Just introduced here - no-one seems to be 'forcing' us rank-and-file to use it though. I imagine it will disappear in a year or two, as soon as the people who's bright idea it was to introduce it get another bright idea...
Don't forget the picture of Saddam Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld (one of the architects of the 2003 Iraq invasion and then special envoy of Reagan) shaking hands in 1983.
Funny, I could swear I've seen pictures of FDR sitting next to Mr. Gulag himself, Josef Stalin. If you're already in a conflict with scumbag X, and slightly-less-scummy-guy Y starts fighting him too, you might have to hold your nose and help Y in the short term.
Someone in Churchill's cabinet made a similar comment in '41, when Hitler launched Barbarossa. His comment was that maybe Britain (and the other allies at war: this is all pre-US involvement) should sit on the sidelines and let them just destroy each other. Churchill's response then (or to a similar situation) was that if Hell declared war against Nazi Germany, it would become necessary to look for some of the good points in Satan.
Not always. I got jabbed with the whooping cough vaccine when I was a whippersnapper and still caught the damn thing. I've an interesting pigeon rib (pokes out, owing to huge air intakes) that I show off to my wife and other close friends.
Seriously... how will the people know to pick up the tablet? Answer - there'll be a poster or something. So, just user the poster to carry the message, and forget the tablet.
Come to think of it, people at a doctors get enough tablets anyhow.
Blazing out of the sun’s gravitational well at 34,000 miles per hour
That's about like driving from San Francisco to New York City in 5 minutes, or from Madrid to Moscow in a little more than 4 minutes (via Google Maps directions), instead of a couple of days. I'm impressed.
The whole point of moving to America back then for most folks was to get away from religious persecution. The idea that no one should die because they have a different faith was ingrained in America from the most enlightened deist to the the most devout puritan.
Nonsense. The whole point of moving to America (in those days, the colonies) was to do your own type of religious persecution.
If they just tried to leave it running it would've powered itself down eventually.
Buddy, this is a mainframe. They don't fault. It would only power itself down when someone actually unplugged it. We're talking years/decades without a problem (well, we are with my Unisys mainframes...).
Good luck flying to New Zealand without going through Australia considering most international flights stopover there. If this shit keeps up hopefully that will change.
Nonsense. I went direct from Vancouver BC to Auckland last month. And Air NZ fly to places all around the Pacific. Not to mention Heathrow.
all it's missing is the editorializing in the summary.
"It will be interesting to see how the corporatist plutocrats in Washington respond to this blowing of the cover-up and how it proves that Google is actually regarded as a diety by every galactic culture but ours..."
Might have been funnier if you'd spelt "deity" right. Or maybe not.
There are no 700 kph on the surface of Venus. They actually move at walking pace. Given the density of the atmosphere, however, you wouldn't be able to stand still anyway.
Walking pace? Define "walking pace". I'm pretty sure the winds are strong enough to turn the umbrellas of any Venusian Black Flappian inside-out, and muss many an expensive hair-do.
How does a belief that there is no God not count as a belief system?
Well, first of all, atheism is not "a belief that there is no God," it is a lack of belief in any gods at all (for some reason, Christians insist that there is only one deity anyone could believe in).
Quote: Atheism is a religion the same way not collecting stamps is a hobby. Unquote.
Hmmm - I followed those links (thanks for providing - good ground work!) and have to comment that a good science textbook is a good science textbook, regardless of whether it was written by a catholic, a jesuit, an atheist or whatever the heck. At least one of the links point to good science textbooks (reportedly) written by catholics. If true, that's great. The world needs more good science textbooks. But the links imply that catholics embrace science because they have written these textbooks. I'd argue that's coincidence. Maybe they also all had dark hair and were right-handed.
Being a catholic doesn't preclude you from writing a good science textbook. It doesn't help, though.
And the people who wrote these textbooks have my admiration, as much as anyone who spreads knowledge and popularizes science.
Maybe it's just me. But especially when the first lines of TFA are "after a rocky start...". I expected..."Steve Oracle, the lead singer and charismatic head of the Ecosystem riffed on a delicate C-sharp rising inflection to bring the crowd to it's knees with the country&western ballads that we've all come to know and love"
By all means, mod me off-topic, but it was worth it.
Reminds me of the cartoon of a dull-looking man talking to a woman at a party - text below was "You may not think it to look at me, but in my time I've been a bank clerk, bank teller and bank customer liaison officer".
“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.
Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.
But every one of those stars is a sun, often far more brilliant and glorious than the small, nearby star we call the Sun. And many--perhaps most--of those alien suns have planets circling them. So almost certainly there is enough land in the sky to give every member of the human species, back to the first ape-man, his own private, world-sized heaven--or hell.
How many of those potential heavens and hells are now inhabited, and by what manner of creatures, we have no way of guessing; the very nearest is a million times farther away than Mars or Venus, those still remote goals of the next generation. But the barriers of distance are crumbling; one day we shall meet our equals, or our masters, among the stars. "
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What does 'whoosh' sound like in space?
This
Got it?
Just introduced here - no-one seems to be 'forcing' us rank-and-file to use it though. I imagine it will disappear in a year or two, as soon as the people who's bright idea it was to introduce it get another bright idea...
Don't forget the picture of Saddam Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld (one of the architects of the 2003 Iraq invasion and then special envoy of Reagan) shaking hands in 1983.
Funny, I could swear I've seen pictures of FDR sitting next to Mr. Gulag himself, Josef Stalin. If you're already in a conflict with scumbag X, and slightly-less-scummy-guy Y starts fighting him too, you might have to hold your nose and help Y in the short term.
Someone in Churchill's cabinet made a similar comment in '41, when Hitler launched Barbarossa. His comment was that maybe Britain (and the other allies at war: this is all pre-US involvement) should sit on the sidelines and let them just destroy each other. Churchill's response then (or to a similar situation) was that if Hell declared war against Nazi Germany, it would become necessary to look for some of the good points in Satan.
Screw Chicken Pox, I'm worried about whooping cough, which is on the rise in the US since 2004, no doubt due to people refusing vaccines.
Not always. I got jabbed with the whooping cough vaccine when I was a whippersnapper and still caught the damn thing. I've an interesting pigeon rib (pokes out, owing to huge air intakes) that I show off to my wife and other close friends.
Hey, I live in NZ and I'd do anything for a good snausage treat! You've no idea how good our snausages are, (you inconsiderate clod).
people will be able to see me with their own eyes, just walking down the street. Oh, wait ...
Our space technology was spawned from Nazi military technology. .
FTFY
Come to think of it, people at a doctors get enough tablets anyhow.
Blazing out of the sun’s gravitational well at 34,000 miles per hour
That's about like driving from San Francisco to New York City in 5 minutes, or from Madrid to Moscow in a little more than 4 minutes (via Google Maps directions), instead of a couple of days. I'm impressed.
Oh goody, a car analogy. Sort of.
The whole point of moving to America back then for most folks was to get away from religious persecution. The idea that no one should die because they have a different faith was ingrained in America from the most enlightened deist to the the most devout puritan.
Nonsense. The whole point of moving to America (in those days, the colonies) was to do your own type of religious persecution.
If they just tried to leave it running it would've powered itself down eventually.
Buddy, this is a mainframe. They don't fault. It would only power itself down when someone actually unplugged it. We're talking years/decades without a problem (well, we are with my Unisys mainframes...).
Good luck flying to New Zealand without going through Australia considering most international flights stopover there. If this shit keeps up hopefully that will change.
Nonsense. I went direct from Vancouver BC to Auckland last month. And Air NZ fly to places all around the Pacific. Not to mention Heathrow.
all it's missing is the editorializing in the summary.
"It will be interesting to see how the corporatist plutocrats in Washington respond to this blowing of the cover-up and how it proves that Google is actually regarded as a diety by every galactic culture but ours..."
Might have been funnier if you'd spelt "deity" right. Or maybe not.
If anything should be compulsory, it should be the native language of the student. E.g. English, for most slashdotters. Oh wait, it already is...
Something you can expect with 700 kph winds.
There are no 700 kph on the surface of Venus. They actually move at walking pace. Given the density of the atmosphere, however, you wouldn't be able to stand still anyway.
Walking pace? Define "walking pace". I'm pretty sure the winds are strong enough to turn the umbrellas of any Venusian Black Flappian inside-out, and muss many an expensive hair-do.
Rebekkah Wade got 2 million pounds in a 'severance package' from NewsCorp. Source: PrivateEye (Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015435/Rebekah-Brooks-resigns-line-3-5m-payout-News-International.html has it as 3.5Million...).
How does a belief that there is no God not count as a belief system?
Well, first of all, atheism is not "a belief that there is no God," it is a lack of belief in any gods at all (for some reason, Christians insist that there is only one deity anyone could believe in).
Quote: Atheism is a religion the same way not collecting stamps is a hobby. Unquote.
Being a catholic doesn't preclude you from writing a good science textbook. It doesn't help, though.
And the people who wrote these textbooks have my admiration, as much as anyone who spreads knowledge and popularizes science.
It had to be posted by the same guy - he/she obviously holds the copyright for this /. story. ...
Or, like a complete set of Shakespeare you buy at the corner drugstore for 1.98 ...
(I'm here for you ...)
In the 70s (I was around) "they" were predicting that we'd be out of oil by the turn of the century.
By all means, mod me off-topic, but it was worth it.
Reminds me of the cartoon of a dull-looking man talking to a woman at a party - text below was "You may not think it to look at me, but in my time I've been a bank clerk, bank teller and bank customer liaison officer".
Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.
But every one of those stars is a sun, often far more brilliant and glorious than the small, nearby star we call the Sun. And many--perhaps most--of those alien suns have planets circling them. So almost certainly there is enough land in the sky to give every member of the human species, back to the first ape-man, his own private, world-sized heaven--or hell.
How many of those potential heavens and hells are now inhabited, and by what manner of creatures, we have no way of guessing; the very nearest is a million times farther away than Mars or Venus, those still remote goals of the next generation. But the barriers of distance are crumbling; one day we shall meet our equals, or our masters, among the stars. "
What's the point of running an advert in your News Feed for, say, Ben and Jerry's if you already Like it?
You'll buy it again, sooner. Capitalism - you've gotta love it.