From what I understand, it's almost impossible for people to have sex in Zero-G. Male Astronauts have apparently tried quite a bit, even with the help of drugs, but they -can't- get an erection.
This makes sense since most of the blood in your body flows to your head when you're in Zero-G.
Sorry to burst all of your geeky dreams.
Do you really want to go there?
Because I am willing to bet that they haven't tried cockrings and the Swedish Penis Enlarger.
As an engineer, I we can find a way to get things going. Worst case, we can always break out the penile implants. Sure, that's a little extreme, but no pain no game.
Those who have aggressively pushed the issue of the dangerous Internet, such as Connecticut's attorney general Richard Blumenthal, are less than happy with the report.
Of course, because without fear it is far more difficult to control people.
Excellent point. Unfortunately, without distracting the public by creating inane issues that could easily be addressed by competent parenting, politicians would actually have to try to solve real problems to show that they are doing something with tax dollars.
Screw that. I don't want to sit next to Bush on a flight. Come to think of it, I don't want to sit next to Obama either. He's so tall, his feet would spill into my legroom.
Instead of wasting time and money modifying a passenger aircraft to contain countermeasures and escape pods, why not just start with a military bomber like the B-1 or B-2. Seal the weapon bay and put a lounge in there.
Then you will start with a hardened aircraft with supersonic or stealth capabilities, a full suite of countermeasures and in-air refueling capabilities and you only need to put in creature comforts. Surely that would be easier than adding all the military components to a passenger craft. Heck, a military cargo plane is even a better choice than a passenger aircraft.
If I were president, I'd rather show up in a converted B-1 than a poopy Airbus cattle car. If there isn't enough space for the rest of the presidential retinue, they can fly behind Air Force One in a regular passenger aircraft. The press could be carried in an external bay that could be jettisoned if they got too annoying.
Palm's just trying to stay afloat right now with lots of hype. Let's see how good the phone is when it actually gets here... And more importantly, let's see what carriers they tie it to.
How long has this been going on for? 10 years? 5 years? Enough with the hand-holding!
Just make the damn switch. I am guessing that people will work out a way to get DTV pretty quick. Since they won't be watching TV, they will have (an average of) 4 extra hours a day to work out a solution.
Seriously. Let's review the "confidential information" a typical home user has on their computer:
social security numbers - yeah, that's a super private thing. I only give it to my employer('s secretary), my doctor('s secretary), my dentist('s secretary), my accountant, my credit card company, the company managing my 401k, and the IRS... You get the idea.
credit card numbers - not my problem if they are stolen because it is covered by the credit card company... that's why I use them.
Bank account info - You can also just find my account number by stealing my mail. Have fun guessing my password.
What else am I missing? My emails are boring and you can have my old pr0n.
For a home user, there is no need to break out the hammer. Half the people will probably manage to inhale poisonous dust or get a metal frag in their eye. Just delete and overwrite it a few times with free software and toss it. Meanwhile, credit card companies and the IRS will just continue to throw out hard drives and lose flash drives containing thousands of people's private info. Or maybe the secretary who makes $30K will just give all your info to her meth head boyfriend. Or maybe someone will just break into your house and look through your paper files.
I don't know why we're so concerned about cross-contamination. The only potential downside to it that I can see is if it obscures evidence that life existed on other planets.
I just find it hard to care about balls of rock and their 'pristine environment'.
How can you not understand why cross-contamination is bad? Haven't you watched the movie Aliens?
Maybe they will stop killing each other and learn that it is so much easier to just insult each other online to settle their differences, while simultaneously downloading pr0n.
No, docks are so you don't HAVE to waste time plugging and unplugging your monitor, keyboard, mouse, external speakers, USB/Firewire devices, Etc. Just slap down (or slide in) the laptop and fire it up. Business-class laptops have had and still have this feature. For some reason home PC users and Mac users don't get that option.
I have yet to hear a logical reason why beyond "well, you can just manually plug them in." Which isn't a good reason because it doesn't address the inevitable wear and tear (and breakage) on a port that constant removal and reattachment of connectors causes.
Heck, this is why Apple swapped to the magnetic power plug! Why are the rest of the connections less important?
And I wore a shemagh (same thing) I got from an SAS guy for two years in Afghanistan as a soldier in the US Army. I also sported a full beard and mustache* while there. You can bet your ass I shaved, got a haircut, and put that head-rag in my bag before flying home on commercial airliners. Everyone has the right to practice whatever damn fool religion they want, but the rest of the world should be under no obligation to ignore your chosen flavor of irrational belief in a magic sky man. It ain't Buddhists or Methodists strapping dynamite to their waists and blowing up people in crowded markets. If you want to avoid being seen as a threat, it might behoove you to not dress like one. Granted, it's idiotic to think a real terrorist would dress the part to get on an airplane (rather than showing up in a button-up shirt and slacks) but steadfastly sticking to your dang fool religious costume in the face of known public perception is asking for trouble.
Thank you for serving your country, but your logic is ridiculous and offensive. You're saying that Muslims who wear scarves on their heads in airports are asking to be persecuted because Muslims that did not wear scarves on their heads hijacked airplanes?
That is akin to being afraid of all black people because you know someone who got mugged by one. Or hating all US soldiers because of a few bad apples.
It's that type of fear-based, closed-minded ignorance that is directly against everything the US was built upon and is being harnessed by the politicians to destroy this country, all under the guise of protecting us. You can't really blame them either, because if they don't appeal to that side of our human nature, they don't get reelected. So they waste all their time in office dealing with silly shit and ignoring the real issues.
I hear this argument a LOT. The same argument could be used regarding a school bus, however. Yes, a larger vehicle may be dangerous when driven as though it's a sports car. When driven properly, however, they are no less unsafe than any other vehicle. This is a specious argument; the issue here is drivers, not the vehicle.
Accidents never happen when people are driving properly. They happen when someone makes a mistake and it can't be corrected before impact. A smaller sedan driven the same as a larger SUV will always be less likely to get in an accident since the sedan can stop and corner better.
Of course, maybe by "safer," you mean that the driver of the heavier SUV will be more likely walk away while the sedan driver will be more likely to be killed or injured due to the bumper height and kinetic energy mismatch upon collision.
School buses ARE more dangerous to drive than other smaller vehicles. That's why the drivers are trained to drive them so cautiously.
Private businesses, North Korea, Iran, and other rogue nations then can take the information and adapt them to create nuclear or conventional warhead delivery systems that can reach anywhere in the world in 30 minutes...
Instead of looking at everything the gov't does and say "but it's evil because big brother did it", let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt is how we got the Iraq War, Banking Deregulation, Trickle Down Economics, "Good Job Brownie", and etc, etc. The Government should always have to demonstrate that what they're doing is beneficial and not just "trust us."
Did you list all Republican policies on purpose? Not that I am complaining, but maybe you just have a problem with the current dictators in office....
I have never purchased a song from iTunes specifically because I don't like how they voluntarily put DRM on everything. And I am not going to reward them by paying them more to sell me DRM-free music either. Sure there are ways around it, but why should I spend extra effort to reward a vendor making retarded decisions?
Instead, I spend the extra effort finding the DRM-free MP3 from another vendor or buying the CD. Screw iTunes.
And this is coming from someone who owns all Apple computers.
Why would I spend money and go through the hassle of actually buying a CD when I can have any song/video I want from almost any popular band playing within a matter of seconds on youtube? Its easier and cheaper. (and perfectly legal) Personally, I haven't actually bought music in years for this exact reason and I know that there are a lot of other people out there like me.
Buying a CD literally takes LESS than a minute on Amazon and you get free shipping.
So do you rip the music off Youtube? Or do you just interrupt what you are doing every 4 minutes to restart the song or change tracks? Either way, it sounds less than optimal. How do you get any work done while listening to music?
I use Youtube to listen to a song I am interested in a few times and maybe scope out the rest of the tracks on the album. If I like it I buy it DRM free as an MP3 or CD. Then (1) I enjoy listening to my legal music, (2) have supported an artist who doesn't suck (and the record company, I know), (3) and have not directly supported DRM.
Think about what the repercussions would be if lots of people just listened to songs on Youtube and didn't buy them... Oh wait, you don't need to, you can just read TFA.
Sometimes being a responsible member of society actually costs money. If you act like a 3 year old and just take what you want without paying for it, the record companies will treat you like a bad 3 year old and take away your toys.
...As required
of all public-opinion polling in China, either the survey or the surveyors must be approved by the government...
Actually, it is even better than that. If you read TFA about the 85%, it says that the polling was performed over the internet... which is censored. So I am sure that all the votes will be completely honest and properly counted.
"A Pew Internet & American Life Project report indicates that of an overwhelming majority of Chinese people that believed the Internet should be 'managed or controlled,' 85% want the government to do this managing. This is resulting from surveys on Internet use over the last seven years in China.
Would you have written that software without being employed in your current situation? Have you used University software? Have you gotten help from professors and other students?
My point is this: Often students think that they have done something completely by themselves, but the university is paying you and providing you with a creative environment to develop. Most companies will not do that... and they will still take your software you write at home on their laptop.
That doesn't look anymore convenient than using a bag with a straw. Maybe even less convenient since you still have to suck from the sharp edge of the bag. And do you still need to fill it from a bag with a straw like he does in the video?
I just finally managed to get all my damn notebooks to run properly without errors and warnings in version 6 and now I have to go through it all again!?!?!?!?!
Eh, it's nothing new.
But given that certain cultures are more about "honor" and "loyalty" than
others are, then why do they let this happen? I find it hard to believe that
Chinamen are the only men capable of performing certain
engineering duties.
With America's legal framework it is difficult to exclude naturalized citizens from sensitive security positions. Also remember that for every naturalized citizen who is a traitor, there are hundreds more who aren't. Heck, most of the scientists who developed the atomic bomb were foreign nationals.
China may have just as many security breeches... the thing is China's government is better able to deal with such security issues. They just shoot the traitor and never tell anyone.
I doubt that anybody of American descent would be
allowed to see top-secret Chinese data, 20-year citizen or not!
I doubt many people of American decent would consider actually moving to China... Also, what would China show them? The Chinese version of the stolen American data? Except for their espionage, it's not like they are doing actually anything better... they just have the Chinese copy. It's hard to innovate when you are busy reverse engineering every other nation's work.
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From what I understand, it's almost impossible for people to have sex in Zero-G. Male Astronauts have apparently tried quite a bit, even with the help of drugs, but they -can't- get an erection. This makes sense since most of the blood in your body flows to your head when you're in Zero-G. Sorry to burst all of your geeky dreams.
Do you really want to go there?
Because I am willing to bet that they haven't tried cockrings and the Swedish Penis Enlarger.
As an engineer, I we can find a way to get things going. Worst case, we can always break out the penile implants. Sure, that's a little extreme, but no pain no game.
Those who have aggressively pushed the issue of the dangerous Internet, such as Connecticut's attorney general Richard Blumenthal, are less than happy with the report.
Of course, because without fear it is far more difficult to control people.
Excellent point. Unfortunately, without distracting the public by creating inane issues that could easily be addressed by competent parenting, politicians would actually have to try to solve real problems to show that they are doing something with tax dollars.
Two seconds of actual reading and comprehension would have answered those questions.
No need to be a dick.
Unless I am mistaken, the article neither evaluates the quality of the finalized version of the phone nor states what US carrier it will be tied to.
Two seconds of actual reading and you would have known that.
Screw that. I don't want to sit next to Bush on a flight. Come to think of it, I don't want to sit next to Obama either. He's so tall, his feet would spill into my legroom.
Instead of wasting time and money modifying a passenger aircraft to contain countermeasures and escape pods, why not just start with a military bomber like the B-1 or B-2. Seal the weapon bay and put a lounge in there.
Then you will start with a hardened aircraft with supersonic or stealth capabilities, a full suite of countermeasures and in-air refueling capabilities and you only need to put in creature comforts. Surely that would be easier than adding all the military components to a passenger craft. Heck, a military cargo plane is even a better choice than a passenger aircraft.
If I were president, I'd rather show up in a converted B-1 than a poopy Airbus cattle car. If there isn't enough space for the rest of the presidential retinue, they can fly behind Air Force One in a regular passenger aircraft. The press could be carried in an external bay that could be jettisoned if they got too annoying.
Palm's just trying to stay afloat right now with lots of hype. Let's see how good the phone is when it actually gets here... And more importantly, let's see what carriers they tie it to.
How long has this been going on for? 10 years? 5 years? Enough with the hand-holding!
Just make the damn switch. I am guessing that people will work out a way to get DTV pretty quick. Since they won't be watching TV, they will have (an average of) 4 extra hours a day to work out a solution.
Seriously. Let's review the "confidential information" a typical home user has on their computer:
social security numbers - yeah, that's a super private thing. I only give it to my employer('s secretary), my doctor('s secretary), my dentist('s secretary), my accountant, my credit card company, the company managing my 401k, and the IRS... You get the idea.
credit card numbers - not my problem if they are stolen because it is covered by the credit card company... that's why I use them.
Bank account info - You can also just find my account number by stealing my mail. Have fun guessing my password.
What else am I missing? My emails are boring and you can have my old pr0n.
For a home user, there is no need to break out the hammer. Half the people will probably manage to inhale poisonous dust or get a metal frag in their eye. Just delete and overwrite it a few times with free software and toss it. Meanwhile, credit card companies and the IRS will just continue to throw out hard drives and lose flash drives containing thousands of people's private info. Or maybe the secretary who makes $30K will just give all your info to her meth head boyfriend. Or maybe someone will just break into your house and look through your paper files.
I don't know why we're so concerned about cross-contamination. The only potential downside to it that I can see is if it obscures evidence that life existed on other planets.
I just find it hard to care about balls of rock and their 'pristine environment'.
How can you not understand why cross-contamination is bad? Haven't you watched the movie Aliens?
Maybe they will stop killing each other and learn that it is so much easier to just insult each other online to settle their differences, while simultaneously downloading pr0n.
No, docks are so you don't HAVE to waste time plugging and unplugging your monitor, keyboard, mouse, external speakers, USB/Firewire devices, Etc. Just slap down (or slide in) the laptop and fire it up. Business-class laptops have had and still have this feature. For some reason home PC users and Mac users don't get that option.
I have yet to hear a logical reason why beyond "well, you can just manually plug them in." Which isn't a good reason because it doesn't address the inevitable wear and tear (and breakage) on a port that constant removal and reattachment of connectors causes.
Heck, this is why Apple swapped to the magnetic power plug! Why are the rest of the connections less important?
Docks exist for use with Mac Book Pros: http://www.bookendzdocks.com/Docking_Stations-Docking_Station_for_17_MacBook_Pro.html
Yes, it isn't made by Apple, but it works. I am sure they will come out with an updated design for the new 17" one soon too.
And I wore a shemagh (same thing) I got from an SAS guy for two years in Afghanistan as a soldier in the US Army. I also sported a full beard and mustache* while there. You can bet your ass I shaved, got a haircut, and put that head-rag in my bag before flying home on commercial airliners. Everyone has the right to practice whatever damn fool religion they want, but the rest of the world should be under no obligation to ignore your chosen flavor of irrational belief in a magic sky man. It ain't Buddhists or Methodists strapping dynamite to their waists and blowing up people in crowded markets. If you want to avoid being seen as a threat, it might behoove you to not dress like one. Granted, it's idiotic to think a real terrorist would dress the part to get on an airplane (rather than showing up in a button-up shirt and slacks) but steadfastly sticking to your dang fool religious costume in the face of known public perception is asking for trouble.
Thank you for serving your country, but your logic is ridiculous and offensive. You're saying that Muslims who wear scarves on their heads in airports are asking to be persecuted because Muslims that did not wear scarves on their heads hijacked airplanes?
That is akin to being afraid of all black people because you know someone who got mugged by one. Or hating all US soldiers because of a few bad apples.
It's that type of fear-based, closed-minded ignorance that is directly against everything the US was built upon and is being harnessed by the politicians to destroy this country, all under the guise of protecting us. You can't really blame them either, because if they don't appeal to that side of our human nature, they don't get reelected. So they waste all their time in office dealing with silly shit and ignoring the real issues.
Man, I just listened to those songs. Ugh. I'd give them away for free too.
I hear this argument a LOT. The same argument could be used regarding a school bus, however. Yes, a larger vehicle may be dangerous when driven as though it's a sports car. When driven properly, however, they are no less unsafe than any other vehicle. This is a specious argument; the issue here is drivers, not the vehicle.
Accidents never happen when people are driving properly. They happen when someone makes a mistake and it can't be corrected before impact. A smaller sedan driven the same as a larger SUV will always be less likely to get in an accident since the sedan can stop and corner better.
Of course, maybe by "safer," you mean that the driver of the heavier SUV will be more likely walk away while the sedan driver will be more likely to be killed or injured due to the bumper height and kinetic energy mismatch upon collision.
School buses ARE more dangerous to drive than other smaller vehicles. That's why the drivers are trained to drive them so cautiously.
Private businesses, North Korea, Iran, and other rogue nations then can take the information and adapt them to create nuclear or conventional warhead delivery systems that can reach anywhere in the world in 30 minutes...
Instead of looking at everything the gov't does and say "but it's evil because big brother did it", let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt is how we got the Iraq War, Banking Deregulation, Trickle Down Economics, "Good Job Brownie", and etc, etc. The Government should always have to demonstrate that what they're doing is beneficial and not just "trust us."
Did you list all Republican policies on purpose? Not that I am complaining, but maybe you just have a problem with the current dictators in office....
I have never purchased a song from iTunes specifically because I don't like how they voluntarily put DRM on everything. And I am not going to reward them by paying them more to sell me DRM-free music either. Sure there are ways around it, but why should I spend extra effort to reward a vendor making retarded decisions?
Instead, I spend the extra effort finding the DRM-free MP3 from another vendor or buying the CD. Screw iTunes.
And this is coming from someone who owns all Apple computers.
Why would I spend money and go through the hassle of actually buying a CD when I can have any song/video I want from almost any popular band playing within a matter of seconds on youtube? Its easier and cheaper. (and perfectly legal) Personally, I haven't actually bought music in years for this exact reason and I know that there are a lot of other people out there like me.
Buying a CD literally takes LESS than a minute on Amazon and you get free shipping.
So do you rip the music off Youtube? Or do you just interrupt what you are doing every 4 minutes to restart the song or change tracks? Either way, it sounds less than optimal. How do you get any work done while listening to music?
I use Youtube to listen to a song I am interested in a few times and maybe scope out the rest of the tracks on the album. If I like it I buy it DRM free as an MP3 or CD. Then (1) I enjoy listening to my legal music, (2) have supported an artist who doesn't suck (and the record company, I know), (3) and have not directly supported DRM.
Think about what the repercussions would be if lots of people just listened to songs on Youtube and didn't buy them... Oh wait, you don't need to, you can just read TFA.
Sometimes being a responsible member of society actually costs money. If you act like a 3 year old and just take what you want without paying for it, the record companies will treat you like a bad 3 year old and take away your toys.
...As required of all public-opinion polling in China, either the survey or the surveyors must be approved by the government...
Actually, it is even better than that. If you read TFA about the 85%, it says that the polling was performed over the internet... which is censored. So I am sure that all the votes will be completely honest and properly counted.
"A Pew Internet & American Life Project report indicates that of an overwhelming majority of Chinese people that believed the Internet should be 'managed or controlled,' 85% want the government to do this managing. This is resulting from surveys on Internet use over the last seven years in China.
Use one of those companies in the US that will ship your package to you for a lesser fee.
http://www.shipito.com/shop-in-the-usa
The above service (which was on the top of google and I in no way endorse) looks like it will get your phone to you for $50.
Or maybe you should take a vacation to the US and stimulate our economy!
Would you have written that software without being employed in your current situation? Have you used University software? Have you gotten help from professors and other students?
My point is this: Often students think that they have done something completely by themselves, but the university is paying you and providing you with a creative environment to develop. Most companies will not do that... and they will still take your software you write at home on their laptop.
That doesn't look anymore convenient than using a bag with a straw. Maybe even less convenient since you still have to suck from the sharp edge of the bag. And do you still need to fill it from a bag with a straw like he does in the video?
Interesting though.
I just finally managed to get all my damn notebooks to run properly without errors and warnings in version 6 and now I have to go through it all again!?!?!?!?!
Eh, it's nothing new. But given that certain cultures are more about "honor" and "loyalty" than others are, then why do they let this happen? I find it hard to believe that Chinamen are the only men capable of performing certain engineering duties.
With America's legal framework it is difficult to exclude naturalized citizens from sensitive security positions. Also remember that for every naturalized citizen who is a traitor, there are hundreds more who aren't. Heck, most of the scientists who developed the atomic bomb were foreign nationals.
China may have just as many security breeches... the thing is China's government is better able to deal with such security issues. They just shoot the traitor and never tell anyone.
I doubt that anybody of American descent would be allowed to see top-secret Chinese data, 20-year citizen or not!
I doubt many people of American decent would consider actually moving to China... Also, what would China show them? The Chinese version of the stolen American data? Except for their espionage, it's not like they are doing actually anything better... they just have the Chinese copy. It's hard to innovate when you are busy reverse engineering every other nation's work.
Mythbusters looked at the toothbrush / fecal bacteria thing and found bacteria on a toothbrush kept in the kitchen. That stuff gets everywhere.
That's not from the toilet flushing, that's because you left me alone with your toothbrush for 5 minutes.
I can't help it, when I have an itch, I HAVE to scratch it!