A new study points to evidence that kids who play Monopoly more than 20 minutes a day during the "critical years" causes them to become raging Capitalists. The study looks at more than 200 of the top entrepreneurs of the last 20 years and found that 90% of them played Monolpoly as children. The remaining 10% all turned out to be pinko communists. In a related study, it was found that Stalin, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon and Hitler all played chess as small children. Bans on chess clubs are being considered in 38 states to prevent the rise of further military dictators.
Why does everyone seem bent on making this an all or nothing decision? Why is there no discussion on the value of having diverse methods of producing fuels? Lets assume that algea makes is the best source of fuel and California goes crazy with algea prioduction and refinement (or whatever) plants. Alls well until a typhoon hits, cuts production for the year in half and drives prices up. Or Global Warming changes the oceans enough that this algea is not viable.
Corn based fuels arent the most efficient. Fine, I accept that. But there is a reason I dont throw all my money into the one stock that is performing the best today. There is a reason we have stock portfolios, and the same reasons argue for an energy portfolio.
Corn has some other attractions that set it apart from algea or switch grass. The reason corn has taken off is NOT because of the Iowa caucuses. Its because most years there is an excess of corn and the corn producers are looking for a market. This excess is NOT going to feed the starving, its rotting in silos. We have the corn and the production system in place NOW so of course its going to get more attention than things that we dont have in large quantities today. And there is value in having one crop that can can be diverted to either food or fuel production. You cant do that with Algea or switch grass.(I know, I know, there are different kinds of corn for different uses but there is some overlap). Thats enough for me to feel that this in ONE source of fuel, but there should be others as well.
Oh please. Next thing you know you will be asking for people to check to make certain their facts are correct. Get with the times!!!! Witht he 24 hour news cycle we dont have time to worry about getting it right. We have to get it out now!
Its like Charles Karault said in his 1876 State of the Union address: "Incorrect news now is better than good news tomorrow".
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"and there's no reason not to think there won't be"
I love it when people use so many negatives that they get lost in their own sentance.
I am very sorry if my lack of grammer offended you. I am very busy at work and suffer under the delusion that the idea of electronic communication is to get ones point accross and not to have it reviewed for grammer, spelling or punctuation or to be saved for posterity.
Just for the record, your paragraphs are too short, you did not reference your source material, and, oh-by-the-way, you (I guess I should say "we" now) are off topic.
Obviously these people are missing the big picture.
Thanks to Global Warming the polar ice caps will be gone within 40 years thus puting more water into circulation and making the articles concerns irrelavent.
See! We have all been panicking for nothing! Big oil is right and climate change is a force for Good, not Evil!!!!!
This is nothing new. They found a few years ago that if a person repeatedly told a story in the first person as if they had done something, after a few years many people would actually believe they had done it. Of course this only works for things that dont contradict other memories and make you querstion it.
I believe this all came about because of the HP board of directors having their investigators get the phone records of its employees and some journalists because HP was looking for information leaks. The investigators did this by pretending to be the people whos phone records they wanted. They did some research and found out mothers maiden names etc..., and gave sob stories to the customer service folks about why they needed these phone records and got all of the information they wanted.
Oh really? So its OK if I call your phone company pretending to be you and get a copy of your phone records? Its OK if I call your Satelite/cable provider and get a list of all of the services you signed up for? Its OK if I call you bank and get a list of all of your acounts and their balances?
The problem is not that these people are pretending to be someone they are not, the problem is that they are pretending to be some one in particular and useing that to gain information they could not otherwise gain.
What the MPAA has just done is say "There is information out there that we cant gain through normal legal channels, so we want to be allowed to gather the information through semi/non-legal channels" and the governemnt said "Oh, OK".
You said it yourself, we are too specialized to expect a voting majority to understand everything. So we have to relly on expert opinion. All of the information is out there for you to try to understand if you want too.
Then you take a look at the different sides and listen to their arguments and ask yourself where they are coming from. You ask yourself what one side or the other has to gain.
If the bias for one side could be profit and the bias for the other can only be justified by involving the UN and a "too-far-out-there for the x-files" conspiracy theory then, well, Ill let you judge.
How the hell do you spend 4 billion dollars on software? I didnt see anything over what time frame that $4 billion was spent, but even if we assume 10 years, thats $400 million a year. Assume an insane $100 million a year spent on hardware and infrastructure, another $100 million a year for unspecified overhead and an insane salary strucutre with an average of $200k a year, thats still 500 developers, 400 testers and 100 managers working on this project every year for 10 years and they cant make it work?
I could have made it fail for a fraction of the cost with only one person on the payroll. I am now taking bids for any other project doomed to failure.
Im guessing that the people who "Dont get this" dont live in swing states.
I am getting sick and tired of getting home from work and having my answering filled up with 5 or 6 candidates recorded messages. Thats not everyday, but it happened 4 or 5 times last month. I have at least 1 every damned day.
Between that and the CONTINUOUS negative political advertisements I cant stand it. There are literally 2 minute advertisement blocks that are nothing but one political add after another. "I hate candidate A" and "I love candidate A" adds back to back.
I find myself asking "Is Democracy worth this? Whats a little Fascisim if it brings peace and quiet?" Before anyone gets irate, thats a joke.
Dont get me wrong. We watch TV and moveis and play Computer games on the weekends. And yes, the school age boy comment was over the top.
Reading your post, I am realizing that a lot of my views are tainted by the fear of my daughters becomming as addicted to TV/Games as I am. My own issues mean that I have to take a very structured approach such as "not on school nights", or else an occasional exception will eventually deveolve into all-day every-day.
Do you know why Battlestar Galactica is so good? No Ewoks. No Jar Jar. If Geroge did the new Battlestar Galactica it would still have that damned robot dog and probably lots of Ewoks.
Im sure his TV show will be GREAT! (If you have trouble reading that last line you may have to wipe some of the sarcasm off)
It seems to me that the main difference between chat and board posting is the amount of thought that goes into a message. Both sometimes have single line " LOL" comments and longer well thought out monologs, but chat tends towards shorter punch lines and sites like Slashdot tend to monologs.
I think the most basic thing you would need is a chat interface with 2 "Send" buttons. One would just transmit a "throw away" line to everyone who is viewing live, and the other would be a "for posterity" button that would actually post the comment. That would allow people to interact with the live community, but also prevent people from having to sift through tons of junk to get to the actual conversation.
If anyone actually does this based on my idea I want my name in there somewhere and a winter home in the Bahamas.
It doesnt matter whether its games or TV, it doesnt take a brain surgeon to tell you that there are better things for school age kids to be doing. Reading, creative play, studying, physical play outside. All of these things are just flat out better for kids. Dont even try to argue otherwise. You will only prove that you are a school age boy.
I am a TV/video game junkie. But now that we have a girl in kindergarten the TV stays off during the week while she is awake. Period. It is much harder on me than on her, but its going to stay that way until both girls are out of school.
What does this really prove? If there are complications its as likely that they are from the gravity fluctuations as from the near-zero gravity. There could still be complications with near zero g surgery, but they were mitigated by only being in zero g for 30 second intervals. If they are looking at the procedures of surgery in near zero gravity, what have they learned? According to the original article this is preparation for tele-robotic surgery, not preperation for surgeons in space. So what lessons from this would apply to a robot?
I understand baby steps into these things, but this just does not seem all that useful. Wouldnt it be more useful to send a rat up to the space station and walk astronauts through a procedure? Sure it would be a more expensive (the fuel to get a 1 pound rat into space vs the jet fuel and crew for 6 hours) but I would think the results would be much more telling.
At least thats my professional non-astronaut non-surgeon non-scientist non-accountant opinion.
Having different computers for each image was the submitters idea. It does not have to be the whole point of it.
I can think of several uses: 1) If you use only 2 of the images and change the angles, each eye could be getting a different image. Instant 3D. Nice. 2) This could be a first step if in later generations you can get more images. Imagine actually being able to look around things on your screen without having to manipulate the object with a mouse and keyboard.
I agree. I think the Columbine RPG is completely tastless and would never touch it even though I love games. However, I support the developers right to create trash and the consumers right to buy it. On top of that, not for a second do I think that the game is what caused someone to go and act out. It like saying that allowing people to drive teaches them to be drunk drivers. Ok, its not a perfect annalogy, but Im in a hurry. Sue me.
What? One sentence you are arguing against me, than your are agreeing. Im confused.
Maybe my use of the word "this" confused you. "This" is the micro-generator-thingie, not the device that is powered by it. Oc COURSE you can swap out a dischardged one. Thats the whole frigging point.
And like todays batterys, refilling/recharging would probably be an option, but depending on the application they may want to do that in the field.
Remember, we are talking about a replacement for batteries here. Like a battery, this is not something that is going to be recharged in the field. They will just swap out one micro generator for another and send the used up one off somewhere for refeulling so the dust or sand is not an issue.
There is no point to this other than an excuse to release yet another version in a year or so.
"Because of the public demand we will be releasing a remastered version of the theatrical release..."
to be followed a year later by "Because of public demand we will be releasing a remastered vesion of the theatrical release with all of the digital enhancements and additions except for the 'Han shoots first' scene, which we will leave in"
All of this will fill the gap until the current media war is almost won. Lucas will then release many versions in the loosing format only. Once that format is no longer supported he will release it on the winning format. By then true fans will have bought the original episode in 749 different formats and versions. Talk about milking a franchise!
Im not usually a conspiracy nut, but Lucas has really pushed my buttons.
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A new study points to evidence that kids who play Monopoly more than 20 minutes a day during the "critical years" causes them to become raging Capitalists.
The study looks at more than 200 of the top entrepreneurs of the last 20 years and found that 90% of them played Monolpoly as children. The remaining 10% all turned out to be pinko communists.
In a related study, it was found that Stalin, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon and Hitler all played chess as small children. Bans on chess clubs are being considered in 38 states to prevent the rise of further military dictators.
More at 11.
Why does everyone seem bent on making this an all or nothing decision?
Why is there no discussion on the value of having diverse methods of producing fuels?
Lets assume that algea makes is the best source of fuel and California goes crazy with algea prioduction and refinement (or whatever) plants. Alls well until a typhoon hits, cuts production for the year in half and drives prices up. Or Global Warming changes the oceans enough that this algea is not viable.
Corn based fuels arent the most efficient. Fine, I accept that. But there is a reason I dont throw all my money into the one stock that is performing the best today. There is a reason we have stock portfolios, and the same reasons argue for an energy portfolio.
Corn has some other attractions that set it apart from algea or switch grass. The reason corn has taken off is NOT because of the Iowa caucuses. Its because most years there is an excess of corn and the corn producers are looking for a market. This excess is NOT going to feed the starving, its rotting in silos. We have the corn and the production system in place NOW so of course its going to get more attention than things that we dont have in large quantities today. And there is value in having one crop that can can be diverted to either food or fuel production. You cant do that with Algea or switch grass.(I know, I know, there are different kinds of corn for different uses but there is some overlap).
Thats enough for me to feel that this in ONE source of fuel, but there should be others as well.
Oh please.
Next thing you know you will be asking for people to check to make certain their facts are correct. Get with the times!!!!
Witht he 24 hour news cycle we dont have time to worry about getting it right. We have to get it out now!
Its like Charles Karault said in his 1876 State of the Union address: "Incorrect news now is better than good news tomorrow".
"and there's no reason not to think there won't be"
I love it when people use so many negatives that they get lost in their own sentance.
I am very sorry if my lack of grammer offended you.
I am very busy at work and suffer under the delusion that the idea of electronic communication is to get ones point accross and not to have it reviewed for grammer, spelling or punctuation or to be saved for posterity.
Just for the record, your paragraphs are too short, you did not reference your source material, and, oh-by-the-way, you (I guess I should say "we" now) are off topic.
Let me guess. The contract goes too....
Halliburtons new encryption subsidary.
Founded in 2006 by some guy who read a book on encryption.
How excellent is this!!!
Now I can move my fish tank next to my PC, I never have to clean the damned thing, and I have un interupted power source for my computer!
This is the best discovery EVER!
Uzo
Obviously these people are missing the big picture.
Thanks to Global Warming the polar ice caps will be gone within 40 years thus puting more water into circulation and making the articles concerns irrelavent.
See! We have all been panicking for nothing! Big oil is right and climate change is a force for Good, not Evil!!!!!
This is nothing new. They found a few years ago that if a person repeatedly told a story in the first person as if they had done something, after a few years many people would actually believe they had done it. Of course this only works for things that dont contradict other memories and make you querstion it.
I believe this all came about because of the HP board of directors having their investigators get the phone records of its employees and some journalists because HP was looking for information leaks.
The investigators did this by pretending to be the people whos phone records they wanted.
They did some research and found out mothers maiden names etc..., and gave sob stories to the customer service folks about why they needed these phone records and got all of the information they wanted.
Oh really? So its OK if I call your phone company pretending to be you and get a copy of your phone records?
Its OK if I call your Satelite/cable provider and get a list of all of the services you signed up for?
Its OK if I call you bank and get a list of all of your acounts and their balances?
The problem is not that these people are pretending to be someone they are not, the problem is that they are pretending to be some one in particular and useing that to gain information they could not otherwise gain.
What the MPAA has just done is say "There is information out there that we cant gain through normal legal channels, so we want to be allowed to gather the information through semi/non-legal channels" and the governemnt said "Oh, OK".
Bull.
You said it yourself, we are too specialized to expect a voting majority to understand everything. So we have to relly on expert opinion. All of the information is out there for you to try to understand if you want too.
Then you take a look at the different sides and listen to their arguments and ask yourself where they are coming from. You ask yourself what one side or the other has to gain.
If the bias for one side could be profit and the bias for the other can only be justified by involving the UN and a "too-far-out-there for the x-files" conspiracy theory then, well, Ill let you judge.
How the hell do you spend 4 billion dollars on software?
I didnt see anything over what time frame that $4 billion was spent, but even if we assume 10 years, thats $400 million a year. Assume an insane $100 million a year spent on hardware and infrastructure, another $100 million a year for unspecified overhead and an insane salary strucutre with an average of $200k a year, thats still 500 developers, 400 testers and 100 managers working on this project every year for 10 years and they cant make it work?
I could have made it fail for a fraction of the cost with only one person on the payroll.
I am now taking bids for any other project doomed to failure.
Im guessing that the people who "Dont get this" dont live in swing states.
I am getting sick and tired of getting home from work and having my answering filled up with 5 or 6 candidates recorded messages. Thats not everyday, but it happened 4 or 5 times last month. I have at least 1 every damned day.
Between that and the CONTINUOUS negative political advertisements I cant stand it. There are literally 2 minute advertisement blocks that are nothing but one political add after another. "I hate candidate A" and "I love candidate A" adds back to back.
I find myself asking "Is Democracy worth this? Whats a little Fascisim if it brings peace and quiet?" Before anyone gets irate, thats a joke.
Dont get me wrong. We watch TV and moveis and play Computer games on the weekends.
And yes, the school age boy comment was over the top.
Reading your post, I am realizing that a lot of my views are tainted by the fear of my daughters becomming as addicted to TV/Games as I am. My own issues mean that I have to take a very structured approach such as "not on school nights", or else an occasional exception will eventually deveolve into all-day every-day.
Do you know why Battlestar Galactica is so good? No Ewoks. No Jar Jar. If Geroge did the new Battlestar Galactica it would still have that damned robot dog and probably lots of Ewoks.
Im sure his TV show will be GREAT! (If you have trouble reading that last line you may have to wipe some of the sarcasm off)
It seems to me that the main difference between chat and board posting is the amount of thought that goes into a message. Both sometimes have single line " LOL" comments and longer well thought out monologs, but chat tends towards shorter punch lines and sites like Slashdot tend to monologs.
I think the most basic thing you would need is a chat interface with 2 "Send" buttons. One would just transmit a "throw away" line to everyone who is viewing live, and the other would be a "for posterity" button that would actually post the comment. That would allow people to interact with the live community, but also prevent people from having to sift through tons of junk to get to the actual conversation.
If anyone actually does this based on my idea I want my name in there somewhere and a winter home in the Bahamas.
It doesnt matter whether its games or TV, it doesnt take a brain surgeon to tell you that there are better things for school age kids to be doing. Reading, creative play, studying, physical play outside. All of these things are just flat out better for kids. Dont even try to argue otherwise. You will only prove that you are a school age boy.
I am a TV/video game junkie. But now that we have a girl in kindergarten the TV stays off during the week while she is awake. Period. It is much harder on me than on her, but its going to stay that way until both girls are out of school.
Thank God for Tivo.
What does this really prove?
If there are complications its as likely that they are from the gravity fluctuations as from the near-zero gravity. There could still be complications with near zero g surgery, but they were mitigated by only being in zero g for 30 second intervals.
If they are looking at the procedures of surgery in near zero gravity, what have they learned? According to the original article this is preparation for tele-robotic surgery, not preperation for surgeons in space. So what lessons from this would apply to a robot?
I understand baby steps into these things, but this just does not seem all that useful.
Wouldnt it be more useful to send a rat up to the space station and walk astronauts through a procedure? Sure it would be a more expensive (the fuel to get a 1 pound rat into space vs the jet fuel and crew for 6 hours) but I would think the results would be much more telling.
At least thats my professional non-astronaut non-surgeon non-scientist non-accountant opinion.
Having different computers for each image was the submitters idea. It does not have to be the whole point of it.
I can think of several uses:
1) If you use only 2 of the images and change the angles, each eye could be getting a different image. Instant 3D. Nice.
2) This could be a first step if in later generations you can get more images. Imagine actually being able to look around things on your screen without having to manipulate the object with a mouse and keyboard.
I agree. I think the Columbine RPG is completely tastless and would never touch it even though I love games.
However, I support the developers right to create trash and the consumers right to buy it. On top of that, not for a second do I think that the game is what caused someone to go and act out. It like saying that allowing people to drive teaches them to be drunk drivers. Ok, its not a perfect annalogy, but Im in a hurry. Sue me.
What? One sentence you are arguing against me, than your are agreeing. Im confused.
Maybe my use of the word "this" confused you. "This" is the micro-generator-thingie, not the device that is powered by it. Oc COURSE you can swap out a dischardged one. Thats the whole frigging point.
And like todays batterys, refilling/recharging would probably be an option, but depending on the application they may want to do that in the field.
Remember, we are talking about a replacement for batteries here.
Like a battery, this is not something that is going to be recharged in the field. They will just swap out one micro generator for another and send the used up one off somewhere for refeulling so the dust or sand is not an issue.
There is no point to this other than an excuse to release yet another version in a year or so.
"Because of the public demand we will be releasing a remastered version of the theatrical release..."
to be followed a year later by "Because of public demand we will be releasing a remastered vesion of the theatrical release with all of the digital enhancements and additions except for the 'Han shoots first' scene, which we will leave in"
All of this will fill the gap until the current media war is almost won. Lucas will then release many versions in the loosing format only. Once that format is no longer supported he will release it on the winning format.
By then true fans will have bought the original episode in 749 different formats and versions. Talk about milking a franchise!
Im not usually a conspiracy nut, but Lucas has really pushed my buttons.