Why is everyone here so pessimistic? Everyone focuses on the fact that it killed nine people (and injured 11)...nobody bothers to mention how many billions of people it didn't kill. According to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html, the population at the time of writing this is 6,625,501,132. The number of people killed was 9. So it really only killed approximately 0.00000001358387814% of the world population. Those are pretty good odds if you ask me!
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I have a yahoo email account which I've had since I was in high school (back in the late 90s) - so it must have been added to innumerable lists over the years, what with "friends" pranking me by subscribing me to junk mail lists, or having it put in silly things like e-cards and whatnot. I discourage that stuff now, but back in the day nobody knew better and spam wasn't much of a problem.
I consider myself lucky, I don't get all that much spam. I hit a recent peak yesterday in which I received 27 emails: 26 were spam and filtered into yahoo's junk mail folder, and one was spam that bypassed the filtering (as you can see, I don't conduct my social life by email!). Most days I'll have 3-4 legitimate emails, and maybe 15-20 spam. Yahoo's spam filter is pretty good, it gets most of them and very rarely puts legit emails in the bulk folder.
...and the anti-genetic manipulation extremists will take issue with this kind of research. The religious folks will say we're playing god and that it's not good to fight his will...
I love the way that some people, in the absence of an argument from any hyper-religious whackos, will start the argument themselves by arguing against what the hyper-religious whackos would be saying, if they were saying anything, even though they are not. It's kind of cute:-P
Looks like in spite of your pleas, you were modded funny. This is just another example of slashdot groupthink...Just once I'd like to see a comment mentioning yak testicles that does not get modded funny!
Are there any pro arm wrestlers (hah)/phyicists/smart-dudes that can comment about a good arm-wrestling strategy?
Muscles are much better at applying fixed resistance than active force. So instead of trying to win straight away, just keep your arm in a fixed position and resist your opponent. Then, once your opponent has tired out, you can apply your reserve strength and have a shot at winning. I'm not a particularly strong person, but that strategy has helped me to win against people stronger than me.
Actually, not every person on the planet has e. coli in his or her gut: healthy newborn babies are totally sterile inside until they've picked up some intestinal flora from the external environment.
Wow, this stuff is really interesting. I tried your adaptation to my experiment, and sure enough I started feeling a bit unusual straight away. I decided that it would be prudent to abort the experiment at this stage - your explanation was good enough that I didn't feel the need to die to find out! It seems like a fun trick to break the ice at parties though:-P
The obvious explanation for this is that satan planted the bacteria there in such a way that they looked like they were 8 million years old, so that we would be tricked into thinking that the earth is older than it is. I thought the Slashdot community was supposed to be populated by intelligent people, yet you all fell for such an obvious and basic trick!
Presumably because the skin is tightly holding everything together, so the blood is not under greatly reduced pressure. If you were to cut yourself while in space, the blood would boil away straight out of the cut.
Without any air in your lungs, you get about 10-15 seconds of consciousness
I just took one largish breath (about 3/4 of a lungful) then let as much breath as I could out. I timed myself as lasting 40s before I started to feel like it wasn't such a good idea to keep on going.
I leave both lids open for the exact same reason. When you leave the lids down, all of that stuff you so eloquently described winds up on the "sitting lid", which means next time you have to go, you wind up sitting on it. The alternative is for it to wind up on the floor where you stand on it. I'd rather stand on it (in my slippers) than sit on it thank you very much!
It's a bad idea to include your home address on your resume anyway. You ought to include no more detail than the city that you are living in. Employers can and will (illegally) discriminate against people who live in various suburbs because of bad experiences in the past (eg if a previous employee lived in Suburbtown and was always late to work because of the commute, the employer might discriminate against potential employees who live in Suburbtown). It's not so bad once you get to the interview stage, but when you are at the resume stage and competing with dozens of applicants, you can't afford to have anything in the resume that can be used to cut you out of the process.
PS, is it just me or is it ironic that she's complaining that there was a low-res photo of her cat on google, yet in the article she is shown, with said cat, in a much higher resolution photo?
A model release is only necessary if the picture or video is for commercial purposes. If he took the teacher's photo and then used it to advertise a box of cereal (Mong-O's! Full of Mongy goodness) then he would need a model release. Using pictures of others for non-profit purposes does not require a release, and the subject is not entitled to any compensation for the use of the image.
Apart from the possibility of some minor mutations, the child would be an exact clone of the parent. Whilst this method of reproduction severely limits evolution in the short term, it is not completely useless. A shark has a finite lifetime, and if she is not able to find a male within that time, she will die and her genes will never be passed on. However, if she is able to clone herself, there is a chance that her daughter will find a male, thus allowing the genes to be passed on via sexual reproduction.
Can't everybody see that it's a good thing this happened! That guy was probably a terrorist using myspace to rape children, so he deserves what he got. This will send an important message to all the other terrorist child-rapers out there. Thank you kind policeman, for making the world a safer place!
ASCAP and BMI pay royalties to the songwriters. It's the same in Australia, except the organisation that administers it here is called APRA. This has nothing at all to do with the actual recording itself. For example, take all of the songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Even though Bernie had nothing to do with the recording of the songs, as one of the songwriters he should paid a royalty every time the song is performed. That means if I were to go to a pub and perform "Your Song" on the ukulele, Bernie and Elton would be paid (in Australia the venue would pay a fee to APRA, and I would submit my setlist to APRA so that they could distribute the money appropriately).
The mechanical rights are the rights to play a particular recording in public. When you record a song, the record label owns the mechanical rights, and this is what the RIAA is chasing with the radio stations. If I perform "Your Song" on a ukulele, Elton John's record label would get paid nothing. If I were to play Elton John's official recording of "Your Song" live in public, the record label would be legally entitled to claim a fee for playing that recording. Of this fee, a small percentage would go to Elton (the record company keeps most of it) and none of it would go to Bernie because he had nothing to do with the recording (he is just a writer).
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Why is everyone here so pessimistic? Everyone focuses on the fact that it killed nine people (and injured 11)...nobody bothers to mention how many billions of people it didn't kill. According to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html, the population at the time of writing this is 6,625,501,132. The number of people killed was 9. So it really only killed approximately 0.00000001358387814% of the world population. Those are pretty good odds if you ask me!
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I have a yahoo email account which I've had since I was in high school (back in the late 90s) - so it must have been added to innumerable lists over the years, what with "friends" pranking me by subscribing me to junk mail lists, or having it put in silly things like e-cards and whatnot. I discourage that stuff now, but back in the day nobody knew better and spam wasn't much of a problem.
I consider myself lucky, I don't get all that much spam. I hit a recent peak yesterday in which I received 27 emails: 26 were spam and filtered into yahoo's junk mail folder, and one was spam that bypassed the filtering (as you can see, I don't conduct my social life by email!). Most days I'll have 3-4 legitimate emails, and maybe 15-20 spam. Yahoo's spam filter is pretty good, it gets most of them and very rarely puts legit emails in the bulk folder.
I love the way you included the copyright notice at the end, flaunting your evil piracy for the whole world to see
You forgot to imagine a beowulf cluster of embryonic planets, you insensitive clod!
Looks like in spite of your pleas, you were modded funny. This is just another example of slashdot groupthink...Just once I'd like to see a comment mentioning yak testicles that does not get modded funny!
Muscles are much better at applying fixed resistance than active force. So instead of trying to win straight away, just keep your arm in a fixed position and resist your opponent. Then, once your opponent has tired out, you can apply your reserve strength and have a shot at winning. I'm not a particularly strong person, but that strategy has helped me to win against people stronger than me.
Actually, not every person on the planet has e. coli in his or her gut: healthy newborn babies are totally sterile inside until they've picked up some intestinal flora from the external environment.
Wow, this stuff is really interesting. I tried your adaptation to my experiment, and sure enough I started feeling a bit unusual straight away. I decided that it would be prudent to abort the experiment at this stage - your explanation was good enough that I didn't feel the need to die to find out! It seems like a fun trick to break the ice at parties though :-P
The obvious explanation for this is that satan planted the bacteria there in such a way that they looked like they were 8 million years old, so that we would be tricked into thinking that the earth is older than it is. I thought the Slashdot community was supposed to be populated by intelligent people, yet you all fell for such an obvious and basic trick!
Presumably because the skin is tightly holding everything together, so the blood is not under greatly reduced pressure. If you were to cut yourself while in space, the blood would boil away straight out of the cut.
I just took one largish breath (about 3/4 of a lungful) then let as much breath as I could out. I timed myself as lasting 40s before I started to feel like it wasn't such a good idea to keep on going.
I'm going to oppose that bill with all my power...after all, a mine is a terrible thing to waste!
I wish more women were like that!
I leave both lids open for the exact same reason. When you leave the lids down, all of that stuff you so eloquently described winds up on the "sitting lid", which means next time you have to go, you wind up sitting on it. The alternative is for it to wind up on the floor where you stand on it. I'd rather stand on it (in my slippers) than sit on it thank you very much!
It's a bad idea to include your home address on your resume anyway. You ought to include no more detail than the city that you are living in. Employers can and will (illegally) discriminate against people who live in various suburbs because of bad experiences in the past (eg if a previous employee lived in Suburbtown and was always late to work because of the commute, the employer might discriminate against potential employees who live in Suburbtown). It's not so bad once you get to the interview stage, but when you are at the resume stage and competing with dozens of applicants, you can't afford to have anything in the resume that can be used to cut you out of the process.
PS, is it just me or is it ironic that she's complaining that there was a low-res photo of her cat on google, yet in the article she is shown, with said cat, in a much higher resolution photo?
Actually, Australia is not necessarily the only country in Australia.
It just goes to prove the old saying, no one will ever need more than 640k...
A model release is only necessary if the picture or video is for commercial purposes. If he took the teacher's photo and then used it to advertise a box of cereal (Mong-O's! Full of Mongy goodness) then he would need a model release. Using pictures of others for non-profit purposes does not require a release, and the subject is not entitled to any compensation for the use of the image.
Apart from the possibility of some minor mutations, the child would be an exact clone of the parent. Whilst this method of reproduction severely limits evolution in the short term, it is not completely useless. A shark has a finite lifetime, and if she is not able to find a male within that time, she will die and her genes will never be passed on. However, if she is able to clone herself, there is a chance that her daughter will find a male, thus allowing the genes to be passed on via sexual reproduction.
Can't everybody see that it's a good thing this happened! That guy was probably a terrorist using myspace to rape children, so he deserves what he got. This will send an important message to all the other terrorist child-rapers out there. Thank you kind policeman, for making the world a safer place!
ASCAP and BMI pay royalties to the songwriters. It's the same in Australia, except the organisation that administers it here is called APRA. This has nothing at all to do with the actual recording itself. For example, take all of the songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Even though Bernie had nothing to do with the recording of the songs, as one of the songwriters he should paid a royalty every time the song is performed. That means if I were to go to a pub and perform "Your Song" on the ukulele, Bernie and Elton would be paid (in Australia the venue would pay a fee to APRA, and I would submit my setlist to APRA so that they could distribute the money appropriately).
The mechanical rights are the rights to play a particular recording in public. When you record a song, the record label owns the mechanical rights, and this is what the RIAA is chasing with the radio stations. If I perform "Your Song" on a ukulele, Elton John's record label would get paid nothing. If I were to play Elton John's official recording of "Your Song" live in public, the record label would be legally entitled to claim a fee for playing that recording. Of this fee, a small percentage would go to Elton (the record company keeps most of it) and none of it would go to Bernie because he had nothing to do with the recording (he is just a writer).