I always assumed, that since Darth Vader had become half man, half machine, that he was able to link into the Storm Trooper's uniform to see what was going on, give direct orders, and to basically receive a constant feed of tactical information.
Seriously,
I looked ad the PDF, and the languages used in the summary, is no where to be found in the provided links.
I vote to mod this story off the front page.
In fact, I think the "editors" should be able to be moderated.
I read my original post and I do see that I did say "satellite" images. I didn't mean "satellite", and I am sorry I flew off the handle and insulted your intelligence level.
Normally I don't get all riled up, but every one of you idiots has mentioned the wikipedia article that says "satellite and arial" photos. Is that the only method of taking pictures of something on the surface of the ocean?
My God, I said I read the articles and I cannot find ONE image. Not even from a dude on a canoe floating past.
Someone has to have taken a picture of this somehow. And i find it hard to believe that the infrared signature of that section of ocean matches the unpolluted sections. There has to be some way to come up with some kind of image to prove that it's there.
See, everyone assumes you need satellite photos. I mean this is the ocean, not deep space. And it's the surface of the ocean. Someone could just drive their boat up to the edge of this "island". Snap a few shots, and bam, instant funding for clean up.
But let me know when your satellite is ready.:)
Who says it has to be a satellite photo. How bout just a photo from a ship, or a diver underneath this big "island". I stand with the others, I want to see images.
Oh come on, in this day and age of mass hysteria and chickenlittlism (new word), scientists don't have to provide proof of anything any more. If they say it, it's gospel, and no one better disagree, or they will get flogged as a heretic.
Although I do like your explanation on why no one has seen it yet except scientists. Very creative.
So when you are reading a book and it doesn't apply to you because it says something like "lack of attention due to sports", keep in mind the root of the problem is "lack of attention", it could be due to sports, or due to raiding the new lvl 80 heroic content in the 3.2 patch, or spending every night trying to get that last ham station of the Islands on the Air award.
You are a geek, she is a geek, but you are still both human, and relationships all work pretty much the same thing, and suffer from the same things just some more than others.
Finally, this is a relationship, not a new car, instead of reading the books and using your heads, just talk with each other and use your hearts.
Just look at us. We have different definitions of intelligence just for humans. "That person is book smart", "He has street smarts" and I am sure if I took a little bit of time I could come up with other examples. Even for our own intelligence we can be pretty stupid. Just check out the Darwin awards. If we judged intelligence by that we'd be in big trouble.
People on the Interstate slow down to let the person merging onto the highway. On the Autobahn, when you are merging, you yield unless someone is nice enough to move over to the left to give you room.
If you are in the left lane and see someone coming up behind you, you wait until they are right on your ass, then slow down, and play games instead of trying to get over to the right. On the Autobahn if you are rear ended in the left lane, you get the ticket, not the guy who rear ended you.
Some "good samaritan" will see someone waiting to come out of a parking lot, and come to almost a complete stop to let him out, being a "nice guy" to the one car, while pissing off the 10 or 20 behind him. If the "good samaritan" would have just kept driving, the person leaving the parking lot would only have to wait a few more seconds.
You could be the only person on the road, and the jackass who just got to the intersection will putt putt out in front of you instead of waiting to pass before entering the roadway.
The self appointed "set the speed limit" driver who will do everything in his power to make sure everyone behind him can go no faster than he can. Through all his paying attention to the people behind him, he invariably ends up driving slower than the speed limit pissing off everyone behind him.
The "brake light flasher". He is either riding with his foot over the brake pedal, or is just a nervous nelly and slows down for every divot, pothole, loose pebble, and unidentifiable stain in the road.
The people who have to come to a complete stop and drive slowly over the railroad tracks that are almost smoother than the roadway itself. Rather than letting their shock absorbers work the way they are supposed too, they want to feel every single bump as they creep their way across the tracks.
Then I clump all these together. The cell phone users, the arguing couples, the newpaper readers, the texters, and gps users. They all drive like friggin morons.
Finally everyone who just drives in their own little world and not worrying about how their lack of attentiveness affects the vehicles around them.
From what I can recall, scientists discussed a correlation between pollution and global warming back in the early 1970's. So, since then, we cleaned up emissions from cars, emissions from factories, heck, people are using CF bulbs to reduce the use of electricity. Furnaces, Air Conditioners, Hot Water heaters continue to improve in efficiency indirectly reducing pollution. Wood and coal are not used as prevalently for heating homes; and the list goes on.
Shouldn't we be able to see some evidence of all these changes, of all the struggling to slow global warming, shouldn't there be some sign that it's working? Year after year we keep hearing that "We have to stop using this, or stop doing that" and we do, and yet, there has never been anyone who has ever said "IT'S WORKING!!!!!"
If the scientists have proof that humans are causing global warming, then they should also have proof that all of the things we have done have helped, no matter how little.
I don't deny that the climate is changing, it's just that year after year with no word that anything humans have done to lessen their impact on the environment has helped, it makes me wonder if it's even worth the effort.
"The bats might not be killed by the wind turbine blades directly, but instead by the sudden drop in air pressure the swinging rotors induce"
I am confused. The wind flowing over the blade induces a low pressure and causes the blade to move. The blade does not induce a low pressure from it's own movement. It seems to many people are thinking of these like propellers on a airplane or a window fan.
Maybe that's why there is so much opposition. People hear "wind generator" and they think that's what they do, generate wind. It's the government plan to control weather but utilizing huge over-sized oscillating fans.
Anyway, I think TFA has it backwards. The shape of the blades results in a sudden drop of air pressure when wind flow over them thereby inducing movement. It's not the movement of the blades inducing the low pressure and causing wind.
Insurance companies, just like electric companies as well as municipal water and sewer providers are still operating under the paradigm that existed in the early 20th century. That assumption is that the service they are providing, is either, for, or is, a luxury. At one time, driving was a luxury, at one time electricity was a luxury, at one time city water and sewer were luxuries. Until these providers enter into the 21st century with the rest of us and realize that these activities and services are necessities, you will keep seeing all kind of inane ideas as they try to make a buck.
I play WoW. I used to play UO. Skipped EQ/EQ2 altogether. I think a combination of things should result in a character gaining a level. It should be XP + some other requirement. Some ideas off the top of my head would be a certain amount of XP plus, raising some other set of skills to a specific point and you gain a level. So in WoW, you to go from level 10 to 11 you would maybe need 20,000 XP, plus your cooking and one of your weapons skills must be at x amount of points and you must have earned Y amount of gold. As you gain more levels, the requirements to go to the next level increase. By the time you hit the level cap, you would have really learned all aspects of your character, become a productive member of at least your guild and truly get a sense of accomplishment.
80 levels of button mashing isn't an accomplishment.
We need to fight back and stop fulfilling http requests from anything Microsoft. Hell even go deep enough to determin the OS. If you run MS, good luck using the web. Microsoft needs a smackdown, and there is enough of us out there that administer websites and such that we could have a huge impact. It's time to tell Microsoft, "free FAT or no web for you!"
That's because they lost the battle on homosexuality, now they need a new dragon. I'd be willing to bet that in 40 or 50 years, we'll get reports that pedophilia is not a choice, it's genetic, and we'll get laws saying people shouldn't discriminate against pedophiles. People like NAMBLA will have parades, and a crime against a pedophile because of his (or her) sexual orientation will be considered a hate crime.
That's almost a good analogy, but what happened in this case, is the mechanic opened the truck and went looking around, when all he was supposed to do was to change the headlight.
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I always assumed, that since Darth Vader had become half man, half machine, that he was able to link into the Storm Trooper's uniform to see what was going on, give direct orders, and to basically receive a constant feed of tactical information.
Seriously, I looked ad the PDF, and the languages used in the summary, is no where to be found in the provided links. I vote to mod this story off the front page. In fact, I think the "editors" should be able to be moderated.
Yes, I'll apologize again. It was stupidity on my part, and I am humbly sorry for insulting you.
I read my original post and I do see that I did say "satellite" images. I didn't mean "satellite", and I am sorry I flew off the handle and insulted your intelligence level.
Normally I don't get all riled up, but every one of you idiots has mentioned the wikipedia article that says "satellite and arial" photos. Is that the only method of taking pictures of something on the surface of the ocean?
Time to step away from /. before I wreck my karma.
My God, I said I read the articles and I cannot find ONE image. Not even from a dude on a canoe floating past. Someone has to have taken a picture of this somehow. And i find it hard to believe that the infrared signature of that section of ocean matches the unpolluted sections. There has to be some way to come up with some kind of image to prove that it's there.
See, everyone assumes you need satellite photos. I mean this is the ocean, not deep space. And it's the surface of the ocean. Someone could just drive their boat up to the edge of this "island". Snap a few shots, and bam, instant funding for clean up. But let me know when your satellite is ready. :)
Who says it has to be a satellite photo. How bout just a photo from a ship, or a diver underneath this big "island". I stand with the others, I want to see images.
Oh come on, in this day and age of mass hysteria and chickenlittlism (new word), scientists don't have to provide proof of anything any more. If they say it, it's gospel, and no one better disagree, or they will get flogged as a heretic.
Although I do like your explanation on why no one has seen it yet except scientists. Very creative.
I have looked through all the links. If this "island" is that big, it should be easy to get satellite images.
Anyone care to provide them?
So when you are reading a book and it doesn't apply to you because it says something like "lack of attention due to sports", keep in mind the root of the problem is "lack of attention", it could be due to sports, or due to raiding the new lvl 80 heroic content in the 3.2 patch, or spending every night trying to get that last ham station of the Islands on the Air award. You are a geek, she is a geek, but you are still both human, and relationships all work pretty much the same thing, and suffer from the same things just some more than others. Finally, this is a relationship, not a new car, instead of reading the books and using your heads, just talk with each other and use your hearts.
Just look at us. We have different definitions of intelligence just for humans. "That person is book smart", "He has street smarts" and I am sure if I took a little bit of time I could come up with other examples. Even for our own intelligence we can be pretty stupid. Just check out the Darwin awards. If we judged intelligence by that we'd be in big trouble.
People on the Interstate slow down to let the person merging onto the highway. On the Autobahn, when you are merging, you yield unless someone is nice enough to move over to the left to give you room.
If you are in the left lane and see someone coming up behind you, you wait until they are right on your ass, then slow down, and play games instead of trying to get over to the right. On the Autobahn if you are rear ended in the left lane, you get the ticket, not the guy who rear ended you.
Some "good samaritan" will see someone waiting to come out of a parking lot, and come to almost a complete stop to let him out, being a "nice guy" to the one car, while pissing off the 10 or 20 behind him. If the "good samaritan" would have just kept driving, the person leaving the parking lot would only have to wait a few more seconds.
You could be the only person on the road, and the jackass who just got to the intersection will putt putt out in front of you instead of waiting to pass before entering the roadway.
The self appointed "set the speed limit" driver who will do everything in his power to make sure everyone behind him can go no faster than he can. Through all his paying attention to the people behind him, he invariably ends up driving slower than the speed limit pissing off everyone behind him.
The "brake light flasher". He is either riding with his foot over the brake pedal, or is just a nervous nelly and slows down for every divot, pothole, loose pebble, and unidentifiable stain in the road.
The people who have to come to a complete stop and drive slowly over the railroad tracks that are almost smoother than the roadway itself. Rather than letting their shock absorbers work the way they are supposed too, they want to feel every single bump as they creep their way across the tracks.
Then I clump all these together. The cell phone users, the arguing couples, the newpaper readers, the texters, and gps users. They all drive like friggin morons.
Finally everyone who just drives in their own little world and not worrying about how their lack of attentiveness affects the vehicles around them.
These are just a few.
From what I can recall, scientists discussed a correlation between pollution and global warming back in the early 1970's. So, since then, we cleaned up emissions from cars, emissions from factories, heck, people are using CF bulbs to reduce the use of electricity. Furnaces, Air Conditioners, Hot Water heaters continue to improve in efficiency indirectly reducing pollution. Wood and coal are not used as prevalently for heating homes; and the list goes on.
Shouldn't we be able to see some evidence of all these changes, of all the struggling to slow global warming, shouldn't there be some sign that it's working? Year after year we keep hearing that "We have to stop using this, or stop doing that" and we do, and yet, there has never been anyone who has ever said "IT'S WORKING!!!!!"
If the scientists have proof that humans are causing global warming, then they should also have proof that all of the things we have done have helped, no matter how little.
I don't deny that the climate is changing, it's just that year after year with no word that anything humans have done to lessen their impact on the environment has helped, it makes me wonder if it's even worth the effort.
It took 3 years for this resurrection to occur.
"The bats might not be killed by the wind turbine blades directly, but instead by the sudden drop in air pressure the swinging rotors induce"
I am confused. The wind flowing over the blade induces a low pressure and causes the blade to move. The blade does not induce a low pressure from it's own movement. It seems to many people are thinking of these like propellers on a airplane or a window fan.
Maybe that's why there is so much opposition. People hear "wind generator" and they think that's what they do, generate wind. It's the government plan to control weather but utilizing huge over-sized oscillating fans.
Anyway, I think TFA has it backwards. The shape of the blades results in a sudden drop of air pressure when wind flow over them thereby inducing movement. It's not the movement of the blades inducing the low pressure and causing wind.
Insurance companies, just like electric companies as well as municipal water and sewer providers are still operating under the paradigm that existed in the early 20th century. That assumption is that the service they are providing, is either, for, or is, a luxury. At one time, driving was a luxury, at one time electricity was a luxury, at one time city water and sewer were luxuries. Until these providers enter into the 21st century with the rest of us and realize that these activities and services are necessities, you will keep seeing all kind of inane ideas as they try to make a buck.
In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce.
Strange, just recently, here in the U.S. it has become that way as well.
I play WoW. I used to play UO. Skipped EQ/EQ2 altogether. I think a combination of things should result in a character gaining a level. It should be XP + some other requirement. Some ideas off the top of my head would be a certain amount of XP plus, raising some other set of skills to a specific point and you gain a level. So in WoW, you to go from level 10 to 11 you would maybe need 20,000 XP, plus your cooking and one of your weapons skills must be at x amount of points and you must have earned Y amount of gold. As you gain more levels, the requirements to go to the next level increase. By the time you hit the level cap, you would have really learned all aspects of your character, become a productive member of at least your guild and truly get a sense of accomplishment.
80 levels of button mashing isn't an accomplishment.
Thank you.
No, I'll be 40 in November. I still believe in taking action than bitching about a situation.
We need to fight back and stop fulfilling http requests from anything Microsoft. Hell even go deep enough to determin the OS. If you run MS, good luck using the web. Microsoft needs a smackdown, and there is enough of us out there that administer websites and such that we could have a huge impact. It's time to tell Microsoft, "free FAT or no web for you!"
Screw having a picture of the animal, I want to see the crop circles.
That's because they lost the battle on homosexuality, now they need a new dragon. I'd be willing to bet that in 40 or 50 years, we'll get reports that pedophilia is not a choice, it's genetic, and we'll get laws saying people shouldn't discriminate against pedophiles. People like NAMBLA will have parades, and a crime against a pedophile because of his (or her) sexual orientation will be considered a hate crime.
None of of my old computers that were from the Win 95/98/2000 era have the option to boot from USB. Is there going to be other media available?
That's almost a good analogy, but what happened in this case, is the mechanic opened the truck and went looking around, when all he was supposed to do was to change the headlight.