from the ground right up onto the roof in the back).
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*hover finger over the letter "a"*
a: The lowercase letter a. Used in spelling, first letter of the Latin alphabet.
Mod that up. That's the funniest comment I've read in a long time.
Thank you MST3K for that humor.
I'm sorry, but Ug gave his property rights to fire away a *long* time ago.
Shouldn't that be "A Bullshitter's Guide"?
I'll start seeing PETA as having more credibility when they stop being hypocrites and quit supporting vandalists from destroying research facilities and killing humans. If an animal has more rights to live than a human, then PETA should convince its members to commit mass suicide. Otherwise, if animals have the same rights as humans, it shouldn't be supporting the murder of people.
Another problem is that PETA is horribly stupid in its logic. Several years ago some animal rights activists released over a thousand minks from a farm. What happened to all of the minks? They all died because they had to either be killed to protect other animals, or because they couldn't survive in the wild.
Sure, let us save the animals, only to have them die in massive numbers out in the wild.
meh, not to mention that PETA also once pissed off MADD by trying to get college kids to drink beer instead of milk.
There are three types of hydrogen:
Protium, or the most common one, and the one we often associate with Hydrogen, has only a proton in it's nucleus.
Deuterium has one neutron in the nucleus, as well as one proton. It is found in "Heavy Water".
Tritium has two neutrons and one proton in the nucleus, and is radioactive.
Reread the grandparent again. You'd use uranium because of the fission that it could undergo, thus creating heat. Also, some of the daughter isotopes could be vented out as well for propellant (Krypton is a gas and can be formed from fission).
The only problem I would see would be the danger of an uncontrolled fission reaction, resulting in a dangerous meltdown.
God.. that was the best laugh I've had in weeks.
Yes, the server is going to go down heavily. But this is slashdot, not... hmm... I can't think of any other news site forum like slashdot but with less of a punch..
"robots powered by flying carcases"
Pardon me, but I read that as flying carcasses. It took me 3 times to read it over to realize that it said car cases.
Most hilarious misread I've had in quite a while though.
Imagine what would happen if the Goatse Man walked through that x-ray machine. The security to the Airport would be disabled because the person checking the x-rays would go blind.
Your sig seems to indicate that you might have been infected by a new worm already. I'd suggest turning off your computer so General Failure can not continue reading your hard drive.
I see a loophole to that idea, and some other ideas as well.
1. Campaign contributions should only be able to be made by those legally able to vote.
While excluding corporations, it would not exclude a member of the corporation. Merely set aside the money that a corporation wants to give to a politicians campaign to one of it's lobbyists or members, and under a sharp eye, have that person make the donation. The corporation didn't make the donation, a single person who has the right to vote did.
2. Limit campaign donations to $X
Again, easily beaten by giving $X to trusted members of a corporation and under a careful eye of the corporation they each donate $X to the campaign.
I really can't think of any foolproof way to keep corporations from using their checkbooks to buy out politicians except to outlaw all campaign contributions, but that may do more harm than good.
So if someone took a Mersenne prime and used it as an expontent to find a Mersenne prime, would the resulting number then be a Mersenne Mersenne Prime?
Ahh yes.. I remember playing Creatures a long time ago. A nice game, and I was wondering if anyone was going to bring it up.
Yeah, I noticed that. Pretty interesting.
".... they looked similar to footage from the big Mississipi flood of '95 (or what that 94).
Try the Great Flood of '93, which created what appeared to be a sixth great lake. Of course, the damage caused by this tsunami will most definately exceed the damage caused by the Great Flood.
"This is probably going to be the biggest natural disaster in human history."
Unlikely, as I am willing to bet that there have been incidents where more humans were killed than this one. This is going to rank up amongst the top though, and is certainly going to be memorable for the reason that it is recent.
Unless us slashdotters have a greenhouse equipped with fluorescent lights, it's likely that we'll be affected as our food sources die off.
It actually all depends on how you try to look at the wave. Tsunamis (or tidal waves) travel extremely fast, over 100 mph (approx. 160 km/h) in some cases. While yes, in areas of the ocean or sea which are deep they are barely noticeable if you consider height, they are likely to be travelling a LOT faster than the normal waves around them. So you could indeed notice a difference between the waves out in the deep sea.
I find the indea of this technology is wonder, but I must question some of the aspects of it. It is most certainly going to be a slight nightmare for people interested in astronomy, taking nightly photos and thinking that they've discovered a new asteroid only to find out that it's a blimp.
I also believe that there might be a few times where winds or at least atmospheric "currents" might drag several blimps to cluster together and create visible specks in the sky, or maybe even eclipse the Sun.
"Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain." That is Iowa's motto, which is my home state.
Nice website, and I like the pop-up, but I can see the possibility for people to /. this guy's entire Christmas light set-up. Either the constant turning it on/off will burn out more than quite a few bulbs (hope they aren't the kind where if one goes, they all go).
But yeah.. I'm sure what with all the slashdotters there that the neighbors are probably going to be seeing a nice strobelight-like effect. Scare the hell out of anyone who's driving by because of the chaotic patterns of the lights turning on and off. Whee.. slashdotting fun.
www.adultswim.com has information on the TV show of Sealab 2021 if anyone is interested.
Quite interesting to see someone go around and claim words as their own. In that case, I claim the word "the". Anyone who wishes to use the word "the" can submit enough money to fill a Library of Congress for a lincense.
Something not even I can do, even if I tried.. But I wouldn't even want to do that. Cheers to the fellow.
> Who wants a damn pedegere, get a nice normal moggie from the rescue center :)
You mean pedigree, yes? And what the Hell is a "Moggie"? Sounds like the name of someone's really hairy aunt.
Now how to keep kids with ladders from walking on your roof scuffing up the solar shingles.. Or people who have low roofs (there's one near my house, actually it's right across the street) where you can walk from the ground right up onto the roof in the back).