All it would take is the extremely lethal and difficult to treat strain swapping the right genetic material with the more common human to human forms and there will be a super lethal form created The history of birds spreading epidemic influenza diseases to humans is why this is such a concern.
I don't believe you are familiar with the story, you probably only read it decades ago as a child, and even then you misinterpreted it for a mere space opera with aliens eating people...
The original "War of the Worlds" was a serious statement about the futility of war. By the end of the book look at what happen to our planet, all the bad guys were dead, their killing machines halted, but our cities, our civilization and our population was decimated. The survivors would never escape the effects of the war, they'd never see humanity recover, they'd never see the Earth's scars heal.
Note in the original story not a single tripod or alien was directly harmed by a human, and that was element was crucial to the story HG Well's message about how there isn't always a hero that rises up when things reach their worst to save the day. Spielberg's version was just a gung-ho for war, US Army recruitment propaganda where an "army of one" singlehandely destroys an alien tripod all by himself.
Pirating porn is not only illegal, but it hurts the livelihoods of thousands of pimps, Hollywood rejected starletts and fluffers. "You can jerk but you can't hide"
Dolphins have had some degree of success since the Soviet era. The US Navy is currently using them in the Persian Gulf to search out mines and other underwater threats. But humans have been training animals for thousands of years, somewhat different than bypassing their own instincts completely and controlling their brains.
Maybe a delay on answering a cell phone too?
You pick up but the microphone or speaker doesn't active for 30 seconds.
Enough time to remove yourself from a crowded theater. Your caller can get a prerecorded voice message to hold on few seconds. Phone companies would love that since you're still paying for the time.
Or the theater prevents the mic from turning on inside the theater. Want to talk, you have to go out to the lobby.
If it were just a single ring and the person answered no big deal, but when people start chattering away during as if they were the only one in the theater or using that husky "conference" phone voice they think nobody else can hear, the phone should be authorized to be the judge, jury and executioner. Otherwise the volume increases when others start shushing and shouting at the person to shut up and that's just as bad because its usually someone sitting right in front of me.
Coat passenger trains, buses, movie theaters, pizzerias, nightclubs, maybe subway stations and everywhere else Muslims bomb with this paint. You'll stop that common technique of using cellphone and other wireless signals as bomb triggers. It could be extremely effective at stopping the strategy Islamic terrorists have used where they watch and wait until emergency responders arrive at the scene and then set off a second wave of bombs to cause even greater casualties. This could be significantly cheaper than active jamming which is illegal in the USA too.
In the West web pornography was a major proponent in pushing internet access out from under the watchful regulations of the workplace and bringing it into the privacy and freedom of one's home. This led to a boom in possibilities for the internet as a forum for social, political and creative opportunities.,
Now I've spent time in two Middle Eastern states (a conservative, rural emirate in the UAE and equally conservative Yemen) and I have personally experienced strictly filtered and monitored internet access and the result was a lot of free time on my hands. Many webaddresses were outright blocked, not just porn but all types of free expression, entire domains that people in the West take for granted with a good dose of anonymity as well (though the outcome of this government eavesdropping matter might change things in the US) Does government imposed and religious-based internet censorship and monitoring in the Middle East restrict the usefulness and spread of internet access? I know if I had a moral policeman or Soviet style political officer standing over my shoulder all the time when I'm online I'd look for something else to do.
Goddamn Mario. It's not my fault. Blame my parents. Also whenever I'm in a big box store I get the urge to run through the aisles, eating fruit off the floor and dodging obese people in brightly colored mumus
Could you give an example? There are a handful of really high quality, well educated albeit aging independent electronic parts retailers in NYC. Although you have to go off to Queens or Brooklyn they exist for now.
Do Verizon, the baby Bells, and cable operators like Cablevision that offer their own pay to use VOIP have to play along with this death knell? It's already technically against my TOS to host a Civ4 game, could we expect the same for VOIP use? Or what about a more brutal "port-block" like method of stopping wifi phones from connecting in wi-fi hotspots or even at home? Won't the infrastructure have to be set in place and cooperating for VOIP wifi enabled phones to take off?
about a CARTOON. 3,000 people murdered in the name of Islam and no worldwide Muslim led riots against this terrorist act committed against the West. Why not? Those extremist, Saudi funded mosques which originally brainwashed and recruited the hijackers as soldiers of Islam dominate the landscape in the Muslim world and Europe too. Maybe the only way we could appease Muslim anger is to allow another terrorist attack. Then they will party and dance in the streets like it's 9/11 http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.htm
Seriously, what does the robot on, what type of power supply does the robot have? It only made it 1500' on a mile long cable. Is that because it's energy supply ran out? Science fiction writers usually say ground based "lasers" or "microwave transmitters" but is that more feasible than 62,000 miles of carbon nanotubing?
As far as I know, most hospitals in NY have a similiar policy where if you can have people donate blood in your name, you recieve the blood you required for less. It's a parity system, if you use 5 pints for example you'll want at least 5 pints donated.
Okay, did I read the correct story? So she may have never used a computer, but I assume she is paying for the cable or dsl service that is likely attached to her television or phone bill? Or a child used her credit card to open an AOL account... And that there is someone in her household who uses the internet she is paying for to share music on p2p? That happens all the time in these cases. A kid shares the music and the parent is blissfully ignorant. The way the blurb is phrased sounds like it was written by Pravda. Is there another article with more details?
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All it would take is the extremely lethal and difficult to treat strain swapping the right genetic material with the more common human to human forms and there will be a super lethal form created The history of birds spreading epidemic influenza diseases to humans is why this is such a concern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_kong_flu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Flu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenzavirus_A
And the fact the avian flu was now found in cats in Germany makes
The software Google releases on the first of next month won't be beta; APRIL FOOLS, just kidding, sorry, really had you going there right?
I don't believe you are familiar with the story, you probably only read it decades ago as a child, and even then you misinterpreted it for a mere space opera with aliens eating people...
The original "War of the Worlds" was a serious statement about the futility of war. By the end of the book look at what happen to our planet, all the bad guys were dead, their killing machines halted, but our cities, our civilization and our population was decimated. The survivors would never escape the effects of the war, they'd never see humanity recover, they'd never see the Earth's scars heal.
Note in the original story not a single tripod or alien was directly harmed by a human, and that was element was crucial to the story HG Well's message about how there isn't always a hero that rises up when things reach their worst to save the day.
Spielberg's version was just a gung-ho for war, US Army recruitment propaganda where an "army of one" singlehandely destroys an alien tripod all by himself.
Pirating porn is not only illegal, but it hurts the livelihoods of thousands of pimps, Hollywood rejected starletts and fluffers.
"You can jerk but you can't hide"
Dolphins have had some degree of success since the Soviet era. The US Navy is currently using them in the Persian Gulf to search out mines and other underwater threats. But humans have been training animals for thousands of years, somewhat different than bypassing their own instincts completely and controlling their brains.
Maybe a delay on answering a cell phone too? You pick up but the microphone or speaker doesn't active for 30 seconds. Enough time to remove yourself from a crowded theater. Your caller can get a prerecorded voice message to hold on few seconds. Phone companies would love that since you're still paying for the time. Or the theater prevents the mic from turning on inside the theater. Want to talk, you have to go out to the lobby. If it were just a single ring and the person answered no big deal, but when people start chattering away during as if they were the only one in the theater or using that husky "conference" phone voice they think nobody else can hear, the phone should be authorized to be the judge, jury and executioner. Otherwise the volume increases when others start shushing and shouting at the person to shut up and that's just as bad because its usually someone sitting right in front of me.
Coat passenger trains, buses, movie theaters, pizzerias, nightclubs, maybe subway stations and everywhere else Muslims bomb with this paint. You'll stop that common technique of using cellphone and other wireless signals as bomb triggers. It could be extremely effective at stopping the strategy Islamic terrorists have used where they watch and wait until emergency responders arrive at the scene and then set off a second wave of bombs to cause even greater casualties. This could be significantly cheaper than active jamming which is illegal in the USA too.
In the West web pornography was a major proponent in pushing internet access out from under the watchful regulations of the workplace and bringing it into the privacy and freedom of one's home. This led to a boom in possibilities for the internet as a forum for social, political and creative opportunities.,
Now I've spent time in two Middle Eastern states (a conservative, rural emirate in the UAE and equally conservative Yemen) and I have personally experienced strictly filtered and monitored internet access and the result was a lot of free time on my hands. Many webaddresses were outright blocked, not just porn but all types of free expression, entire domains that people in the West take for granted with a good dose of anonymity as well (though the outcome of this government eavesdropping matter might change things in the US)
Does government imposed and religious-based internet censorship and monitoring in the Middle East restrict the usefulness and spread of internet access?
I know if I had a moral policeman or Soviet style political officer standing over my shoulder all the time when I'm online I'd look for something else to do.
Goddamn Mario. It's not my fault. Blame my parents.
Also whenever I'm in a big box store I get the urge to run through the aisles, eating fruit off the floor and dodging obese people in brightly colored mumus
Could you give an example? There are a handful of really high quality, well educated albeit aging independent electronic parts retailers in NYC. Although you have to go off to Queens or Brooklyn they exist for now.
Do Verizon, the baby Bells, and cable operators like Cablevision that offer their own pay to use VOIP have to play along with this death knell?
It's already technically against my TOS to host a Civ4 game, could we expect the same for VOIP use? Or what about a more brutal "port-block" like method of stopping wifi phones from connecting in wi-fi hotspots or even at home? Won't the infrastructure have to be set in place and cooperating for VOIP wifi enabled phones to take off?
about a CARTOON.
3,000 people murdered in the name of Islam and no worldwide Muslim led riots against this terrorist act committed against the West. Why not? Those extremist, Saudi funded mosques which originally brainwashed and recruited the hijackers as soldiers of Islam dominate the landscape in the Muslim world and Europe too. Maybe the only way we could appease Muslim anger is to allow another terrorist attack. Then they will party and dance in the streets like it's 9/11
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.htm
Seriously, what does the robot on, what type of power supply does the robot have? It only made it 1500' on a mile long cable. Is that because it's energy supply ran out? Science fiction writers usually say ground based "lasers" or "microwave transmitters" but is that more feasible than 62,000 miles of carbon nanotubing?
As far as I know, most hospitals in NY have a similiar policy where if you can have people donate blood in your name, you recieve the blood you required for less. It's a parity system, if you use 5 pints for example you'll want at least 5 pints donated.
I have to wipe with the other one but very accute observation young 733t slashdot/yahoo troll.
Okay, did I read the correct story? So she may have never used a computer, but I assume she is paying for the cable or dsl service that is likely attached to her television or phone bill? Or a child used her credit card to open an AOL account... And that there is someone in her household who uses the internet she is paying for to share music on p2p? That happens all the time in these cases. A kid shares the music and the parent is blissfully ignorant. The way the blurb is phrased sounds like it was written by Pravda. Is there another article with more details?