The problem with powering the vehicle with alcohol is that you'd try to get to work, and find a bunch of drunks passed out on your front lawn and your tank empty.
Does anyone remember the name or have a link to the fan film that came out a few years ago, all I can remember is reading about it in Wired that it was rendered on an Alpha.
It's called WiFi. Bookstores, Texas state rest stops, College campuses, many cities - I think Toronto and Dayton, Hotels, and lots more if you warchalk or such.
I was one a poor ungrateful wretched athiest, but was saved by the morality of the Christian religion. I learned from this how I am far superior to others and to show this through my constant moral self-rightousness. I also learned that I owe everlasting thanks to my invisible creator whose only proof of existance is a 2000 year old book with no sources. It has provided me with thoughts, so there won't be a chance of me thinking heretical one, thank god. I'll say, if it wasn't for religion, I might actually contribute something to society!
Hey, give the guy a break. I mean, if you could do that whole water into wine thing, wouldn't you get a bit carried away at times just to pick up chicks and have some fun?
There are many well thought out logical refutations of your post. However, so as to do a service to slashdotters who have actual jobs and aren't staying up until the wee hours drinking and playing halo at uni, I refute it thus: You are a moron. (Also, I kick you in the head.)
Go read about the subject before you make more of a fool of yourself, if you're intelligent enough to understand how to do that. It's pitiful that your inferiority complex forces you to try to drag others down to your level.
Do you have any idea how much it'd cost to hire a two-headed actor. The salary would be big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it would be. I mean, you may think it's alot to pay Jim Carrey 20 million a movie, but that's just peanuts compared to paying a two-headed actor.
It's the one post that has a thoughtful suggestion, make those in power accountable for their actions. Doctors get sued all the time for mistakes, even when nothing more could be done - the same should apply to anyone that has control over someone's life.
Well, there's that little pesky freedom thing, you know, what America was sorta founded on. The thing that millions of people have died for just in this century to have. Nothing major, really.
If you'd bothered reading the Amsterdam article, they have less weed use than America, and due to it being noncriminal, there's no need for a black market and less crime. Dumbass.
Do you even know anything about the drug subculture? Look at some statistics: http://www.drug-rehabs.org/drug-statistics.php and then realize that next time you're in a movie theatre, 10% of the people there have tried coke, 2.5% use weed, 5% tried MDMA. If drugs are so dangerous they have a high probability of causing the problems you speak of then society would've fallen apart years ago.
In response to your kneejerk emotional appeal: Use of crack cocaine does not cause malformed babies like Fetal Alcohol Syndrome does -that's pure hype, it only causes a lower birthweight. Teeth falling out from meth is garbage as well. And as for loosing the will to live, I think Irvine Welsh said it best "People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget - is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid."
From here: http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/ulk/amlock.html Percent of federal prisoner population incarcerated for nonviolent crimes: 89
Percent of new admissions to federal prisons that are for nonviolent crimes: 94
Percent of state prisoner population convicted on drug charges, 1979: 6
Percent of state prisoner population convicted on drug charges, 1991: 21
Percent of Federal prisoner population convicted on drug charges, 1979: 25
Percent of Federal prisoner population convicted on drug charges, 1991: 58
And on drug incarcerations: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/prison.htm Prisoners sentenced for drug offenses constituted the largest group of Federal inmates (55%) in 2001, down from 60% in 1995
So they(drug use and suicide) both are choices an individual makes. What harm does that do to others? They'll both hurt peoples emotions, but so does not giving a bum $5 or Natalie Portman not naked an petrified. The world would go around much better if everybody didn't get involved in what wasn't their business and what they don't know about.
On the contrary, the reason gambling is so addictive is the very nature of random rewards. It has been proven to be the most effect method of conditioning.
It's not the orbit height or the speed, it's basic physics. Assuming you have some satellite with a 3m lens in orbit at 400km. We use visible light that is on average about 500nm wavelength. The minimum resolvable angle for a circular lens is theta = 1.22*lambda/D, which comes out to be, 203*10^-9, so the absolute maximum resolution is about 8cm via some trig, and more like at least twice that because of atmospheric effects.
What chance do you think some pop sensation like Britney Spears is gonna still be going strong in 5 years. The Beatles as a group lasted 7, and had successful solo careers after that, the Stones produced new albums for 20 or so years and are still touring, Pink Floyd lasted almost 20, Led Zeppelin lasted 15. Aerosmith, AC/DC, Tom Petty, Ozzy and others have had similar lifespans. These were all groups from the 60s/70s. The only groups I can really think of that made it big in the 80s and are still going are GNR/Velvet Revolver and Green Day.
However, I'm sure I missed some bands, so please correct me.
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Well, it has been mankind's oldest wish...
For launching without tow, but requiring fuel I have four words for you: Jet Assisted Take Off.
Less fequent traffic james!?! Haven't you seen the intro to Futurama?
The problem with powering the vehicle with alcohol is that you'd try to get to work, and find a bunch of drunks passed out on your front lawn and your tank empty.
Does anyone remember the name or have a link to the fan film that came out a few years ago, all I can remember is reading about it in Wired that it was rendered on an Alpha.
It's called WiFi. Bookstores, Texas state rest stops, College campuses, many cities - I think Toronto and Dayton, Hotels, and lots more if you warchalk or such.
I was one a poor ungrateful wretched athiest, but was saved by the morality of the Christian religion. I learned from this how I am far superior to others and to show this through my constant moral self-rightousness. I also learned that I owe everlasting thanks to my invisible creator whose only proof of existance is a 2000 year old book with no sources. It has provided me with thoughts, so there won't be a chance of me thinking heretical one, thank god. I'll say, if it wasn't for religion, I might actually contribute something to society!
Hey, give the guy a break. I mean, if you could do that whole water into wine thing, wouldn't you get a bit carried away at times just to pick up chicks and have some fun?
You're wrong, Jesus did exist, and here's proof: http://www.sprengmeister.org/nsfw/jesusishitler/
There are many well thought out logical refutations of your post. However, so as to do a service to slashdotters who have actual jobs and aren't staying up until the wee hours drinking and playing halo at uni, I refute it thus: You are a moron. (Also, I kick you in the head.)
Ooohhh! Making false analogies is fun, let me try!
When they came for the rapists, I did not speak, for I am not a rapist.
When they came for the junkies, I did not speak, for I am not a junkie.
When they came for the patients in a permanently vegetative state, I did not speak, for I am not a patient in a permanently vegetative state.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak.
Go read about the subject before you make more of a fool of yourself, if you're intelligent enough to understand how to do that. It's pitiful that your inferiority complex forces you to try to drag others down to your level.
Do you have any idea how much it'd cost to hire a two-headed actor. The salary would be big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it would be. I mean, you may think it's alot to pay Jim Carrey 20 million a movie, but that's just peanuts compared to paying a two-headed actor.
Mod this up!
It's the one post that has a thoughtful suggestion, make those in power accountable for their actions. Doctors get sued all the time for mistakes, even when nothing more could be done - the same should apply to anyone that has control over someone's life.
Well, there's that little pesky freedom thing, you know, what America was sorta founded on. The thing that millions of people have died for just in this century to have. Nothing major, really.
If you'd bothered reading the Amsterdam article, they have less weed use than America, and due to it being noncriminal, there's no need for a black market and less crime. Dumbass.
Do you even know anything about the drug subculture? Look at some statistics: http://www.drug-rehabs.org/drug-statistics.php and then realize that next time you're in a movie theatre, 10% of the people there have tried coke, 2.5% use weed, 5% tried MDMA. If drugs are so dangerous they have a high probability of causing the problems you speak of then society would've fallen apart years ago.
In response to your kneejerk emotional appeal: Use of crack cocaine does not cause malformed babies like Fetal Alcohol Syndrome does -that's pure hype, it only causes a lower birthweight. Teeth falling out from meth is garbage as well. And as for loosing the will to live, I think Irvine Welsh said it best "People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget - is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid."
No, you're wrong.
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From here: http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/ulk/amlock.html Percent of federal prisoner population incarcerated for nonviolent crimes: 89
Percent of new admissions to federal prisons that are for nonviolent crimes: 94
Percent of state prisoner population convicted on drug charges, 1979: 6
Percent of state prisoner population convicted on drug charges, 1991: 21
Percent of Federal prisoner population convicted on drug charges, 1979: 25
Percent of Federal prisoner population convicted on drug charges, 1991: 58
And on drug incarcerations: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/prison.htm
Prisoners sentenced for drug offenses constituted the largest group of Federal inmates (55%) in 2001, down from 60% in 1995
And finally, on how Amsterdam has largely eliminated its drug problems through decriminalization http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/reinarman.califano.h
Go check some facts before you spout off your opinion as gospel.
So they(drug use and suicide) both are choices an individual makes. What harm does that do to others? They'll both hurt peoples emotions, but so does not giving a bum $5 or Natalie Portman not naked an petrified. The world would go around much better if everybody didn't get involved in what wasn't their business and what they don't know about.
Not me!
It's the velocity of a bicycle traveling 29.77 km/s.
On the contrary, the reason gambling is so addictive is the very nature of random rewards. It has been proven to be the most effect method of conditioning.
It's not the orbit height or the speed, it's basic physics. Assuming you have some satellite with a 3m lens in orbit at 400km. We use visible light that is on average about 500nm wavelength. The minimum resolvable angle for a circular lens is theta = 1.22*lambda/D, which comes out to be, 203*10^-9, so the absolute maximum resolution is about 8cm via some trig, and more like at least twice that because of atmospheric effects.
And booze! You can't forget the cheap booze!
I disagree.
What chance do you think some pop sensation like Britney Spears is gonna still be going strong in 5 years. The Beatles as a group lasted 7, and had successful solo careers after that, the Stones produced new albums for 20 or so years and are still touring, Pink Floyd lasted almost 20, Led Zeppelin lasted 15. Aerosmith, AC/DC, Tom Petty, Ozzy and others have had similar lifespans. These were all groups from the 60s/70s. The only groups I can really think of that made it big in the 80s and are still going are GNR/Velvet Revolver and Green Day.
However, I'm sure I missed some bands, so please correct me.