And why is it that Intelligent Design isn't tought in schools? It's a big conspiracy, I tell ya. Look at the eye, man! We're talking like scientist, so we should be accepted like scientists, right?
Because they'd have to give equal time to Pastafarianism, the concept that the Flying Spaghetti Monster made us as a joke, not in His image, since His Noodlynous is both invisible and resembles a large flying plate of spaghetti with meatballs.
Remember, the reason for Global Warming is our severe lack of Pirates.
but let's be clear, the fact that hurricanes now have many times more than ten times the energy, due to global warming, which created the very storm surge that blew out the dikes, had nothing to do with global warming.
I'm sorry, but if I take a cup and heat it up with ten times the energy I used before to cause a few bubbles, I'm not going to be surprised when it bubbles like roiling boil this time.
You can deny that's global warming, you can blame it on our insane policy of stopping silt from flooding the wetlands and urban areas that used to receive it, you can even ignore the loss of wetlands due to construction and changes in permitting also caused by Bush, but it's still the global warming that sank NOLA.
the cold hard truth is that science is a very lopsided mistress, and when you have 99.9 percent of all climatologists saying that extreme temperature variations are very likely to have a very high probability of accellerating (what you call Global Warming), the 0.1 percent who disagree because they get their funding from Exxon-Mobil get their feelings hurt.
Now, we know:
a. Global warming (accelerated rapid change) is happening now; b. Global warming (arc) is speeding up, tenfold in just the last five years; and c. Anyone with their heads still stuck in the sounds will be ten feet under water within ten years.
For those of you saying "yes, but it might get colder", you're absolutely correct. If the gulf stream shifts down, which can happen in a period shorter than ten years (and has), then England and France will probably freeze and the North Sea will be very very cold even in summer. New York Harbor could ice over quickly.
That's what global warming (accelerated rapid change) is: fast, increasingly violent, oscillations of the global temperature patterns until it (possibly) settles into a different state.
It might be a new ice age. It might be a period where California is 10 degrees warmer (centigrade, that's 22 degrees Fahrenheit) than it is now.
But if you live in a coastal area - and almost all of Florida is exactly that - it's not going to be fun.
but more about ones who use their gaming to pronounce their sexiness.
I for one, don't see why this is such a big deal.
It's been happening since I started gaming in 1978, so if you still can't deal with it, admit you're a virgin and learn how to smile, listen, and engage in polite conversation.
I'm now the Data Manager for a Research Data Center in the Medical Genetics realm, and we use a lot of corporate-speak - well, more like doc-speak (most researchers here are MDs).
We refer to PTSDs, use abbreviations like Htn. for Hypertension, and things like that.
One of my jobs is to make sure it gets untranslated, that we actually enter the true pharmacological name for medications instead of our common abbreviation, though.
It's like when I got promoted in the Army, and was able to give legal orders, I had to unlearn all the swearing that we used to do before that.
One adapts.
Now, force that line to compile and pass it some heavy switches, soldier!
Most alterations in global temperatures (setting off warm or cold periods) are sudden massive shifts to very hot AND very cold temperatures, oscillating wildly, before setting into a new pattern.
But Global Warming is what we call that, in this case. Although it can trigger another ice age, which could occur in a period of 4-10 years (and has in the past).
then yes, by setting off nuclear warheads inside of active volcanoes you could create global cooling.
Of course, if that happens, most of humanity will probably die within the 4-5 year global cloud cover, and the ones that don't will probably have nightmares for the rest of their lives.
After all these years of humans cranking out 90+ db sounds, and setting our volume to 11, maybe they decided not to worry so much about that bit, and concentrate on just replacing us.
Their cunning plot to remove the world's pirate fish and create global warming is working really well, don't you think?
and Linux is radidly eating into your server sales market, well...
anyone remember when IE became free?
The Net community said that Netscape would still win, since it had most of the market share.
But, in the end, only one cheese stood alone, and it wasn't Netscape.
[note, today I had to reload my printer driver since the one MSFT included in the downloads won't work with my HP printer, so maybe I'm slightly more cynical]
Evolution presumes that they find them useful in the environment they are - or were - in.
As I stated, the mechanisms are still inside every human cell, you can even see them with a microscope in the brain.
But, if we're talking nanobots, we need to consider mobility and utility. How much should we devote to mobility, if a flagellum design is easier to maintain and adapt?
Perhaps if we were designing nanobots that worked in a specific environment, we might find slime propulsion is more effective in:
a. cost of transport in design payload; b. cost of transport in materials requirements (e.g. slime used); c. cost of transport in effective reuse of local materials (e.g. oil less effective use than coal in coal-rich environment).
But, given the size of the likely nanobots, I'm not convinced this is the case, especially based on the work in progress I've seen here at the UW in microbiology and related fields.
It doesn't matter, it's not an iPod. Chicks dig iPod, so ask for it by name.
Otis is right. I just went to a friend's birthday party, and she had the music from iPods of the party guests playing. It especially seems to be a girl thing.
Me, I have a flash USB card that is an MP3 player with voice record instead.
Seriously, complaining about this and calling folks cheaters is like dropping $20 on the street and complaining about thieves when you go back and find it gone. Of course its gone. Duh.
Actually, where I live, Seattle, you have a very high chance of going back and finding the $20 bill. I think in nationwide and worldwide tests, we had 19 of 20 people who found a wallet with money either turned it in, delivered it to the person who "lost" it in person, or mailed it to the person who "lost" it.
If you were to look into any human cell, you would see that flagellum motor mechanisms exist in virtually all of them, as they are a particularly effective method of propulsion.
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hearing that they would mess with the actual frequency in megahertz just makes a big hurts in my head.
I'm going to go forget I ever heard anything about my memory now.
fine, you hold the kilo of explosives that I just burned a pinch of on my bunsen burner to heat my coffee, while I duck into the next room ...
...
hmm, where did he go? should I have mentioned it still had a blasting cap? naaah
Please Mr. Rhetoric, explain to me the cause for the global warming currently transpiring on Mars.
That's obviously caused by the decrease in Ice Pirates on Mars, as any good Pastafarian can show you.
Remember, it's not a face, it's a mountain that has irregular shapes that resemble a face at certain angles.
And why is it that Intelligent Design isn't tought in schools? It's a big conspiracy, I tell ya. Look at the eye, man! We're talking like scientist, so we should be accepted like scientists, right?
Because they'd have to give equal time to Pastafarianism, the concept that the Flying Spaghetti Monster made us as a joke, not in His image, since His Noodlynous is both invisible and resembles a large flying plate of spaghetti with meatballs.
Remember, the reason for Global Warming is our severe lack of Pirates.
but let's be clear, the fact that hurricanes now have many times more than ten times the energy, due to global warming, which created the very storm surge that blew out the dikes, had nothing to do with global warming.
I'm sorry, but if I take a cup and heat it up with ten times the energy I used before to cause a few bubbles, I'm not going to be surprised when it bubbles like roiling boil this time.
You can deny that's global warming, you can blame it on our insane policy of stopping silt from flooding the wetlands and urban areas that used to receive it, you can even ignore the loss of wetlands due to construction and changes in permitting also caused by Bush, but it's still the global warming that sank NOLA.
it's like pretending that the Flying Spaghetti Monster, instead of being the all-powerful invisible being he is, created man in his own image.
I mean think about it, we don't even look like a plate of spaghetti, our heads don't look like meatballs, obviously we weren't created in His image.
And just as obviously, Global Warming is all a result of the severe lack of Pirates today.
Now, wake up and smell the lack of Pirates. Get crackin, matey!
the cold hard truth is that science is a very lopsided mistress, and when you have 99.9 percent of all climatologists saying that extreme temperature variations are very likely to have a very high probability of accellerating (what you call Global Warming), the 0.1 percent who disagree because they get their funding from Exxon-Mobil get their feelings hurt.
Now, we know:
a. Global warming (accelerated rapid change) is happening now;
b. Global warming (arc) is speeding up, tenfold in just the last five years; and
c. Anyone with their heads still stuck in the sounds will be ten feet under water within ten years.
For those of you saying "yes, but it might get colder", you're absolutely correct. If the gulf stream shifts down, which can happen in a period shorter than ten years (and has), then England and France will probably freeze and the North Sea will be very very cold even in summer. New York Harbor could ice over quickly.
That's what global warming (accelerated rapid change) is: fast, increasingly violent, oscillations of the global temperature patterns until it (possibly) settles into a different state.
It might be a new ice age. It might be a period where California is 10 degrees warmer (centigrade, that's 22 degrees Fahrenheit) than it is now.
But if you live in a coastal area - and almost all of Florida is exactly that - it's not going to be fun.
but more about ones who use their gaming to pronounce their sexiness.
I for one, don't see why this is such a big deal.
It's been happening since I started gaming in 1978, so if you still can't deal with it, admit you're a virgin and learn how to smile, listen, and engage in polite conversation.
Your problem will go away.
I'm now the Data Manager for a Research Data Center in the Medical Genetics realm, and we use a lot of corporate-speak - well, more like doc-speak (most researchers here are MDs).
We refer to PTSDs, use abbreviations like Htn. for Hypertension, and things like that.
One of my jobs is to make sure it gets untranslated, that we actually enter the true pharmacological name for medications instead of our common abbreviation, though.
It's like when I got promoted in the Army, and was able to give legal orders, I had to unlearn all the swearing that we used to do before that.
One adapts.
Now, force that line to compile and pass it some heavy switches, soldier!
This is why I refuse to pay income taxes!
Sorry, Paris Hilton, but it's still not an excuse.
Cost of providing security against non-existent WMDs that couldn't reach the US even if they existed ... $100 Billion
... $400 Billion
... $0.0005 Billion (of $500 million)
... Priceless!
Cost of providing security against al-Qaeda attacking US from Iraq, even though they weren't there
Cost of providing security against really obvious IRS forms that let people steal your money and assets easily
Realizing you've been taken to the cleaners due to your own gullibility
which is increasing at ten times the prior rate, according to a recent Arctic and Pacific expedition that returned to Seattle this past week.
face it, we're already in for a world of hurt, it's just how bad it's going to be before we get a cluestick.
it's Global Extreme Temperature Variation.
Most alterations in global temperatures (setting off warm or cold periods) are sudden massive shifts to very hot AND very cold temperatures, oscillating wildly, before setting into a new pattern.
But Global Warming is what we call that, in this case. Although it can trigger another ice age, which could occur in a period of 4-10 years (and has in the past).
then yes, by setting off nuclear warheads inside of active volcanoes you could create global cooling.
Of course, if that happens, most of humanity will probably die within the 4-5 year global cloud cover, and the ones that don't will probably have nightmares for the rest of their lives.
After all these years of humans cranking out 90+ db sounds, and setting our volume to 11, maybe they decided not to worry so much about that bit, and concentrate on just replacing us.
Their cunning plot to remove the world's pirate fish and create global warming is working really well, don't you think?
and Linux is radidly eating into your server sales market, well ...
anyone remember when IE became free?
The Net community said that Netscape would still win, since it had most of the market share.
But, in the end, only one cheese stood alone, and it wasn't Netscape.
[note, today I had to reload my printer driver since the one MSFT included in the downloads won't work with my HP printer, so maybe I'm slightly more cynical]
Evolution presumes that they find them useful in the environment they are - or were - in.
As I stated, the mechanisms are still inside every human cell, you can even see them with a microscope in the brain.
But, if we're talking nanobots, we need to consider mobility and utility. How much should we devote to mobility, if a flagellum design is easier to maintain and adapt?
Perhaps if we were designing nanobots that worked in a specific environment, we might find slime propulsion is more effective in:
a. cost of transport in design payload;
b. cost of transport in materials requirements (e.g. slime used);
c. cost of transport in effective reuse of local materials (e.g. oil less effective use than coal in coal-rich environment).
But, given the size of the likely nanobots, I'm not convinced this is the case, especially based on the work in progress I've seen here at the UW in microbiology and related fields.
It doesn't matter, it's not an iPod. Chicks dig iPod, so ask for it by name.
Otis is right. I just went to a friend's birthday party, and she had the music from iPods of the party guests playing. It especially seems to be a girl thing.
Me, I have a flash USB card that is an MP3 player with voice record instead.
Seriously, complaining about this and calling folks cheaters is like dropping $20 on the street and complaining about thieves when you go back and find it gone. Of course its gone. Duh.
Actually, where I live, Seattle, you have a very high chance of going back and finding the $20 bill. I think in nationwide and worldwide tests, we had 19 of 20 people who found a wallet with money either turned it in, delivered it to the person who "lost" it in person, or mailed it to the person who "lost" it.
Unless they hack them, of course.
If you were to look into any human cell, you would see that flagellum motor mechanisms exist in virtually all of them, as they are a particularly effective method of propulsion.
I'm sorry, I was distracted.
No, it's ok, I think I'll remain seated if you don't mind, ma'am.
I foresee an elderly sage who will ask us "Have You Opened The Door To The Next Room?" every five minutes while we try to enjoy the room ...
[think of his Black & White or later games]
no that's around 5 years out - unless the format fails, in which case you're right, it clocks out around 3 years.
Well, you did want the PS3 to be bug-free, didn't you?
After all, if people are going to blow up to $2000 on eBay when the PS3 comes out to get it, what's a measly $1000 to beta-test the player?
Hey, want to buy a used bridge?