It took us almost 200 years just to let all humans vote, and we're still debating civil rights for all of them. How much worse will we be to those who are demonstrably not entirely human?
I'm not entirely human, I'm a cyborg, and a lot of people I know are even less human. Me, it's just a device implanted in my left eye that gives me "super" sight. Others I know have artificial joints. Our previous Vice President was a cyborg. We cyborgs can not only vote and drive, if Bush had died the President would have been a cyborg.
Check your constitution, it lays out what you need to be congressman, Senator, and President, and none of the qualifications include "100% human."
You will not only be assimilated, but when your time comes you will pay good money to be assimilated.
Most people, and I do mean most people - read indoors when it's raining.
Most people with e-readers, and I do mean most people with e-readers, take the e-readers with them. That's their purpose -- so you don't have to lug around fifty pounds of paper. This not only goes for e-readers, but tablets, phones, and laptops as well. They whould be at least water-resistant if not waterproof.
Gees, guys, conversion is really simple. A gallon is just under four litres. A Yard is a short meter. A kilometer is just over half a mile. It's not like you need exact measurements when you're not working on a device yourself.
I'll agree that indoor plumbing and the light bulb were innovations, but plumbing, at least, took a very long time to become mainstream. It existed in ancient Rome, Greece, and China. Yet neither of my grandparents had indoor plumbing when I was a child, and my mother grew up without electricity -- in Missouri, so you can hardly say "we cannot live our daily lives without it." Many people in the third world still do live their lived without either.
There's pretty much something there to sabotage everyone's digestive system and metabolic balance.
Nope.
Bacon that is a least 50% fat and high in salt. Cheap high fat ground beef. Cheese that is likely Velveeta with trans fat. White bread that will trash your blood sugar levels.
I'm thin and have low to normal blood pressure. I'm immune to salt and fat, and thin people seldom get diabetes. Not all of us are huge fatasses, some of us NEED that salt and fat.
How can you welcome me when I was here first? Yes, I am a cybog. For real; I'm not entirely human -- part of my left eye is a human-made mechanical device.
I used to think just like you but at some point your body starts giving up and your life gets miserable despite the feasts.
That's so, but it's going to happen sooner or later anyway, unless you get run over by a bus or something. And at age 60 it doesn't seem like any more time has passed in my life than it seemed at 30. The older you get, the faster time goes.
The study showed that being skinny doesn't prolong life, but it didn't show the obesity doesn't shorten it.
British English is still spoken by far more people than American;
Not where this museum is located -- in America, as others have commented above.
What is "bioinspiration"?
That's easy enough to figure out just by dissecting the word. Bio Inspiration; e.g., inspired by biology.
Why, yes, I did get out on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but that doesn't excuse this summary.
I've redefined "aliterate" to mean not someone who can read but doesn't (the real meaning) to someone who reads nothing but the internet. I think the "editors" fall into this group. When you see "thing's(like this)in they're" comments so often, it seems most slashdotters don't read books, either.
Let's face it, everything revealed within Star Trek (or most Sci-Fi for that fact) will eventually come to pass
Most, or at least much of it already has. When Star Trek came out in 1966 there were no cell phones (communicators), flat screen computers, voice activated computers, self-opening doors, medical readouts, space shuttles... and in some cases we've already bypassed Star Trek's tech. In The Wrath of Khan, McCoy gave Kirk a pair of reading glasses. In 2003 the FDA approved the CrystaLens, an implant that cures not only age-related farsightedness, but nearsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts as well.
It will be a while before we get transporters, warp drive, and matter replicators, though.
I have, too, but almost always on foreign-owned convinience stores and hand-written placards. There's a convinience store here in town called "7 brothers", run by some Arabs, the sign says "Grocery's, cigerats, we accept link". There's a bar on the north end of town that has "daily special's". But the Arabs speak English as a second language, and the bar owner is probably a high school dropout. I wouldn't expect to see it at a place like/., but it's way too common.
I have an answer for the divide by zero problem, but mathematicians say I'm wrong.
When a divisor is less than 1 and greater than zero, the smaller the divisor the larger the answer. De one by one and you get one. 1 /.5 =2 1 /.05 = 20 1 /.005 = 200 1 /.0005 = 2000... 1 / 0 = infinity
But again, people who know what they're talking about tell me I'm full of shit.
I wish they would have waited until I was an adult
If you knew the hell an adult circumcision was you wouldn't wish that. In an infant it's painless and heals in a day or two. But I had a buddy in the Air Force who got a fungal infection on his foreskin (Jungle rot, Thailand at the end of the Vietnam war). It took six weeks to heal and he had to carry amyl nitrate poppers in case he had an erection, which would have torn the stitches. An infant needs no stitches.
It was a best-of-breed-and-user-friendliness RedHat distro, several years ago.
That's your problem right there, Rad hat is a very good distro for servers, but it sucks as a desktop OS. Try Mandriva, Ubuntu, or better yeat, kubuntu.
KDE 2.0 was WAY better and more intuitive back in the days
That was a good desktop, it went downhill for a while after 3, but the newer versions are more like 2. That's why I said kubuntu, I never did like Gnome.
They could have habitable moons; all our gas giants have satellites. Imagine standing on an earth-sized moon orbiting a gas giant orbiting a binary star!
1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.
The foreskin is neither a limb nor essential
To disfigure by damaging irreparably
Removal of something completely unnecessary is not damage. Is removing the tool bars on a new Windows machine "damage"?
To make imperfect by excising or altering parts
It's "making imperfect" like a nose job making a huge honker smaller "imperfect" or a boob job on a flat chested woman is making her breasts "imperfect"..
We would call the big ones "floppies" and the small ones "stiffies" (for obvious reaons) to keep them apart.
Oh, so you're the asshole who got the muggles calling the little floppies "hard drives"? People often asked me why they were called floppies when they were stiff, so I got great pleasure out of breaking one open and showing them the floppy disk inside the case.
On the other hand, studies have found that male circumcision is totally ineffective at preventing HIV infection amongst men's female partners, but the scientific community has ignored this and chosen to proceed with it as a method of preventing HIV infection amongst women anyway
Of course my circumcision isn't going to prevent any women I have sex with from getting HIV from a different partner. But if my circumcision prevents me from contracting HIV, then I'm not going to be goving HIV to my partner.
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It took us almost 200 years just to let all humans vote, and we're still debating civil rights for all of them. How much worse will we be to those who are demonstrably not entirely human?
I'm not entirely human, I'm a cyborg, and a lot of people I know are even less human. Me, it's just a device implanted in my left eye that gives me "super" sight. Others I know have artificial joints. Our previous Vice President was a cyborg. We cyborgs can not only vote and drive, if Bush had died the President would have been a cyborg.
Check your constitution, it lays out what you need to be congressman, Senator, and President, and none of the qualifications include "100% human."
You will not only be assimilated, but when your time comes you will pay good money to be assimilated.
I've already been assimilated, you insensitive clod!
Most people, and I do mean most people - read indoors when it's raining.
Most people with e-readers, and I do mean most people with e-readers, take the e-readers with them. That's their purpose -- so you don't have to lug around fifty pounds of paper. This not only goes for e-readers, but tablets, phones, and laptops as well. They whould be at least water-resistant if not waterproof.
Or at least quote the metric units first.
Gees, guys, conversion is really simple. A gallon is just under four litres. A Yard is a short meter. A kilometer is just over half a mile. It's not like you need exact measurements when you're not working on a device yourself.
No, but what got me was the first sentence, though. "Babies, as you may have noticed if you own one".
OWN ONE? I hate to break it to Toy Geek and timothy, but it's illegal to own humans these days.
I'll agree that indoor plumbing and the light bulb were innovations, but plumbing, at least, took a very long time to become mainstream. It existed in ancient Rome, Greece, and China. Yet neither of my grandparents had indoor plumbing when I was a child, and my mother grew up without electricity -- in Missouri, so you can hardly say "we cannot live our daily lives without it." Many people in the third world still do live their lived without either.
They can always put a couple of pions on the job of creating a crappy ebay page
How can spinless mesons create a crappy ebay page??
There's pretty much something there to sabotage everyone's digestive system and metabolic balance.
Nope.
Bacon that is a least 50% fat and high in salt.
Cheap high fat ground beef.
Cheese that is likely Velveeta with trans fat.
White bread that will trash your blood sugar levels.
I'm thin and have low to normal blood pressure. I'm immune to salt and fat, and thin people seldom get diabetes. Not all of us are huge fatasses, some of us NEED that salt and fat.
I for one welcome our new Cyborg Overlords!
How can you welcome me when I was here first? Yes, I am a cybog. For real; I'm not entirely human -- part of my left eye is a human-made mechanical device.
You will be assimilated.
I used to think just like you but at some point your body starts giving up and your life gets miserable despite the feasts.
That's so, but it's going to happen sooner or later anyway, unless you get run over by a bus or something. And at age 60 it doesn't seem like any more time has passed in my life than it seemed at 30. The older you get, the faster time goes.
The study showed that being skinny doesn't prolong life, but it didn't show the obesity doesn't shorten it.
British English is still spoken by far more people than American;
Not where this museum is located -- in America, as others have commented above.
What is "bioinspiration"?
That's easy enough to figure out just by dissecting the word. Bio Inspiration; e.g., inspired by biology.
Why, yes, I did get out on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but that doesn't excuse this summary.
I've redefined "aliterate" to mean not someone who can read but doesn't (the real meaning) to someone who reads nothing but the internet. I think the "editors" fall into this group. When you see "thing's(like this)in they're" comments so often, it seems most slashdotters don't read books, either.
Let's face it, everything revealed within Star Trek (or most Sci-Fi for that fact) will eventually come to pass
Most, or at least much of it already has. When Star Trek came out in 1966 there were no cell phones (communicators), flat screen computers, voice activated computers, self-opening doors, medical readouts, space shuttles... and in some cases we've already bypassed Star Trek's tech. In The Wrath of Khan, McCoy gave Kirk a pair of reading glasses. In 2003 the FDA approved the CrystaLens, an implant that cures not only age-related farsightedness, but nearsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts as well.
It will be a while before we get transporters, warp drive, and matter replicators, though.
Was he a burly redneck named Larry?
Anyway where on the ISS are they going to find the alien life (but not as we know it) form to test it on?
If it's "as we know it" it isn't alien. As to where to find aliens, since none of the astronauts are native to the ISS, they're all aliens!
It's odd that they would not understand the meaning of "synergy" as it's not simply a business word. Did those guys go to college at all?
Because if it's funny it's not a troll.
To keep the Earth's radiation pants from falling down.
I have, too, but almost always on foreign-owned convinience stores and hand-written placards. There's a convinience store here in town called "7 brothers", run by some Arabs, the sign says "Grocery's, cigerats, we accept link". There's a bar on the north end of town that has "daily special's". But the Arabs speak English as a second language, and the bar owner is probably a high school dropout. I wouldn't expect to see it at a place like /., but it's way too common.
I have an answer for the divide by zero problem, but mathematicians say I'm wrong.
When a divisor is less than 1 and greater than zero, the smaller the divisor the larger the answer. De one by one and you get one. .5 =2 .05 = 20 .005 = 200 .0005 = 2000 ...
1 /
1 /
1 /
1 /
1 / 0 = infinity
But again, people who know what they're talking about tell me I'm full of shit.
I wish they would have waited until I was an adult
If you knew the hell an adult circumcision was you wouldn't wish that. In an infant it's painless and heals in a day or two. But I had a buddy in the Air Force who got a fungal infection on his foreskin (Jungle rot, Thailand at the end of the Vietnam war). It took six weeks to heal and he had to carry amyl nitrate poppers in case he had an erection, which would have torn the stitches. An infant needs no stitches.
It was a best-of-breed-and-user-friendliness RedHat distro, several years ago.
That's your problem right there, Rad hat is a very good distro for servers, but it sucks as a desktop OS. Try Mandriva, Ubuntu, or better yeat, kubuntu.
KDE 2.0 was WAY better and more intuitive back in the days
That was a good desktop, it went downhill for a while after 3, but the newer versions are more like 2. That's why I said kubuntu, I never did like Gnome.
Too bad they're gas giants.
They could have habitable moons; all our gas giants have satellites. Imagine standing on an earth-sized moon orbiting a gas giant orbiting a binary star!
1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.
The foreskin is neither a limb nor essential
To disfigure by damaging irreparably
Removal of something completely unnecessary is not damage. Is removing the tool bars on a new Windows machine "damage"?
To make imperfect by excising or altering parts
It's "making imperfect" like a nose job making a huge honker smaller "imperfect" or a boob job on a flat chested woman is making her breasts "imperfect"..
We would call the big ones "floppies" and the small ones "stiffies" (for obvious reaons) to keep them apart.
Oh, so you're the asshole who got the muggles calling the little floppies "hard drives"? People often asked me why they were called floppies when they were stiff, so I got great pleasure out of breaking one open and showing them the floppy disk inside the case.
On the other hand, studies have found that male circumcision is totally ineffective at preventing HIV infection amongst men's female partners, but the scientific community has ignored this and chosen to proceed with it as a method of preventing HIV infection amongst women anyway
Of course my circumcision isn't going to prevent any women I have sex with from getting HIV from a different partner. But if my circumcision prevents me from contracting HIV, then I'm not going to be goving HIV to my partner.