They could just change their name to PETCA (people for the enthical treatment of cuddly animals) and that would leave the scientists free to experiment on leeches, wasps, eels, spiders, scorpions, and other animals that don't appreciate all that we have done for them.
You're right about that. I moved here in July 1999, and it took me 20 minutes to find a job (not exagerating).
I switched jobs in February and it took a whole 2 days to find a job. That's absolutely outrageous, and is a sign of how terribly rough things are right now.
The more dot-coms that go under, and the more people cast aside, the better the future will be. All those people need to do something, because they gotta eat. Probably quite a number of them will try their own businesses, and some of those might very well be the next big thing. It's similar to what happens when a big employer leaves town. Here in Austin TX, Texas Instruments left town years ago leaving a lot of really smart people without jobs. It's not a coincidence that a lot of those people started their own companies soon after that, contributing to the tech boom in this town.
Even if the election were completely fair, there would be no way to silence people who don't trust the system. Imagine the uproar in the last election multiplied 1000 times, for *every* election. That would be our nightmare.
Without a clear trail of accountability and easy auditing, nobody's going to trust it. It doesn't matter if the system is mathematically foolproof. The system needs to be simple in implementation because the dumbest voter needs to understand how it works. If the system is too complicated, then ignorant people won't trust it. Even a lot of smart people won't trust it.
Don't let the problem with chads fool us into thinking that a good paper based system is impossible.
I don't want to see any e-mails, pop-up ads, commercials on TV, billboards, or wacky contests. I dislike marketing because the purpose of it is to subvert my reasoning process in order to get me to buy your product.
Next, you need to simply take care of the customers you already have. If you always do what you promise to do, when you promise to have it done, then your customers will become your marketing department.
You don't need to expend fuel to change the orbit. Put some solar cells on your spacecraft, and you can send a current down the wire to act against the magnetic field. How about that? You've used solar power to maintain your orbit. This is a neat tether trick which would be very useful.
From what I recall, it wasn't a micrometeorite that did the tether in.
They were doing experiments with electricity generation with tethers, and they found that much more electricity was generated than expected. The tether broke, and when they landed they insepected the severed end. It had been burned through by an electric arc, which gives you a good demostration of generating electricity by moving a wire at speed through the earth's magnetic field.
This guy is blowin wind. He desribes ICANN as a world government with little justification. Treaties? Please.
The article sounds much more like right wing paranoia than a reasoned article. Next thing we all hear from this guy is that ICANN has jurisdiction over America's national parks, because they are using them to train foreign soldiers to be used during the UN occupation of North America.
The A-bomb should not be underemphasized. It was developed at a time when virtually the entire production of the country was devoted to the war effort. For example, during the war, the Japanese managed to produce a handful of ships to replace the ones they lost. America on the other hand, produced thousands and thousands of ships, far outstripping the production of the rest of the world combined.
And, in the middle of that, the Manhattan project was completed. That effort was even greater than the effort required to go to the moon, and we did it with our spare production capacity.
So, I'm not sure what that woman is rambling about.
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Keep the bio out of mechanical? OK, since you're not using your arms and legs. Of course, many people would be reluctant to give up their big mouths.
They could just change their name to PETCA (people for the enthical treatment of cuddly animals) and that would leave the scientists free to experiment on leeches, wasps, eels, spiders, scorpions, and other animals that don't appreciate all that we have done for them.
You're right about that. I moved here in July 1999, and it took me 20 minutes to find a job (not exagerating).
I switched jobs in February and it took a whole 2 days to find a job. That's absolutely outrageous, and is a sign of how terribly rough things are right now.
The more dot-coms that go under, and the more people cast aside, the better the future will be. All those people need to do something, because they gotta eat. Probably quite a number of them will try their own businesses, and some of those might very well be the next big thing. It's similar to what happens when a big employer leaves town. Here in Austin TX, Texas Instruments left town years ago leaving a lot of really smart people without jobs. It's not a coincidence that a lot of those people started their own companies soon after that, contributing to the tech boom in this town.
Sorry, I never had one of those before.
I once did a dd if=bootdisk.imb of=/dev/hda.
/dev/hda had Windows 95 and a swap partition on it. /dev/hdb was where Linux lived. Nothing important was lost.
Luckly,
I think we've found our monkey ball sucker.
Are you actually arguing that all you need to turn a solar sweater into a monkey ball sucker is a potato? OK, if you say so, I'll believe you.
Clothes have pockets. Without a place to put our pocket protectors we are lost.
Actually, I don't think there will be enough power to run a monkey ball sucker.
And nearly everyone believes that they have the average number of arms. Most people actually have more than the average number of arms.
Where do you get shirts that survive 1000 washings? That's some amazing uptime.
By an amazing coincidence, I was just reading this article when this story came up on /.
You need to look here to find a whole lot more.
How do you figure? Without marketing, I will determine that I have a need, find and analyze all the alternatives, and buy the one that's best for me.
The only thing that a marketer can do is to possibly change my purchase decision, by persuading me to ignore the solution that's best for my needs.
Even if the election were completely fair, there would be no way to silence people who don't trust the system. Imagine the uproar in the last election multiplied 1000 times, for *every* election. That would be our nightmare.
Without a clear trail of accountability and easy auditing, nobody's going to trust it. It doesn't matter if the system is mathematically foolproof. The system needs to be simple in implementation because the dumbest voter needs to understand how it works. If the system is too complicated, then ignorant people won't trust it. Even a lot of smart people won't trust it.
Don't let the problem with chads fool us into thinking that a good paper based system is impossible.
Actually, I'd not call you either left or right wing, as you seem to think.
I'd call you an asshole. An asshole with a strawman.
First, you stay out of my face.
I don't want to see any e-mails, pop-up ads, commercials on TV, billboards, or wacky contests. I dislike marketing because the purpose of it is to subvert my reasoning process in order to get me to buy your product.
Next, you need to simply take care of the customers you already have. If you always do what you promise to do, when you promise to have it done, then your customers will become your marketing department.
That's all there is to it. Now, take a hike.
You don't need to expend fuel to change the orbit. Put some solar cells on your spacecraft, and you can send a current down the wire to act against the magnetic field. How about that? You've used solar power to maintain your orbit. This is a neat tether trick which would be very useful.
From what I recall, it wasn't a micrometeorite that did the tether in.
They were doing experiments with electricity generation with tethers, and they found that much more electricity was generated than expected. The tether broke, and when they landed they insepected the severed end. It had been burned through by an electric arc, which gives you a good demostration of generating electricity by moving a wire at speed through the earth's magnetic field.
This guy is blowin wind. He desribes ICANN as a world government with little justification. Treaties? Please.
The article sounds much more like right wing paranoia than a reasoned article. Next thing we all hear from this guy is that ICANN has jurisdiction over America's national parks, because they are using them to train foreign soldiers to be used during the UN occupation of North America.
>The A-Bomb
The A-bomb should not be underemphasized. It was developed at a time when virtually the entire production of the country was devoted to the war effort. For example, during the war, the Japanese managed to produce a handful of ships to replace the ones they lost. America on the other hand, produced thousands and thousands of ships, far outstripping the production of the rest of the world combined.
And, in the middle of that, the Manhattan project was completed. That effort was even greater than the effort required to go to the moon, and we did it with our spare production capacity.
So, I'm not sure what that woman is rambling about.
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They'll be back, again and again, and again.