All geekery aside, the guy isn't an international spy with plans to the deathstar. I highly doubt that his relatives (or most anyone else) are going to go to all that trouble to get on his facebook wall before he croaks.
For that matter, I doubt they'd do it when he croaks either. It's called: write down things and put them in your safety deposit box. Whoever becomes your power of attorney should be someone you trust to do what you want done, and they'll have access. No need for schemes. Honestly, "Odds of Compromise"? Your online identity isn't a national treasure.
Past experience showed us that European explorers saw abundant arable land, timber, and game, and defenseless potential slaves with lots of accumulated mineral wealth.
Once they got there, sure. We haven't really been to Mars to an extent that we know everything about it, and how we can use knowledge from it to better our lives.
There are no resources for colonists to use; they'd have to bring everything with them. If there are exploitable mineral resources, the cost of transporting them from Mars would be greater than the value of the minerals.
Unlike the European explorers, we don't necessarily require material gain in order to see a profit from exploration. Knowledge and understanding can lead to more reward than spices and gold.
Easy, and you touched on it. Past experience has taught us that the new frontier is bountiful. Even if it is not clear at the outset, exploring new places leads to profitable discoveries often enough that the risks are worth it.
That, and it's fucking badass to shoot up in a rocket into space going a million miles per hour, eat astronaut ice-cream, and drink Tang while floating around. Having heroes is damn well worth it, to inspire future greatness.
Woop de doo, poor people in impoverished countries can now spend their entire savings purchasing the solar panels needed to light a few rooms when it's not cloudy outside.
Still doesn't change the fact that, by disallowing them to use the massive amounts of coal under their feet, we're disallowing them to build infrastructure and means of production so that they can accumulate capital. They need to be more than plain consumers to bring themselves up to our standards of living, and for that they need cheap, plentiful energy such as coal so that they can start producing wealth. They need factories, not tea lights.
most organic producers follow some (if not all) of those rules.)
Nope, they don't.
Organic doesn't mean grown without fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, or preservatives. Not at all. All fruits and vegetables are grown with all three in the process.
The only difference is that the fertilizer, instead of being processed, enhanced, guaranteed free of disease, or synthesized, is all-natural manure, with all the possible contaminants contained within. The pesticides are all-natural, 100 year old recipes, with all of their possible health-effects and negative environmental impact that have been weeded out of modern, synthetic pesticides. The preservatives are, again, all natural, with all of the health issues and contaminant issues and, well, preservation issues, that modern preservatives are always striving to eliminate.
Organic food is almost all grown the exact same was as regular food: on large, industrial farms, in large volumes, for a profit. The only difference is that the expense of Organic food comes from the limited supply (due to demand as well as a higher rate of spoilage), while the expense of normal food comes from making it better, cheaper, and safer.
You're right, but if you're writing a paper on the subject, it would be useful to not have to copy + paste the source links at the bottom into google, and just be able to click them and hit up an Amazon preview.
Winning Eleven also came out on iPhone, you wanna tell me that it's just the downscaled PS3 version? It's not just a simple matter of straight porting it with a downscaled resolution like the parent suggested, it's essentially an entirely new game to develop.
The Wii has only one processor core. The Wii has a GPU capable of only ~15 million polygons/second max, and incapable of plain old bumpmapping, nevermind more complex shaders. It has a pitiful amount of memory available. Reducing the resolution of a 360 or PS3 game doesn't reduce the massive amount of shaders and effects the Wii simply could not handle. That's why games need to be completely independently developed for the Wii, it's nearly impossible to do a straight port and downgrade, simply because the limitations are so vastly different. It's a Gamecube. Surely you're not suggesting that a PS2 could play PS3 games easily at 480p as well?
True, but like I said, I shipped a whole computer I put together, assembled, in a plain brown box, and it made it through fine. The Xmas gift that got stuck for security in question... was a pocket watch, a shirt, and some misc. items.
You'd think the thing that would get the most scrutiny would be the PC.
I seem to have terrible luck with both UPS and USPS.
My Xmas present from last year, shipped USPS from AZ to MB, Canada, had a nice 6 month layover at US Customs before being shipped back to AZ
UPS, on the other hand, decided to deliver birthday presents addressed to me to the wrong house and forge a signature twice
Merry Xmas to me... I'm hoping to receive something this year, but I'm not getting my hopes up. This time we're crossing our fingers and using FedEx, if only to see how they'll fuck up.
Meanwhile, every time I've shipped something down to AZ (including a small computer, via USPS Ground) it's arrived perfectly intact and on-time. Must just be me...
In the last 31 days I've downloaded 267 GB with torrents alone, and probably close to 100GB in streaming video and the like. I've gone over 500GB/month before plenty of times.
MTS doesn't care as long as I pay my bills on time. The speed is decent too, 7-8 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up for ~$45/month. No throttling, no angry letters in the mail, nothing.
Whoever tagged this "cowardly", I'd like to see you shoot into space when conditions aren't optimal, where conditions not being optimal can mean a horrible death by being vaporized.
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Why is it that when people hear the word "Autistic" they either think "retard" or "troubled genius". You do realize there's plenty of room in between?
A wedding isn't playing songs to attract customers, and therefore profit. It's playing the song to enjoy it privately.
All geekery aside, the guy isn't an international spy with plans to the deathstar. I highly doubt that his relatives (or most anyone else) are going to go to all that trouble to get on his facebook wall before he croaks.
For that matter, I doubt they'd do it when he croaks either. It's called: write down things and put them in your safety deposit box. Whoever becomes your power of attorney should be someone you trust to do what you want done, and they'll have access. No need for schemes. Honestly, "Odds of Compromise"? Your online identity isn't a national treasure.
Past experience showed us that European explorers saw abundant arable land, timber, and game, and defenseless potential slaves with lots of accumulated mineral wealth.
Once they got there, sure. We haven't really been to Mars to an extent that we know everything about it, and how we can use knowledge from it to better our lives.
There are no resources for colonists to use; they'd have to bring everything with them. If there are exploitable mineral resources, the cost of transporting them from Mars would be greater than the value of the minerals.
Unlike the European explorers, we don't necessarily require material gain in order to see a profit from exploration. Knowledge and understanding can lead to more reward than spices and gold.
Easy, and you touched on it. Past experience has taught us that the new frontier is bountiful. Even if it is not clear at the outset, exploring new places leads to profitable discoveries often enough that the risks are worth it.
That, and it's fucking badass to shoot up in a rocket into space going a million miles per hour, eat astronaut ice-cream, and drink Tang while floating around. Having heroes is damn well worth it, to inspire future greatness.
Woop de doo, poor people in impoverished countries can now spend their entire savings purchasing the solar panels needed to light a few rooms when it's not cloudy outside.
Still doesn't change the fact that, by disallowing them to use the massive amounts of coal under their feet, we're disallowing them to build infrastructure and means of production so that they can accumulate capital. They need to be more than plain consumers to bring themselves up to our standards of living, and for that they need cheap, plentiful energy such as coal so that they can start producing wealth. They need factories, not tea lights.
Sure.
http://web.mit.edu/~sdavies/MacData/afs.sdavies/MacData/afs.course/other/sp275/www/organicmyth.pdf
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/organic.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14079717/The-Seven-Most-Dangerous-Myths-About-Organic
Organic farming uses organic pesticides and preservatives.
most organic producers follow some (if not all) of those rules.)
Nope, they don't.
Organic doesn't mean grown without fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, or preservatives. Not at all. All fruits and vegetables are grown with all three in the process.
The only difference is that the fertilizer, instead of being processed, enhanced, guaranteed free of disease, or synthesized, is all-natural manure, with all the possible contaminants contained within. The pesticides are all-natural, 100 year old recipes, with all of their possible health-effects and negative environmental impact that have been weeded out of modern, synthetic pesticides. The preservatives are, again, all natural, with all of the health issues and contaminant issues and, well, preservation issues, that modern preservatives are always striving to eliminate.
Organic food is almost all grown the exact same was as regular food: on large, industrial farms, in large volumes, for a profit. The only difference is that the expense of Organic food comes from the limited supply (due to demand as well as a higher rate of spoilage), while the expense of normal food comes from making it better, cheaper, and safer.
You're right, but if you're writing a paper on the subject, it would be useful to not have to copy + paste the source links at the bottom into google, and just be able to click them and hit up an Amazon preview.
Wikipedia is a reference, not a source.
And yes, it's rape in Sweden if a women withdraws her consent and the man doesn't stop.
Um... and so it should be. No means No, even if she said Yes initially. You say it like it's ridiculous.
Winning Eleven also came out on iPhone, you wanna tell me that it's just the downscaled PS3 version? It's not just a simple matter of straight porting it with a downscaled resolution like the parent suggested, it's essentially an entirely new game to develop.
Um, what?
The Wii has only one processor core. The Wii has a GPU capable of only ~15 million polygons/second max, and incapable of plain old bumpmapping, nevermind more complex shaders. It has a pitiful amount of memory available. Reducing the resolution of a 360 or PS3 game doesn't reduce the massive amount of shaders and effects the Wii simply could not handle. That's why games need to be completely independently developed for the Wii, it's nearly impossible to do a straight port and downgrade, simply because the limitations are so vastly different. It's a Gamecube. Surely you're not suggesting that a PS2 could play PS3 games easily at 480p as well?
True, but like I said, I shipped a whole computer I put together, assembled, in a plain brown box, and it made it through fine. The Xmas gift that got stuck for security in question... was a pocket watch, a shirt, and some misc. items.
You'd think the thing that would get the most scrutiny would be the PC.
I seem to have terrible luck with both UPS and USPS.
My Xmas present from last year, shipped USPS from AZ to MB, Canada, had a nice 6 month layover at US Customs before being shipped back to AZ
UPS, on the other hand, decided to deliver birthday presents addressed to me to the wrong house and forge a signature twice
Merry Xmas to me... I'm hoping to receive something this year, but I'm not getting my hopes up. This time we're crossing our fingers and using FedEx, if only to see how they'll fuck up.
Meanwhile, every time I've shipped something down to AZ (including a small computer, via USPS Ground) it's arrived perfectly intact and on-time. Must just be me...
Easy, we'll get some shears and quarter your quarter.
Put it in reverse?
Windows is aimed largely at home users and people of little or no technological knowledge.
Um... no. Windows has always been about business, from the beginning. The home versions were always supplementary, not the main course.
Well, shit.
All men want women to change too.
The foundation of a good relationship is compromise.
I'm glad I live in Winnipeg.
In the last 31 days I've downloaded 267 GB with torrents alone, and probably close to 100GB in streaming video and the like. I've gone over 500GB/month before plenty of times.
MTS doesn't care as long as I pay my bills on time. The speed is decent too, 7-8 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up for ~$45/month. No throttling, no angry letters in the mail, nothing.
Whoever tagged this "cowardly", I'd like to see you shoot into space when conditions aren't optimal, where conditions not being optimal can mean a horrible death by being vaporized.
And so families have to sue children.
God Bless America.
You're right, the cost should be borne by insurance. Accidents happen, that's what insurance is for.