If the extremists carried out some bombings in Moscow and claimed credit for it, Stalin would have invaded. The AC is right. And the US might have helped. For keeping Stalin busy in the middle east meant he was focused there instead of eastern Europe. Who knows, if that happened things would be very different today. Maybe no iron curtain in eastern Europe.
That bouncing bomb the British made was cool though. I have seen the discovery (history?) channel show about it a few times. That was some out of the box thinking.
I thought most missiles already spin. The whole ballistic thing, a spinning projectile goes farther and straighter then a none spinning one. A missile is a powered projectile usually with some kind of payload.
They have already done this (the car hood thing and many other tests). Unless those brown outs in CA were caused by this laser, I'd think this weapon either uses a lot less power then you are thinking, or the type of laser they are using is more destructive then we know.
If you ever watched the making of one of the Aliens movies you found out the slime from he aliens mouths is corn syrup. All that sweet smelling stuff free flowing over everything. After I found that out the aliens lost a lot of their scariness. I seen the slime drooling out of one of those alien's mouths and my brain goes "ooo candy".
Why not build a few type of nuke plants in the same location? The waste from one type is fuel for the next.
Old school nuke power plant's waste feeds the breeder power plants.
The breeder plant's waste feeds a plutonium power plant (or what ever the new type is called).
The plutonium power plant's waste hopefully is less radioactive and can feed the breeder or old school power plant.
Am I the only person who finds it odd that nuke plants waste is more radio active the more it is processed or used as fuel? I would think that once it is used as fuel it would have less energy so less radioactive.
Is there a nuclear expert that can chime in? After heating the water to generate power, or energy was transferred from the nuclear fuel (as heat) to heat the water, I would think the fuel would be less radioactive. This is wrong?
I would rather have these theories be facts. It is still possible the the theories are wrong. If proven wrong, we all could be screwed.
Skip mars, we nee to get to Jupiter or Saturn. Build the LHC there and try this. Worst that can happen is we find this black rectangle thing and we get a second star. Or the facility opens up a hole to a separate demon dimension.
In all seriousness I hope their theories are correct. And those theories are proven correct.
I wish I had video taped it when I plugged a microsoft USB mouse into a macbook pro in front of a room full of apple fans. Some of them thought the mouse would not work since it was not an apple mouse. The looks on some of their faces were priceless. I was told I was harming the mac by using the microsoft mouse. By an apple certified person no less (they claimed to be anyway). I was trying so hard to not laugh. I just wanted to get done with what I needed to with as little hassle as possible. I do use the right click on a mac all the time.
There is another one of those meetings coming up. I think I will tape this one. I will use a dell mouse just to match them squirm.
I was going to replace windows with OSX but instead I'll say this, regular people do not know how or care how to take care of their computers.
Updates are the same, OSX has updates that should be installed, linux has updates that should be installed, windows has updates that should be installed. Applications have updates that should be installed. People bitching about windows updates and not saying a thing when OSX and linux also have updates is really showing your bias there.
Also remember cheapest can also mean "I know this". Regular people may not be willing to learn a new way to do something. They know application abc that does xyz. They do not want to change. You did your job by showing them alternative ways to do something. If they choose a way that is not your preferred way, so be it. That is their choice. Showing them a bill (or mock bill) is only showing your arrogance.
Do you truly believe that there are no assault weapons (or at least shot guns) on the merchant vessels?
I know many charter boats with m-16s on them. These guys never go farther then 100 miles from the coast of the United States. They have them "just in case" or when "shit happens". Or when you get shot at by foreign ships for fishing near them. Like when the Russian fishing ship (and its little boats) were off of Long Island NY. We could see the main ship from land. The recreational tuna fishing people got shot at by the Russians to stay away. The US Coast Guard got involved. 5 lb balls do a lot of damage to unarmored fiberglass boats with no way to defend themselves.
Only if you write in the usual care and feeding scripts yourself. Otherwise the express version is lacking. I have seen many SQL express DBs set up with no backup, no automated updating of any of the indexes and other care and feeding tasks. Also showing the bosses a script file and saying this is backing up and rebuilding X in your production database does not go over as well as opening up the GUI and saying here, look at your database. This is the task that backs it up, this is the task that rebuilds the indexes so your searches are faster, etc. Seeing things makes the boss types happier.
Writing the script files to do these tasks is not very hard to do. Why is it that most of the out sourced SQL express jobs (or turn key systems) I see never do that?
Some netbook models have a soldered in ram, so you can't change the RAM. The RAM and CPU are together in one part. Many of these do have a RAM slot but not all. A lot of the Dell minis (10 and 12 models) have a fixed amount of RAM. Which is bad in my opinion, but I do not make decisions there. Personally I would like to see netbooks with 2 RAM slots. Many would still max out at 2GB (motherboard limit) but some of the newer atom based netbooks are said to support 4GB of RAM.
Who eats something without looking at it first? Even the blind people that I have seen feel over over the fruit before eating it. How many people eat the skin of an orange, grapefruit, or banana? I don't eat the skin of an apple either but I am in the minority in that I think.
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They cancel each other out. So it is a positive.
Right?
OK sharks out we get it.
How about we use Pomeranians with laser beams on their heads? no too long.
How about rats with laser beams on their heads! Plus the added advantage of the rat chewing its way through walls and almost anything else in its way.
So Rats with laser beams on their heads. Or someone could just create millions of mousers (from TMNT )and set them loose.
1979 != 1945.
If the extremists carried out some bombings in Moscow and claimed credit for it, Stalin would have invaded. The AC is right. And the US might have helped. For keeping Stalin busy in the middle east meant he was focused there instead of eastern Europe. Who knows, if that happened things would be very different today. Maybe no iron curtain in eastern Europe.
That bouncing bomb the British made was cool though. I have seen the discovery (history?) channel show about it a few times. That was some out of the box thinking.
I thought most missiles already spin. The whole ballistic thing, a spinning projectile goes farther and straighter then a none spinning one. A missile is a powered projectile usually with some kind of payload.
I am not claiming that your math if off but...
They have already done this (the car hood thing and many other tests). Unless those brown outs in CA were caused by this laser, I'd think this weapon either uses a lot less power then you are thinking, or the type of laser they are using is more destructive then we know.
Like this
*** someone what of a spoiler alert ***
If you ever watched the making of one of the Aliens movies you found out the slime from he aliens mouths is corn syrup. All that sweet smelling stuff free flowing over everything. After I found that out the aliens lost a lot of their scariness. I seen the slime drooling out of one of those alien's mouths and my brain goes "ooo candy".
In a planet where resources are infinite, the idea that growth can be continued is insanity.
I hope you mean finite. Since with infinite resources we could grow like crazy and not have a problem.
Why not build a few type of nuke plants in the same location? The waste from one type is fuel for the next.
Old school nuke power plant's waste feeds the breeder power plants.
The breeder plant's waste feeds a plutonium power plant (or what ever the new type is called).
The plutonium power plant's waste hopefully is less radioactive and can feed the breeder or old school power plant.
Am I the only person who finds it odd that nuke plants waste is more radio active the more it is processed or used as fuel? I would think that once it is used as fuel it would have less energy so less radioactive.
Is there a nuclear expert that can chime in? After heating the water to generate power, or energy was transferred from the nuclear fuel (as heat) to heat the water, I would think the fuel would be less radioactive. This is wrong?
I believe there are a few thousand people who would disagree with you. The whole first hand knowledge thing.
You are still a virgin. Admit it.
If you weren't you know one of two things:
Male: always looking forward to the next fuck.
Female: always looking forward to the next fuck.
Humans (and chips if I remember right) are one of the few species that have sex just for the enjoyment of it.
I still say the far side of the moon would be the best place to have a base that we Earthlings would not be able to see.
I, for one, welcome our new drunken Moon landing alien overlords. :)?
From someone who slashdot nick is Alcohol Fueled. Should have been modded insightful or interesting.
Mod me offtopic
I would rather have these theories be facts. It is still possible the the theories are wrong. If proven wrong, we all could be screwed.
Skip mars, we nee to get to Jupiter or Saturn. Build the LHC there and try this. Worst that can happen is we find this black rectangle thing and we get a second star. Or the facility opens up a hole to a separate demon dimension.
In all seriousness I hope their theories are correct. And those theories are proven correct.
My ipod syncs fine with linux. No apple app store, but I never went there in the first place.
Before NASA was NASA, that section was part of the US Air force.
Let IBM make CPUs for desktops and notebooks and see how intel likes it. Maybe AMD should get IBM to make the CPUs for them?
I wish I had video taped it when I plugged a microsoft USB mouse into a macbook pro in front of a room full of apple fans. Some of them thought the mouse would not work since it was not an apple mouse. The looks on some of their faces were priceless. I was told I was harming the mac by using the microsoft mouse. By an apple certified person no less (they claimed to be anyway). I was trying so hard to not laugh. I just wanted to get done with what I needed to with as little hassle as possible. I do use the right click on a mac all the time.
There is another one of those meetings coming up. I think I will tape this one. I will use a dell mouse just to match them squirm.
I was going to replace windows with OSX but instead I'll say this, regular people do not know how or care how to take care of their computers.
Updates are the same, OSX has updates that should be installed, linux has updates that should be installed, windows has updates that should be installed. Applications have updates that should be installed. People bitching about windows updates and not saying a thing when OSX and linux also have updates is really showing your bias there.
Also remember cheapest can also mean "I know this". Regular people may not be willing to learn a new way to do something. They know application abc that does xyz. They do not want to change. You did your job by showing them alternative ways to do something. If they choose a way that is not your preferred way, so be it. That is their choice. Showing them a bill (or mock bill) is only showing your arrogance.
Do you truly believe that there are no assault weapons (or at least shot guns) on the merchant vessels?
I know many charter boats with m-16s on them. These guys never go farther then 100 miles from the coast of the United States. They have them "just in case" or when "shit happens". Or when you get shot at by foreign ships for fishing near them. Like when the Russian fishing ship (and its little boats) were off of Long Island NY. We could see the main ship from land. The recreational tuna fishing people got shot at by the Russians to stay away. The US Coast Guard got involved. 5 lb balls do a lot of damage to unarmored fiberglass boats with no way to defend themselves.
Only if you write in the usual care and feeding scripts yourself. Otherwise the express version is lacking. I have seen many SQL express DBs set up with no backup, no automated updating of any of the indexes and other care and feeding tasks. Also showing the bosses a script file and saying this is backing up and rebuilding X in your production database does not go over as well as opening up the GUI and saying here, look at your database. This is the task that backs it up, this is the task that rebuilds the indexes so your searches are faster, etc. Seeing things makes the boss types happier.
Writing the script files to do these tasks is not very hard to do. Why is it that most of the out sourced SQL express jobs (or turn key systems) I see never do that?
this is a scale model Death Star. Even has the same weakness.
Some netbook models have a soldered in ram, so you can't change the RAM. The RAM and CPU are together in one part. Many of these do have a RAM slot but not all. A lot of the Dell minis (10 and 12 models) have a fixed amount of RAM. Which is bad in my opinion, but I do not make decisions there. Personally I would like to see netbooks with 2 RAM slots. Many would still max out at 2GB (motherboard limit) but some of the newer atom based netbooks are said to support 4GB of RAM.
Who eats something without looking at it first? Even the blind people that I have seen feel over over the fruit before eating it. How many people eat the skin of an orange, grapefruit, or banana? I don't eat the skin of an apple either but I am in the minority in that I think.