"Ethical issues aside, can we raise some children in an environment largely deprived of green and see if that affects their dreams? It would probably be interesting to know, but I'm not sure how much it would further our understanding of the human mind."
Um... How about any major city?
If Star Trek Voyager has taught us anything, when you need to go deep into the ocean, just send the bad boy Tom Paris with trusty sidkick Ensin Kim in the Delta Flier. Thats more than enough to get hte job done. The only downside is that Lt Paris may make everyone listen to some drawn out letter hes writing to his father.... and quite frankly, its too dramatic for my tastes.
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WWPD - What Would Picard Do?
Man... you really buried the needle on my virgin meter with that one.
I agree. There was some hint in the blinking and the way her teeth moved and looked, at times, that she wasn't a real person. Pretty believable, but I wonder how much of that is due to the small size of the video... Would we believe it on a larger scale?
I strongly suspect that the only reason they are upfront with the memory, ports, and slots information is that so much of that is supported by the processor package.
I totally agree.
When I bought my last phone I was observing a lot of trials, and cameraphones were not allowed in several of the courthouses, for security reasons, but also because you could take pictures of the jury. I had to search out a cameraless phone, which forced me to buy an overpriced older model, because it was quite literally the only cameraless phone AT&T had in stock. It wasn't that I needed my phone in the courthouse, but rather that I didn't want to make the walk to my car without it.
So the metric system, which is touted as being so much more accurate than the measurements we here in the U.S. know and love is has a measurement that is based on a disappearing lump of metal? The only logical conclusion one can draw from this disclosure is that the metric system is magic, and should be burned at the stake.
I sure hope that Obama has the decency to ask his supporters not to play tricks like this. While I don't support him, at the start of this race I at least respected him. Lately, I'm not so sure, and his supporters aren't helping his case.
I thought this election might be civil. I was wrong.
That one went directly over your head. It then proceeded to enter a holding pattern in the desperate hope that you would figure it out before it ran out of fuel. Sheesh!
This doesn't come as any surprise to me, I've seen dozens of commercial sites using Wikipedia content. The other day, I noticed that the pet social networking site animalattraction.com appears to have used the Wikipedia entries for their breed information.
If you subtract the Jar-Jar Binks crap, and deleted some of the kid's dialog, it certainly would be better than either of the two movies that followed it. It isn't that it was awful, I my mind the problem was that it was even more childish than the originals. The originals were at the teenage level, whereas the first prequel was at the Kindergarten level.
Hey, at least the kid who played Skywalker was a better actor than the teenage version...
Frankly, I find your use of this tragedy to make your tired and overused attack on the people and government of the United States of America disgusting. I feel for the people of whatever nation you live in, because they have to be your neighbors. May God have mercy on their souls.
A handful of postings on Slashdot.org do not represent the will and emotions of a nation. The attention of mainstream media does not represent the will and emotions of a nation. I can assure you that the vast majority of Americans feel for the Chinese, and would support any help we could provide.
I feel sorry for you.
That was what I felt was so ironic about the post. Based on the spelling of program ("programme"), it seems likely that we can conclude the original poster is NOT an American, yet his/her post clearly suggests that it is the Americans who should shoulder the economic burden of saving the world. Been there, done that, tired of it. Here is an idea world, pay your own damned way, CHEAPSKATES!
I lived in Carroll County, Maryland when the change to electronic voting occurred, and after years of optical scan voting, many people I knew were confused by the move to e-voting. Our system had always worked fine, was simple and easy to understand, and had a paper trail. All you needed was a marker, a sheet of paper with spaces to fill in, and bam, you voted. I'm shocked to see that the state's push for e-voting inflated the cost of voting in Carroll County from $22k to over $200k!
That is simply unacceptable.
That is exactly what science is right now, only without the judge. Look at the controversy surrounding global warming, with heretics and the orthodoxy duking it out with no mediator.
Lawyers were writing the documents that form our society while scientists were still struggling to figure out the existance or non-existance of spontaneous generation, and believed bleeding people was a good idea. Yes, I'm absolutely serious.
No, it is in the courts, following the law, and with lawyers arguing the matter, that LEGAL matters should be settled. While the controversy may be extra-legal, the means sought for resolving it are not. Scientists will offer opinion, but never should we have what your comments would lead to, some sort of court of science, to decide any matters where the law is influenced by science. Sort of like an Sharia court, only for science instead of religion.
Well, Americans aren't exactly using Red and Blue incorrectly.
We have consistantly labelled communists as "reds" just like in Europe. However, both American political parties have chosen to use colors from the American flag, and white just doesn't really work as well as red and blue.
Words have different meanings in different places. We manage to figure it out, so deal with it.
I love how any statement criticizing a country by someone who sounds vaguely American engenders an automatic response listing various transgressions the United States has, or alledgedly has, or quite possibly has not committed. Proportion is exactly what you are missing. You are comparing a decision made due to a DIRECT threat by a currently standing government, with a willful veiling of the truth to hide from the world and its own people the evils a nation is committing. Your comparison and call for proportion is spurious, and represents nothing more than a cheap shot at an easy target.
You've failed in making whatever point your were trying to make. People would look at you like you were insane, the same result as if you did the the same thing (only backwards) in a CHINESE bar.
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"Ethical issues aside, can we raise some children in an environment largely deprived of green and see if that affects their dreams? It would probably be interesting to know, but I'm not sure how much it would further our understanding of the human mind." Um... How about any major city?
Well, at least the needle isn't a virgin anymore.
They might make a ding in it.
Well, since it is actually more like 75%, shouldn't we be talking about $150 laptops?
While the overall tracks are fairly dissimilar, the track for Gustav does appear fairly close to where Andrew eventually made landfall. That doesn't mean that they are overreacting. They appear to have UNDER reacted in 1992, in light of what happened with Katrina. Gustav: http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images/weather/plots/storm_07.gif Andrew: http://www.hurricaneadvisories.com/andrew92.html
I agree. There was some hint in the blinking and the way her teeth moved and looked, at times, that she wasn't a real person. Pretty believable, but I wonder how much of that is due to the small size of the video... Would we believe it on a larger scale?
I strongly suspect that the only reason they are upfront with the memory, ports, and slots information is that so much of that is supported by the processor package.
I totally agree. When I bought my last phone I was observing a lot of trials, and cameraphones were not allowed in several of the courthouses, for security reasons, but also because you could take pictures of the jury. I had to search out a cameraless phone, which forced me to buy an overpriced older model, because it was quite literally the only cameraless phone AT&T had in stock. It wasn't that I needed my phone in the courthouse, but rather that I didn't want to make the walk to my car without it.
So the metric system, which is touted as being so much more accurate than the measurements we here in the U.S. know and love is has a measurement that is based on a disappearing lump of metal? The only logical conclusion one can draw from this disclosure is that the metric system is magic, and should be burned at the stake.
We've been selling a salt-based packet shaper for years.
Liquid aluminum? I think you mean Transparent Aluminum. Oh, I see, you are using a keyboard. How quaint.
I sure hope that Obama has the decency to ask his supporters not to play tricks like this. While I don't support him, at the start of this race I at least respected him. Lately, I'm not so sure, and his supporters aren't helping his case. I thought this election might be civil. I was wrong.
That one went directly over your head. It then proceeded to enter a holding pattern in the desperate hope that you would figure it out before it ran out of fuel. Sheesh!
You're post. suggests that perhaps you USian may have needed to. Change a few grades to survive in skool.
This doesn't come as any surprise to me, I've seen dozens of commercial sites using Wikipedia content. The other day, I noticed that the pet social networking site animalattraction.com appears to have used the Wikipedia entries for their breed information.
If you subtract the Jar-Jar Binks crap, and deleted some of the kid's dialog, it certainly would be better than either of the two movies that followed it. It isn't that it was awful, I my mind the problem was that it was even more childish than the originals. The originals were at the teenage level, whereas the first prequel was at the Kindergarten level. Hey, at least the kid who played Skywalker was a better actor than the teenage version...
Frankly, I find your use of this tragedy to make your tired and overused attack on the people and government of the United States of America disgusting. I feel for the people of whatever nation you live in, because they have to be your neighbors. May God have mercy on their souls. A handful of postings on Slashdot.org do not represent the will and emotions of a nation. The attention of mainstream media does not represent the will and emotions of a nation. I can assure you that the vast majority of Americans feel for the Chinese, and would support any help we could provide. I feel sorry for you.
That was what I felt was so ironic about the post. Based on the spelling of program ("programme"), it seems likely that we can conclude the original poster is NOT an American, yet his/her post clearly suggests that it is the Americans who should shoulder the economic burden of saving the world. Been there, done that, tired of it. Here is an idea world, pay your own damned way, CHEAPSKATES!
I lived in Carroll County, Maryland when the change to electronic voting occurred, and after years of optical scan voting, many people I knew were confused by the move to e-voting. Our system had always worked fine, was simple and easy to understand, and had a paper trail. All you needed was a marker, a sheet of paper with spaces to fill in, and bam, you voted. I'm shocked to see that the state's push for e-voting inflated the cost of voting in Carroll County from $22k to over $200k! That is simply unacceptable.
That is exactly what science is right now, only without the judge. Look at the controversy surrounding global warming, with heretics and the orthodoxy duking it out with no mediator. Lawyers were writing the documents that form our society while scientists were still struggling to figure out the existance or non-existance of spontaneous generation, and believed bleeding people was a good idea. Yes, I'm absolutely serious.
No, it is in the courts, following the law, and with lawyers arguing the matter, that LEGAL matters should be settled. While the controversy may be extra-legal, the means sought for resolving it are not. Scientists will offer opinion, but never should we have what your comments would lead to, some sort of court of science, to decide any matters where the law is influenced by science. Sort of like an Sharia court, only for science instead of religion.
Well, Americans aren't exactly using Red and Blue incorrectly. We have consistantly labelled communists as "reds" just like in Europe. However, both American political parties have chosen to use colors from the American flag, and white just doesn't really work as well as red and blue. Words have different meanings in different places. We manage to figure it out, so deal with it.
I love how any statement criticizing a country by someone who sounds vaguely American engenders an automatic response listing various transgressions the United States has, or alledgedly has, or quite possibly has not committed. Proportion is exactly what you are missing. You are comparing a decision made due to a DIRECT threat by a currently standing government, with a willful veiling of the truth to hide from the world and its own people the evils a nation is committing. Your comparison and call for proportion is spurious, and represents nothing more than a cheap shot at an easy target.
You've failed in making whatever point your were trying to make. People would look at you like you were insane, the same result as if you did the the same thing (only backwards) in a CHINESE bar.
And THIS "If you have never lived in China, you don't know anything about the situation and should not comment." gets moded INSIGHTFUL?