So he walked around the back of the store to pee behind the dumpster. Unluckily, two old ladies happened to drive around back there and saw him. They called the cops.
Well let me tell you something. While those nerds from the 60s went to the moon and got nothing out of it, my generation of nerds built the Web and Wireless and Palm-based computing so that we can download any type of porn to satisfy any type of fetish at any time, any where. BEAT THAT.
except when said fetish is for asian teens, then you go back groveling at their feet..
Government is SUPPOSED to be inefficient.
If you let it be too efficient, then they do things like round up all the gays, communists, jews, and anyone else they dislike and throw them in jail.
Big leap in logic. In the words of President Reagan, government is supposed to be as small as possible. Build roads and schools efficiently and economically - that is their job. Regulation of people to dislike with a heavy emphasis on social mores was never what government is intended to do. The US government (all parties included) need to pull their head out of their butt, and come to an agreement on what the nation needs now, and I assure you it's not a final decision on abortions that we need.
The only way to distinguish between the Saddam dollar, Kim dollar and the real dollar was actually exactly this - the denomination printed in braile alphabet for the blind. Only the US dollar had it.
dang, it looks like i am stuck with only banknotes of evil. i have been peering at the bills in my wallet for 15 minutes now, and feeling them all over, and getting odd stares from people around me.
I always did wonder how, in the U.S., blind people dealt with money. I ended up meeting a friend of my father's who was blind, so I asked him. He told me that he has someone (someone who can see, obviously) fold his money a certain way -- singles get folded in half, 5's got folded into an L-shape, 10's got folded another way and so on so that he always knew what denomination of money he was taking out of his wallet.
i say, dont fold those singles in half. crumple them up to relieve your frustration when you find they dont buy even a coke or a strippers smile.
since you are developing content that is beneficial to your fellow slashdotters, you are morally justified to deliver the work. promptly. although it does not offset the fact that you are working in Flash, you can rectify that by posting a few free membership passwords here.
i hate to see every article being tag-whored as science just to lend authenticity to it and compel geeks to read it. this article and the ongoing discussion can atmost be classified as an application of new-fangled technology. is anyone else frustrated with seeing 10 articles in science and 3 articles each in YRO, politics, etc everyday?
if a separate whats-NASA-doing-today category were to be created, that alone would cut the number of science articles by half. hope the editors take note.
i have had this similar fantasy for a whil. it would be cool to equip concrete buildings and roads with some kind of photosynthetic self-assembling material. it would absorb CO2 from the air and give out oxygen. and process the carbon into organised grains of wood that coat the said building or road.
then we'd truly be talking about green buildings.. and chicks would dig them too since green is kinda cute.
Being an Indian who has spent time in America (and I can assure you we know the state of affairs in India much better), I can assure you that it can happen. Just like indigenous nuclear technology 30 years after the West, and satellite technology and software industry likewise. You seem to have a huge "pro-americanized" mindset: that if it can happen, it can happen only in America. Sorry to burst your bubble, it can and does happen elsewhere too.
Sending a man to the moon requires just as much bureaucracy as exploding a nuclear device, and that has been accomplished by Indian brains and babus. And more than the babus, it is Indian scientists and technologists who will determine when this project will take off. And if you havent visited an atomic research centre, or a space research organization, Indian scientists are definitely on top of things. They might not be the first to do something, but they (and scientists in most countries with strong economies) do play a good game of catch-up.
Last but not the least, labour unions do prevail, but manual labour is used mainly because it is the cheaper option.
if this is between 0.7 and 1, you are normal. if this is between 1 and 20, you spend waaaay too much time on slashdot. if this is higher than 20, you are Erdos. in any case you spend waaaay too much time on slashdot.
Contrary to North Korean propaganda, North Korea having nukes has more to do with Russia, Japan, China, and South Korea than it does with the United States.
and still the us was the one doing all the chest-beating and sabre-rattling, prompting NK to test nukes. axis of evil and all that propaganda. reading bush's speech, it seems like he has too been cowed down and is frightened speechless by the psycho foaming maddog he chose to pelt with stones.
No, the US can't move because the world already thinks we should keep our fucking nose out of other people's business. The only way the US is going to do anything millitarily in the next decade or two is at the behest of the UN. The people in the UN are pretty much impotent (see Darfur) so basically we're going to clean up as best we can in Iraq and go back into a cold war status just bitching about others.
well then, the US had better STFU and stay out of iran.
The only way the citizens of the US will support a unilateral decision to invade another country is when a nuke goes off on US soil. The next 25 years are going to be a radioactive bloodbath and hopefully none of it will blow over peaceful countries.
and when, sir, was the last time your vote and support and persuasion and dissuasion stopped your leadership from executing its whims?
this is another one of those typical american posts which screams "man with a gun" when nations with oil try to arm themselves. and wallow in self-pity and shrug their shoulders - "well, noone wants our help, so we might as well stay put" when said country does not have oil. in direct correlation to the american government excuses themselves. bit of advice for you, typical american poster, say no more, we can predict your responses to future issues quite accurately with the help of a reliable geologist.
And so, modern mathematics, unwilling to give the Fields medal to the intuative but not pedatic Perelman, but unable to give it to the super garbled Morgan and Tian, instead had to give it to Yau. But since Yau hadn't actually added anything but formality to the proof, and the other team and only added more, they had to give the medal to Perelman as well. They would have preferred to have just given it to Morgan and Tian, so they're bitter now and blaming Yau for publishing so soon.
Yau did not receive the (2006) Fields medal for this body of work. he received the Fields medal back in 1982 for his contribution to resolving the Calabi conjecture and other related work. Calabi-Yau manifolds come up in string theory, the new hotbed of expository physics.
if mechanical energy is to be used to power computers, why not power them at the expense of some physical energy of the computer user? the displays on exercycles and rowing machines at the gym are more often than not powered by human energy.
it would also provide much needed exercise for people chained to their keyboards. on the flipside, it would require lance armstrong to maintain a server farm.
And don't forget, in the last 40 years, we've gone from 3b to 6b sacks of skin of mostly water.
the size of the skin sacks has also increased substantially, especially in the west. we need to excise lard from people's bellies, and inject it into their SUVs. fight club anyone?
That isn't the case when using biofuels. They are produced by storing carbon already available from the atmosphere. So instead of releasing more carbon into the air we are recycling the carbon already present. When using biofuels no one is introducing more carbon into the atmosphere. The carbon produced by using biofuels is in fact reclycled from the carbon which is already present. In the end there is no CO2 production in the sense that the overall quantity of carbon present in the atmosphere stays exactly the same.
So in the end burning biofuels doesn't contribute to global warming. It doesn't have any effect watsoever. The carbon being release to the atmosphere was extracted from the atmosphere in the first place. Moreover, producing biofuel can also help reduce the carbon levels presented in the air because not every quantity of carbon which is extracted from the atmosphere is again released into it.
What makes you sure that the plants are indeed taking in all the CO2 in the atmosphere, and not just say 40% of it, leaving 60% of the combusted CO2 in the air?
Biofuels definitely are one way to convert solar energy to automobile fuel (using photosynthesis), but that doesnt discount the cycle from being inefficient.
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The Big Dog probably might be easier on your staircase - check out http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5349770802 105160028
since you are developing content that is beneficial to your fellow slashdotters, you are morally justified to deliver the work. promptly. although it does not offset the fact that you are working in Flash, you can rectify that by posting a few free membership passwords here.
How about not posting in bold to make a point about yelling?
Y on YRO?
if a separate whats-NASA-doing-today category were to be created, that alone would cut the number of science articles by half. hope the editors take note.
no, and you twats should be shot at sunrise.
then we'd truly be talking about green buildings.. and chicks would dig them too since green is kinda cute.
Being an Indian who has spent time in America (and I can assure you we know the state of affairs in India much better), I can assure you that it can happen. Just like indigenous nuclear technology 30 years after the West, and satellite technology and software industry likewise. You seem to have a huge "pro-americanized" mindset: that if it can happen, it can happen only in America. Sorry to burst your bubble, it can and does happen elsewhere too. Sending a man to the moon requires just as much bureaucracy as exploding a nuclear device, and that has been accomplished by Indian brains and babus. And more than the babus, it is Indian scientists and technologists who will determine when this project will take off. And if you havent visited an atomic research centre, or a space research organization, Indian scientists are definitely on top of things. They might not be the first to do something, but they (and scientists in most countries with strong economies) do play a good game of catch-up. Last but not the least, labour unions do prevail, but manual labour is used mainly because it is the cheaper option.
1011799? dude you need to learn to fake your /. userid first.
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divide your BMI by 2 raised to your Erdos Number
NI = BMI / 2^e
if this is between 0.7 and 1, you are normal. if this is between 1 and 20, you spend waaaay too much time on slashdot. if this is higher than 20, you are Erdos. in any case you spend waaaay too much time on slashdot.
it would also provide much needed exercise for people chained to their keyboards. on the flipside, it would require lance armstrong to maintain a server farm.
Biofuels definitely are one way to convert solar energy to automobile fuel (using photosynthesis), but that doesnt discount the cycle from being inefficient.