A 20-year-old liberal in 1958 would be a 70-year-old paleoconservative now.
If so then I guess FDR would be a border-line neo-facist by now. Oh my, and to think Lincoln was already a Republican in his time! Makes you wonder why Ted Kennedy doesn't work for the Bush administration. Maybe he's too conservative for the Republican party of the 2000s.
-How did that little yutz get a girl on his own?
-I guess times have changed since we were young.
-Smart is the new sexy.
-Then why do we go home alone every night? We're still smart!
-Maybe we're too smart, so smart it's off putting.
-Yeah, let's go with that.
And I can't even bring my self to experiment being bad, because I deebly despise all forms of manipulation and treating people badly. I would even state that talking someone into bed with you is a form of rape (I am a sort of straight-edge fundamentalists as I also despise drinking and drugs while not being religious in any way).
Wow, if you really think that you're even more a loser than you think. And a wuss too. Heh, and look at me, I'm a über douchebag. Yay, being an arsehole is the best, about time you suckers realised!
This whole comment creeps me out, yet Slashdot being Slashdot I can see how some can find this comment valuable. In the same vein as your comment, here's a follow-up. If you're desperate enough to consider following the parent's advices, go to Japan. Women love white men just because they're white. And presumably because we're all better endowed than any of their porn actors. If you can't get laid there, consider euthanasia for your genitals, because there's no hope for them.
WHOOOSH!! Of course it's BS. You missed the joke. 450 GB printed on a disc of paper? Do you even think?
But anyways, paper is a great storage media, of course, when kept in a box in a warehouse/cave/safe or even simply just a book. If you kept important data/files on paper you wouldn't carry them in your pants' back pocket.
Some people obviously enjoy making fools of themselves.
Firstly, the English, who, last time had checked, were the ones who invented the English language, spell it metre, and because we're on this international network called the Internet, the spelling in your local dialect is completely irrelevant here. You might as well spell it "maittar" for all I care. Furthermore, the metre was invented by the French, who spell it mÃtre.
Secondly and thirdly, a quadrant is a quarter of the circumference of a circle. If your feeble intellect was able to understand the Wikipedia articles you feed it, it would have picked up the glaringly obvious fact that a quadrant of 10 million metres is the exact same bloody thing as a circumference of 40 million metres, you cretinous failure of a pedantic git.
without access to content and a high-speed INTERNET connection i will have very little use for any but the most basic of portables.. EeePc or the equivalent with WiFi.. although i will probable wait a will for a nice VIA nano or similarly equipped device 12-13 inch.. which will still give me INTERNET access.. all be it with slightly great degree of effort on my part.. and maybe the price of a coffee..
I for one have a BitTorrent client on my Nokia telephone (one with a WiFi connection). By the way, you're aware that there's no such acronym as "INTERNET", right?;-)
Actually, Earth's circumference was measured first, and the metre based on the result. Well of course, what else do you suggest I was claiming? That the metre was defined first, that it was decided that the Earth's circumference would be 40,000,000 metres and that they would squeeze the planet so that it would fit?
Off peak usage is *less* but it's not "entire transportation industry" less. We're not talking about filling in the gap in power generation here. We're talking about more than doubling power generation. Crap, even when I use arguments previously used to defeat me I fail. I guess you're right, which is no matter what quite preoccupying regarding the future of 'green' automobiles.
I found out years later that I was actually (and still am) suffering from a rare sleep disorder
Well, with me, it was my liver that was out of order Right, I get your point. Except that my symptoms involve having an average day duration of about 25 hours over the course of years, and I kept a sleep log for months a long time before I heard of this disorder. Not quite the same as self-diagnosing ADHD.
That's nuts! An AVERAGE temperature to calibrate a thermometer? That's the same thing as calibrating my speedometer in my car to the average speed of a laden swallow. Reminds me that when the metre was created it was so that the Earth's circumference would be 40,000,000 metres. And since then we measure the Earth's circumference in metres (well, kilometres), and it's not 40,000,000. Go figure..
I can see your point, but until we return to a policy of creating "smart kid" classes and "not-so-smart kid" classes
But... but... but, that's not fair! No kidding. It most certainly is not fair to the smart kids to be stuck in a classroom where the teacher is forced to spend all their time trying to get the struggling kids up-to-minimal level. Until I was 8 I was in a school so small that up to 3 different grades would share the same physical classroom and teacher. Being so advanced that even after skipping a grade I was almost capable of skipping another, when I would have completed my work much earlier than the rest I would just follow the next grade's lesson, thus entertaining myself and advancing myself even further. Actually I would even sometimes answer to a question asked to pupils in the next grade, lol.
I hold the unofficial record at my old high school for valedictorian with the most detentions. Mostly for sleeping in class and showing up late.
Same for me. I found out years later that I was actually (and still am) suffering from a rare sleep disorder. Which I guess means I'm not the lazy git every teacher thought I was and punished me for. On an unrelated note I also found out by the end of my high school years that I was also suffering from dysgraphia, which cost me 2 points (out of 20) for every exam I passed in high-school, and would get me retarded remarks from teachers who would mock my undiagnosed trouble or even just ask me to make efforts to write better. I did good anyways, but the education system not trying to figure out what's wrong with people like me and instead trying to punish them as an incentive is potentially dangerous and can drive them to failure.
I can see your point, but until we return to a policy of creating "smart kid" classes and "not-so-smart kid" classes I seem to recall hearing that experiments involving separating children into classes based on the level they had in "homogeneous" classes made the level of each of these classes, at first presumably uniform, further spread out over time until you'd have the same sort of level distribution as in original homogeneous classes.
Because our electric capacity is built up only to our current needs and there is very little wiggle room. Well, I was pointed on this site a few years ago after joking that thanks to electric cars we could take the power grid down that actually we could avoid doing that by making cars being recharged out of peak hours, that is at night, mainly. So yes the power grid can hardly take a higher continuous demand, but by keeping electric cars out of peak demand times you can avoid that problem altogether.
Back to my point. Pushing nuclear energy has relatively very little do with our dependence on gasoline via crude oil. Please lets not confuse the two. There is no chance that there will be cars powered by "under the hood" nuclear reactors in the near future.
Well, yes and no. Of course you'll never have a nuclear reactor under the hood of a car, but you might very well have electric cars powered by nuclear power plants. Right now electric cars are hardly green (in America) because they're mainly coal powered, so that doesn't help, but if the power grid became green them electric cars would be green as well. I believe it works for hydrogen powered cars as well, if I'm not mistaken it's because you get no free energy from hydrogen energy because extracting hydrogen out of water takes at least as much energy as you can make out of hydrogen, so basically all the energy you get from hydrogen comes from when it's been transformed, which again comes from the power grid.
So again if I'm not mistaken, I think cars can only get as green as our power grid is, and right now in the USA it's not very green.
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If so then I guess FDR would be a border-line neo-facist by now. Oh my, and to think Lincoln was already a Republican in his time! Makes you wonder why Ted Kennedy doesn't work for the Bush administration. Maybe he's too conservative for the Republican party of the 2000s.
Right..
To quote the Big Bang Theory :
-How did that little yutz get a girl on his own?-I guess times have changed since we were young.
-Smart is the new sexy.
-Then why do we go home alone every night? We're still smart!
-Maybe we're too smart, so smart it's off putting.
-Yeah, let's go with that.
And I can't even bring my self to experiment being bad, because I deebly despise all forms of manipulation and treating people badly. I would even state that talking someone into bed with you is a form of rape (I am a sort of straight-edge fundamentalists as I also despise drinking and drugs while not being religious in any way).
Wow, if you really think that you're even more a loser than you think. And a wuss too. Heh, and look at me, I'm a über douchebag. Yay, being an arsehole is the best, about time you suckers realised!This whole comment creeps me out, yet Slashdot being Slashdot I can see how some can find this comment valuable. In the same vein as your comment, here's a follow-up. If you're desperate enough to consider following the parent's advices, go to Japan. Women love white men just because they're white. And presumably because we're all better endowed than any of their porn actors. If you can't get laid there, consider euthanasia for your genitals, because there's no hope for them.
WHOOOSH!! Of course it's BS. You missed the joke. 450 GB printed on a disc of paper? Do you even think?
But anyways, paper is a great storage media, of course, when kept in a box in a warehouse/cave/safe or even simply just a book. If you kept important data/files on paper you wouldn't carry them in your pants' back pocket.
Some people obviously enjoy making fools of themselves.
Firstly, the English, who, last time had checked, were the ones who invented the English language, spell it metre, and because we're on this international network called the Internet, the spelling in your local dialect is completely irrelevant here. You might as well spell it "maittar" for all I care. Furthermore, the metre was invented by the French, who spell it mÃtre.
Secondly and thirdly, a quadrant is a quarter of the circumference of a circle. If your feeble intellect was able to understand the Wikipedia articles you feed it, it would have picked up the glaringly obvious fact that a quadrant of 10 million metres is the exact same bloody thing as a circumference of 40 million metres, you cretinous failure of a pedantic git.
Yup. Fortunately, there's no problem that throwing a few trillion dollars into nuclear power plants and waiting a few decades can't fix ;-).
On a Rainbow Versatile Disc!
Up to 450 GB on a simple disc of paper printed in colourful triangles, circles and squares! You can't beat that!
without access to content and a high-speed INTERNET connection i will have very little use for any but the most basic of portables .. EeePc or the equivalent with WiFi .. although i will probable wait a will for a nice VIA nano or similarly equipped device 12-13 inch .. which will still give me INTERNET access .. all be it with slightly great degree of effort on my part .. and maybe the price of a coffee ..
I for one have a BitTorrent client on my Nokia telephone (one with a WiFi connection). By the way, you're aware that there's no such acronym as "INTERNET", right?So the punishment should act as a pretty good deterrent then shouldn't it?
Just like penectomy would be a pretty good deterrent to rape? Just a suggestion...And 1969 was 1 year after the riots of May 1968, and 39 + 1 = ... ehm... give me a minute I know this one..
If everytime we talk about Mars or Titan we must make jokes about oil and America we might as well pick the one jokes which were proven to be funny.
"If that was oil the US would plan a manned mission for next year. They'd send the marines claiming that the Martians were hiding weapons of mass destruction."
"Well clearly we now need to spread Freedom and Democracy to the poor oppressed [Martians], who will welcome us with roses and be able to finance their own reconstruction."
"By an amazing coincidence, [Mars] doesn't actually have democracy over there... Yet."
You're welcome.
lol.
That's nuts! An AVERAGE temperature to calibrate a thermometer? That's the same thing as calibrating my speedometer in my car to the average speed of a laden swallow. Reminds me that when the metre was created it was so that the Earth's circumference would be 40,000,000 metres. And since then we measure the Earth's circumference in metres (well, kilometres), and it's not 40,000,000. Go figure..
Same for me. I found out years later that I was actually (and still am) suffering from a rare sleep disorder. Which I guess means I'm not the lazy git every teacher thought I was and punished me for. On an unrelated note I also found out by the end of my high school years that I was also suffering from dysgraphia, which cost me 2 points (out of 20) for every exam I passed in high-school, and would get me retarded remarks from teachers who would mock my undiagnosed trouble or even just ask me to make efforts to write better. I did good anyways, but the education system not trying to figure out what's wrong with people like me and instead trying to punish them as an incentive is potentially dangerous and can drive them to failure.
Well, yes and no. Of course you'll never have a nuclear reactor under the hood of a car, but you might very well have electric cars powered by nuclear power plants. Right now electric cars are hardly green (in America) because they're mainly coal powered, so that doesn't help, but if the power grid became green them electric cars would be green as well. I believe it works for hydrogen powered cars as well, if I'm not mistaken it's because you get no free energy from hydrogen energy because extracting hydrogen out of water takes at least as much energy as you can make out of hydrogen, so basically all the energy you get from hydrogen comes from when it's been transformed, which again comes from the power grid.
So again if I'm not mistaken, I think cars can only get as green as our power grid is, and right now in the USA it's not very green.