Is it just me or did anyone else imagine a test subject waking up one day to see a big black monolith standing at the foot of his bed? Actually I imagined being switched off during the night by a computer being fed conflicting requirements.
In order to not look like I'm wasting time, I run a Perl script in a command window that prints the text of random files on the filesystem until I stop it. It makes me look like I'm waiting for a compile to finish, and that's enough to keep me in the green. Do you mean your files, or just any files? The latter sounds very educational, like picking up other peoples stuff from the printer and reading old layers on the meeting room whiteboard.
make the vehicle big enough so that you can spin it and not get dizzy. [..] so damn obvious that Von Braun was talking about it in the '40s. But it has never been done. Actually something like that was done on skylab. You don't need to spin the spacecraft. You just need a cylindrical track which you can run around. It works very well.
I'm always surprised that more sites don't copy this system. Or maybe someone has, and I just haven't heard of it? It doesn't scale cleanly enough. Slashdot has a large base of long term users who can be trusted to moderate. New forums don't have that user base and the system will not work.
Hoover? I never hear anyone say, "go get the Hoover." *Nothing* sucks like a VAX!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/VAX *Nothing* sucks like a VAX 11/750
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the Iranian president's speech which was nothing but a mistranslation and a hoax spread by MSM: Being ambiguous is a great way to troll in an argument. I think the Iranians knew that their statements would be translated that way.
I once attended a lecture where the speaker said that the best thing to do with Iran was to force them to produce uranium in a consortium. Great idea. Lets ring the North Koreans.
It's about acquiring nuclear weapons with which they can force their will upon others through threat or action. They have stated time and again they wish to obliterate Israel. Why do you not take them at their word? They must know that using nukes against US interests equates to suicide. They are short on reliable delivery systems and development facilities. At best they could take out one city before retaliation.
What I also find intriguing is that Iran wanted to turn the visit to a top secret facility into a photo op.
What better way to make idiots thing they're not hiding anything than by selectively showing us things. I could "prove" that the USA had no ICBM's with a few photo-ops in empty siloes - especially if I were willing to redecorate the siloes a trifle between photos to suggest that I'm showing ALL of them, rather than just three of them....
New rule. Before we start another war, we need to finish the first one. OK? Counting Afganistan there are actually two on the go at the moment, so, yes. I agree,
Is hard as it would be for an Aussie to stomach the idea, the perspective to look at this is as a percentage of the United Kingdom's population, at the said time.;-) Of course, at said time, there were already half a million people in Australia, but point taken.
The term America, which from its origins is used to refer to the new world, means United States to english speakers because it's the only part of the continent that you have cared about since the english arrived here. People from the USA can either be referred to as "Americans" or "USAians". The former refers to people from anywhere in America and the latter is a bit silly.
Maybe the USA should change their name to avoid confusion.
You got me! I'll be going down to McMurdo to work soon, it's my last continent. I've only been to the North Pole so far, I figure I have to finish the collection. I have been told the skiing is excellent.
When you think about it though, 90mm X 45mm is 3.54" X 1.77". Which is roughly equal to the size of a standard 2x4 (4x2). All they did was in the conversion to metric was measure a standard 2x4, an start calling it a 90mm X 45 mm. Oh for sure. But a litre of milk really is a litre and I am surprised that US timber manufactures get away with incorrect labelling.
Electrons go from negative to positive, but since some jackass got it wrong at the beginning we affectionately refer to current as "the flow of positive charge". Please don't be too hard on Ben Franklin. He had a 50% chance of being right.
But come to think of it, why is a proton "positive" and an electron "negative"? Isn't it just convention?
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Dunno about that. Jeff Goldblum isn't getting any younger you know.
AC seems to be everywhere too.
Ask for coffee and you get a drink made from three in one pre mixed powder (coffee, sugar, creamer).
In other words something almost but not quite entirely unlike coffee.
So if somebody googles for linux and google sends them to microsoft.com is that okay?
Actually it is the Chinese who like to eat Duck.
What better way to make idiots thing they're not hiding anything than by selectively showing us things. I could "prove" that the USA had no ICBM's with a few photo-ops in empty siloes - especially if I were willing to redecorate the siloes a trifle between photos to suggest that I'm showing ALL of them, rather than just three of them....
Or maybe the Iranians are trolling.Maybe the USA should change their name to avoid confusion.