There are 2 different series of Farscape DVDs. The first set of discs is a "best of" collection that leaves a lot of crap out. Don't waste your time with them.
The other series of discs is the complete episodic collection, but Netflix may not have it. I know it's available for purchase online, but I never saw it at Blockbuster, they only had the "best of" collection.
If you have broadband and a vcd/dvd burner, every episode is on Kazaa in decent quality.
It's not the thought of their kids looking at titties that disturbs most parents, it's the thought of kids looking at a midget and a trans-sexual fucking a donkey in the ass that disturbs most parents.
There's nothing dirty about sex or the human body, at least not until it's a 15 year old girl's body being shat on by two hairy older men.
That stuff is traumatizing to corruptable young minds. A little teenage wanking is all well and good, but major sexually deviant acts can give an impressionable child the wrong ideas. Let em wait until they're 18 to look at asian teens taking a fist in the butt. Til then, their internet access gets monitored and they get to hide crumpled magazines under their bed like I did.
So "the job's really hard" is your justification for executive exploitation of workers, outsourcing of jobs, and bonuses and payraises for execs while the rest of the employees take pay cuts or get laid off? I call bullshit.
CEOs aren't the only ones that work 18 hour days, and most of the others that DO work those kind of hours don't get to spend a good portion of them on the golf course or at lunch with business associates.
But it seems to me we should NOT ever underestimate the incredible skills of the men and women that create our wealth and keep our companies running.
I'm glad your boss inspires you with his skill and leadership, but most of these yahoos running companies are self-serving greedy pigs that do not give a god damn rat's ass about the company OR their employees' well-being. Else, you would see more company loyalty and less bitching. You're a CTO, you're at the top of the food chain, so your commentary about how valuable the CEO is to the people that bust their ASSES making money for companies like yours is meaningless. Put some time in the trenches of a company run by your typical night-school MBA executives and you'll understand what I mean. Until then, put your toys away, get back in your Escalade, and stfu.
Yep, but most people in that salary range would rather sit in a comfy chair all day and talk to morons rather than change bedpans, shave bellies, and wipe asses. Nursing pays so much money because, for the most part, it sucks. It's thankless and it's dirty.
However, having worked helpdesk jobs in the past, I'm now torn as to which I would now prefer.
Betty from Wisconsin with the computer virus or Bonnie from South-east Asia with the ebola virus....tough choice.
The tech industry was hit particularly hard in the downturn. Other industries are recovering, but IT sure isn't...at least not as quickly. While unemployment may be lower overall than it has been in the past, keep in mind that most slashdotters work in the tech industry. Those of us who were at one point in the IT field see the job market as much worse than it really is.
Plus, a lot of them are still bitter because they're no longer being paid 70k salaries to dick around with Exchange servers. I know I sure miss getting that kind of money to crank out a couple firewall installs a day for co-location customers, but fuck it, I'm almost done with a chemistry degree now blowing shit up is 10 times the fun of watching script kiddies futiley hammering away on my network.
My advice to the disgruntled? Get the hell out of the field while you're still young. There's more to life than computers. I swear.
You're absolutely on the mark. It's hard to beat acadamia for salary or job security if you're willing to put in the time for a PhD. Tenured professors make close to 6 figures starting, well over 6 figures after 5-10 years, and are next-to-impossible to fire. If you do research on top of that, you get grant money to play around with. Not to mention you're doing work for the benefit of society rather than simply to make a few fat, rich, white guys fatter, richer, and whiter.
Hell, even as a grad student, if you go into a field that is short on intelligent students (basically all the hard sciences) you'll be making a 20-30,000 a year salary as a grad student and not have to pay tuition. Spend a couple more years as a post-doc lackey making around 40,000 and get some good research published and you're set for life.
This is why I left the IT industry and went back to school. I was tired of low job security, annoying corporate culture, co-workers like something out of a Dilbert comic, and pointless tasks. The moron-to-person ratio is much smaller in academics.
Tell your friend that unless his "science" degree is in some sort of engineering, he might as well stay in IT unless he wants to go back to school and get a PhD.
In most areas of science, unless you have a PhD, you're not a scientist, you're a technician. You're as much of a wage slave doing this as you are rebooting Windows servers.
You have entered The Lobby. neo13594: d00d, this looks jus lkie the movie butlikr: hey theres a guy coming A security commando shoots YOU for 13 points of damage! YOU shoot a security commando for 60 points of damage. YOU begin to evade. butlikr shoots a security commando for 85 points of damage. A security commando has been slain by butlikr! butlikr: what a puss neo13594: d00d, my kill. ass. butlikr: stfu, there no ones kills, its a team game. An agent has appeared! Agent Smith shoots YOU for 245 points of damage. neo13594: sh*t! help me! butlikr: dam an agent, cya man YOU try to shoot Agent Smith but miss! Agent Smith begins to evade. Agent Smith shoots YOU for 2004 points of damage. You have been slain by Agent Smith! LOADING....Please wait. You tell butlikr "thanks a lot jerk. u suk" butlikr tells you "stfu n00b. u cant kill agents stupid"
Ok, let's help you understand the facts a little better:
Prior to both shootings, the NRA had already scheduled their rallies in both Flint and Denver. The shootings occured after these events had been planned for quite a while.
Should they have cancelled? Maybe...I can see both sides of the argument. But they certainly did not start these rallies BECAUSE of either shooting. If you actually listen to what the goddam movie is saying, you'll see that MIchael Moore is chiding them for not cancelling rather than starting them in the first place.
As far as being founded the same year as the KKK, that's a ridiculous straw man and you know it.
The NRA can be overzealous at times, and it may have some pretty messed up members, but for the most part it is all about gun safety and education.
I'd love if a robot drove my car. I fucking hate driving. I hate having to watch out for brain-dead morons who juggle a cell phone and a coffee while trying to handle their vehicle, too.
Wouldn't it be great to punch in your destination, then sit back, drink some coffee, smoke a cigarette, and read the paper while your vehicle takes you to where you need to go? Maybe it's less hectic in rural areas, but city driving is anything but enjoyable.
I'm pretty sure none of the 9/11 hijackers were citizens, there were merely here on either a current or expired visa. I doubt they'd issue these IDs to non-citizens.
calling the president a barely literate, self centered puppet of the religious right is OK because it is political speech, expressly permitted by the constitution. It also doesn't cost him any money for us to do so.
Conversely, a shady corporate whore like GAIN has everything to lose by its name being besmirched, and since they have money, they get to pummel those who don't have money that might speak out against them. Your freedom and opinions mean nothing to them. Our privacy means nothing the government.
Hence, be prepared to have your personal information passed around like a drunken cheerleader. Get used to it. As long as corporate funds continue to line political pockets, you'll never see personal rights and privacy supercede corporate interests.
I bought my first Indian-printed textbook this semester. It was a physical chemistry text, and was indentical in content to the original except for, as you said, a soft cover instead of hard. The price? $50 on half.com instead of $130 for the hardcover at the bookstore.
My p-chem professor is the chemistry department chair and he meets with the publishing houses fairly often to discuss the textbooks. He showed them my book and they freaked out...they had no idea that the Indian texts were getting into the US and they seemed rather upset about it. (Understandably, but fuck them, that's what they get for gouging poor college students)
You still need a source of work to create the pressure gradient through the capillaries to generate this electricity.
Our good friend the first law of thermodynamics says you can't get more energy out of one of these than the work it takes to create the pressure, so removing any for the purposed of powering something other than the system itself will remove your ability to repressurize.
There are really only two ways we're going to get the energy input to make this useful...gravity or human interaction. Rainfall, tidal flow and the like will make this a useful device near sources of said movement. These are obviously geographically limited.
Barring that, you're left with pumping the damn thing yourself generate pressure and (presumably) charge a capacitor or something with the energy.
It needs work (no pun) but has potential (again no pun) for limited applications.
Liquids aren't very compressible. You'd have a hard time finding a container that is cell-phone sized that could hold compressed water anyway. Liquids really don't like being compressed. And the compression ratio is very very low. I won't bore you with the math, but you'd get very little water coming from a canister of pressurized water...maybe 0.1% of the total container volume before the internal pressure water equal to atmospheric pressure.
You obviously don't understand how sound resonance disrupts structural integrity.
Solids fall apart at the right frequency because of the geometry of the crystal lattice. When you find the vibrational state that makes attractive forces between atoms in the crystal lattice vibrate in opposing directions and with sufficient energy, you'll get structural breakdown. The molecules of viscous fluids like water can move about, so there is no opposing rigid force. In fact, the attractive forces (eg hydrogen bonds) that keep water in liquid state are in a constant state of flux...they form and break at a steady rate. The bonds between molecules (or atoms if it's a monatomic solid) in a crystalline structure are static. Once you break one, it stays that way. Once you break several, they stay that way...they will not spontaneously reform while the substance is in the solid phase.
You have a lot of learning to do about the nature of atomic interaction and the law of thermodynamics before you should be setting out to solve the world's energy problems, my friend.
I think what the parent poster is saying is that the motive action of walking and breathing are supplying the pressure (and hence work) to move the water through the capillaries. Conservation of energy simply says that you won't get more electrical energy out of the capillaries than the amount of kinetic energy that you put in. You'll still net energy because the source of work is independent of the system. (the system being the water and capillary tubes)
Now all you need is a nice bank of capacitors to store the charge and you have a man-portable regenerating power supply that will work for as long as the person wearing it has the energy to keep moving. Probably not the most useful thing for the average joe, but it has potential (no pun) for those who will be spending a lot of time away from civilization. (soldiers, campers/hikers, etc)
Most cable providers offer Discovery Science which is an offshoot of Discovery that focuses more on real science and less on pseudoscience. It's a really good channel that offers documentaries on everything from biology to medical science to astronomy.
Just so you know that there is SOME real science on TV here. (Oh, and John Edwards is on the "sci-fi" channel, not Discovery)
Yeah, big deal, They built the stones to align with the motion of celestial bodies in that particular location. There are about 2 billion other places on earth where the particular pattern of motion of celestial bodies are unique that that location as well. You could just as easily build another stonehenge with a different rock formation there. This proves nothing.
Now hold on a second. What sheltered, academic world are you living in where assume that all adults or even a large percentage know anything at all about calculus or physics?
I have a news flash for you...the majority of people that go to college do not take any mathematics more complex than basic algebra. Science and engineering are not the only areas of study, they are in fact a rather small fraction.
You and I may know that the force experienced by a charged particle is a function of the square of its distance from another charged particle, but to expect everyone that wants to look at pictures of two guys, a midget, and a donkey to know that is just plain absurd.
4) I've enabled myself to feel socially and morally superior to others by thinking that reading the latest John Grisham will actually make me smarter or more cultured.
5) Since I'm not rich, or good looking, or smell very good, I needed justfication to be an arrogant snob. Not watching television has opened new doors for me.
I'd rather listen to someone talk in their phone once than have to hear their stupid fucking custom Britney Spears ringtone every 5 minutes because telemarketers keep calling them.
I curse the invention of the audible ringtone. They should make vibrate the only option for cellular phones. My god how I hate them.
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Fetch me an ice cream. And none of those damn sprinkles! For every sprinkle I find, I KILL YOU.
There are 2 different series of Farscape DVDs. The first set of discs is a "best of" collection that leaves a lot of crap out. Don't waste your time with them.
The other series of discs is the complete episodic collection, but Netflix may not have it. I know it's available for purchase online, but I never saw it at Blockbuster, they only had the "best of" collection.
If you have broadband and a vcd/dvd burner, every episode is on Kazaa in decent quality.
It's not the thought of their kids looking at titties that disturbs most parents, it's the thought of kids looking at a midget and a trans-sexual fucking a donkey in the ass that disturbs most parents.
There's nothing dirty about sex or the human body, at least not until it's a 15 year old girl's body being shat on by two hairy older men.
That stuff is traumatizing to corruptable young minds. A little teenage wanking is all well and good, but major sexually deviant acts can give an impressionable child the wrong ideas. Let em wait until they're 18 to look at asian teens taking a fist in the butt. Til then, their internet access gets monitored and they get to hide crumpled magazines under their bed like I did.
great monty python reference! here's $10, buy yourself a steak.
So "the job's really hard" is your justification for executive exploitation of workers, outsourcing of jobs, and bonuses and payraises for execs while the rest of the employees take pay cuts or get laid off? I call bullshit.
CEOs aren't the only ones that work 18 hour days, and most of the others that DO work those kind of hours don't get to spend a good portion of them on the golf course or at lunch with business associates.
But it seems to me we should NOT ever underestimate the incredible skills of the men and women that create our wealth and keep our companies running.
I'm glad your boss inspires you with his skill and leadership, but most of these yahoos running companies are self-serving greedy pigs that do not give a god damn rat's ass about the company OR their employees' well-being. Else, you would see more company loyalty and less bitching. You're a CTO, you're at the top of the food chain, so your commentary about how valuable the CEO is to the people that bust their ASSES making money for companies like yours is meaningless. Put some time in the trenches of a company run by your typical night-school MBA executives and you'll understand what I mean. Until then, put your toys away, get back in your Escalade, and stfu.
Yep, but most people in that salary range would rather sit in a comfy chair all day and talk to morons rather than change bedpans, shave bellies, and wipe asses. Nursing pays so much money because, for the most part, it sucks. It's thankless and it's dirty.
However, having worked helpdesk jobs in the past, I'm now torn as to which I would now prefer.
Betty from Wisconsin with the computer virus or Bonnie from South-east Asia with the ebola virus....tough choice.
The tech industry was hit particularly hard in the downturn. Other industries are recovering, but IT sure isn't...at least not as quickly. While unemployment may be lower overall than it has been in the past, keep in mind that most slashdotters work in the tech industry. Those of us who were at one point in the IT field see the job market as much worse than it really is.
Plus, a lot of them are still bitter because they're no longer being paid 70k salaries to dick around with Exchange servers. I know I sure miss getting that kind of money to crank out a couple firewall installs a day for co-location customers, but fuck it, I'm almost done with a chemistry degree now blowing shit up is 10 times the fun of watching script kiddies futiley hammering away on my network.
My advice to the disgruntled? Get the hell out of the field while you're still young. There's more to life than computers. I swear.
You're absolutely on the mark. It's hard to beat acadamia for salary or job security if you're willing to put in the time for a PhD. Tenured professors make close to 6 figures starting, well over 6 figures after 5-10 years, and are next-to-impossible to fire. If you do research on top of that, you get grant money to play around with. Not to mention you're doing work for the benefit of society rather than simply to make a few fat, rich, white guys fatter, richer, and whiter.
Hell, even as a grad student, if you go into a field that is short on intelligent students (basically all the hard sciences) you'll be making a 20-30,000 a year salary as a grad student and not have to pay tuition. Spend a couple more years as a post-doc lackey making around 40,000 and get some good research published and you're set for life.
This is why I left the IT industry and went back to school. I was tired of low job security, annoying corporate culture, co-workers like something out of a Dilbert comic, and pointless tasks. The moron-to-person ratio is much smaller in academics.
Tell your friend that unless his "science" degree is in some sort of engineering, he might as well stay in IT unless he wants to go back to school and get a PhD.
In most areas of science, unless you have a PhD, you're not a scientist, you're a technician. You're as much of a wage slave doing this as you are rebooting Windows servers.
You have entered The Lobby.
neo13594: d00d, this looks jus lkie the movie
butlikr: hey theres a guy coming
A security commando shoots YOU for 13 points of damage!
YOU shoot a security commando for 60 points of damage.
YOU begin to evade.
butlikr shoots a security commando for 85 points of damage.
A security commando has been slain by butlikr!
butlikr: what a puss
neo13594: d00d, my kill. ass.
butlikr: stfu, there no ones kills, its a team game.
An agent has appeared!
Agent Smith shoots YOU for 245 points of damage.
neo13594: sh*t! help me!
butlikr: dam an agent, cya man
YOU try to shoot Agent Smith but miss!
Agent Smith begins to evade.
Agent Smith shoots YOU for 2004 points of damage.
You have been slain by Agent Smith!
LOADING....Please wait.
You tell butlikr "thanks a lot jerk. u suk"
butlikr tells you "stfu n00b. u cant kill agents stupid"
Yeah, this game's gonna be a blast. I can't wait.
Ok, let's help you understand the facts a little better:
Prior to both shootings, the NRA had already scheduled their rallies in both Flint and Denver. The shootings occured after these events had been planned for quite a while.
Should they have cancelled? Maybe...I can see both sides of the argument. But they certainly did not start these rallies BECAUSE of either shooting. If you actually listen to what the goddam movie is saying, you'll see that MIchael Moore is chiding them for not cancelling rather than starting them in the first place.
As far as being founded the same year as the KKK, that's a ridiculous straw man and you know it.
The NRA can be overzealous at times, and it may have some pretty messed up members, but for the most part it is all about gun safety and education.
I'd love if a robot drove my car. I fucking hate driving. I hate having to watch out for brain-dead morons who juggle a cell phone and a coffee while trying to handle their vehicle, too.
Wouldn't it be great to punch in your destination, then sit back, drink some coffee, smoke a cigarette, and read the paper while your vehicle takes you to where you need to go? Maybe it's less hectic in rural areas, but city driving is anything but enjoyable.
I'm pretty sure none of the 9/11 hijackers were citizens, there were merely here on either a current or expired visa. I doubt they'd issue these IDs to non-citizens.
Because in this country,
capitalism > democracy : money > freedom
calling the president a barely literate, self centered puppet of the religious right is OK because it is political speech, expressly permitted by the constitution. It also doesn't cost him any money for us to do so.
Conversely, a shady corporate whore like GAIN has everything to lose by its name being besmirched, and since they have money, they get to pummel those who don't have money that might speak out against them. Your freedom and opinions mean nothing to them. Our privacy means nothing the government.
Hence, be prepared to have your personal information passed around like a drunken cheerleader. Get used to it. As long as corporate funds continue to line political pockets, you'll never see personal rights and privacy supercede corporate interests.
Since we're on the topic of chemistry history, don't forget that the 23rd of October (get it? 10-23? Ha!) is mole day
I bought my first Indian-printed textbook this semester. It was a physical chemistry text, and was indentical in content to the original except for, as you said, a soft cover instead of hard. The price? $50 on half.com instead of $130 for the hardcover at the bookstore.
My p-chem professor is the chemistry department chair and he meets with the publishing houses fairly often to discuss the textbooks. He showed them my book and they freaked out...they had no idea that the Indian texts were getting into the US and they seemed rather upset about it. (Understandably, but fuck them, that's what they get for gouging poor college students)
You still need a source of work to create the pressure gradient through the capillaries to generate this electricity.
Our good friend the first law of thermodynamics says you can't get more energy out of one of these than the work it takes to create the pressure, so removing any for the purposed of powering something other than the system itself will remove your ability to repressurize.
There are really only two ways we're going to get the energy input to make this useful...gravity or human interaction. Rainfall, tidal flow and the like will make this a useful device near sources of said movement. These are obviously geographically limited.
Barring that, you're left with pumping the damn thing yourself generate pressure and (presumably) charge a capacitor or something with the energy.
It needs work (no pun) but has potential (again no pun) for limited applications.
Liquids aren't very compressible. You'd have a hard time finding a container that is cell-phone sized that could hold compressed water anyway. Liquids really don't like being compressed. And the compression ratio is very very low. I won't bore you with the math, but you'd get very little water coming from a canister of pressurized water...maybe 0.1% of the total container volume before the internal pressure water equal to atmospheric pressure.
You obviously don't understand how sound resonance disrupts structural integrity.
Solids fall apart at the right frequency because of the geometry of the crystal lattice. When you find the vibrational state that makes attractive forces between atoms in the crystal lattice vibrate in opposing directions and with sufficient energy, you'll get structural breakdown. The molecules of viscous fluids like water can move about, so there is no opposing rigid force. In fact, the attractive forces (eg hydrogen bonds) that keep water in liquid state are in a constant state of flux...they form and break at a steady rate. The bonds between molecules (or atoms if it's a monatomic solid) in a crystalline structure are static. Once you break one, it stays that way. Once you break several, they stay that way...they will not spontaneously reform while the substance is in the solid phase.
You have a lot of learning to do about the nature of atomic interaction and the law of thermodynamics before you should be setting out to solve the world's energy problems, my friend.
I think what the parent poster is saying is that the motive action of walking and breathing are supplying the pressure (and hence work) to move the water through the capillaries. Conservation of energy simply says that you won't get more electrical energy out of the capillaries than the amount of kinetic energy that you put in. You'll still net energy because the source of work is independent of the system. (the system being the water and capillary tubes)
Now all you need is a nice bank of capacitors to store the charge and you have a man-portable regenerating power supply that will work for as long as the person wearing it has the energy to keep moving. Probably not the most useful thing for the average joe, but it has potential (no pun) for those who will be spending a lot of time away from civilization. (soldiers, campers/hikers, etc)
Most cable providers offer Discovery Science which is an offshoot of Discovery that focuses more on real science and less on pseudoscience. It's a really good channel that offers documentaries on everything from biology to medical science to astronomy.
Just so you know that there is SOME real science on TV here. (Oh, and John Edwards is on the "sci-fi" channel, not Discovery)
Yeah, big deal, They built the stones to align with the motion of celestial bodies in that particular location. There are about 2 billion other places on earth where the particular pattern of motion of celestial bodies are unique that that location as well. You could just as easily build another stonehenge with a different rock formation there. This proves nothing.
Now hold on a second. What sheltered, academic world are you living in where assume that all adults or even a large percentage know anything at all about calculus or physics?
I have a news flash for you...the majority of people that go to college do not take any mathematics more complex than basic algebra. Science and engineering are not the only areas of study, they are in fact a rather small fraction.
You and I may know that the force experienced by a charged particle is a function of the square of its distance from another charged particle, but to expect everyone that wants to look at pictures of two guys, a midget, and a donkey to know that is just plain absurd.
4) I've enabled myself to feel socially and morally superior to others by thinking that reading the latest John Grisham will actually make me smarter or more cultured.
5) Since I'm not rich, or good looking, or smell very good, I needed justfication to be an arrogant snob. Not watching television has opened new doors for me.
I'd rather listen to someone talk in their phone once than have to hear their stupid fucking custom Britney Spears ringtone every 5 minutes because telemarketers keep calling them.
I curse the invention of the audible ringtone. They should make vibrate the only option for cellular phones. My god how I hate them.