Researchers say the technology could be scaled up to create ultra-portable tripods or even cups that automatically adjust to the size of liquid being poured into them."
No longer will I suffer the burden of having to carry a stone age, brain teasing carbon fiber tripod, or have to navigate the treacherous gymnastic maze of not overflowing a cup at the soda fountain!
How about the Drake equation? Maybe a Calabi Yau equation if you're into string theory, although that might not be very futureproof.
And what's with the "OH NOES! It am teh forevers!" responses? They've been able to remove tattoos with lasers and other methods for a quite a while now. I personally have no use for tattoos myself, but if the man wants ink that's his decision.
Man, the geekverse use to be so wild and (small "l") libertarian. WTF happened?
Censorship of porn is censorship of women. Literally.
This.
Why just last week I read an incisive essay on abortion rights as they pertain to the legacy of feminist voting patterns in post-Industrial America in last month's issue of "Big & Bouncy".
Who kept the lights on was still never explained; everybody seemed to lounge about in day-glo party clothes.
The city was automated by the central AI. Near the end when the AI has a breakdown, the city breaks down. They didn't come out and directly explain it, but it seemed pretty obvious. The SF genre is rife with advanced tech societies where the actual inhabitants have no idea how any of it works. Everything's great until something breaks.
Yeah, Rollerball is a very close second for me. SG just had a few more perfectly realized scenes, and I can never help tearing up a bit when Heston is talking to Edward G. Robinson at the suicide center, and Heston's character sees for the first time what the world used to be.
I recall when the director for the Rollerball remake publicly stated "we got rid of all that sci-fi sociology stuff". I knew the film was doomed. Uh, dude, that was the whole point of the first film.
Yeah, people having to sell or lose their houses because they couldn't afford their own property taxes. You know Prop 13 didn't just arise out of a vacuum, right?
The underlying cause of the problems is the sacred parts of the budget. Period. End of effing story. Anything else is ideology and bullcrap.
But just keep hammering and raping the taxpayer. I'm sure a different result will occur some day. Doesn't matter. 2012 is coming to upend the state into the sea.;-)
Another year of this nonsense and I swear I'm gonna go Republican
What's the point? The Reps sold us out last year so the Dems got their 2/3 majority to pass the tax hike. One of them practically admitted it in an interview afterward how, as a group, they selected the ones to cross the line. There is no political party for the hard working citizen anymore. We will become Greece very soon.
6 more words : Super-majority required for tax increases.
Uh, they got the 2/3 majority last year and passed the largest state tax increase in US history. Were you asleep? They did this in the middle of a recession. There are small children in tribes in the Amazon jungle who have never had contact with modern civilization who know that won't work. Guess what? It didn't. Do you just raise taxes to 100%? When do you start trying something else?
19 more words: Vast segments of the budget considered untouchable because the public employee unions own the legislature lock, stock and barrel.
I can't disagree on the ballot measures, but they are not the bulk of the problem.
I once suggested Slashdot have a "Humanity Is Complete Scum" tag for articles, but realized it would apply to every single article and be rendered moot.
And reducing the benefits and/or number of employees is hardly going to help get those remaining "to do boo about" parole violations, is it?
The situation is complicated, but it is the sheer number of employees and the level of benefits that comprise a bulk of the budget problem. Remember, when a politician says "we've cut to the bone" the translation is "we've reduced next year's increases a bit". The illegal aliens don't help, but, well, I'm the moral equivalent to three Hitlers plus two Stalins times a Charles Manson for even daring to mention it, right?
They already managed to get a 2/3 vote last year and pass the largest state tax increase in US history, and it accomplished *nothing* because about 90% of the budget is considered holy and sacrosanct and untouchable.
*shrug* It's too late anyway, because *I* don't care anymore, either. Not really. Neither does anyone else with a functioning intellect. The smart folk are abandoning this ship of fools as soon as they can. The extemists are gerrymandered in and it'll be asshat after asshat from here on in. Look who the Democrats are running for governor now: Jerry Brown. That 9000 year old blithering fossil's actions during his last stint as governor in the 70s are at the root of many problems this state is having today! But, yeah, vote that wrinkled senile sack of crap back in! Yay!
But you just keep hiring more state workers and raising those benefits. I say reduce the 2/3 majority requirement for tax increases and let the low wattage loons in Sacramento have a field day. Anything that can hasten official state bankruptcy is a *good* thing. Let the creditors take over. That's the time to sit back and break out the popcorn.
or at least I'd like to know WHY nobody acted on it,
Because they don't care. They don't *have* to. They're government workers. It's almost impossible to get fired from a government job in this state. They sit around not caring, spending other people money, and then retire early with a golden pension and health benefits. *That's* what is bankrupting the state. The public employee unions have complete and total control over the state legislature, but all the ideologues sit around in their reality bubbles and echo chambers blaming everything else.
There was a high profile murder case just this year where the guy was out on parole, violated parole almost ten times, had a psychologist evaluate him an a major risk, but no one did boo about it. No one cared, and another young woman was slaughtered for no damn reason.
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I know what you're saying. It's a shame there isn't some sort of, like, online dictionary where we can look these things up.
What? Oh!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(band)
Ah! Plone is a British band. I guess they're expanding into that Web 2.0 thing the kids are twattering about.
A bunch of ideologues made some shit up? Wow. Color me astonished.
*shrug* It's his skin, man. His real estate.
Me, I'm waiting for embedded, programmable displays.
Playwhat? Oh, the one people claim to read "for the articles?" ;-)
Researchers say the technology could be scaled up to create ultra-portable tripods or even cups that automatically adjust to the size of liquid being poured into them."
No longer will I suffer the burden of having to carry a stone age, brain teasing carbon fiber tripod, or have to navigate the treacherous gymnastic maze of not overflowing a cup at the soda fountain!
Way to think BIG, summary!
How about the Drake equation? Maybe a Calabi Yau equation if you're into string theory, although that might not be very futureproof.
And what's with the "OH NOES! It am teh forevers!" responses? They've been able to remove tattoos with lasers and other methods for a quite a while now. I personally have no use for tattoos myself, but if the man wants ink that's his decision.
Man, the geekverse use to be so wild and (small "l") libertarian. WTF happened?
Now, how did giving a lecture on something that anyone here already knows possibly enhance your existence?
Not to mention they can be lasered off these days, so it's *not* necessarily permanent. Sheesh, what a square the OP is. :)
Censorship of porn is censorship of women. Literally.
This.
Why just last week I read an incisive essay on abortion rights as they pertain to the legacy of feminist voting patterns in post-Industrial America in last month's issue of "Big & Bouncy".
I thought it said Kill Bill Switch that would make the whole internet like a Tarantino film.
IOW, lots of cleverly written- but still long winded- blogs and tons of foot fetishism.
Wait... holy crap, they've already thrown the switch!!!
Who kept the lights on was still never explained; everybody seemed to lounge about in day-glo party clothes.
The city was automated by the central AI. Near the end when the AI has a breakdown, the city breaks down. They didn't come out and directly explain it, but it seemed pretty obvious. The SF genre is rife with advanced tech societies where the actual inhabitants have no idea how any of it works. Everything's great until something breaks.
Yeah, Rollerball is a very close second for me. SG just had a few more perfectly realized scenes, and I can never help tearing up a bit when Heston is talking to Edward G. Robinson at the suicide center, and Heston's character sees for the first time what the world used to be.
I recall when the director for the Rollerball remake publicly stated "we got rid of all that sci-fi sociology stuff". I knew the film was doomed. Uh, dude, that was the whole point of the first film.
Resolutions and frame rates to make a grown gamer weep.
Seriously. 5.5? I don't get out of bed for anything less than a 6.5.
I guess we're just jaded here in SoCal.
Yeah, people having to sell or lose their houses because they couldn't afford their own property taxes. You know Prop 13 didn't just arise out of a vacuum, right?
The underlying cause of the problems is the sacred parts of the budget. Period. End of effing story. Anything else is ideology and bullcrap.
But just keep hammering and raping the taxpayer. I'm sure a different result will occur some day. Doesn't matter. 2012 is coming to upend the state into the sea. ;-)
Sadly, The Clonus Horror was actually a better film than The Island
The Island: nonsensical plot, dumb flying vehicles, typical Michael Bay incoherence on a mind withering $126 million budget
The Clonus Horror: bizarre nose jobs, smoking crotches, Peter Graves and an MST3K version all on a $257,000 budget
No contest.
Logan's Run was a good SF flick, but for 1970s dystopic films Soylent Green owns all.
Yes, but it's an open standard CPU eating abominations for no good reason at all, and that's all the difference in the world!
(Sound of round being loaded into chamber)
Are you with us or against us, comrade? Answer wisely.
Another year of this nonsense and I swear I'm gonna go Republican
What's the point? The Reps sold us out last year so the Dems got their 2/3 majority to pass the tax hike. One of them practically admitted it in an interview afterward how, as a group, they selected the ones to cross the line. There is no political party for the hard working citizen anymore. We will become Greece very soon.
The money is collected from taxes and sent out of the state, that sounds like a problem to me.
Well, OK, but under what mechanism do you divert the federal taxes being paid by Califronians directly into state coffers?
If the state isn't worth having around on its own merits, merge it with some state that is, and take a star off the damned flag.
Or split it up. Most ideas involve creating North and South California although some posit a three state split.
Or just get this dump into bankruptcy ASAP.
6 more words : Super-majority required for tax increases.
Uh, they got the 2/3 majority last year and passed the largest state tax increase in US history. Were you asleep? They did this in the middle of a recession. There are small children in tribes in the Amazon jungle who have never had contact with modern civilization who know that won't work. Guess what? It didn't. Do you just raise taxes to 100%? When do you start trying something else?
19 more words: Vast segments of the budget considered untouchable because the public employee unions own the legislature lock, stock and barrel.
I can't disagree on the ballot measures, but they are not the bulk of the problem.
I once suggested Slashdot have a "Humanity Is Complete Scum" tag for articles, but realized it would apply to every single article and be rendered moot.
How baked was he? Seriously, was the bong still in his hand?
Oh, c'mon. Everyone has a little Captain in them. :-)
And reducing the benefits and/or number of employees is hardly going to help get those remaining "to do boo about" parole violations, is it?
The situation is complicated, but it is the sheer number of employees and the level of benefits that comprise a bulk of the budget problem. Remember, when a politician says "we've cut to the bone" the translation is "we've reduced next year's increases a bit". The illegal aliens don't help, but, well, I'm the moral equivalent to three Hitlers plus two Stalins times a Charles Manson for even daring to mention it, right?
They already managed to get a 2/3 vote last year and pass the largest state tax increase in US history, and it accomplished *nothing* because about 90% of the budget is considered holy and sacrosanct and untouchable.
*shrug* It's too late anyway, because *I* don't care anymore, either. Not really. Neither does anyone else with a functioning intellect. The smart folk are abandoning this ship of fools as soon as they can. The extemists are gerrymandered in and it'll be asshat after asshat from here on in. Look who the Democrats are running for governor now: Jerry Brown. That 9000 year old blithering fossil's actions during his last stint as governor in the 70s are at the root of many problems this state is having today! But, yeah, vote that wrinkled senile sack of crap back in! Yay!
But you just keep hiring more state workers and raising those benefits. I say reduce the 2/3 majority requirement for tax increases and let the low wattage loons in Sacramento have a field day. Anything that can hasten official state bankruptcy is a *good* thing. Let the creditors take over. That's the time to sit back and break out the popcorn.
or at least I'd like to know WHY nobody acted on it,
Because they don't care. They don't *have* to. They're government workers. It's almost impossible to get fired from a government job in this state. They sit around not caring, spending other people money, and then retire early with a golden pension and health benefits. *That's* what is bankrupting the state. The public employee unions have complete and total control over the state legislature, but all the ideologues sit around in their reality bubbles and echo chambers blaming everything else.
There was a high profile murder case just this year where the guy was out on parole, violated parole almost ten times, had a psychologist evaluate him an a major risk, but no one did boo about it. No one cared, and another young woman was slaughtered for no damn reason.
Not even the greatest song in the world?
No, and I assume you mean "Muskrat Love" by The Captain and Tennille.