One of the biggest distractions I had in school, was in trying to copy everything the teacher was writing on the blackboard, instead of listening directly to what they had to say.
With these modern electronic whiteboards, which can generate printout copies for the students instead of them scribbling furiously rather than listening to the teacher, there will be a great barrier removed from learning.
Actually, I'd read that ion-wind technology could be used as a propulsion mechanism for large high-altitude airships. Hey, then you could produce ozone while meeting people's transportation needs at the same time.
Maybe a suped-up version of one of those Aeroscraft thingies could feature this.
I never liked Voltron. It was dreck to me from day one. But Robotech was spectacular beyond imagination. I remember the first time I tuned into it, and was bowled over by their rich presentation of robot-centric techno-futurism, complete with action, drama and an intriguing backstory. It was like Battlestar Galactica meets Transformers meets Top Gun. Had the best of everything, including some of the best hero moments.
I would LOVE to see Robotech done as a live-action bigscreen movie.
And then I would like to see the same thing done for Megazone23.
And finally, maybe Gunbuster re-written without the robots.
NEUTRons may be NEUTRal in terms of ELECTRIC CHARGE, but as fermions they do have magnetic spin, which means they are NOT IMMUNE to the effects of a magnetic field.
I thought HORNY PEOPLE out-reproduce everybody else. So society is getting progressively hornier all the time. Logically, we'll eventually reach a situation where we can't go 5 minutes without sex. We'll be like lemmings.
I'm an engineer, but I didn't understand every 2nd word that this guy said.
I think I'd rather have had some reviewer explain it to me, because I'm still scratching my head over it. He might as well have been speaking Trek-babble.
I find the fact that Kennedy's assassin Oswald was himself quickly assassinated by Jack Ruby to be damningly suspicious. The whole problem of terrorism is that it is orchestrated and conducted on a scale that exceeds that of mere judicial and domestic security apparatus to cope with.
When the assassin himself gets blown away right after while in custody, then you know something deeper's going on. It's too convenient for covering tracks to have been a mere coincidence. Kennedy was legitimately disliked by the national security establishment because he was geopolitically naive, and didn't understand balance-of-power politics.
Yeah, exactly. I wish the eco-fanatics would shut up. "Don't colonize the Moon, because you might harm the cute cuddly-looking rocks. Don't disturb the lunar soil, it needs its beauty sleep."
Come off it. If there's any life to be found on Mars, even slime, we'll quickly find it and get a full genetic catalogue of it. But I don't think anything should stand in the way of terraforming Mars and getting some more real estate to live on. Let old people spend their retirement there in the more pleasant comfort of the lower martian gravity.
I think we should definitely start terraforming Mars ASAP. I think that daily thermonuclear detonations of several-hundred-megatons each in the icecaps could be used to melt the frozen CO2 and water ice sooner rather than later. Fortunately fusion produces little in the way of radioactive byproducts (which is why Man is trying to harness it for eco-friendly energy production), so it's a logical choice.
And what about martian geothermal energy? Cmon, the planet has some of the biggest volcanoes in the solar system. Set up human habitations near the volcanic vents and you won't have to worry about freezing your ass off.
Also, human habitats should be built in the Martian canals and other deep zones, some of which could be sealed overhead to trap heat and moisture. These could be turned into giant greenhouses, where we could grow genetically modified plants specially designed to withstand the hostile conditions on mars.
Men want huge penises to whack off with -- who cares how the women feel about it?
But seriously, most people are superficial, and once stem cells show the ability outperform Botox, plastic surgery, RetinA, monoxidil, Oil of Olay, l'Oreal cosmetics, Ben Gay, etc, then you won't be able to beat the customers off with a stick. (Or even with a big penis to slap them with)
Women are more insecure about their looks than men. They will kill to get that youthful teenage wrinkle-free skin. They will go to back-alley abortion clinics to harvest embryonic cells from themselves. Adult women will fight to look like teenagers, and teenagers will fight to look like pre-teens.
Guys will go for athletic enhancements. Cartilage repairs for the rich jocks and their cutting-edge sports doctors. Stem cell injections for the joints, the muscles, the tendons.
The elderly baby-boom generation will flock to whatever keeps them alive. Cardiac stem cells, brain stem cells, liver stem cells, you name it and they'll be ordering it.
Whatever people can't get here due to regulation, they'll just go abroad, where the medical services are cheaper anyway.
Let's face it, this is the next big industry to be in. How can an ordinary guy like me get some crash training on this? Is there an MCSE for Molecular Biology?
I remember some politician telling Oliver North at the Iran-Contra hearings, "Colonel North, the American people have a constitutional right to be wrong"
That means people have the human right to believe the world is flat, etc, if that's what they want to believe. Hell, there are famous scientists who have advocated killing mentally retarded babies, etc. So arguments on Global Warming aside, scientific reality is not always going to be humane and ethical. When it comes right down to it, is any one of us more than just an assembly of molecules whose neurochemical reactions have programmed us to believe in the illusion that we're alive? That can be scientific reality, too. One can scientifically argue that a green tree is no more noble or valuable than a lump of coal.
Science just tells us how the world works. It doesn't tell us which way the world ought to be. How it ought to be is just subjective opinion.
The Mahatma had a machiavellian side to him, and was responsible for ousting some very popular leaders from the Indian Congress Party. He wasn't the pure saint you'd like to project.
Umm... when was the last time V. S. Naipaul lived in India, and I mean lived, not visited. He should not comment on things he has no clue about. The problem with many of the Indians living outside India is that they have been fed a lie that Hinduism is under attack in India and is dying. Nothing could be further from the truth, just going by the sheer number of people who are present whenever any so-called "Godman" comes to town.
What crap. Bombay has been bombed -- not once, but twice. The Taliban are nextdoor, along with a military dictatorship aggressively supporting them. Muslims aren't the ones under seige, they're the ones laying siege. When in history have Hindus ever invaded Islamic lands? Sorry, it's Muslims who invaded and subjugated India.
I'm a strict atheist, but there's no way I'll buy garbage like yours -- either Leftist, Islamic, or some combination of the two. Clearly the regressive forces in the region are socialist and Islamic. In case you haven't noticed, those two groups have a problem getting along with any and every other ethnic community on the planet. Name one exception.
Hinduism isn't even a real religion -- it's just a "miscellaneous" category into which every non-monotheistic belief in the region has been slotted into. Therefore it's inherently pluralistic, in contrast to the ugly dogma of the Left and the Islamists.
Socialism and Islamism have already left a trail of misery and strife across the planet. Spare me your fake moralism. It doesn't wash.
Shiv Sena? RSS? Those guys are a bunch of nutjobs.
These are the same who vandalize flower shops on Valentine's Day and threaten couples if they are seen doing anything they consider "obscene" in public.
That's overblown -- the origin of Shiv Sena is due to local Maharashtrian culture having been swamped by influx from every other part of the country -- a unique burden that Maharashtrians have to bear.
As for RSS, they were created not out of theological compulsions, but as a backlash to Islamic activism -- not so unfounded considering that ethnic group split the country.
Personally, I think that these guys need to have a good drink and need to get laid a little.
Gee, you're so cool for saying that. Spend all night thinking that up?
I thought it was all about tolerance and forgiveness and all those good things? Pursuit of truth and enlightenment? No? I guess it doesn't quite have the same ring as terrorizing innocent people and flauting your ideologies about.
I'm an atheist, but I'll say that with freedom comes responsibility. Yes, these groups have on occasion gone overboard in protesting what they misguidedly feel is social decay. At least they don't fly aircraft into skyscrapers, like some people. Whole different order of magnitude.
Meanwhile, the Left on the other hand is happy to promote social decay and stoke disharmony to milk votes.
Btw, it's "flaunting" not "flauting", Mr Enlightenment.
Just control it from afar, using neural interface, and you won't have to worry about developing AI and other fancy stuff. You won't have to worry about casualties, either.
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One of the biggest distractions I had in school, was in trying to copy everything the teacher was writing on the blackboard, instead of listening directly to what they had to say.
With these modern electronic whiteboards, which can generate printout copies for the students instead of them scribbling furiously rather than listening to the teacher, there will be a great barrier removed from learning.
But China seems to be trying to help Tibetans to reincarnate ASAP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzCl95A90P0
Just ask their border police.
Beijing has spiritual police too.
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Tibetans now require state permission to reincarnate:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20227400/site/newswee
Good ol' PRC, always expanding the frontiers of policing.
But without broadband, won't everyone in rural areas end up like Miss South Carolina?
Actually, I'd read that ion-wind technology could be used as a propulsion mechanism for large high-altitude airships. Hey, then you could produce ozone while meeting people's transportation needs at the same time.
Maybe a suped-up version of one of those Aeroscraft thingies could feature this.
Hey, look what I found:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/347613
At least fans are keeping it alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWlcZRuiVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcXoSQPwKJ0
I never liked Voltron. It was dreck to me from day one. But Robotech was spectacular beyond imagination. I remember the first time I tuned into it, and was bowled over by their rich presentation of robot-centric techno-futurism, complete with action, drama and an intriguing backstory. It was like Battlestar Galactica meets Transformers meets Top Gun. Had the best of everything, including some of the best hero moments.
I would LOVE to see Robotech done as a live-action bigscreen movie.
And then I would like to see the same thing done for Megazone23.
And finally, maybe Gunbuster re-written without the robots.
NEUTRons may be NEUTRal in terms of ELECTRIC CHARGE, but as fermions they do have magnetic spin, which means they are NOT IMMUNE to the effects of a magnetic field.
I thought HORNY PEOPLE out-reproduce everybody else. So society is getting progressively hornier all the time. Logically, we'll eventually reach a situation where we can't go 5 minutes without sex. We'll be like lemmings.
Okay, I came across this video while surfing:
http://www.fraize.com/blog/?p=88
I'm an engineer, but I didn't understand every 2nd word that this guy said.
I think I'd rather have had some reviewer explain it to me, because I'm still scratching my head over it. He might as well have been speaking Trek-babble.
The power of a hurricane easily dwarfs that of nuclear weapons. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Bah -- "more", "less" -- these concepts are so mathematically antiquated.
I find the fact that Kennedy's assassin Oswald was himself quickly assassinated by Jack Ruby to be damningly suspicious. The whole problem of terrorism is that it is orchestrated and conducted on a scale that exceeds that of mere judicial and domestic security apparatus to cope with.
When the assassin himself gets blown away right after while in custody, then you know something deeper's going on. It's too convenient for covering tracks to have been a mere coincidence. Kennedy was legitimately disliked by the national security establishment because he was geopolitically naive, and didn't understand balance-of-power politics.
Yeah, exactly. I wish the eco-fanatics would shut up. "Don't colonize the Moon, because you might harm the cute cuddly-looking rocks. Don't disturb the lunar soil, it needs its beauty sleep."
Come off it. If there's any life to be found on Mars, even slime, we'll quickly find it and get a full genetic catalogue of it. But I don't think anything should stand in the way of terraforming Mars and getting some more real estate to live on. Let old people spend their retirement there in the more pleasant comfort of the lower martian gravity.
I think we should definitely start terraforming Mars ASAP. I think that daily thermonuclear detonations of several-hundred-megatons each in the icecaps could be used to melt the frozen CO2 and water ice sooner rather than later. Fortunately fusion produces little in the way of radioactive byproducts (which is why Man is trying to harness it for eco-friendly energy production), so it's a logical choice.
And what about martian geothermal energy? Cmon, the planet has some of the biggest volcanoes in the solar system. Set up human habitations near the volcanic vents and you won't have to worry about freezing your ass off.
Also, human habitats should be built in the Martian canals and other deep zones, some of which could be sealed overhead to trap heat and moisture. These could be turned into giant greenhouses, where we could grow genetically modified plants specially designed to withstand the hostile conditions on mars.
Did anybody else read TechLocust?
Okay, Jeri Ryan I can understand -- but Mrs Columbo? Cmon.
Laugh-a while you can, Monkey Boy!
Men want huge penises to whack off with -- who cares how the women feel about it?
But seriously, most people are superficial, and once stem cells show the ability outperform Botox, plastic surgery, RetinA, monoxidil, Oil of Olay, l'Oreal cosmetics, Ben Gay, etc, then you won't be able to beat the customers off with a stick. (Or even with a big penis to slap them with)
Women are more insecure about their looks than men. They will kill to get that youthful teenage wrinkle-free skin. They will go to back-alley abortion clinics to harvest embryonic cells from themselves. Adult women will fight to look like teenagers, and teenagers will fight to look like pre-teens.
Guys will go for athletic enhancements. Cartilage repairs for the rich jocks and their cutting-edge sports doctors. Stem cell injections for the joints, the muscles, the tendons.
The elderly baby-boom generation will flock to whatever keeps them alive. Cardiac stem cells, brain stem cells, liver stem cells, you name it and they'll be ordering it.
Whatever people can't get here due to regulation, they'll just go abroad, where the medical services are cheaper anyway.
Let's face it, this is the next big industry to be in. How can an ordinary guy like me get some crash training on this? Is there an MCSE for Molecular Biology?
I remember some politician telling Oliver North at the Iran-Contra hearings, "Colonel North, the American people have a constitutional right to be wrong"
That means people have the human right to believe the world is flat, etc, if that's what they want to believe. Hell, there are famous scientists who have advocated killing mentally retarded babies, etc. So arguments on Global Warming aside, scientific reality is not always going to be humane and ethical. When it comes right down to it, is any one of us more than just an assembly of molecules whose neurochemical reactions have programmed us to believe in the illusion that we're alive? That can be scientific reality, too. One can scientifically argue that a green tree is no more noble or valuable than a lump of coal.
Science just tells us how the world works. It doesn't tell us which way the world ought to be. How it ought to be is just subjective opinion.
Nathuram Godse was an atheist. So am I, btw.
The Mahatma had a machiavellian side to him, and was responsible for ousting some very popular leaders from the Indian Congress Party. He wasn't the pure saint you'd like to project.
What crap. Bombay has been bombed -- not once, but twice. The Taliban are nextdoor, along with a military dictatorship aggressively supporting them. Muslims aren't the ones under seige, they're the ones laying siege. When in history have Hindus ever invaded Islamic lands? Sorry, it's Muslims who invaded and subjugated India.
I'm a strict atheist, but there's no way I'll buy garbage like yours -- either Leftist, Islamic, or some combination of the two. Clearly the regressive forces in the region are socialist and Islamic. In case you haven't noticed, those two groups have a problem getting along with any and every other ethnic community on the planet. Name one exception.
Hinduism isn't even a real religion -- it's just a "miscellaneous" category into which every non-monotheistic belief in the region has been slotted into. Therefore it's inherently pluralistic, in contrast to the ugly dogma of the Left and the Islamists.
Socialism and Islamism have already left a trail of misery and strife across the planet. Spare me your fake moralism. It doesn't wash.
That's overblown -- the origin of Shiv Sena is due to local Maharashtrian culture having been swamped by influx from every other part of the country -- a unique burden that Maharashtrians have to bear.
As for RSS, they were created not out of theological compulsions, but as a backlash to Islamic activism -- not so unfounded considering that ethnic group split the country.
Personally, I think that these guys need to have a good drink and need to get laid a little.Gee, you're so cool for saying that. Spend all night thinking that up?
I thought it was all about tolerance and forgiveness and all those good things? Pursuit of truth and enlightenment? No? I guess it doesn't quite have the same ring as terrorizing innocent people and flauting your ideologies about.I'm an atheist, but I'll say that with freedom comes responsibility. Yes, these groups have on occasion gone overboard in protesting what they misguidedly feel is social decay. At least they don't fly aircraft into skyscrapers, like some people. Whole different order of magnitude. Meanwhile, the Left on the other hand is happy to promote social decay and stoke disharmony to milk votes.
Btw, it's "flaunting" not "flauting", Mr Enlightenment.
Jerks.Oh, the vit. Vodda put down! Vayy to go! :P
But seriously, telepresence is the answer:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/7403/
Just control it from afar, using neural interface, and you won't have to worry about developing AI and other fancy stuff. You won't have to worry about casualties, either.