Now that's a silly idea! Don't you know that depleted uranium is most useful to tip missiles? Bullets are fine as they are, but to really go through several metres of concrete, radioactive waste is the best.
Hmm, wow, that's actually true. Then again, if you believe anything the mainstream media are spouting, you're a friggin' idiot to begin with so you probably won't be caring about the fact that you're being fed disinformation...
Would something like this pretty much scour the "nearby" star systems clean of any life they might have supported?
Yup, pretty much. Kind of like being inside the cosmic equivalent of a microwave oven for a few minutes or days. The Earth's atmosphere would probably filter most of it, but depending on how long it lasts it may either saturate or show bad side-effects, and it won't filter all of it - nothing filters gamma rays 100%, it's always only a percentage (unlike alpha or beta which can be blocked completely). So depending on how much gets through, it could be harmless, cause lots of cancers on everyone, just cook all of us large surface animals and bacteria/plants, or even scorch the Earth clean of life. Lots of prospects for interesting catastrophes.
They have been able to get to those documents in public libraries for a while. Access is not enough, they also have to 1) know they exist, and 2) give a damn.
Anyway, It's a shame they're not posting up all the declassified US govt documents that are coming out and linking Cheney and Rumsfeld to all sorts of evil shit... Now that would be worth having online on a reputable site, so that we don't have to go by the word of journalists anymore, but can see for ourselves all the evil shit that has been going on...
Better the original way for the customer, sure. For the company, though, think of the benefits. They sell a car. Instead of getting, say, $5000 bucks, they get a contract where the buyer stipulates that he'll buy at least 1 CD a day from the catalogue for the next 2 years.
It's like a delayed payment scheme where you actually get stuff every time you make a payment:-)
Har har har... Quake is actually 3D, but with a fucked up colour palette (as far as I could tell from playing it, anyway). DN and Doom, however, are raycasting engines (ie shoot a ray out for every vertical line on the screen, see what it hits, how far that is, and scale it down to the right size, repeat for every line on screen).
They should release the Ghost Recon engine under GPL!... man... that would be sweeeeeet:-)
Makes a lot more sense. They'll have to teach soldiers not to shoot through stuff that's transparent to light but opaque to that wavelenght, then, though. But I can see the sweet Ghost Recon snipering with "invisible laser" guns:-) *aim* *click* psfhhht *dead*. And silent too, as there's no explosion.
Which business units are affected? all? SonicBlue makes pretty good mp3 CD players (not to mention the rest), so it's a bit of a shame if that goes down... though now I've got my iRiver iMP400 I can hardly complain:-)))
Wow, that's a really big problem. They haven't solved that yet, you know. Whenever you get an upside-down picture, the print shops have to throw it away cause it's useless. It would take years on a massive parallel cluster to flip the image back...
Yes. The current goes around in circles in the steel frame your wheels (eg arc-on-outside/radius/central-bit/radius/etc - like a pie slice). Depending on the exact configuration you might be able to power a very small light bulb from it. I wouldn't bet my hand on it though.
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No, it wouldn't. We're talking about antibodies, not antibiotics. Antibodies are molecules that bind to the receptors of bacteria/viruses and thus prevent them from binding to your cells and infecting them. That's all they do - basically turn harmful agents into harmless dust-like particles. They're not alive, they're not poison. They're pretty cool!
Yes, that's what I was talking about. The common misconception which the grandparent poster expressed quite clearly is that Buddhism is about getting rid of *all* that is you - when in fact, it's about distancing yourself from what seems to be you, but actually is just emotions, passions, desires, suffering, etc., all interfering with the real you, which is god-like and content (unlike the "little self" or "ego" which is an illusion).
Most people get that bit wrong - I know I did for a long time until I read up more about Buddhism (Alan Watts speeches come to mind, too).
ROFLMAO!!!! HAHAHAHA brilliant:-) That is as perfect a written impression of Bush's speeches as is possible... hahahahah:-P Thanks for the big laugh of the day:-)
As a physics grad, I tell you you shouldn't resent it. That's the point of physics:-) To apply all this boring mathematical stuff to the world, and figure out all sorts of cool stuff from it.
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Now that's a silly idea! Don't you know that depleted uranium is most useful to tip missiles? Bullets are fine as they are, but to really go through several metres of concrete, radioactive waste is the best.
Daniel
Hmm, wow, that's actually true. Then again, if you believe anything the mainstream media are spouting, you're a friggin' idiot to begin with so you probably won't be caring about the fact that you're being fed disinformation...
Daniel
Would something like this pretty much scour the "nearby" star systems clean of any life they might have supported?
Yup, pretty much. Kind of like being inside the cosmic equivalent of a microwave oven for a few minutes or days. The Earth's atmosphere would probably filter most of it, but depending on how long it lasts it may either saturate or show bad side-effects, and it won't filter all of it - nothing filters gamma rays 100%, it's always only a percentage (unlike alpha or beta which can be blocked completely). So depending on how much gets through, it could be harmless, cause lots of cancers on everyone, just cook all of us large surface animals and bacteria/plants, or even scorch the Earth clean of life. Lots of prospects for interesting catastrophes.
Daniel
Let's just hope we don't get one of these anywhere much closer than this, cause otherwise everyone will have a really good sun tan very fast!
Daniel
They have been able to get to those documents in public libraries for a while. Access is not enough, they also have to 1) know they exist, and 2) give a damn.
Anyway, It's a shame they're not posting up all the declassified US govt documents that are coming out and linking Cheney and Rumsfeld to all sorts of evil shit... Now that would be worth having online on a reputable site, so that we don't have to go by the word of journalists anymore, but can see for ourselves all the evil shit that has been going on...
Daniel
Well, it's not like it can get worse, so keep your fingers crossed! :-)
Daniel
What about this one?
*sung on "Maria" air from West Side Story*
McDonald's... I just had a meal at McDonald's
And suddenly my brain
Will never be the same, to me
McDonald's, I just had a meal at McDonald's!
And suddenly I found
That beef was not quite sound, for me!
BSE, say it loud and then people diss you
Say it soft, and then nobody hears you
McDonald's, I just had a meal at McDonaaaaaaaald's
Hehehe.
Daniel
Better the original way for the customer, sure. For the company, though, think of the benefits. They sell a car. Instead of getting, say, $5000 bucks, they get a contract where the buyer stipulates that he'll buy at least 1 CD a day from the catalogue for the next 2 years.
:-)
It's like a delayed payment scheme where you actually get stuff every time you make a payment
Brilliant idea, I say.
Daniel
Buy 1000 hours of music, get a free car!
:-)
I'm sure more people would fall for that
Daniel
Wrong. Install MySQL first and then install apache and mod_php together.
Daniel
Har har har... Quake is actually 3D, but with a fucked up colour palette (as far as I could tell from playing it, anyway). DN and Doom, however, are raycasting engines (ie shoot a ray out for every vertical line on the screen, see what it hits, how far that is, and scale it down to the right size, repeat for every line on screen).
:-)
They should release the Ghost Recon engine under GPL!... man... that would be sweeeeeet
Daniel
As an April's fool joke on April 2nd...
:-P
Hooks on the tentacles... riiiiight...
Daniel
Makes a lot more sense. They'll have to teach soldiers not to shoot through stuff that's transparent to light but opaque to that wavelenght, then, though. But I can see the sweet Ghost Recon snipering with "invisible laser" guns :-) *aim* *click* psfhhht *dead*. And silent too, as there's no explosion.
Daniel
Which business units are affected? all? SonicBlue makes pretty good mp3 CD players (not to mention the rest), so it's a bit of a shame if that goes down... though now I've got my iRiver iMP400 I can hardly complain :-)))
Daniel
Did they keep the kitchen sink?
Daniel
That's the official pronunciation for hex though.
For anything other than decimal you're not meant to use "ten", "hundred", "twenty", etc. Eg:
Binary: 1011 - One-Oh-One-One
Octal: 7326 - Seven-Three-Two-Six
Decimal: 4729 - Four thousand seven hundred and twenty nine
Hexadecimal: 28ad - Two-Eight-A-D
Simple, huh?
Daniel
Wow, that's a really big problem. They haven't solved that yet, you know. Whenever you get an upside-down picture, the print shops have to throw it away cause it's useless. It would take years on a massive parallel cluster to flip the image back...
Daniel
More detailed answer:
Yes. The current goes around in circles in the steel frame your wheels (eg arc-on-outside/radius/central-bit/radius/etc - like a pie slice). Depending on the exact configuration you might be able to power a very small light bulb from it. I wouldn't bet my hand on it though.
Daniel
Rofl! Dr Strangelove is a brilliant movie. :-)
Daniel
No, it wouldn't. We're talking about antibodies, not antibiotics. Antibodies are molecules that bind to the receptors of bacteria/viruses and thus prevent them from binding to your cells and infecting them. That's all they do - basically turn harmful agents into harmless dust-like particles. They're not alive, they're not poison. They're pretty cool!
Daniel
Doope.
Daniel
Yes, that's what I was talking about. The common misconception which the grandparent poster expressed quite clearly is that Buddhism is about getting rid of *all* that is you - when in fact, it's about distancing yourself from what seems to be you, but actually is just emotions, passions, desires, suffering, etc., all interfering with the real you, which is god-like and content (unlike the "little self" or "ego" which is an illusion).
Most people get that bit wrong - I know I did for a long time until I read up more about Buddhism (Alan Watts speeches come to mind, too).
Daniel
ROFLMAO!!!! HAHAHAHA brilliant :-) That is as perfect a written impression of Bush's speeches as is possible... hahahahah :-P Thanks for the big laugh of the day :-)
Daniel
As a physics grad, I tell you you shouldn't resent it. That's the point of physics :-) To apply all this boring mathematical stuff to the world, and figure out all sorts of cool stuff from it.
Daniel
I was just pointing out how brainless the parent post was.
Daniel