That, and even if you pick your stocks by throwing darts, you have an even or slightly-slightly-better-than-even chance of making money.
The stock market always goes up over long periods of time, so playing it is like playing roulette, but with say 0.01% advantage, instead of the -2% advantage that you get in the casino.
Nope, I've been following that site from back when it started, and I can certainly say that its for real. I know a lot of the people who bought ads on there.
Plus, this isn't the only news release about it, its just the first time its on Slashdot.
This site has been on the news for months, and people have been buy and discussing it on forums the whole time. So don't worry, its real.
One pro-nuke physicist and one anti-nuke physicist are arguing. So the pro-nuke physicist says "Go calculate the radiation exposure and tell if you'd rather sleep with a woman or a nuclear reactor."
The anti-nuke physicist does it and comes back.
He says "Well, I'd still rather sleep next to a woman, but I wouldn't want to sleep with two."
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Stick one right in my back yard, really. Better than a coal or oil one.
As for Chernobyl, those idiots not only fucked up their own land, but the reputations of all nuclear plants.
Chernobyl exploded because they turned off all the safety systems and were messing with it for an experiment. If you leave the safetys on, it will be fine.
That, and that was an old design, modern designs won't even blow if you do turn the safetys off.
I'm as big a fan of our current theories as anybody, but we still have no scientific explanation of high-temperature superconductors even though there's plenty of commercial products that use them.
Don't worry, they'll figure it out in a few years.
But I'm saying that just because we think its impossible right now, doesn't mean it is.
That's one thing that the Russians have over the Americans. True national pride.
(Although its not actually "national" pride, since 99% of the people there hate and have always hated the goverment. It's more like pride in Mother Russia no matter what stupid goverment happens to be running it at the time.)
Over there, space exploration is a matter of pride and so nobody even thinks to suggest stopping it no matter how much money is being spent on it.
Plus, there's more of a sense of adventure and risk-taking. An accident? A few cosmonauts died? It's tragic, but they knew the risks. Lets celebrate their glorious memory, and send some more people up there.
Plus, people there are more careful not to allow accidence since being at fault for something comparable to the disaster we had in the US is liable to get you quietly imprisoned for life or even executed.
Except for the executing part, I wish our space program was more like theirs.
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So as apposed to listening to Lovelock we are now listening to Agent Smith?
That, and even if you pick your stocks by throwing darts, you have an even or slightly-slightly-better-than-even chance of making money.
The stock market always goes up over long periods of time, so playing it is like playing roulette, but with say 0.01% advantage, instead of the -2% advantage that you get in the casino.
Actually, the site is PR 7.
And you have to buy pixels in 100 increments.
Nope, I've been following that site from back when it started, and I can certainly say that its for real. I know a lot of the people who bought ads on there.
Plus, this isn't the only news release about it, its just the first time its on Slashdot.
This site has been on the news for months, and people have been buy and discussing it on forums the whole time. So don't worry, its real.
Have you ever actually tried to live "in harmony with nature"?
There is a very good reason that all of human history is people trying to get as far away from Nature as possible.
So let me get this straight.
"Everyone who can clash at least 2 braincells randomly together can figure out:"
That everything *you* think is exactly right.
Have you ever thought of the horrible possibility that, I don't know, you might be wrong. About *anything*?
If we're gonna attack somebody over having WMDs then it might as well be Russia.
At least they sure as fuck actually have them.
Can you really copyright grunts?
Oh yeah. Just ask the porn industry.
Reminds me of an old physics joke.
One pro-nuke physicist and one anti-nuke physicist are arguing.
So the pro-nuke physicist says "Go calculate the radiation exposure and tell if you'd rather sleep with a woman or a nuclear reactor."
The anti-nuke physicist does it and comes back.
He says "Well, I'd still rather sleep next to a woman, but I wouldn't want to sleep with two."
Stick one right in my back yard, really. Better than a coal or oil one.
As for Chernobyl, those idiots not only fucked up their own land, but the reputations of all nuclear plants.
Chernobyl exploded because they turned off all the safety systems and were messing with it for an experiment. If you leave the safetys on, it will be fine.
That, and that was an old design, modern designs won't even blow if you do turn the safetys off.
Don't frown on the nukes just because they're nukes.
A properly made Hydrogen bomb will do wonders, and leave zero radition of waste left over.
Yeah, you know, business leaders are Type-A personalities.
The good employees who actually get the work done are introverts, but they're not exciting.
No, what they need to do is concentrate on music *videos*.
That increases Britney Spears' audience to the entire male population.
As long as it motivates them to support science in order to find out the clockmaker's works, I really don't care.
There's always room for refinement.
I'm as big a fan of our current theories as anybody, but we still have no scientific explanation of high-temperature superconductors even though there's plenty of commercial products that use them.
Don't worry, they'll figure it out in a few years.
But I'm saying that just because we think its impossible right now, doesn't mean it is.
Only on slashdot could this be modded insightful.
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Or is this just "outsourcing" pollution?
Boogedy boo. This is very important!
Hey, you're right.
See everybody, this is exactly the kind of information that we absolutely need Google to store and index.
The 1980's called, they want their paranoia back.
However...
3. Capitalism is not the end-all of economic systems. In fact, its a pretty crappy one, especially if we get a good self-assembly system going.
4. Republican politics and oil are also irrelevant and will dissapear if the economics change enough.
5. Stock market, again, same thing.
6. Why would the CIA sell crack, if money becomes irrelevant?
7. Same.
Okay, true. I know that, you know that. We even know that George Washington wasn't really the first president.
Does anybody else here know that. I would bet that 99.99% don't.
Compare that to Russia where 99.99% do know about the previous governments.
That's my point.
That's true, but probably not to the same extent.
The concept of America here is tied into the government because it is the only one that has existed here.
In Russia though, only 15 years ago there was a different government. Hell, the old grandparents can even remember living in Czarist times.
I know, me too.
That's one thing that the Russians have over the Americans. True national pride.
(Although its not actually "national" pride, since 99% of the people there hate and have always hated the goverment. It's more like pride in Mother Russia no matter what stupid goverment happens to be running it at the time.)
Over there, space exploration is a matter of pride and so nobody even thinks to suggest stopping it no matter how much money is being spent on it.
Plus, there's more of a sense of adventure and risk-taking. An accident? A few cosmonauts died? It's tragic, but they knew the risks. Lets celebrate their glorious memory, and send some more people up there.
Plus, people there are more careful not to allow accidence since being at fault for something comparable to the disaster we had in the US is liable to get you quietly imprisoned for life or even executed.
Except for the executing part, I wish our space program was more like theirs.
I'm sorry, but just for the sake of argument, can we try not considering ourselves a disease?
I mean even the actual diseases seem to have more self-love than people like you.
Lets get a little more enthusiasm for our species going here, huh?
Wait are you talking about China or the US?