I'm not against the idea of cameras in my house. What I am against the idea of is cameras in my house that are not under my control. Cameras that I have full control of, that I can control access to (and limit to myself), preferably connected to my Linux server (which again only I have access to) - perfectly fine. Cameras that some random third party can access? nope.jpg
From a DS9 episode.
[Bashir has suggested to Rom to form a bargaining association to prevent exploitation]
Rom: You don't understand. Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation, we want to find a way to become the exploiters.
Yep. I actually don't have Comcast...I had Insight, which was then bought out by Time Warner (service has improved dramatically since TW took over by the way). The modem that was originally provided me was garbage and didn't support any of the higher speeds. Although, when it was Insight, it didn't matter, because they neglected the network for years until TW took over (the fastest speed available was 10mbit until the TW takeover, it took them a year but it's 50mbit now).
I just went and bought a Motorola SB6141, not only do I save the $6/month, I have a much better device, so when the 50mbit service was made available all they had to do was upgrade my service.
This is why I don't use ISP provided equipment. I have my own cable modem (which is just a "basic" model without router functionality), and my "router" is a custom built Linux box (it handles the wifi as well with hostapd).
Indeed...Classic Shell removes all the suck from Windows 8 and makes it act like Windows 7, while keeping the "under the hood" improvements that Windows 8 has for CPU scheduling.
I'd love to have a "boring" car like. I detest long drives. I could never handle a 20-hour drive in a normal car, without splitting it up among several days. If I could just sit back and watch movies, or play video games, or sleep, or whatever while the car did the driving for me, that would be the most amazing thing ever.
More Doctor fail. Cybermen are not robots either. They are cyborgs controlled by a human brain. Daleks are creatures that look like a cross between a squid and a brain in what basically amounts to a futuristic tank.
Dehydrated water. Just add water! I actually can't take credit for that, I got it from the "survival kit" from the first Space Quest game which included a can of dehydrated water with those instructions.. But it's still funny.
The real news (once you get past the "radiation free" hype that is basically a lie, is that the lettuce contains MUCH lower than normal levels of potassium, making it an alternative for people with kidney issues (or any other disease really) that makes them sensitive to potassium. A VERY niche market to be sure.
But the point is, the lettuce is not "radiation free". It has carbon in it, therefore it has carbon-14 in it.
Apparently, the REAL story (once you get by the "radiation free" hype and get to the real story) is that the lettuce has much lower levels of potassium than normal lettuce. This, of course, does not make it "radiation free" by any means, since naturally occuring radioisotopes of both potassium and carbon will be present in it to a measurable degree...but, the much lower levels of potassium make it an alternative for people with kidney issues that make them sensitive to potassium.
Nothing in existence is "radiation free". There is no such thing. There are MANY MANY MANY naturally occuring radioisotopes. A major one is Carbon-14, which ALL organic materials contain to some degree. I can't determine if the people making this "radiation free" lettuce are either very stupid, or very smart and cleverly marketing to stupid people.
At the time the Hanford tank farms were built, they knew the stuff was incredibly dangerous. But they didn't know what to do with it. They designed the tanks to last for 20 years, and their words were "in 20 years they will figure out what to do with it". There was no planning at all. And I still have no idea what they are realistically going to do with this stuff. The only way to truly clean up a place like Hanford is if the Enterprise decides to park in orbit and beam it all into space.
Well, the issue here is, the waste we are talking about at Hanford was not generated by nuclear power. It was generated by this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... process (and older ones that generated more waste of a different type) in order to extract weapons-grade plutonium for use in making bombs. Spent fuel rods from nuclear power are not very difficult to deal with. But Hanford didn't generate spent fuel rods, because it was not a power facility. This waste we are looking at is waste from making bombs, not from nuclear power.
The waste at Hanford isn't waste from nuclear reactors anyway. It is waste from the process used to extract weapons-grade plutonium for use in making bombs. This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... will give an idea of the chemicals involved (note: a lot of them are toxic organic compounds). Although it should be noted, that this process wasn't developed until Hanford had been in operation for some time. Prior to that a different process that generated MUCH more hazardous waste was used. And of course, today the stuff in the tanks has been pumped around and mixed so much that they really don't even know what a lot of it is composed of anymore.
This is a great point. I do not have a Blu-ray player of kind. I have a Blu-ray *burner* in my computer. I use the BD-ROM format extensively for both backups and for sending things like game patches to a friend who can't download anything due to a ridiculously small internet cap. Being able to put 50GB on a (relatively) cheap disk is a big plus. But I have NO plans to ever buy movies in that format. I still have my entire movie/TV series collection on DVD, and I do not see that changing anytime in the near future. Actually playing Blu-ray movies is nearly impossible. They have unskippable advertisements, annoying warnings, and horrible menus and generally don't even let you watch what you want to watch without jumping through hoops. You are basically *required* to break the protection and rip them before they are watchable.
While I happen to agree about beer (it tastes like rancid demon urine), I've had things that were cooked with beer (beer battered fish, beef cooked with beer, etc), and I've found them to be very good. They don't taste like beer at all.
I'm pretty sure this is an April Fools joke. While it would be *theoretically* possible to cancel out an earthquake by producing waves of the exact same amplitude but opposite phase, people are forgetting the "same amplitude" part. Earthquakes generate a HUGE (absolutely HUGE) amount of energy, and you have to throw the exact same amount of energy (with inverted phase) back at it. How are they going to generate this huge amount of energy? Certainly not with a few speakers. Even small earthquakes generate as much or more energy than a nuclear weapon.
I don't think Carter was implying that he SHOULD be prosecuted, but rather just stating that it is inevitable that he WILL be if he returns to the US. Meaning, there is nothing he or anyone else could do about it.
It was a season 4 episode of Deep Space 9. O'Brien is arrested on an alien world for "espionage" for asking too many innocent questions (I guess that society frowned on curiosity). He is thrown in prison, and serves what he thinks is a 20 year prison sentence where he is barely fed, and he and his cellmate have to hoard food so they don't starve during the times they "forget" to feed them. O'Brien eventually kills his cellmate over a few pieces of bread.
Then surprise! He wakes up in a chair with a bunch of blinky lights on it, and Dax and Sisko are there, and it turns out only a couple hours of real time had actually passed, and the experience was just implanted into his mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Good episode, but I'm not sure I'd want to see that happen in real life. It caused him a lot of psychological problems.
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Keep in mind, barring some models like the Galaxy S4 that support both...CDMA phones will not work on GSM networks and vice versa.
I'm not against the idea of cameras in my house. What I am against the idea of is cameras in my house that are not under my control. Cameras that I have full control of, that I can control access to (and limit to myself), preferably connected to my Linux server (which again only I have access to) - perfectly fine. Cameras that some random third party can access? nope.jpg
From a DS9 episode. [Bashir has suggested to Rom to form a bargaining association to prevent exploitation] Rom: You don't understand. Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation, we want to find a way to become the exploiters.
Yep. I actually don't have Comcast...I had Insight, which was then bought out by Time Warner (service has improved dramatically since TW took over by the way). The modem that was originally provided me was garbage and didn't support any of the higher speeds. Although, when it was Insight, it didn't matter, because they neglected the network for years until TW took over (the fastest speed available was 10mbit until the TW takeover, it took them a year but it's 50mbit now). I just went and bought a Motorola SB6141, not only do I save the $6/month, I have a much better device, so when the 50mbit service was made available all they had to do was upgrade my service.
This is why I don't use ISP provided equipment. I have my own cable modem (which is just a "basic" model without router functionality), and my "router" is a custom built Linux box (it handles the wifi as well with hostapd).
Indeed...Classic Shell removes all the suck from Windows 8 and makes it act like Windows 7, while keeping the "under the hood" improvements that Windows 8 has for CPU scheduling.
Luke (and Leia due to being his twin sister) were supposed to be 19 in ANH. Carrie Fisher was 20, Mark Hamill was 25.
I've always said, if I get wind of a national legalization of marijuana, I am going to buy a ton of stock in Frito-Lay.
I'd love to have a "boring" car like. I detest long drives. I could never handle a 20-hour drive in a normal car, without splitting it up among several days. If I could just sit back and watch movies, or play video games, or sleep, or whatever while the car did the driving for me, that would be the most amazing thing ever.
More Doctor fail. Cybermen are not robots either. They are cyborgs controlled by a human brain. Daleks are creatures that look like a cross between a squid and a brain in what basically amounts to a futuristic tank.
Dehydrated water. Just add water! I actually can't take credit for that, I got it from the "survival kit" from the first Space Quest game which included a can of dehydrated water with those instructions.. But it's still funny.
But it doesn't have less carbon than normal lettuce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
The real news (once you get past the "radiation free" hype that is basically a lie, is that the lettuce contains MUCH lower than normal levels of potassium, making it an alternative for people with kidney issues (or any other disease really) that makes them sensitive to potassium. A VERY niche market to be sure. But the point is, the lettuce is not "radiation free". It has carbon in it, therefore it has carbon-14 in it.
Apparently, the REAL story (once you get by the "radiation free" hype and get to the real story) is that the lettuce has much lower levels of potassium than normal lettuce. This, of course, does not make it "radiation free" by any means, since naturally occuring radioisotopes of both potassium and carbon will be present in it to a measurable degree...but, the much lower levels of potassium make it an alternative for people with kidney issues that make them sensitive to potassium.
Nothing in existence is "radiation free". There is no such thing. There are MANY MANY MANY naturally occuring radioisotopes. A major one is Carbon-14, which ALL organic materials contain to some degree. I can't determine if the people making this "radiation free" lettuce are either very stupid, or very smart and cleverly marketing to stupid people.
At the time the Hanford tank farms were built, they knew the stuff was incredibly dangerous. But they didn't know what to do with it. They designed the tanks to last for 20 years, and their words were "in 20 years they will figure out what to do with it". There was no planning at all. And I still have no idea what they are realistically going to do with this stuff. The only way to truly clean up a place like Hanford is if the Enterprise decides to park in orbit and beam it all into space.
Well, the issue here is, the waste we are talking about at Hanford was not generated by nuclear power. It was generated by this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... process (and older ones that generated more waste of a different type) in order to extract weapons-grade plutonium for use in making bombs. Spent fuel rods from nuclear power are not very difficult to deal with. But Hanford didn't generate spent fuel rods, because it was not a power facility. This waste we are looking at is waste from making bombs, not from nuclear power.
The waste at Hanford isn't waste from nuclear reactors anyway. It is waste from the process used to extract weapons-grade plutonium for use in making bombs. This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... will give an idea of the chemicals involved (note: a lot of them are toxic organic compounds). Although it should be noted, that this process wasn't developed until Hanford had been in operation for some time. Prior to that a different process that generated MUCH more hazardous waste was used. And of course, today the stuff in the tanks has been pumped around and mixed so much that they really don't even know what a lot of it is composed of anymore.
This is a great point. I do not have a Blu-ray player of kind. I have a Blu-ray *burner* in my computer. I use the BD-ROM format extensively for both backups and for sending things like game patches to a friend who can't download anything due to a ridiculously small internet cap. Being able to put 50GB on a (relatively) cheap disk is a big plus. But I have NO plans to ever buy movies in that format. I still have my entire movie/TV series collection on DVD, and I do not see that changing anytime in the near future. Actually playing Blu-ray movies is nearly impossible. They have unskippable advertisements, annoying warnings, and horrible menus and generally don't even let you watch what you want to watch without jumping through hoops. You are basically *required* to break the protection and rip them before they are watchable.
Everyone knows Amelia Earhart is on a planet on the other side of the galaxy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... And the plane is probably on a desert planet with a bunch of metal flying stingrays: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
While I happen to agree about beer (it tastes like rancid demon urine), I've had things that were cooked with beer (beer battered fish, beef cooked with beer, etc), and I've found them to be very good. They don't taste like beer at all.
I'm pretty sure this is an April Fools joke. While it would be *theoretically* possible to cancel out an earthquake by producing waves of the exact same amplitude but opposite phase, people are forgetting the "same amplitude" part. Earthquakes generate a HUGE (absolutely HUGE) amount of energy, and you have to throw the exact same amount of energy (with inverted phase) back at it. How are they going to generate this huge amount of energy? Certainly not with a few speakers. Even small earthquakes generate as much or more energy than a nuclear weapon.
Will Ukraine be changing their national anthem to the Imperial March? Cause that would be pretty awesome.
I don't think Carter was implying that he SHOULD be prosecuted, but rather just stating that it is inevitable that he WILL be if he returns to the US. Meaning, there is nothing he or anyone else could do about it.
It was a season 4 episode of Deep Space 9. O'Brien is arrested on an alien world for "espionage" for asking too many innocent questions (I guess that society frowned on curiosity). He is thrown in prison, and serves what he thinks is a 20 year prison sentence where he is barely fed, and he and his cellmate have to hoard food so they don't starve during the times they "forget" to feed them. O'Brien eventually kills his cellmate over a few pieces of bread. Then surprise! He wakes up in a chair with a bunch of blinky lights on it, and Dax and Sisko are there, and it turns out only a couple hours of real time had actually passed, and the experience was just implanted into his mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... Good episode, but I'm not sure I'd want to see that happen in real life. It caused him a lot of psychological problems.