Why do people keep claiming that if any of the conditions on earth were slightly different, then "life would not be able to exist". Doesn't it make more sense to say that if life did exist, it would be different without a magnetosphere? Life has been shown to be able to exist under some pretty severe conditions.
I had a childhood friend who used to sleep with his dog on the floor with the window open. In midwinter. In the interior of Alaska. Of course, this same guy used to go barefoot in snow sometimes too. The point is, you CAN get used to cold if you have a fast enough metabolism to keep your body temperature up and enough food (proper clothing helps too). I've been outside in 60 below weather myself (not -60 Fwith windchill, but actual thermometer reading of -60 F). It made it really easy to tell where the thin spots were in my down parka, but I survived it.
You used to be able to dial 911 on any analog cell phone and every cellular provider had to accept the call, even if you weren't paying for service. For some reason, the wireless companies never advertised this fact! I'm not sure how the digital wireless networks handle this, but I suspect they are required to accept everyone's 911 calls too, regardless of whether they are in network or not.
Most likely the cellular network software is programmed to give up after a specific time with no answer. So not a hardware problem, more like a problem with software not anticipating really long wait times for a 911 operator to answer. And of course, the system was never tested under such a high load.
After the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco, I couldn't make any cell phone calls at all. Why? Everybody in the country was calling into the area resulting in the land line network taking over 2 minutes to put up a dial tone. But the cellular providers timed calls out after 60 seconds with no dial tone!
No evidence has ever been found that any tribes of Israel were ever enslaved by Egyptians. The Jews are descended from the Canaanites that always lived in the area around Israel. They are closely related to the Palestinians. Unfortunately, that whole "Exodus" story appears to be entirely fictional. On the other hand, the tribe in East Africa claiming to be one of the lost tribes of Israel has been proven by DNA analysis to actually be descended from the original Jews.
Actually, since companies like HP discontinue printer and scanner support within about 2 years of selling the hardware, I would think Linux drivers would be much easier to find than, say, Vista drivers for equipment that reached end of life before Vista was released.
The story is a satire about the Nintendo generation; people that have grown up with video games and see everything as a videogame. I was born well before this generation, but even I could appreciate it. My only regret was not bringing my 10-year old daughter to see it with me. Despite the rating, it was targeted more at her than at me.
As far as my mistake in thinking Pilgrim made a better return on investment than Watchmen -- I stand corrected. Pilgrim looked very low-budget; it's hard to believe it could have cost $60 million to make.
Historically, revolutions don't happen when people are completely oppressed. They happen when oppression is partially lifted, giving the populace the resources they need to revolt. The protesters in Egypt are well educated and well versed in modern technology, not exactly the starving poor. Historically, the very poor by themselves never lead revolts. People are easier to control when they have no freedom at all, they become harder to control when you give them a little freedom.
They both need to ask permission because their updates so frequently fail. Nothing like doing the same automatic update over and over again to bring your computer to a crawl.
What percentage of the population of North Korea owns a cell phone, let alone and internet-connected computer? You do have a valid point though -- when you don't know where your next meal is coming from, you generally don't have a lot of energy to put into public protests.
And yet "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" did quite well, despite being based on a graphic novel. Films that won't earn as much as they cost to make don't get made, it's simple economics. The majority people paying for movie tickets are either dating or already have kids; "adult comics" aren't suitable fare for either group. Simply put, there aren't enough guys living in their mom's basement for a film like this to make money.
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Why do people keep claiming that if any of the conditions on earth were slightly different, then "life would not be able to exist". Doesn't it make more sense to say that if life did exist, it would be different without a magnetosphere? Life has been shown to be able to exist under some pretty severe conditions.
I had a childhood friend who used to sleep with his dog on the floor with the window open. In midwinter. In the interior of Alaska. Of course, this same guy used to go barefoot in snow sometimes too. The point is, you CAN get used to cold if you have a fast enough metabolism to keep your body temperature up and enough food (proper clothing helps too). I've been outside in 60 below weather myself (not -60 Fwith windchill, but actual thermometer reading of -60 F). It made it really easy to tell where the thin spots were in my down parka, but I survived it.
You used to be able to dial 911 on any analog cell phone and every cellular provider had to accept the call, even if you weren't paying for service. For some reason, the wireless companies never advertised this fact! I'm not sure how the digital wireless networks handle this, but I suspect they are required to accept everyone's 911 calls too, regardless of whether they are in network or not.
Most likely the cellular network software is programmed to give up after a specific time with no answer. So not a hardware problem, more like a problem with software not anticipating really long wait times for a 911 operator to answer. And of course, the system was never tested under such a high load.
After the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco, I couldn't make any cell phone calls at all. Why? Everybody in the country was calling into the area resulting in the land line network taking over 2 minutes to put up a dial tone. But the cellular providers timed calls out after 60 seconds with no dial tone!
No evidence has ever been found that any tribes of Israel were ever enslaved by Egyptians. The Jews are descended from the Canaanites that always lived in the area around Israel. They are closely related to the Palestinians. Unfortunately, that whole "Exodus" story appears to be entirely fictional. On the other hand, the tribe in East Africa claiming to be one of the lost tribes of Israel has been proven by DNA analysis to actually be descended from the original Jews.
Actually, since companies like HP discontinue printer and scanner support within about 2 years of selling the hardware, I would think Linux drivers would be much easier to find than, say, Vista drivers for equipment that reached end of life before Vista was released.
No solitaire game!
Doesn't this just create a market for modified BluRay players that ignore the flag?
Actually, the really good whores are charging $300 an hour. Any other manual tasks cost far less.
Wow... have you thought of cutting down on caffeine?
Not quite... fewer than 50% of Americans are Republican!
So what happens when someone with ADD drives it?
Don't know about you, but I don't have any problem getting your wife off!
The story is a satire about the Nintendo generation; people that have grown up with video games and see everything as a videogame. I was born well before this generation, but even I could appreciate it. My only regret was not bringing my 10-year old daughter to see it with me. Despite the rating, it was targeted more at her than at me.
As far as my mistake in thinking Pilgrim made a better return on investment than Watchmen -- I stand corrected. Pilgrim looked very low-budget; it's hard to believe it could have cost $60 million to make.
Historically, revolutions don't happen when people are completely oppressed. They happen when oppression is partially lifted, giving the populace the resources they need to revolt. The protesters in Egypt are well educated and well versed in modern technology, not exactly the starving poor. Historically, the very poor by themselves never lead revolts. People are easier to control when they have no freedom at all, they become harder to control when you give them a little freedom.
They both need to ask permission because their updates so frequently fail. Nothing like doing the same automatic update over and over again to bring your computer to a crawl.
Shouldn't the fact that your session is encrypted also attract the attention of the authorities? How do we do SSH tunneling from a smart phone?
Only because his secret police is using the latest technology from the US... and we wonder why people don't like us.
Agreed. Wasn't the printing press one of the factors that led to the Protestant Reformation?
What percentage of the population of North Korea owns a cell phone, let alone and internet-connected computer? You do have a valid point though -- when you don't know where your next meal is coming from, you generally don't have a lot of energy to put into public protests.
Oh, Muammar has a long history of getting along just famously with Jews!
I believe HE spells it in Arabic script. All of your examples are attempts to phonetically spell it with Latin characters.
Would using proxies help avoid the attention of Libyan secret police?
And yet "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" did quite well, despite being based on a graphic novel. Films that won't earn as much as they cost to make don't get made, it's simple economics. The majority people paying for movie tickets are either dating or already have kids; "adult comics" aren't suitable fare for either group. Simply put, there aren't enough guys living in their mom's basement for a film like this to make money.