First, at least two US researchers died of Gamma bursts during the Los Alamos project.
Secondly, Germany was at least messing round with nuclear materials during the war. (They even sent some to the Japanese, on a submarine with NEARLY the right name for such activity; the U-234). They also had a thing for rather unscientific experiments involving testing random things on concentration camp prisoners. I'd say the odds are fairly good that these random things included radioactive materials.
Who'd block it? Sure, the Saudis prob'ly will, but they do a good job of blocking things anyway. No ISP in the developed world will want to be known as the one that doesn't let you view dirty pictures.
And no country can mandate that everyone else moves their porn sites to.xxx. That's nearly as silly as a proposed German law requiring porn sites to only open after 9pm German time.
The real reason for an adult content provider to go for it is they'll be able to get something memorable like "hotsex.xxx" or somesuch, rather than some 20character long.com
Nonsense; here in Europe we guarantee our companies (besides Airbus, and the US's Boeing record isn't much better) very little besides strict regulation.
In the UK and Ireland, Vodafone at least market a 3G PCMCIA card that does apparently give broadbandish connectivity (download; upload is appalling). There may be something similar from one of your local phone companies, assuming they have 3G or equivalent in the US.
Realisically tho, you may be better stick with the satillite (I'm assuming there's no line-of-site or other radio packet service locally?)
It's surprising it's that low. Obviously life exists on other planets; it would be a massive statistical fluk if it didn't. Probably not on the local ones tho:) (Tho Europa still looks somewhat promising)
This is a case of confusion between the economic and social right wing. You can give people equal rights and starve them to dead, or have a welfare state and set fire to minorities. The two forms of right-wing-ness don't necessarily go together, they just often do.
Itanium isn't dead just yet; it would still seem to be Intel's answer to the huge Opteron and Power systems; Xeon's FSB-based multi-processor system doesn't scale well. And Sparc has been adopted by Fujitsu, tho sadly the more interesting future designs have been killed. Sad about poor old Alpha, too. There's a few exotic things, like that native Java chip.
x86 won't last for ever, surely? It's getting a bit silly at this point.
http://atimes.com/media/CI22Ce01.html
Open source hardware and software. Yep, those Indians are useless.:P
There's nothing magic about the US's (or the EU's or anyone else's) software developers.
The problem is that the schools do apparently offer healthy food already (I'll believe it when I see it, but Scotland is meant to be good at that sort of thing). People aren't going for it. Thus, an incentive may work. No harm in trying. It'll be cheaper that a massive "Eat Less Food" advertising campaign, and I wouldn't be surprised if it works a hell of a lot better.
There's absolutely nothing about the concept of fast food that requires it to be massively unhealthy (or lethal; see "Super Size Me"). That's just what makes the food companies the most money.
This idea that lack of exercise is the prime cause of wobble-bottom-ness is largely fostered by the food industry. Sure, exercise is a factor. Not a large one, tho. People have been sitting in offices for centuries, now. It's only lately that they've started to weigh more than a small car in any great numbers.
Don't bet on this. Part of the beauty and the horror of a patriotic system as used in the US is obedience of the masses on a scale only dreamed of by your average totalitarianism. People will work for less and less in real terms every year, and still fly a flag in front of their home and talk about the greatest nation on earth.
Erm, that didn't work out so well when you cut off the Soviet Union's grain, now did it?
But yes, the US is a large supplier of food. They were good enough to send some lovely unapproved-for-human-consumption GM grain the EU's way a while back. "Oh, sorry, we got confused between Strain 10 and 11"
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Poison gas was used in at least the German attack on the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw.
First, at least two US researchers died of Gamma bursts during the Los Alamos project. Secondly, Germany was at least messing round with nuclear materials during the war. (They even sent some to the Japanese, on a submarine with NEARLY the right name for such activity; the U-234). They also had a thing for rather unscientific experiments involving testing random things on concentration camp prisoners. I'd say the odds are fairly good that these random things included radioactive materials.
Who'd block it? Sure, the Saudis prob'ly will, but they do a good job of blocking things anyway. No ISP in the developed world will want to be known as the one that doesn't let you view dirty pictures. And no country can mandate that everyone else moves their porn sites to .xxx. That's nearly as silly as a proposed German law requiring porn sites to only open after 9pm German time.
The real reason for an adult content provider to go for it is they'll be able to get something memorable like "hotsex.xxx" or somesuch, rather than some 20character long .com
Or if 60 years ago, you'd see posters showing Hitler with his iPod all over the place ;)
A banana republic with the world's largest economy, and a banana republic which forced US chipmakers to stop using lead, among other things. Yep.
Nonsense; here in Europe we guarantee our companies (besides Airbus, and the US's Boeing record isn't much better) very little besides strict regulation.
Eek. Are you making this up? Surely, tho, fundamentalist christianity is NOT conductive to belief in life off earth?
In the UK and Ireland, Vodafone at least market a 3G PCMCIA card that does apparently give broadbandish connectivity (download; upload is appalling). There may be something similar from one of your local phone companies, assuming they have 3G or equivalent in the US. Realisically tho, you may be better stick with the satillite (I'm assuming there's no line-of-site or other radio packet service locally?)
It's surprising it's that low. Obviously life exists on other planets; it would be a massive statistical fluk if it didn't. Probably not on the local ones tho :) (Tho Europa still looks somewhat promising)
I tend to use such places as an excuse to avoid computers for a bit :)
This is a case of confusion between the economic and social right wing. You can give people equal rights and starve them to dead, or have a welfare state and set fire to minorities. The two forms of right-wing-ness don't necessarily go together, they just often do.
That's a generalisation. Here in Ireland, unless you've got a low income they will charge you about 30euro admission. Hidden taxes ;)
And in this "banner year" for space travel, Voyager is at significant risk of becoming a budget cut, apparently, to indulge Bush's moon-lust.
Nothing wrong with that ;)
Itanium isn't dead just yet; it would still seem to be Intel's answer to the huge Opteron and Power systems; Xeon's FSB-based multi-processor system doesn't scale well. And Sparc has been adopted by Fujitsu, tho sadly the more interesting future designs have been killed. Sad about poor old Alpha, too. There's a few exotic things, like that native Java chip. x86 won't last for ever, surely? It's getting a bit silly at this point.
Well, at E3, the XBox360 games were running on a pair of PowerMacs ;)
http://atimes.com/media/CI22Ce01.html Open source hardware and software. Yep, those Indians are useless. :P
There's nothing magic about the US's (or the EU's or anyone else's) software developers.
Erm, they're not going to India. I suspect they're looking for a way out of mad US IP policies.
The problem is that the schools do apparently offer healthy food already (I'll believe it when I see it, but Scotland is meant to be good at that sort of thing). People aren't going for it. Thus, an incentive may work. No harm in trying. It'll be cheaper that a massive "Eat Less Food" advertising campaign, and I wouldn't be surprised if it works a hell of a lot better.
There's absolutely nothing about the concept of fast food that requires it to be massively unhealthy (or lethal; see "Super Size Me"). That's just what makes the food companies the most money.
This idea that lack of exercise is the prime cause of wobble-bottom-ness is largely fostered by the food industry. Sure, exercise is a factor. Not a large one, tho. People have been sitting in offices for centuries, now. It's only lately that they've started to weigh more than a small car in any great numbers.
Don't bet on this. Part of the beauty and the horror of a patriotic system as used in the US is obedience of the masses on a scale only dreamed of by your average totalitarianism. People will work for less and less in real terms every year, and still fly a flag in front of their home and talk about the greatest nation on earth.
What IS the master-plan with the US deficit? Going to end up the United States of Citibank if you're not careful ;)
Erm, that didn't work out so well when you cut off the Soviet Union's grain, now did it? But yes, the US is a large supplier of food. They were good enough to send some lovely unapproved-for-human-consumption GM grain the EU's way a while back. "Oh, sorry, we got confused between Strain 10 and 11"