1) I dont believe in god. 2) Your anti god zealotry is every bit as destructive as what you are railing against. A belief in god does not have to make you stupid. It doesnt mean you have to ignore science. You simply have to believe that in studying science you are quantifying all of the rules that god established.
There are radicals on BOTH sides of the issue and they (i.e. YOU) are the problem.
Your definition of a "real gun owner" must be different from mine. To me, its a person who has a gun. There are lots of people who have a gun and kids. Some of these might know what they are doing, but most just go out to Walmart and get the thing that is marketed to store guns and call it good. Id bet that covers 90% of gun owners.
The issue here isnt whether or not gun owners should know better (they should, but kids shouldn't have to pay the price for this failure), its about companies marketing products that give the owners a false sense of security.
No no no. I mean, yes its true that if there were excess money in the system, the system would suck that excess up. Thats true in ANY system. But everyone acts as if that automatically explains where we are today. If the total National spending on education was $5 (not millions or billions, just the $5 I have in my wallet), the above would still be a true statement, but wouldnt imply that at this moment we are spending too much.
Im so tired of this. Just because a theory is (or could be) true does not automatically mean that is the theory that is defining the current situation.
It seems pretty obvious to me. When cell production continues despite the buildup of these misfolded proteins more and more of these misfolded proteins build up in the brain until they essentially ARE the brain. At this point the person gets an unstoppable craving for brains that are not full of misfolded proteins. At the same time the treatment that caused the continuation of cell production becomes contagious via the spreading of bodily fluids such as saliva.
I suspect other side effects will involve slow uncoordinated movement and an urge to moan.
Your totally glossing over the fact that 90% of the 90% of Americans spending 47+ hours/week at work spend 50% of that work time surfing the internet. During that time we are all actively engaged in politics (like this discussion) and flirting with people we think (hope) are women.
See? Were not distracted, were fully engaged in society.
Im curious... Did you have a cover without the light?
I had one of those and was having a problem with locking up and sudden battery drain nearly once a week. It turns out that the hooks that hold the cover on ALSO provide power to the light in the cover with the light. If the plastic coating on the hook of the lightless cover wears off, it makes some kind of connection that shorts the Kindle out. From the time that I replaced that cover about 6 months ago with a cover with a light it has not happened again.
I wonder if an airport scanner can induce a charge which increases the chance of this happening?
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In principle I agree. The problem is when the contractors KNOW this they can milk the system for more money. So we need to work with contracts that that bind both parties. Set an upper limit for what the government will pay, a minimum for what the government will receive and logical gates that lock down WHEN each party will walk away.
Even then the system will be gamed, but at least there would be limits.
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No, were 5 years behind schedule because the governments response to that situation in the past has been "Oh. Well here's some more money. Let see if that helps."
With normal solar panels you have to pay someone nearly as much as they cost to install them. These you can install yourself. That can cut the true total cost in half right there. TFA also states that it takes less sunlight to power these than traditional cells, so while they are less efficient, they will generate power for more of the day and on more days.
I cant disagree with anything you say, but where the hell did the corn come in? I reread the article looking for what I missed, but the OP didnt mention corn once, and yet you disagree with his stance on corn. Do you know something I dont?
Surely your not assuming corn is the most harmful ingredient in Doritos, because my permanently orange stained fingers would argue otherwise.
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Let's let the let the guys with the PhDs in science, math, and engineering figure out energy policy.
Clearly you have no experience with how Democracies work....
They have sold what, 40 or 50 of these? They are FAR from mass producing them. It makes sense for these companys to try them out at a few centers for high initial prices as an investment in the hope that if everything pans out, the prices will drop significantly when the company is producing them in the thousands.
I wouldnt be suprised to hear that the price reflects more of the cost to keep the company (and the brains behind it) afloat while they try to spin up than it reflects the cost to manufacture.
Not necisarily true. A stoke (I think this is right, although I may have muddled medical terms)is a blood clot or plaque breaking off and getting lodged somewhere that does damage. Typically its the brain, but not always. My father in law recently had this happen and had a "stoke in his eye" which left one eye damaged and useless, but the brain is fine. This sounds like what the parent is talking about IF "no perception on one side of his body" is just visual perception and not feeling as well.
Oh HELL yes. The book would make a GREAT movie. The only thing they took from the book the first go around was "Humans are at war with bug like aliens". WTF? Did they really need to buy the right to the book for that?
And while were at it, how about a Star Wars reboot? Not eps IV,V and VI. Just I, II and III. Please?
Dont confuse the administrator of the database with the governor of the data therein. Google is just proposing to provide the technical solution, not decide the policies that get someone on the list.
And if Google gets this, the goverment will certainly write into their charter limits on what and when they can charge.
I love it when people can only talk in extremes. Microsoft wants to patent this technology. So CLEARLY they will immediately use it for every application. CLEARLY they are just going to randomly access hospital records without getting any authorization. Come on folks. Get a clue.
Someone at Microsoft (or one of their competitors withi a leak) has an idea for some sort of socially interactive physical fitness gaming network to compete with the Wii Fit. They dont want 450 lb Slashdoters having hearattacks while they try to "get in shape" by doing 3 situps, so they want to allow for sensors to see what sort of shape someone is in. (That gets them out of the lawsuit.) Someone says "While we are doing that we should allow for other means of in getting baseline data like medical records, cause they might do this fomrally in a retirement home or something."
We as a people should not have to tell people to read the article before they run around spouting off. Oh. Wait. This is slashdot. What am I thinking?
"I'm starting to realize a good chunk of those pushing for things like this..." Yeah. "Things like this" are reccomendations that people who are going to host a childrens site really ought to have moderators who can tell when a 20 year old pedophile is sending foul language to my 8 year old daughter on the Build-a-bear site and then do something about it. HOW DARE THEY SUGGEST SUCH A THING.
I am a parent. And $#!@$ you for suggesting that it is lazy of me to expect Build-A-Bear to effectively prevent pedophiles from harassing my daughter on line. There is nothing in this article that states that these things must be implimented everywhere. Its meerly suggesting that sites that are targeted to kids need to make a better effort to protect children.
Your looking at it wrong. NASA is standing up a generic service for data processing. Various programs with data processing needs at NASA can access this, and from their perspective they get "virtual hosting with a few clicks, and automatically scale up and down as demand changes, all while being billed by resources actually used."
Thats a bit like a Cleveland Borwns fan saying "Our record wouldnt suck so much if we played by NBA rules".
Until the terrorists start fielding standing armies and holding ground, I will continue to ignore anyone who compares todays conflicts to World War 2. Eexcept to make snyde comments, of course.
If the contest is to develop combination cable/climber technology, the only entrants will be those who have the means (financial AND intellectual) to do both. They are two very different scientific skill sets. You would weed out a lot of teams who can bring great value to only one, or the other.
Keep them as seperate contests, running in parallel.
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Wow.
1) I dont believe in god.
2) Your anti god zealotry is every bit as destructive as what you are railing against. A belief in god does not have to make you stupid. It doesnt mean you have to ignore science. You simply have to believe that in studying science you are quantifying all of the rules that god established.
There are radicals on BOTH sides of the issue and they (i.e. YOU) are the problem.
A real gun owner would know this.
Your definition of a "real gun owner" must be different from mine.
To me, its a person who has a gun.
There are lots of people who have a gun and kids. Some of these might know what they are doing, but most just go out to Walmart and get the thing that is marketed to store guns and call it good.
Id bet that covers 90% of gun owners.
The issue here isnt whether or not gun owners should know better (they should, but kids shouldn't have to pay the price for this failure), its about companies marketing products that give the owners a false sense of security.
No no no.
I mean, yes its true that if there were excess money in the system, the system would suck that excess up. Thats true in ANY system.
But everyone acts as if that automatically explains where we are today.
If the total National spending on education was $5 (not millions or billions, just the $5 I have in my wallet), the above would still be a true statement, but wouldnt imply that at this moment we are spending too much.
Im so tired of this. Just because a theory is (or could be) true does not automatically mean that is the theory that is defining the current situation.
It seems pretty obvious to me.
When cell production continues despite the buildup of these misfolded proteins more and more of these misfolded proteins build up in the brain until they essentially ARE the brain.
At this point the person gets an unstoppable craving for brains that are not full of misfolded proteins.
At the same time the treatment that caused the continuation of cell production becomes contagious via the spreading of bodily fluids such as saliva.
I suspect other side effects will involve slow uncoordinated movement and an urge to moan.
Oh dear god NO!!!!
Are you freaking kidding me? Emmerich doing Foundation?
WTF!??!?!?!!?
Who the HELL would let that man get the rights to it?
You just ruined my whole frigging day.
Your totally glossing over the fact that 90% of the 90% of Americans spending 47+ hours/week at work spend 50% of that work time surfing the internet. During that time we are all actively engaged in politics (like this discussion) and flirting with people we think (hope) are women.
See? Were not distracted, were fully engaged in society.
Im curious... Did you have a cover without the light?
I had one of those and was having a problem with locking up and sudden battery drain nearly once a week.
It turns out that the hooks that hold the cover on ALSO provide power to the light in the cover with the light. If the plastic coating on the hook of the lightless cover wears off, it makes some kind of connection that shorts the Kindle out.
From the time that I replaced that cover about 6 months ago with a cover with a light it has not happened again.
I wonder if an airport scanner can induce a charge which increases the chance of this happening?
In principle I agree. The problem is when the contractors KNOW this they can milk the system for more money.
So we need to work with contracts that that bind both parties. Set an upper limit for what the government will pay, a minimum for what the government will receive and logical gates that lock down WHEN each party will walk away.
Even then the system will be gamed, but at least there would be limits.
No, were 5 years behind schedule because the governments response to that situation in the past has been "Oh. Well here's some more money. Let see if that helps."
... the zombie apocalypse.
With normal solar panels you have to pay someone nearly as much as they cost to install them. These you can install yourself. That can cut the true total cost in half right there.
TFA also states that it takes less sunlight to power these than traditional cells, so while they are less efficient, they will generate power for more of the day and on more days.
I cant disagree with anything you say, but where the hell did the corn come in? I reread the article looking for what I missed, but the OP didnt mention corn once, and yet you disagree with his stance on corn. Do you know something I dont?
Surely your not assuming corn is the most harmful ingredient in Doritos, because my permanently orange stained fingers would argue otherwise.
Let's let the let the guys with the PhDs in science, math, and engineering figure out energy policy.
Clearly you have no experience with how Democracies work....
And how are they going to handle multiple viewers wanting to operate the camera at the same time?
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No Worries. Google already figured it out.
I mean, Im already able to zoom in the satellite cameras for Google Earth.
Whats that? software? digital image?
Enough with your crazy techno babel!
Yes.
And in an ironic twist, it can also make baseballs.
I agree with everything you said, but it has nothing to do with this situation.
There is a big difference between calling a students failings out in the class room vs any public forum, electronic or otherwise.
And I would also expect a teacher who says "I hate your kid" to get fired no matter what the forum.
They have sold what, 40 or 50 of these? They are FAR from mass producing them. It makes sense for these companys to try them out at a few centers for high initial prices as an investment in the hope that if everything pans out, the prices will drop significantly when the company is producing them in the thousands.
I wouldnt be suprised to hear that the price reflects more of the cost to keep the company (and the brains behind it) afloat while they try to spin up than it reflects the cost to manufacture.
Not necisarily true.
A stoke (I think this is right, although I may have muddled medical terms)is a blood clot or plaque breaking off and getting lodged somewhere that does damage. Typically its the brain, but not always.
My father in law recently had this happen and had a "stoke in his eye" which left one eye damaged and useless, but the brain is fine.
This sounds like what the parent is talking about IF "no perception on one side of his body" is just visual perception and not feeling as well.
Oh HELL yes.
The book would make a GREAT movie. The only thing they took from the book the first go around was "Humans are at war with bug like aliens". WTF? Did they really need to buy the right to the book for that?
And while were at it, how about a Star Wars reboot? Not eps IV,V and VI. Just I, II and III. Please?
Dont confuse the administrator of the database with the governor of the data therein. Google is just proposing to provide the technical solution, not decide the policies that get someone on the list.
And if Google gets this, the goverment will certainly write into their charter limits on what and when they can charge.
I just dont see an issue here.
I love it when people can only talk in extremes.
Microsoft wants to patent this technology. So CLEARLY they will immediately use it for every application.
CLEARLY they are just going to randomly access hospital records without getting any authorization.
Come on folks. Get a clue.
Someone at Microsoft (or one of their competitors withi a leak) has an idea for some sort of socially interactive physical fitness gaming network to compete with the Wii Fit. They dont want 450 lb Slashdoters having hearattacks while they try to "get in shape" by doing 3 situps, so they want to allow for sensors to see what sort of shape someone is in. (That gets them out of the lawsuit.) Someone says "While we are doing that we should allow for other means of in getting baseline data like medical records, cause they might do this fomrally in a retirement home or something."
Mod Parent (both of them) down.
We as a people should not have to tell people to read the article before they run around spouting off.
Oh. Wait. This is slashdot. What am I thinking?
"I'm starting to realize a good chunk of those pushing for things like this..." Yeah. "Things like this" are reccomendations that people who are going to host a childrens site really ought to have moderators who can tell when a 20 year old pedophile is sending foul language to my 8 year old daughter on the Build-a-bear site and then do something about it.
HOW DARE THEY SUGGEST SUCH A THING.
I am a parent. And $#!@$ you for suggesting that it is lazy of me to expect Build-A-Bear to effectively prevent pedophiles from harassing my daughter on line. There is nothing in this article that states that these things must be implimented everywhere. Its meerly suggesting that sites that are targeted to kids need to make a better effort to protect children.
Your looking at it wrong.
NASA is standing up a generic service for data processing. Various programs with data processing needs at NASA can access this, and from their perspective they get "virtual hosting with a few clicks, and automatically scale up and down as demand changes, all while being billed by resources actually used."
Thats a bit like a Cleveland Borwns fan saying "Our record wouldnt suck so much if we played by NBA rules".
Until the terrorists start fielding standing armies and holding ground, I will continue to ignore anyone who compares todays conflicts to World War 2. Eexcept to make snyde comments, of course.
If the contest is to develop combination cable/climber technology, the only entrants will be those who have the means (financial AND intellectual) to do both. They are two very different scientific skill sets. You would weed out a lot of teams who can bring great value to only one, or the other.
Keep them as seperate contests, running in parallel.