I am sure the families of Chernobyl victims are with you on that one. The problem is your thinking (as most Americans always do) about yourself, and your country, and not the global picture. Yes American run and owned nuclear plants (without Homer Simpson in them) are run nicely, but other countries have their own "guidelines" for running things, and do not always comply with "American" standards.
So as much as you think its safe to unleash more nuclear reactors, there is a reason why there are so few allowed to have that technology to begin with.
The other problem with your theory that Australia would have this "store" of energy, is how much would it cost the government to dig it up vs. how much profit they would make,...and could you even force them to sell it to you... what if they already promised their reserve to another country like China.... you would be sh*t out of luck if that happened...not like you could do the American dance like you did with Iraq, and just go over there and claim the oil yours....
Now all I have to do , is capture and train all the pigeons here in my downtown area, move to Africa, and start my own carrier pigeon company for all those interested in saving money and also having quicker file transfers, and I will be filthy rich!
Seriously though, it speaks volumes that a pigeon can carry a card with data faster then we can download...oh wait, this is in Africa, so I guess its because its still a 3rd world country???
Sounds to me like there own deal fell through, so they think google's should too, because its impossible for anyone else to actually come up with a business model for this that might satisfy not just themselves but others too...M$ are just sore losers.
Before just debunking something based on opinion, would you care to clarify how you think this is fake...? It was reviewed by peers (engineers none the less) within that field, and has shown some promise. The calculs might be off a bit, however, I think the overall concept seems more plausible then you let on...
Can you imagine if the plastic surgeons actually worked this into the price of liposuction, everyone would be getting it, as their substantial donation of fat could give them a reimbursement of sorts....cool!
Wasn't that a real name for a real apocalypse in the movie Terminator...? Quick, destroy them, lest we start seeing more walking metal exoskeletons, with the evil red eyes!
-- Thhhhe Simmmmpsonnnnns Can't wait to have so many more f these then we do qualified people to run them, and start seeing more people like Homer Simpsons, eating their doughnuts unaware...while the boiler is about to blow.
I would not even put it past that telecom company to hire some local hawk and eagle and vulture trainers, to be on the look out for that pigeon, and place a bounty on its head in the underground market
Yes I totally agree, also how about the non biased or non compensated testers in this case, have no greased palms, to help the pharmaceuticals make their money with drugs. In this case no one knew these tests were happening, so no money exchanged hands..leaving the tests to be more REAL then their previous versions.
As for placebos having more effect, we can take into consideration that someone can actually scare themselves to death if they believe in their fear that much, or make themselves sick, as a whole, I could say we are a less ignorant and less fearful population/society then we used to be.
I think of my hypochondriac mom that used to try and shove so many pills down my throat as a kid because of any excuse she could think of, where as today, I avoid the doctors like the plague, and think of healing myself with good food, and exercise more so then drugs... sometimes the body can heal itself, even from cancer, if you give it what it needs.
I skimmed it, and did not catch on whether or not she won, however, life is too short to worry crap like this. I thought she had a good point, you didn't...so who cares??? Next time you ask someone to explain their point of view, at least respect that we don't all come from the same place.
ps- Do you own your own company, or work in management...i think you do!
I've been saying this all along, about recycling parts for the space station, to make the life last longer then predicted, and also, maybe send up one way trip shuttles that will be reconfigured or dismantled to use the parts up for other stuf...even maybe a smelt up there to remold iron / steel for other stuff then first designed. The cost is pretty high to travel up there but once up there, it can even go so far as to harvest broken satellites that instead of coming back down to earth, can be smelted down to be reused for repairs or whatever...!!!
I got balls of steel, tell me what needs to be done, make sure my family is well compensated, and then send me off on my way with a cyanide pill for when I have accomplished all that was necessary for the mission.
As Jack Bauer always says, I will do whatever is necessary for the mission to succeed! As long as everybody is like minded, then there is no problems! Good luck though, people ready to give their lives for a cause such as this are few and far in between!
>How do you make that leap from a bad employee, driving everyone nuts, being fired... In case you forgot your own previous post... >If *I* can see that nothing ever changes in the above cycle, why shouldn't the person actually DOING >the job, and adjust their attitude accordingly? If you live in a situation where you dont agree with what's going on, your attitude is to accept it, because you won't be able to change it! That is what message I got from your post.
If that were true, blacks would still be going to eat in separate restaurants, woman would not be able to vote, and oh yeah... cave man neanderthals like myself would still be able to just walk over and take whatever I wanted from little geeks like you. As for being a bad employee, they were branded this way by who exactly, YOU? All the article states is that this person was trying to make everyone aware of what needed to be done, and did it in a supposed obnoxious way, I did not read anywhere in there about disrupting other employees, or even being a nuisance other then your assumptions in this post.
So again, I hope she wins her case, as you can not fire an employee without having proper documentation stating with proof the person was either incompetent, or was not healthy for the work place and actually compromised the efficiency of the team. Also reading an email in caps would not alter my day, and if it did, I would have to say, it's time to change jobs!
It just goes to show the government run websites are just as bad as anything else run by the government...cutting corners at all costs, no matter what the ramifications are.
If no one complains about the current way things are done, we never evolve. If she did not try, everyone still goes on doing the same thing, and just because the bosses DO get their money, does not mean the woman was not bitched out by her superior for not having done things the right way...
With your point of view, this is why men can still set their wives on fire in India just for instilling distrust (usually getting them to think they are cheating), and the women let them... they don't stand up for themswelves...they should just accept the way things are, and deal with it...I mean come on...how bad can it be really...they just have to make sure to make their men unhappy...right?
Proof again, that our justice system is run by incompetent twads, who do not ever take the time to keep themselves up to date with today's technology, especially when they are RULING on it... It's not because he is behind bars that he can't get to that fiber network and shut it down.
Take this into consideration next time (Judge moron!)...he withheld the network password, not shut it down, and gave the password to the only person whom he thought he could trust, the governor ( or mayor? i forget)...which was a good thing on his part, being he felt there was a breach of trust as to who had access to this password.
Secondly, if he really wanted to get back with revenge in mind, he could give access to a backdoor to anyone who might be savy enough to help him,even though he would still be behind bars. A password can be written down, and mailed...so if he is not there to cancel the letter being transmitted on a certain date, because he was behind bars, this revenge letter could make its way into the hands of russian mafia...who then would REALLY f*ck things up, which would then be not his fault, he had no access to a computer at the time to do these dirty deeds, he would not be held accountable for anything that happened after that (unless the russian mafia were to actually get caught and have kept a copy of his letter to incriminate him!)
Seriously, James bondish I know, but sooooo easy to do, its sad that the judge thinks he is doing good in this case!
When you get a map of technology over the last 50,000 years, I say we are still following a steep curve upwards towards an amazing future. If you consider the last 100 years only, then compare that to the last 50 years only,....wow...then compare the last 10 years to the last 5 years...
I really don't see what this author is trying to portray. In fact, we are talking now (to my knowledge) of being moon mobile by 2020. Having space stations, moon colonies, even space power plants, does nt sound to me like we are slowing down! As well, I heard that we are now converting HIV cells to attack cancer cells, and this is only the beginning!
Last I heard too, we had successfully teleported light particles across a room, and we were in the stages of doing whole molecules. So how far out are we to Start Trek type stuff, maybe another 50 or so years at this rate!
I actually think you might be talking from experience there, friend. It sounds like you should be replacing YOUR accounting assistant, or whatever. It shows you have no knowledge of what someone like her goes through, as well, as no empathy for being in a position where even though you have no REAL power, say like someone in administration, yet you are given the task of rounding up these forms, where dumbasses like yourself, probably make their life so hard because you can't even read what it says, when filling the form in...or even forget it altogether.
She has to then go see HER boss, who gives her sh*t for not rounding up everybody's forms, and then has to sit through another lecture, of "you should do this" or "you should have told him that"...
Trust me, work in accounting for a few months, where you need to get back all the expense account info from everyone that has one (even the president...imagine trying to tell HIM "hey asshole, it is really THAT hard to fill in a form properly?") and be on time, everytime, else everyone complains about YOU, they did not get their cheques for their expenses...
Seriously, it shows you lack any sort of real experience with this sort of thing, except to be one of those morons who forgets all the time how to fill in the form properly!!!/Darwin "The best way to predict the future, is to invent it!"
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Well...dirty bombs dont count and as we all know, whatever real nukes they had,
Jack Bauer destroyed
I am sure the families of Chernobyl victims are with you on that one.
The problem is your thinking (as most Americans always do) about yourself, and your country, and not the global picture. Yes American run and owned nuclear plants (without Homer Simpson in them) are run nicely, but other countries have their own "guidelines" for running things, and do not always comply with "American" standards.
So as much as you think its safe to unleash more nuclear reactors, there is a reason why there are so few allowed to have that technology to begin with.
The other problem with your theory that Australia would have this "store" of energy, is how much would it cost the government to dig it up vs. how much profit they would make, ...and could you even force them to sell it to you...
what if they already promised their reserve to another country like China....
you would be sh*t out of luck if that happened...not like you could do the American dance like you did with Iraq, and just go over there and claim the oil yours....
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/09/forget-silicon-this-teenagers-solar-panel-uses-human-hair-as-a-conductor/
the guy whose comment is there, is a PHD in this field, cheers mate!
Now all I have to do , is capture and train all the pigeons here in my downtown area, move to Africa, and start my own carrier pigeon company for all those interested in saving money and also having quicker file transfers, and I will be filthy rich!
Seriously though, it speaks volumes that a pigeon can carry a card with data faster then we can download...oh wait, this is in Africa,
so I guess its because its still a 3rd world country???
Sounds to me like there own deal fell through, so they think google's should too, because its impossible for anyone else to actually come up with a business model for this that might satisfy not just themselves but others too...M$ are just sore losers.
Before just debunking something based on opinion, would you care to clarify how you think this is fake...?
It was reviewed by peers (engineers none the less) within that field, and has shown some promise.
The calculs might be off a bit, however, I think the overall concept seems more plausible then you let on...
Can you imagine if the plastic surgeons actually worked this into the price of liposuction, everyone would be getting it, as their substantial donation of fat could give them a reimbursement of sorts....cool!
Sort of the reason why everyone likes McKay in Stargate, and had a reoccuring role in Stargate Atlantis
Wasn't that a real name for a real apocalypse in the movie Terminator...?
Quick, destroy them, lest we start seeing more walking metal exoskeletons, with the evil red eyes!
-- Thhhhe Simmmmpsonnnnns
Can't wait to have so many more f these then we do qualified people to run them, and start seeing more people like Homer Simpsons, eating their doughnuts unaware...while the boiler is about to blow.
thank you, come again
I would not even put it past that telecom company to hire some local hawk and eagle and vulture trainers, to be on the look out for that pigeon, and place a bounty on its head in the underground market
Yes I totally agree, also how about the non biased or non compensated testers in this case, have no greased palms, to help the pharmaceuticals make their money with drugs. In this case no one knew these tests were happening, so no money exchanged hands..leaving the tests to be more REAL then their previous versions.
As for placebos having more effect, we can take into consideration that someone can actually scare themselves to death if they believe in their fear that much, or make themselves sick, as a whole, I could say we are a less ignorant and less fearful population/society then we used to be.
I think of my hypochondriac mom that used to try and shove so many pills down my throat as a kid because of any excuse she could think of, where as today, I avoid the doctors like the plague, and think of healing myself with good food, and exercise more so then drugs... sometimes the body can heal itself, even from cancer, if you give it what it needs.
I skimmed it, and did not catch on whether or not she won, ...so who cares???
however, life is too short to worry crap like this.
I thought she had a good point, you didn't
Next time you ask someone to explain their point of view,
at least respect that we don't all come from the same place.
ps- Do you own your own company, or work in management...i think you do!
I've been saying this all along, about recycling parts for the space station, to make the life last longer then predicted, and also, maybe send up one way trip shuttles that will be reconfigured or dismantled to use the parts up for other stuf...even maybe a smelt up there to remold iron / steel for other stuff then first designed. The cost is pretty high to travel up there but once up there, it can even go so far as to harvest broken satellites that instead of coming back down to earth, can be smelted down to be reused for repairs or whatever...!!!
You can if you want to, although I would rather put a gun to his head,
GET A GIRL TO GIVE HIM A BLOWJOB, and tell him to break AES256
I got balls of steel, tell me what needs to be done, make sure my family is well compensated, and then send me off on my way with a cyanide pill for when I have accomplished all that was necessary for the mission.
As Jack Bauer always says, I will do whatever is necessary for the mission to succeed!
As long as everybody is like minded, then there is no problems! Good luck though,
people ready to give their lives for a cause such as this are few and far in between!
>How do you make that leap from a bad employee, driving everyone nuts, being fired...
In case you forgot your own previous post...
>If *I* can see that nothing ever changes in the above cycle, why shouldn't the person actually DOING >the job, and adjust their attitude accordingly?
If you live in a situation where you dont agree with what's going on,
your attitude is to accept it, because you won't be able to change it!
That is what message I got from your post.
If that were true, blacks would still be going to eat in separate restaurants,
woman would not be able to vote, and oh yeah...
cave man neanderthals like myself would still be able to just walk over and
take whatever I wanted from little geeks like you.
As for being a bad employee, they were branded this way by who exactly, YOU?
All the article states is that this person was trying to make everyone
aware of what needed to be done, and did it in a supposed obnoxious way,
I did not read anywhere in there about disrupting other employees,
or even being a nuisance other then your assumptions in this post.
So again, I hope she wins her case, as you can not fire an employee without having proper
documentation stating with proof the person was either incompetent, or
was not healthy for the work place and actually compromised the efficiency of the team.
Also reading an email in caps would not alter my day, and if it did, I would
have to say, it's time to change jobs!
It just goes to show the government run websites are just as bad as anything else run by the government...cutting corners at all costs, no matter what the ramifications are.
If no one complains about the current way things are done, we never evolve.
If she did not try, everyone still goes on doing the same thing,
and just because the bosses DO get their money, does not mean the woman was not
bitched out by her superior for not having done things the right way...
With your point of view, this is why men can still set their wives on fire in India just for instilling distrust (usually getting them to think they are cheating), and the women let them... ...they just have to make sure to make their men unhappy...right?
they don't stand up for themswelves...they should just accept
the way things are, and deal with it...I mean come on...how bad can it be really
Just kick me in the head and get my life over with already....please!
Proof again, that our justice system is run by incompetent twads, who do not ever take the time to keep themselves
up to date with today's technology, especially when they are RULING on it...
It's not because he is behind bars that he can't get to that fiber network and shut it down.
Take this into consideration next time (Judge moron!)...he withheld the network password, not shut it down, and gave the password to the only person whom he thought he could trust, the governor ( or mayor? i forget)...which was a good thing on his part, being he felt there was a breach of trust as to who had access to this password.
Secondly, if he really wanted to get back with revenge in mind, he could give access to a backdoor to anyone who might be savy enough to help him,even though he would still be behind bars. A password can be written down, and mailed...so if he is not there to cancel the letter being transmitted on a certain date, because he was behind bars, this revenge letter could make its way into the hands of russian mafia...who then would REALLY f*ck things up, which would then be not his fault, he had no access to a computer at the time to do these dirty deeds, he would not be held accountable for anything that happened after that (unless the russian mafia were to actually get caught and have kept a copy of his letter to incriminate him!)
Seriously, James bondish I know, but sooooo easy to do, its sad that the judge thinks he is doing good in this case!
When you get a map of technology over the last 50,000 years, I say we are still following a steep curve upwards towards an amazing future. If you consider the last 100 years only, then compare that to the last 50 years only, ....wow...then compare the last 10 years to the last 5 years...
I really don't see what this author is trying to portray. In fact, we are talking now (to my knowledge) of being moon mobile by 2020.
Having space stations, moon colonies, even space power plants, does nt sound to me like we are slowing down! As well, I heard that we are now converting HIV cells to attack cancer cells, and this is only the beginning!
Last I heard too, we had successfully teleported light particles across a room, and we were in the stages of doing whole molecules.
So how far out are we to Start Trek type stuff, maybe another 50 or so years at this rate!
I actually think you might be talking from experience there, friend.
It sounds like you should be replacing YOUR accounting assistant, or whatever.
It shows you have no knowledge of what someone like her goes through, as well,
as no empathy for being in a position where even though you have no REAL power,
say like someone in administration, yet you are given the task of rounding up
these forms, where dumbasses like yourself, probably make their life so
hard because you can't even read what it says, when filling the form in...or
even forget it altogether.
She has to then go see HER boss, who gives her sh*t for not rounding up everybody's
forms, and then has to sit through another lecture, of "you should do this"
or "you should have told him that"...
Trust me, work in accounting for a few months, where you need to get back all the
expense account info from everyone that has one (even the president...imagine trying
to tell HIM "hey asshole, it is really THAT hard to fill in a form properly?")
and be on time, everytime, else everyone complains about YOU, they did not get their
cheques for their expenses...
Seriously, it shows you lack any sort of real experience with this sort of thing, except to /Darwin "The best way to predict the future, is to invent it!"
be one of those morons who forgets all the time how to fill in the form properly!!!
Why do you even think we care what you have to say, /. to scare up some troll points
or are you just posting on