I favour nuclear over current models of energy production, since it is cleaner. But you really ought to be more precise in your terminology.
Nuclear isn't "pollution-free" just pollution-reduced. There are still plenty of greenhouse gases produced during the extraction, purification of the uranium for instance. From the numbers that I (vaguely) remember looking at a few months ago, it's still a better choice.
But saying that nuclear is pollution-free is like saying that using a condom means that you wont get any diseases or a bad case of pregnant. It's just not true. Proper use of condoms/nuclear energy just reduces the odds of you having [something bad] happen later on. Nuclear doesn't guarantee a future full of roses and dancing and love, just means a less screwed up one than what we're looking at now.
Hence, when a planet killer does show up out of the blue, the money that could have been spent on real science that could have saved us instead went to a stupid religion.
So, we should be giving funds to NASA so they can hire Bruce Willis to save us from almost certain Armageddon?
Or is it supposed to be more of a Deep impact sort of thing? Didn't really care for either of them, so I'll admit I'm behind the times in knowing what we'd do if we found a meteor en-route.
Either way, I'm really hoping that it involves a really big explosion to make a pretty light in the sky. I like pretty lights.
Hey, there are some people out there who have Androgen insensitivity syndrome and are hence an XY female, and might not feel right reporting either. Plenty of others who identify as transgendered or two-spirited or, or, or...
Just because you're not a guy doesn't mean you're a woman in everyone's eyes(yours/others)
:P Granted, I doubt that population made up a very significant % of the 2,600 Americans they surveyed, but it's possible there were a few! Might just sigh and say "Male" to avoid the hassle of explaining it to some surveyor on the phone.
I of course would never do anything as naughty as download movies. But I think that when you were a teenager/college kid (10ish years ago) things were a bit harder than it is now. In my recent (and totally hypothetical) experience it's pretty damned easy to download stuff like a movie, without much concern over quality issues, and it's alot easier to get the needed bandwidth compared to then. Times they are a changin':P Don't be an old coot!
I wonder what the number would be if you added people who've rented a DVD and made themselves a copy of it? Higher than 18% presumably, but I wonder how much higher?
While I can certainly believe that pressure is brought to bear on a whole host of articles for political reasons(global warming anyone?), I don't think that's the case in all of the articles *I* read on a weekly basis. Noone in The High Halls of Power really cares of an article gets published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. Might be though!
I like to live in the land of unicorns and fairies where I believe that most of the articles in there are accepted for genuinely good reasons, related to their scientific value. It's a happy land, lots of rainbows and OMGPONIES...
I live in Canada. It's cold, it's wet, and during winter(lasts 10 months of the year) it's pretty dark so there aren't many rainbows.
But yes, using my "m4d hacker skillz" I've managed to download a list of all the people pulled off to Gitmo the past few years. Only 3/.ers on that list that I've seen, and they were all jerks anyway. They were bundled off to sunny Cuba for MPAA and RIAA-related comments, not for coup-related reasons.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness....
(emphasis mine)
Doesn't say all Americans, or all sexy people. I suppose it really ought to say all *people* instead of men by today's standards, but different times eh?
My point of view is that since America is The Good Guy it ought to honour that statement, and treat others with the same care and consideration that it would treat it's own with. Of course, if you don't think that habeas corpus isn't for Americans, then it becomes more consistent to argue it doesn't have to apply to everyone.
but that's just the point of view of a random gay liberal communist terrorist *shrug*
So what, you're saying that he "doth protest too much" ? I thought all those guy Bush-lovers(the president) loved the bush(the slang for female pubic hair).
He likes anal play now? From the $s in A$$Fucker can I infer that he likes to use rolls of money maybe?
Huh, that makes me like him a little bit more. =\ Kind of a kinky bitch. And here I thought your Attorney General was boring!
Fairly sure that noone's going to knock on your door tomorrow. 'cept maybe some Jehovah's witnesses. Very few/. people have gotten sent off to Gitmo for talking about hypothetical coups.
Anyway, IANAA(I Am Not An American) but my best guess is that the people who'd organize such a rebellion(generals and such) really aren't getting shafted as badly as you feel you are. They apparently don't feel the noose tightening around their necks, and it probably isn't. Plus even a military coup requires some support from the General Public to be successful. The US citizenry has a boatload of guns, and a fair number of those gun owners really like Bush. It might be sad but based off of my interactions with some of them, and watching your TV it's true. If They kill off/imprison/whatever Dubya and all the rest of the morons in Washington they're going to worry alot of people that they're losing freedoms. Ignorant though they may generally be, people would probably notice if the government changed hands so drastically down there. They're not noticing these sorts of statements by Gonzales effecting any meaningful changes in the way they live their lives. Now if Gonzales successfully removed the right to eat McDonalds and watch "wrassling" then you might be more likely to see a few hundred thousand nutjobs with a rifle go out for some blood. That sort of shit would be too much:P
Come on people, we surivived for years without all this over-sanitisation...
y'know, I generally speaking agree with you that things have gone too far, and that mild amounts of dirt/germs is a Good Thing overall, and that we've gone a bit far in our zeal for clean...
But what was the average life expectancy 500/2000/5000 years ago again?:P Sure, our ancestors survived, but a hell of alot of people died because of diseases caused by poor sanitation too. People still are dying because of it. Like most things we need a healthy balance, and I'd probably rather we stick fairly close to our current approach rather than revert too far to the days of yore.
This "ghoulish cyborg" thing you speak of...
Does this give me the ability to shoot lasers out of my eyes?
Or at least the ability to at least surf naughty websites wirelessly without the need for a laptop?
I dunno, I might go for it. I let things get under my skin all the time anyway:P
"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature." - Niels Bohr
IMO(and to some other positivists such as Stephen Hawking) it doesn't really matter if something is exactly how that universe IS. It just matters that it allows us to make falsifiable predictions about what we can observe.
My "third party app" is called notepad.
Filled with lines of the type: www.ActuallyRealNotFakeWebsite.com SillyFoohon / SexyPassword
Nothing superhardcore, but it works for me and puts another layer of separation between my passwords and the Bad People who'd want to know my login to slashdot for some reason.
It's a bit more cumbersome than some of the alternatives out there I'm sure, but I've got enough crap on my computer as it is. I don't need another program hanging around to store my passwords. If it's well enough known that I'd trust it to not be spyware itself, I'd be half afraid of someone designing worms that try to lift the information from it. I figure that noone's going to bother searching all the hundreds of megs of.txt files on my computer and looking for account info.
... until now =\ Damnit!
five hundred times you say?
eh, did you pay good money to get that done? I give you "Anonymous Coward" aka The Man Formally Known As Mr. Harold Butts:/
heh, I vaguely remember learning how to do stuff with Gopher years and years ago. Archie pwned!:D
I never was a fan of Veronica:/ I was more of a Betty sort of guy. mmm, blonde, smart, not afraid of work, passionate about stuff besides her... You'll always be my first true love Betty!:D/Being really creepy
The waste disposal and janitorial corporations derive fairly small benefits from a highly educated workforce. The number of PhDs on the company payroll is only slightly related to the company profit =\
Indeed =\ My best guess is that the proposed title "Webmail Spammer Shouldn't Have Accuser's Hard Drive" was rejected as being not-at-all-interesting-and-kind-of-self-evident. Not the stuff that generates clicks.
Not to be mean or anything, but I imagine Stephen Hawking would have some trouble with a pen and paper ballot, and few slashdotters would argue he's an idiot =P
I wonder how he votes anyway? Did his wife/wives get to go into a voting station to vote with him? Did they write out his vote on a mail-in ballot? Who has a better guess than I do?
"What if, for argument's sake, none of the canidates on the ballot are viable options for me? I don't vote. Do I then not get to bitch about what the winner does down the line?"
Well obviously, you vote "none of the above" then. Wait, you don't have that there? =\
Since 200 votes isn't a big deal, mind giving me the chance to vote 200 times in an election?
I'd appreciate it!
Might not swing every election in my direction, but it'd give me a better chance of it than I have now. "Your [one] vote matters" ? Then my 200 surely will:P
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I favour nuclear over current models of energy production, since it is cleaner. But you really ought to be more precise in your terminology.
Nuclear isn't "pollution-free" just pollution-reduced. There are still plenty of greenhouse gases produced during the extraction, purification of the uranium for instance. From the numbers that I (vaguely) remember looking at a few months ago, it's still a better choice.
But saying that nuclear is pollution-free is like saying that using a condom means that you wont get any diseases or a bad case of pregnant. It's just not true. Proper use of condoms/nuclear energy just reduces the odds of you having [something bad] happen later on. Nuclear doesn't guarantee a future full of roses and dancing and love, just means a less screwed up one than what we're looking at now.
So, we should be giving funds to NASA so they can hire Bruce Willis to save us from almost certain Armageddon?
Or is it supposed to be more of a Deep impact sort of thing? Didn't really care for either of them, so I'll admit I'm behind the times in knowing what we'd do if we found a meteor en-route.
Either way, I'm really hoping that it involves a really big explosion to make a pretty light in the sky. I like pretty lights.
Hey, there are some people out there who have Androgen insensitivity syndrome and are hence an XY female, and might not feel right reporting either. Plenty of others who identify as transgendered or two-spirited or, or, or...
:P Granted, I doubt that population made up a very significant % of the 2,600 Americans they surveyed, but it's possible there were a few! Might just sigh and say "Male" to avoid the hassle of explaining it to some surveyor on the phone.
Just because you're not a guy doesn't mean you're a woman in everyone's eyes(yours/others)
I of course would never do anything as naughty as download movies. :P Don't be an old coot!
But I think that when you were a teenager/college kid (10ish years ago) things were a bit harder than it is now. In my recent (and totally hypothetical) experience it's pretty damned easy to download stuff like a movie, without much concern over quality issues, and it's alot easier to get the needed bandwidth compared to then. Times they are a changin'
I wonder what the number would be if you added people who've rented a DVD and made themselves a copy of it? Higher than 18% presumably, but I wonder how much higher?
While I can certainly believe that pressure is brought to bear on a whole host of articles for political reasons(global warming anyone?), I don't think that's the case in all of the articles *I* read on a weekly basis. Noone in The High Halls of Power really cares of an article gets published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. Might be though!
I like to live in the land of unicorns and fairies where I believe that most of the articles in there are accepted for genuinely good reasons, related to their scientific value. It's a happy land, lots of rainbows and OMGPONIES...
I live in Canada. It's cold, it's wet, and during winter(lasts 10 months of the year) it's pretty dark so there aren't many rainbows.
/.ers on that list that I've seen, and they were all jerks anyway. They were bundled off to sunny Cuba for MPAA and RIAA-related comments, not for coup-related reasons.
But yes, using my "m4d hacker skillz" I've managed to download a list of all the people pulled off to Gitmo the past few years. Only 3
I'm not American, but I thought that:
(emphasis mine)
Doesn't say all Americans, or all sexy people. I suppose it really ought to say all *people* instead of men by today's standards, but different times eh?
My point of view is that since America is The Good Guy it ought to honour that statement, and treat others with the same care and consideration that it would treat it's own with. Of course, if you don't think that habeas corpus isn't for Americans, then it becomes more consistent to argue it doesn't have to apply to everyone.
but that's just the point of view of a random gay liberal communist terrorist *shrug*
So what, you're saying that he "doth protest too much" ? I thought all those guy Bush-lovers(the president) loved the bush(the slang for female pubic hair).
He likes anal play now? From the $s in A$$Fucker can I infer that he likes to use rolls of money maybe?
Huh, that makes me like him a little bit more. =\ Kind of a kinky bitch. And here I thought your Attorney General was boring!
Yes, there is the ability to change the US Constitution. Hence all those famous "amendments" you hear so much about, like the 2nd. :P
You can read about the 5th article of the constitution here that details how to change it.
Fairly sure that noone's going to knock on your door tomorrow. 'cept maybe some Jehovah's witnesses. /. people have gotten sent off to Gitmo for talking about hypothetical coups.
:P
Very few
Anyway, IANAA(I Am Not An American) but my best guess is that the people who'd organize such a rebellion(generals and such) really aren't getting shafted as badly as you feel you are. They apparently don't feel the noose tightening around their necks, and it probably isn't. Plus even a military coup requires some support from the General Public to be successful. The US citizenry has a boatload of guns, and a fair number of those gun owners really like Bush. It might be sad but based off of my interactions with some of them, and watching your TV it's true.
If They kill off/imprison/whatever Dubya and all the rest of the morons in Washington they're going to worry alot of people that they're losing freedoms. Ignorant though they may generally be, people would probably notice if the government changed hands so drastically down there. They're not noticing these sorts of statements by Gonzales effecting any meaningful changes in the way they live their lives. Now if Gonzales successfully removed the right to eat McDonalds and watch "wrassling" then you might be more likely to see a few hundred thousand nutjobs with a rifle go out for some blood. That sort of shit would be too much
I might not mind a 10 minute break, but I'll mind having to wait 40 minutes for the pumps to all free up and me to get to the front.
If it takes 10 minutes to "fill up" we're going to need alot bigger gas stations to serve the same number of people in a given hour.
y'know, I generally speaking agree with you that things have gone too far, and that mild amounts of dirt/germs is a Good Thing overall, and that we've gone a bit far in our zeal for clean...
But what was the average life expectancy 500/2000/5000 years ago again?
This "ghoulish cyborg" thing you speak of...
:P
Does this give me the ability to shoot lasers out of my eyes?
Or at least the ability to at least surf naughty websites wirelessly without the need for a laptop?
I dunno, I might go for it. I let things get under my skin all the time anyway
"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature." - Niels Bohr
IMO(and to some other positivists such as Stephen Hawking) it doesn't really matter if something is exactly how that universe IS. It just matters that it allows us to make falsifiable predictions about what we can observe.
Funny, I could swear I had heard "It's the economy, stupid." -- slogan for Bill Clinton's presidency, 1992
My "third party app" is called notepad.
.txt files on my computer and looking for account info.
... until now =\ Damnit!
Filled with lines of the type: www.ActuallyRealNotFakeWebsite.com SillyFoohon / SexyPassword Nothing superhardcore, but it works for me and puts another layer of separation between my passwords and the Bad People who'd want to know my login to slashdot for some reason.
It's a bit more cumbersome than some of the alternatives out there I'm sure, but I've got enough crap on my computer as it is. I don't need another program hanging around to store my passwords. If it's well enough known that I'd trust it to not be spyware itself, I'd be half afraid of someone designing worms that try to lift the information from it. I figure that noone's going to bother searching all the hundreds of megs of
five hundred times you say? eh, did you pay good money to get that done? I give you "Anonymous Coward" aka The Man Formally Known As Mr. Harold Butts :/
heh, I vaguely remember learning how to do stuff with Gopher years and years ago. Archie pwned! :D
:/ I was more of a Betty sort of guy. mmm, blonde, smart, not afraid of work, passionate about stuff besides her... You'll always be my first true love Betty! :D /Being really creepy
I never was a fan of Veronica
And a few things you didn't want to know I imagine =\
ewww @ tubgirl
The waste disposal and janitorial corporations derive fairly small benefits from a highly educated workforce. The number of PhDs on the company payroll is only slightly related to the company profit =\
I'm gonna code me a new minivan this afternoon?
;(
Where's Ratbert when I need him to do a little dance on my keyboard...?
Indeed =\ My best guess is that the proposed title "Webmail Spammer Shouldn't Have Accuser's Hard Drive" was rejected as being not-at-all-interesting-and-kind-of-self-evident. Not the stuff that generates clicks.
Not to be mean or anything, but I imagine Stephen Hawking would have some trouble with a pen and paper ballot, and few slashdotters would argue he's an idiot =P
I wonder how he votes anyway? Did his wife/wives get to go into a voting station to vote with him? Did they write out his vote on a mail-in ballot? Who has a better guess than I do?
"What if, for argument's sake, none of the canidates on the ballot are viable options for me? I don't vote. Do I then not get to bitch about what the winner does down the line?"
Well obviously, you vote "none of the above" then. Wait, you don't have that there? =\
Since 200 votes isn't a big deal, mind giving me the chance to vote 200 times in an election?
:P
I'd appreciate it!
Might not swing every election in my direction, but it'd give me a better chance of it than I have now. "Your [one] vote matters" ? Then my 200 surely will