Shouldn't that be illegal alien craft?
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UFOs In the News
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If you want proper funding for UFO research have them declared terrorists threatening our borders and Homeland Security will give you all the money you want. If you filed the right paperwork you could probably get a couple of mill in research grants to calculate the amount of explosive one flying saucer could carry. Just imagine the destruction a UFO crammed full of explosives could cause if it crashed into Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland. Seeing pictures of Mickey Mouse and Goofy splattered across the sidewalk could bring this country to it's knees. The invading UFOs must be stopped!
Starbucks is actually well known for it's good treatment of it's employees. A significant amount of your coffee purchase goes to health insurance where as most large retailers have gone to mostly part time policy to avoid paying benefits. I'm guessing it's their size more than their practices that are making them the target. If you attack Joe's Coffee Hut for paying 20% below market price for dirt cheap beans raised by slave labor you ain't gettin' much press interest. Attack the king of the hill and the press takes notice even if they are in fact paying a fair price for the beans and there really is no story. I used to be a big fan of invegative stories but all too often these days the story is manufactured and once you know the details many turn out to be bogus. Starfbucks may not use Blue Mountain beans but they use good quality beans so I have to believe they pay a decent price for them. They sure charge enough. I use their Expresso beans because the supermarket brands are awful. $10 for a pound of coffee that will last for weeks isn't that bad.
The vast majority of space exploration has always been unmanned. Not sure what's so stuck in the 60s about it unless you believe people don't belong in space and to quote a great write "Maybe leaving the trees wasn't such a good idea either". Even Stephen Hawking is saying the future of space exploration has to be colonization. At a certain point all unmanned missions are doing is information gathering. Are we out there to fill books with facts or to move us closer to travel in space? I'm a massive supporter of the Mars missions but if we hadn't slowed down on space exploration we would have had men and women on Mars years ago and water and life would have already been rendered academic questions. Ultimately the average person is paying for the missions and which gets more excitement and interest in funding future space exploration, knowing the composition of Mars or seeing a human standing on Mars? I want to see unmanned missions amped up but it's in part to pave the way to manned missions. I'd much rather see the cash spent there than used to blow the shit out of Iraq.
I understand why they did it but as a rule I hate icon based systems. I have a CG software I was trying to use that went that route. In that case they went too small with the icons to cram more in so they look like colored blobs. Instead of glancing at text I find I waste most of my time holding the cursor over icon after icon waiting for the roll over text to tell me what the function is. I was also surprised they were boasting of no text bar on the browser. Leaves you at the mercy of the search engine. In may be better for kids starting out the way they laid it out but how does it give them an education in computers when it doesn't teach them how any other computer on the planet works? They'd be better off with a ten year old Windows machine or far better off with a current Linux system. Nice idea but it seems completely pointless.
I think the truth is it's a fairly common thing, spearing the fish, to happen but this particular time it made the national papers. It's like most posionous snake bite victims in the US are 18 to 25 males that are drunk at the time. They find a snake beside the road and try to kill it with a stick. It's so commonplace that the Darwin Awards ignores that form of death. Personally I think the train story is apocraphil but it's hard to say. People have been known to jump trains when they missed their stop so it's possible but I doubt the details are accurate. I have heard stories of morons spearing whales and sharks and getting dragged under and drowning. I personally used to know a diver that nearly drowned because he forgot his dive knife. The event didn't involve a fish he got tangled up in some lines but it does happen and divers drown. Cave diving is another one that is just plain stupid but people still do it. A frightening number of the diving deaths are from cave diving. There's a place I believe in Texas that's a popular place to cave dive but the opening is so small the only way to get in is to take your tank off and drag it behind you. A number of people a year die in that cave because the panic when they try to get back out again. They probably should seal it to protect people from their own stupidity. Like I say I know I've heard the Grouper story before and I even heard it once in New Zealand but I tend to think it's a common "accident" so more than likely most of the tellings are false but only because it's so common the stories get repeated and distorted in the telling.
Remember the scene in A Christmas Story where the kid licks a metal pole? I keep getting this picture of a kid licking the power strip and the electronics deciding his tongue was an electronic device badly in need of a 120 volts. I can hear the chanting now, "you'll blow your eye out, you'll blow your eye out."
I miss read the title the first time, the joke being I do heat my office with computers. I have three of them in the room and the 4800 dual core puts out a fair amount of heat on it's own keeping it toasty compared to the rest of the house. I used to have a dual 300 that got so hot you couldn't touch the side of the case. I literally put a box fan on that one to keep it running.
to start building condos? With Florida and most of the current coastal land under water there's going to be a big demand for new coastal land. Personally I think it's all a scam and Trump is behind the survey and they are really dividing the island into lots. Just watch, there'll be prime lots for sale on Ebay any day now. They're starting to run out of desert and swamp land to sell so Greenland would be a perfect spot for retirement property for Gen Xers.
Got to wonder at what point the government surrenders and admits to human induced climate change? It's like down turns in the economy, things like the housing market. They deny there's a slow down until they can anounce recovery well they never admitted to the slowdown in the first place so what are we recovering from? If they are waiting for the climate to improve on it's own before admitting to global warming they are likely to have a long wait. Even a minor shift can take hundreds of years to reverse and this one isn't looking minor so it can take thousands of years. Do we have to loose coastal Florida or New York City before they admit there's a problem?
I was shocked by photos showing the rover. The rovers aren't that big so the resolution was amazing. I'd love to see some shots of the "tree" formation like that. The general belief is the are some form of ice crystals but they must be amazing looking. They were quite large on the lower res shots. Hard to say if there's any scientific value in sending a lander to the area, not enough sunlight for solar so it'd be harder to deal with, but I'd love to see CU shots of them. They have to be one of the wonders of the solar system.
We're all a bunch of gun toting serial killers at heart? May be they're right? If your twelve year old son is playing a Barbie dress up video game I wouldn't count on grand kids.
If the 100,000 barrels per acre is even close to accurate there's more than enough hog waste to produce what biodiesel we need. I single factory farm could provide enough for hundreds of acres of algae ponds. Nitrogen is miracle grow for algae so farm waste could be the new middle east. I'd read about this process years ago but the numbers seem much better than I could have imagined.
There was a study that found due to their excessive sliminess you could get a million barrels per acre of lawyers but a group of lawyers sued to surpress the report. They also filed for endangered species protection to prevent Lawyers from being converted to biodiesel but the courts countered with the fact that they breed faster than rabbits so there's no risk of running out of lawyers anytime soon.
When they gave the test to Donald Rumesfeld it took three techs to pry the button out of his hand. They said it was the giggling that was really creepy.
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If you want proper funding for UFO research have them declared terrorists threatening our borders and Homeland Security will give you all the money you want. If you filed the right paperwork you could probably get a couple of mill in research grants to calculate the amount of explosive one flying saucer could carry. Just imagine the destruction a UFO crammed full of explosives could cause if it crashed into Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland. Seeing pictures of Mickey Mouse and Goofy splattered across the sidewalk could bring this country to it's knees. The invading UFOs must be stopped!
Starbucks is actually well known for it's good treatment of it's employees. A significant amount of your coffee purchase goes to health insurance where as most large retailers have gone to mostly part time policy to avoid paying benefits. I'm guessing it's their size more than their practices that are making them the target. If you attack Joe's Coffee Hut for paying 20% below market price for dirt cheap beans raised by slave labor you ain't gettin' much press interest. Attack the king of the hill and the press takes notice even if they are in fact paying a fair price for the beans and there really is no story. I used to be a big fan of invegative stories but all too often these days the story is manufactured and once you know the details many turn out to be bogus. Starfbucks may not use Blue Mountain beans but they use good quality beans so I have to believe they pay a decent price for them. They sure charge enough. I use their Expresso beans because the supermarket brands are awful. $10 for a pound of coffee that will last for weeks isn't that bad.
I'm amazed the dupes aren't showing up on the same day the way things are going.
The vast majority of space exploration has always been unmanned. Not sure what's so stuck in the 60s about it unless you believe people don't belong in space and to quote a great write "Maybe leaving the trees wasn't such a good idea either". Even Stephen Hawking is saying the future of space exploration has to be colonization. At a certain point all unmanned missions are doing is information gathering. Are we out there to fill books with facts or to move us closer to travel in space? I'm a massive supporter of the Mars missions but if we hadn't slowed down on space exploration we would have had men and women on Mars years ago and water and life would have already been rendered academic questions. Ultimately the average person is paying for the missions and which gets more excitement and interest in funding future space exploration, knowing the composition of Mars or seeing a human standing on Mars? I want to see unmanned missions amped up but it's in part to pave the way to manned missions. I'd much rather see the cash spent there than used to blow the shit out of Iraq.
Unfortunately the rover's first action was to declare Mars free and demand equal rights. Maybe including new AI protocols was a bad idea after all.
Amen and thank you. I get tired of the US bashing especially from the UK with their under the microscope approach to privacy.
Interesting how on Slashdot all you have to do is US bash to get a good mod.
I understand why they did it but as a rule I hate icon based systems. I have a CG software I was trying to use that went that route. In that case they went too small with the icons to cram more in so they look like colored blobs. Instead of glancing at text I find I waste most of my time holding the cursor over icon after icon waiting for the roll over text to tell me what the function is. I was also surprised they were boasting of no text bar on the browser. Leaves you at the mercy of the search engine. In may be better for kids starting out the way they laid it out but how does it give them an education in computers when it doesn't teach them how any other computer on the planet works? They'd be better off with a ten year old Windows machine or far better off with a current Linux system. Nice idea but it seems completely pointless.
"The Glorius Workers Communist Website of Slashdot", That should get it past the censors.
I hear the version after Vista is code named Leopard.
Linux users won't be able to watch paint dry over the net?
I think the truth is it's a fairly common thing, spearing the fish, to happen but this particular time it made the national papers. It's like most posionous snake bite victims in the US are 18 to 25 males that are drunk at the time. They find a snake beside the road and try to kill it with a stick. It's so commonplace that the Darwin Awards ignores that form of death. Personally I think the train story is apocraphil but it's hard to say. People have been known to jump trains when they missed their stop so it's possible but I doubt the details are accurate. I have heard stories of morons spearing whales and sharks and getting dragged under and drowning. I personally used to know a diver that nearly drowned because he forgot his dive knife. The event didn't involve a fish he got tangled up in some lines but it does happen and divers drown. Cave diving is another one that is just plain stupid but people still do it. A frightening number of the diving deaths are from cave diving. There's a place I believe in Texas that's a popular place to cave dive but the opening is so small the only way to get in is to take your tank off and drag it behind you. A number of people a year die in that cave because the panic when they try to get back out again. They probably should seal it to protect people from their own stupidity. Like I say I know I've heard the Grouper story before and I even heard it once in New Zealand but I tend to think it's a common "accident" so more than likely most of the tellings are false but only because it's so common the stories get repeated and distorted in the telling.
Remember the scene in A Christmas Story where the kid licks a metal pole? I keep getting this picture of a kid licking the power strip and the electronics deciding his tongue was an electronic device badly in need of a 120 volts. I can hear the chanting now, "you'll blow your eye out, you'll blow your eye out."
The fact it's being financed by selling internet based swamp land is a concern.
A scientific explaination of Jocks and blondes.
I miss read the title the first time, the joke being I do heat my office with computers. I have three of them in the room and the 4800 dual core puts out a fair amount of heat on it's own keeping it toasty compared to the rest of the house. I used to have a dual 300 that got so hot you couldn't touch the side of the case. I literally put a box fan on that one to keep it running.
That should work, worked for M. Night.
to start building condos? With Florida and most of the current coastal land under water there's going to be a big demand for new coastal land. Personally I think it's all a scam and Trump is behind the survey and they are really dividing the island into lots. Just watch, there'll be prime lots for sale on Ebay any day now. They're starting to run out of desert and swamp land to sell so Greenland would be a perfect spot for retirement property for Gen Xers.
Got to wonder at what point the government surrenders and admits to human induced climate change? It's like down turns in the economy, things like the housing market. They deny there's a slow down until they can anounce recovery well they never admitted to the slowdown in the first place so what are we recovering from? If they are waiting for the climate to improve on it's own before admitting to global warming they are likely to have a long wait. Even a minor shift can take hundreds of years to reverse and this one isn't looking minor so it can take thousands of years. Do we have to loose coastal Florida or New York City before they admit there's a problem?
I was shocked by photos showing the rover. The rovers aren't that big so the resolution was amazing. I'd love to see some shots of the "tree" formation like that. The general belief is the are some form of ice crystals but they must be amazing looking. They were quite large on the lower res shots. Hard to say if there's any scientific value in sending a lander to the area, not enough sunlight for solar so it'd be harder to deal with, but I'd love to see CU shots of them. They have to be one of the wonders of the solar system.
We're all a bunch of gun toting serial killers at heart? May be they're right? If your twelve year old son is playing a Barbie dress up video game I wouldn't count on grand kids.
If the 100,000 barrels per acre is even close to accurate there's more than enough hog waste to produce what biodiesel we need. I single factory farm could provide enough for hundreds of acres of algae ponds. Nitrogen is miracle grow for algae so farm waste could be the new middle east. I'd read about this process years ago but the numbers seem much better than I could have imagined.
There was a study that found due to their excessive sliminess you could get a million barrels per acre of lawyers but a group of lawyers sued to surpress the report. They also filed for endangered species protection to prevent Lawyers from being converted to biodiesel but the courts countered with the fact that they breed faster than rabbits so there's no risk of running out of lawyers anytime soon.
When they gave the test to Donald Rumesfeld it took three techs to pry the button out of his hand. They said it was the giggling that was really creepy.
You can tell it's geeks and nerds doing the downloading.