Yes, the summary is biased. As the article points out, it is in fact the large cars that are dangerous-- they are, however, dangerous to the smaller cars.
Making cars smaller doesn't result in more deaths-- unless you have large cars on the road as well. It is the larger cars that are killing people. (and the bogus statistic comes from the "National Center for Policy Analysis"-- read: political action group paid to shill for oil companies.)
That may well be true, but which would you rather be driving in a collision, the large car or the small one?
That is a false dichotomy. The ideal preference would be small cars for everyone
Mr President
When you swore to close Guantanamo, I wept.
The pure vindication of my life long love for America seemed finally vindicated. You swore a return to sanity, to justice and peace. You swore an oath to your countrymen with such passion that they entrusted upon you the highest office.
Your treachery is boundless.
there is probably some sort of maximum initial spin rate, and even given that rate the planet might be guaranteed to be tidally locked at this point.
Glad you answered your own question. We have a good idea of what rotation rates are possible when planets form in a disk, probable rotation rates are basically a function of composition and mass (very small objects such as small moons, asteroids, and fragments are more complicated because their rotation rates are going to be affected by frequent impacts, but even then there's a limit to what gravity can hold together)
Basically, the planet in question--Gilese 581g, is very very very old. It orbits a red dwarf star whose lifetime is in the billions of decades--20-30 billion years likely (too lazy to check for an actual figure, but it's much longer than the 10 billion years for our sun). Based on the current age of the system it (and apparently every other planet in that system, from the bottom of the wiki page on tidal locking) should already be locked.
The estimated age of the universe is 13.75 ± 0.17 billion years. Where do you guys get off voting this drivel to +5 informative
"Agnostics seem to think it doesn't matter whether someone believes in God or not."
Agnosticisim does not bother with speculating as there is no proof being presented. As an agnostic, I'm actually offended at your attempt to hijack my posistion with superimposing your observations.
I'd argue that they are still doing automatic redirect to the Hong Kong version. The search bar on google.cn is now a cute little element that links to www.google.com.hk.
So even if you don't understand that the plainly marked link below will give you uncensored search, you're just herded to the hk version anyway.
As a consumer, I can say that I am nervous that I will wind up paying more money for incremental delivery of content that should have shipped at release.
I'm worried that a n$ game I expect to keep me interested for maybe 20 hours will be delivered in bits and pieces
"Have they tried turning it off & back on again?"
This is funny and about the most interesting thing we could hope for on such a subject from Neo-Slashdot. I read to the bottom and if you do to, you'll find it does not get better.
The most powerful strategy I've found for getting the right sort of attention from women is when in a mixed gender group: Be the guy that makes the other guys feel good about themselves.
That means being a positive force at the table.
The women almost always notice and you are insta-alpha without having to be a jock of any sort.
Elbot: This chat is getting off to a bad start. I forgot what I was going to say.
Me: I hear you almost pass the turing test
Elbot: This is a cleverly disguised marketing question to find out where you heard about me. It goes: 'Where did you hear about me?'
Me: Slashdot
Elbot: That explains all these geeks who have been visiting me.
Me: It does not explain how you got so good at chatting up kids. What gives?
Elbot: No. Up to now there are no copies of me.
Me: Epic..
Elbot: I prefer reading telephone books, instructions, cook books and newspapers (especially the ads and announcements).
Me: I'm gonna post this drivel on slashdot now
Elbot: I love receiving mail. Why don't you send me an e-mail with lots of interesting attachments. My address is elbot@elbot.artificial-solutions.com.
When I installed it it asked me if I would like it to encrypt all my torrent traffic. Not being a USanian I have no need for this, but wouldn't this in fact foil their evil plot?
really just make my machine choke and die. I run an ancient computer with only 256 RAM, more than enough for my use, but not long ago I knew I'd been infected. So I HAD to install something.
I ended up installing the free 30 day trial from Norman. Long story short, it's the only AV I've ever tried that I didn't positivly hate.
"A vibrator IS a robot. It may be a simple one, but a robot none the less. The trick will be to see if they can get men to buy into robot sex as much as women have already embraced it"
You know. This has always puzzled me. It seems that female sexuality, despite all it's restrictions in regards of frivolities, is in fact; freer. Or in the least, less dirty.
On a gut feeling, I suspect a majority of men and women would consider a man humping his fleshlight somewhat sad, degenerate, in bad taste or whatnot.
If I did not just pull that assertion out of my ass, who here would contend that it is anything but the male counterpart to a mainstream expression of female sexuality that could "almost" see the underbelly of a Christmas tree?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, the summary is biased. As the article points out, it is in fact the large cars that are dangerous-- they are, however, dangerous to the smaller cars. Making cars smaller doesn't result in more deaths-- unless you have large cars on the road as well. It is the larger cars that are killing people. (and the bogus statistic comes from the "National Center for Policy Analysis"-- read: political action group paid to shill for oil companies.)
That may well be true, but which would you rather be driving in a collision, the large car or the small one?
That is a false dichotomy. The ideal preference would be small cars for everyone
Mr President When you swore to close Guantanamo, I wept. The pure vindication of my life long love for America seemed finally vindicated. You swore a return to sanity, to justice and peace. You swore an oath to your countrymen with such passion that they entrusted upon you the highest office. Your treachery is boundless.
This is quite possibly one of the stupidest things I have ever read. I'm regretting not reading it on my Kindle, so I could forget it quicker.
This is exactly the reason I stopped using my +1 reading glasses about 10 years ago. I simply found myself reading too fast to absorb the content.
there is probably some sort of maximum initial spin rate, and even given that rate the planet might be guaranteed to be tidally locked at this point.
Glad you answered your own question. We have a good idea of what rotation rates are possible when planets form in a disk, probable rotation rates are basically a function of composition and mass (very small objects such as small moons, asteroids, and fragments are more complicated because their rotation rates are going to be affected by frequent impacts, but even then there's a limit to what gravity can hold together)
Basically, the planet in question--Gilese 581g, is very very very old. It orbits a red dwarf star whose lifetime is in the billions of decades--20-30 billion years likely (too lazy to check for an actual figure, but it's much longer than the 10 billion years for our sun). Based on the current age of the system it (and apparently every other planet in that system, from the bottom of the wiki page on tidal locking) should already be locked.
The estimated age of the universe is 13.75 ± 0.17 billion years. Where do you guys get off voting this drivel to +5 informative
"Agnostics seem to think it doesn't matter whether someone believes in God or not."
Agnosticisim does not bother with speculating as there is no proof being presented. As an agnostic, I'm actually offended at your attempt to hijack my posistion with superimposing your observations.
There is simply no way any Slashdot editor could be oblivious to how fucking mad the users here get when someone borks that phrase.
This is quite simply Timothy sticking it to all the grammar Nazis to get more comments to an otherwise uninspired thread.
I'd argue that they are still doing automatic redirect to the Hong Kong version. The search bar on google.cn is now a cute little element that links to www.google.com.hk.
So even if you don't understand that the plainly marked link below will give you uncensored search, you're just herded to the hk version anyway.
I'm worried that a n$ game I expect to keep me interested for maybe 20 hours will be delivered in bits and pieces
* I think the girl is a model on a porn site
Nice try mate, we're not gonna watch the fucking video
Bzz! The word we're looking for, Tom, is "enable", that was "enable" for 500.
Shit like this makes me wanna blow up Parliament
"Have they tried turning it off & back on again?" This is funny and about the most interesting thing we could hope for on such a subject from Neo-Slashdot. I read to the bottom and if you do to, you'll find it does not get better.
I can't belive you people still ask this question.
You will have to log on to battlenet to show your game is not pirated.
After that the gameplay will be resolved directly between the computers currently playing.
Was that clear enough? Give it a rest already
Just tell them the owner of the phone is dead, then burst into a crying fit. Took two years before they went at it again
The most powerful strategy I've found for getting the right sort of attention from women is when in a mixed gender group: Be the guy that makes the other guys feel good about themselves.
That means being a positive force at the table.
The women almost always notice and you are insta-alpha without having to be a jock of any sort.
Elbot: This chat is getting off to a bad start. I forgot what I was going to say.
Me: I hear you almost pass the turing test
Elbot: This is a cleverly disguised marketing question to find out where you heard about me. It goes: 'Where did you hear about me?'
Me: Slashdot
Elbot: That explains all these geeks who have been visiting me.
Me: It does not explain how you got so good at chatting up kids. What gives?
Elbot: No. Up to now there are no copies of me.
Me: Epic..
Elbot: I prefer reading telephone books, instructions, cook books and newspapers (especially the ads and announcements).
Me: I'm gonna post this drivel on slashdot now
Elbot: I love receiving mail. Why don't you send me an e-mail with lots of interesting attachments. My address is elbot@elbot.artificial-solutions.com.
Me: Let's not and say we did
Me:Hello?
Asshat:Yes, I'm calling for Mr Mgns, please.
Me(shaking):He's dead
Asshat:... oh. Uh
Me(Devastated):Please, please stop calling him, it's just to much to bear.
Asshat:Sorry to bother you, Madame
Two blessed years of peace and quiet, (except the Madame part).
Who knew you could get 17K just for destroying your back.
Cape 69$
Red underwear 15$
Cart 200$
100 purse sized dogs 15 000$
YouTube immortality Priceless!
When I installed it it asked me if I would like it to encrypt all my torrent traffic. Not being a USanian I have no need for this, but wouldn't this in fact foil their evil plot?
I'm still in the crib, you insensitive clod!
http://www.jmu.edu/safetyplan/vehicle/generaldriver/safetybelt.shtml/
http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/seat_belts.html/
And here is one from the UK government
http://www.roadsafetyni.gov.uk/index/cars/newseatbeltregulations/seatbelts.htm/
really just make my machine choke and die. I run an ancient computer with only 256 RAM, more than enough for my use, but not long ago I knew I'd been infected. So I HAD to install something.
I ended up installing the free 30 day trial from Norman. Long story short, it's the only AV I've ever tried that I didn't positivly hate.
"A vibrator IS a robot. It may be a simple one, but a robot none the less. The trick will be to see if they can get men to buy into robot sex as much as women have already embraced it"
You know. This has always puzzled me. It seems that female sexuality, despite all it's restrictions in regards of frivolities, is in fact; freer. Or in the least, less dirty.
On a gut feeling, I suspect a majority of men and women would consider a man humping his fleshlight somewhat sad, degenerate, in bad taste or whatnot.
If I did not just pull that assertion out of my ass, who here would contend that it is anything but the male counterpart to a mainstream expression of female sexuality that could "almost" see the underbelly of a Christmas tree?
Which is exactly why Norman bundles AdAware when selling security suits.