But might it have something to do with the fact that Sean Parker and Peter Thiel, the guys who funded Spotify's recent move to the U.S., also still happen to own a significant percentage of Facebook?
Nah, that's just cynical crazy-talk. It's just to make the sign-up easier for us consumers.
Considering how much rechargeable batteries "leak" energy when they sit, does anyone take this into account when they're touting all these great energy savings that electric cars are supposed to provide? I mean, I drive very little. Most of the time my car is just sitting around. But with a gas-powered car, it's not like I'm losing gallons of gas letting it sit for a few days (or even a week). With an electric car, even with one of the newest batteries, I would be losing power even if I'm not driving it, right? Yet I never hear any of these green types addressing that. Just think of all the power that would be wasted just in long-term airport parking.
I went to my local bulk billing GP without an appointment, was seen within 30 minutes, was referred to get an X-ray across the road without an appointment (wait time - 10 minutes, X-ray time, 10 minutes, result with professional summary time - 40 minutes), then returned to the original GP, wait time - 5 minutes.
In the U.S., you're going to spend more time than that dealing with the paperwork. And god help you if you don't have insurance. That means an emergency room visit. And one of those is going to basically bankrupt you (that's not an exaggeration, an ER visit for even a simple thing here can end up costing well into the ten-of-thousands of dollars). About your only hope in the U.S. if you're uninsured is getting on Medicare or Medicaid. And if you're under 65 or employed at all, good luck with *that*.
It must be so nice to live in Canada or the UK and not have to worry about that stuff. One medical emergency in the U.S. can bankrupt an entire family. There was a 17-year-old kid nearby here who got shot by a mugger recently. His family didn't have insurance and now they owe over $100,000 in medical bills. They caught the mugger, but of course he's some piece-of-shit crackhead with no money. So now this kid and his family are basically fucked. After a public outcry, they held a fundraiser for him which raised a whopping $8,000. So much for private charity.
Oh, so your boys get the privacy protections that you've spent the last 10 years undermining for all the rest of us plebs, huh? I tell you what, I'll be cool with your special phones if, in exchange, the President and NSA Director will issue a public directive to all NSA employees reaffirming the pre-911 NSA policy of not to spying on the phone calls or emails of any American citizen without a court order. You know that policy, right? It's the one we put into law in 1978--the law that you ignored just because the President said so.
The Iranians had the same policies. Didn't stop Mossad or whoever from putting it on some Russian contractors' thumb drives and infecting them that way. Not so much of a worry unless you're a high value target. But the problem is that a lot of industrial systems ARE pretty high value targets.
"Bugs," "security vulnerabilities," "design flaws"--really doesn't matter. They can still blow up an Iranian centrifuge. And I'm pretty sure that means they can blow them up in other countries too, along with just about anything else that depends on a PLC. Stuxnet, as well-intentioned as it may have been for Israeli and U.S. interests, was a wake-up call that goes way beyond any petty Persian pissing contest.
The Coffee Car was created with the sole intention of proving that renewable/green energy sources can power cars.
Yeah, but that's not the trick. The trick is proving that it can be done affordably (i.e., in a way that doesn't make it ten times as expensive as conventional fossil fuels).
In most of the "spontaneous combustion" cases in the past, the victims have shared two important characteristics:
1) They were smokers 2) They were alcoholics
Combining a flammable liquid, lit cigarette, and someone prone to passing out--well, it doesn't take a genius to figure out the likely scenario in most of these cases.
Considering how much tuition has increased at my local state schools over the last decade or so, I'm not sure they want *anyone*. I really feel sorry for kids today. It wasn't that long ago that I went to college. And tuition has almost tripled at my old school since then (while incomes have barely budged). If I had to do it over again today, there is no way I would have been able to afford it without crippling student loan debt. Sadly this rise has happened in a time when it has become almost essential to get a college degree if you want any kind of decent job.
There was an excellent article on this a couple of years ago in the NY Times.
Performances may appear to include telepathy, clairvoyance, divination, precognition, psychokinesis, mediumship, mind control, memory feats and rapid mathematics. Hypnosis may also be used as a stage tool. Mentalists are sometimes referred to as Psychic entertainers.
That sounds like it goes way beyond an entertaining illusionist and well into the "I have psychic powers, watch me bend this spoon!!" territory. It's pretty telling that Uri Geller was one of the judges on his reality show.
The problem is that private space flight isn't profitable, beyond some space tourism to LEO. If you're looking for private enterprises to venture beyond low orbit (without NASA contracting them to), you can forget it. There is no gold in them hills and no money to be made by going to them.
My grandpappy made his own CPU's, you lazy whippersnappers! And if we're going to get back on top, American kids gonna start having to learn how to again. Now git' your lazy ass in that clean room and get to work!
If you think *that's* funny, do you know who Google recently hired as head of their Apps security division? If you guessed "a former TV-psychic" congrats, you win!!!
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Here it usually begins sometime around the fifth Jägerbomb and ends with someone pissing on a stick and seeing a "+" sign.
But might it have something to do with the fact that Sean Parker and Peter Thiel, the guys who funded Spotify's recent move to the U.S., also still happen to own a significant percentage of Facebook?
Nah, that's just cynical crazy-talk. It's just to make the sign-up easier for us consumers.
Considering how much rechargeable batteries "leak" energy when they sit, does anyone take this into account when they're touting all these great energy savings that electric cars are supposed to provide? I mean, I drive very little. Most of the time my car is just sitting around. But with a gas-powered car, it's not like I'm losing gallons of gas letting it sit for a few days (or even a week). With an electric car, even with one of the newest batteries, I would be losing power even if I'm not driving it, right? Yet I never hear any of these green types addressing that. Just think of all the power that would be wasted just in long-term airport parking.
I went to my local bulk billing GP without an appointment, was seen within 30 minutes, was referred to get an X-ray across the road without an appointment (wait time - 10 minutes, X-ray time, 10 minutes, result with professional summary time - 40 minutes), then returned to the original GP, wait time - 5 minutes.
In the U.S., you're going to spend more time than that dealing with the paperwork. And god help you if you don't have insurance. That means an emergency room visit. And one of those is going to basically bankrupt you (that's not an exaggeration, an ER visit for even a simple thing here can end up costing well into the ten-of-thousands of dollars). About your only hope in the U.S. if you're uninsured is getting on Medicare or Medicaid. And if you're under 65 or employed at all, good luck with *that*.
It must be so nice to live in Canada or the UK and not have to worry about that stuff. One medical emergency in the U.S. can bankrupt an entire family. There was a 17-year-old kid nearby here who got shot by a mugger recently. His family didn't have insurance and now they owe over $100,000 in medical bills. They caught the mugger, but of course he's some piece-of-shit crackhead with no money. So now this kid and his family are basically fucked. After a public outcry, they held a fundraiser for him which raised a whopping $8,000. So much for private charity.
Just remember to put the blue one in your mouth and the green one up your butt.
Or was that the other way around?
Oh, so your boys get the privacy protections that you've spent the last 10 years undermining for all the rest of us plebs, huh? I tell you what, I'll be cool with your special phones if, in exchange, the President and NSA Director will issue a public directive to all NSA employees reaffirming the pre-911 NSA policy of not to spying on the phone calls or emails of any American citizen without a court order. You know that policy, right? It's the one we put into law in 1978--the law that you ignored just because the President said so.
I'll hold my breath.
The Iranians had the same policies. Didn't stop Mossad or whoever from putting it on some Russian contractors' thumb drives and infecting them that way. Not so much of a worry unless you're a high value target. But the problem is that a lot of industrial systems ARE pretty high value targets.
They should toss in the Cool Ranch flavored ones. At least then they would be good for SOME purpose.
"Bugs," "security vulnerabilities," "design flaws"--really doesn't matter. They can still blow up an Iranian centrifuge. And I'm pretty sure that means they can blow them up in other countries too, along with just about anything else that depends on a PLC. Stuxnet, as well-intentioned as it may have been for Israeli and U.S. interests, was a wake-up call that goes way beyond any petty Persian pissing contest.
Nonsense! They used to say the same crap about Pets.com back in the day.
The Coffee Car was created with the sole intention of proving that renewable/green energy sources can power cars.
Yeah, but that's not the trick. The trick is proving that it can be done affordably (i.e., in a way that doesn't make it ten times as expensive as conventional fossil fuels).
Megan Fox is not hot.
She is right up to the point where she talks.
In most of the "spontaneous combustion" cases in the past, the victims have shared two important characteristics:
1) They were smokers
2) They were alcoholics
Combining a flammable liquid, lit cigarette, and someone prone to passing out--well, it doesn't take a genius to figure out the likely scenario in most of these cases.
I would have thought being homeless was a pretty darn good evasion method.
That's how John Connor did it.
Been saying it for a while now. People laugh.
Just keep laughing.
Considering how much tuition has increased at my local state schools over the last decade or so, I'm not sure they want *anyone*. I really feel sorry for kids today. It wasn't that long ago that I went to college. And tuition has almost tripled at my old school since then (while incomes have barely budged). If I had to do it over again today, there is no way I would have been able to afford it without crippling student loan debt. Sadly this rise has happened in a time when it has become almost essential to get a college degree if you want any kind of decent job.
There was an excellent article on this a couple of years ago in the NY Times.
From the Wikipedia article on "Mentalism":
Performances may appear to include telepathy, clairvoyance, divination, precognition, psychokinesis, mediumship, mind control, memory feats and rapid mathematics. Hypnosis may also be used as a stage tool. Mentalists are sometimes referred to as Psychic entertainers.
That sounds like it goes way beyond an entertaining illusionist and well into the "I have psychic powers, watch me bend this spoon!!" territory. It's pretty telling that Uri Geller was one of the judges on his reality show.
In their defense, arresting the real threats requires a lot of work. And they're very tired after eating all those donuts.
The problem is that private space flight isn't profitable, beyond some space tourism to LEO. If you're looking for private enterprises to venture beyond low orbit (without NASA contracting them to), you can forget it. There is no gold in them hills and no money to be made by going to them.
Later today we'll also get the 5th story about how Buzz Aldrin is pissed too.
American space exploration has been in a state of decay for four decades now.
FTFY
EOM
My grandpappy made his own CPU's, you lazy whippersnappers! And if we're going to get back on top, American kids gonna start having to learn how to again. Now git' your lazy ass in that clean room and get to work!
If you're going to do that you may as well post it directly to the Pirate Bay and just cut out the middle man.
If you think *that's* funny, do you know who Google recently hired as head of their Apps security division? If you guessed "a former TV-psychic" congrats, you win!!!