I find the thought of the world's most powerful army belonging to an economically wracked nation quite frightening. There are compelling historical examples which would have nations such as China and S.A. reconsider before initiating action which transforms the source of global economic and political stability into a breeding ground for nationalistic radicalisation.
There is undeniable potential to this technology (barring transportation over long distances & storage concerns but i believe any engineers creed is that "these things are solvable"). It does however point out the vital importance that social/cultural influences exert on energy supplies; We Europeans basically either a) look towards russia for increased dependence on fossil fuels, especially in light of Kyoto protocol implications for the proliferation of natural gas as a 'stepping stone' fuel ('cleanest' fossil fuel) or b) look towards Northern Africa/Middle east for the above AND any serious attempt to switch to solar energy.
It just so happens we we value our culturally embedded norms/values of freedom of speech/religion (they can can that one for all i care)/choice/education/etc and in our globalising/internationalising society we find more and more such norms collide with those of our potential/defacto provider nations. Technology will not save us (it will for the US). The only thing that will is finding a modus for the import and export of culture which usually accompanies the import and export of goods/services/cash/labour.
You could attach them so something like a hydrogen-producing facility, that way you can skip the whole 'rotating globe can't receive a constant 'beam' of energy' and replace it with a 'how to softly land cans of highly explosive substance on a rotating sphere?'. I personally wonder which would have the best spin-off in terms of required technological innovation..
=)
why you have been modded a troll is beyond me, but probably illustrative of a number of factors which seem to plague any debate centered on Islam, not only on this discussion board.
Time has a way of seperating the chaff from the wheat? Try a little independent thought, my man! "History is written by those who have hanged heroes" ring a bell?
I completely agree, they should have come in a Volvo! Those cheap Mazda Eggs failed them in the invasion of Klathandor IV but the eventual imperial investigation got bogged down due to bureaucratic inability and the fact that many of their civil servants had simultaneousy gone on sabbatical (earth)years.
Conservapedia's list of charges against wikipedia's 'liberal' inclinations are especially compelling, consider:
2. Wikipedia's entry for the Renaissance denies any credit to Christianity, its primary inspiration.
Christianity is about as much the inspiration for the Renaissance as any fundamentalist christian's control-freak parents are for his converting to atheism.
I can understand the practical applications of, and use for, packing a hammer aboard a space cargo flight, but i can't for the life of me imagine what they would do with a chisel?.. maybe they hid it inside of a cake?
I'm no engineer/beta scientist. Hence, all the smoke and mirrors surrounding Cold Fusion confuse me; How does it relate to 'hot' Fusion? (i.e. what are the difference, besides the completely obvious) What kind of fusion project is ITER?
HAHAAAAAA.. while all you idiots were playing your hercules 2 colour tankbattle games, WE amiga-lovers had our full colour, lushly animated Moonstone !! A campaign map capable of being played by 4 (!!!!!!) people, buy swords armor, throw knives, duel eachother, magic, potions, clear areas get your head ripped off in a properly animated fashion!.. decades ahead of its time...DECADES!
think of all the camera-cellphones coming out nowadays!! The increase in traffic-related deaths will take monumental proportions! Soon enough, we'll be driving to work on bumpy roads....
awesome!.. we could use it to test the effects of growing lettuce in zero-G circumstances.. now if only we could get the Russians and Japanese to agree to have their components adjacent...
Now with all that said, can you believe your multi-billion dollar, 250K men, fuel guzzling (one US heavy weapons division requires as much gasoline as an entire WWII field army) high tech annihilating force, is bogged down in Iraq due to approximately 5000 insurgents??
I think we're on the verge of redefining 'can't lose' here...
I remember during the second year of my studies (sociology) we visited a few buildings designed by architects advised by organisation sociologists, experts, whatnot. These buildings were designed for a few sub-efficient municipal institutions. Their interior environments were designed so as to stimulate communication and cooperation between employees, much the same way you could find it at small companies, right at their offset. Workspaces were open, visible, accessible; doors made of glass, hallways were wide with large tables at which people could sit and cooperatively work on projects.
I'm sure the EBSCOHOST database sports a host of literature regarding socio-architectural influences on organisational achievement, employee integrity/efficiency, etc
"Nuclear fusion -- when atoms are combined to create energy" People that stooopid shouldn't be allowed out of their house, much less write a column in a newspaper! That's called Chemistry you dumb bitch! Fusion is when nuclei are combined to form different atoms!!
2 years in his basement trying to make something explode... maybe the kid just needs masturbation instructions.
Well, the good news is, GWB doesn't necissarily NEED to make his mind up regarding global warming or the exhaust of all manners of unhealthy substances into the atmosphere. Utilizing the World Trade Organisation's values-related production and process methods, all of the world's nations that signed the Kyoto Protocol (Russia's signing of that protocol effectuated it) could simply take the US and the rest of the non-Kyoto world to the WTO courts.
Just as the US and other nations have done on multiple occasions, Kyoto-nations could show some GUTS and legally force a ban on all goods produced by methods disregarding the Kyoto protocol (read: all goods produced with energy).
How's that for a change?.. oh..and yes its not gonna happen, and yes its because the WTO is US-dominated, and yes that is a natural extension of historical power become institution, and no, i am not anti-US.
hahaha!.. i totally cracked up when the newsreader said: "Voting machines will not be used in a number of 'counties'(gemeenten) due to this group (we hatedigitalvoting.. or whatever) demonstrating of their shortcomings" and then went on: "imagine the horrible vote counting they'll have to do"
MAN!.. it'd be just like the 80's, papercuts and big metal barrels!
I didnt mean to imply the Dutch language incorporates words taken from the Japanese language, much to the contrary, there are a lot of Dutch words and 'Dutchisms' in Japanese language. What i meant was, that chomsky defines language as 'obeying' a certian set of universal rules. Languages have 'rules' for where to put verbs, nouns, etc. However, in the Dutch language, these 'rules' are applied in such an arbitrary fashion and so randmly, that the closest to defenition of Dutch as a language would be: "something combining english and Japanese grammatical rules":P
Went to a lecture on Noam Chomsky once. (Many know him from his books but don't realise he is actually a cutting edge linguist). Now according to standards set out during the lecture, dutch isn't really a language. He meant in the way that most languages obey certain grammar rules, where Dutch somehow combined English and Japanese grammar in a rather arbitrairy fashion. Conclusion: Dutch is not really a language, and you can't really ever learn it!
Slashdot Mirror
always wanted to do that
What kind of experiment are we talking about (/should i have read TFA for) here?
I find the thought of the world's most powerful army belonging to an economically wracked nation quite frightening. There are compelling historical examples which would have nations such as China and S.A. reconsider before initiating action which transforms the source of global economic and political stability into a breeding ground for nationalistic radicalisation.
It just so happens we we value our culturally embedded norms/values of freedom of speech/religion (they can can that one for all i care)/choice/education/etc and in our globalising/internationalising society we find more and more such norms collide with those of our potential/defacto provider nations. Technology will not save us (it will for the US). The only thing that will is finding a modus for the import and export of culture which usually accompanies the import and export of goods/services/cash/labour.
You could attach them so something like a hydrogen-producing facility, that way you can skip the whole 'rotating globe can't receive a constant 'beam' of energy' and replace it with a 'how to softly land cans of highly explosive substance on a rotating sphere?'. I personally wonder which would have the best spin-off in terms of required technological innovation.. =)
why you have been modded a troll is beyond me, but probably illustrative of a number of factors which seem to plague any debate centered on Islam, not only on this discussion board.
Time has a way of seperating the chaff from the wheat? Try a little independent thought, my man! "History is written by those who have hanged heroes" ring a bell?
I completely agree, they should have come in a Volvo! Those cheap Mazda Eggs failed them in the invasion of Klathandor IV but the eventual imperial investigation got bogged down due to bureaucratic inability and the fact that many of their civil servants had simultaneousy gone on sabbatical (earth)years.
2. Wikipedia's entry for the Renaissance denies any credit to Christianity, its primary inspiration.
Christianity is about as much the inspiration for the Renaissance as any fundamentalist christian's control-freak parents are for his converting to atheism.
I can understand the practical applications of, and use for, packing a hammer aboard a space cargo flight, but i can't for the life of me imagine what they would do with a chisel?.. maybe they hid it inside of a cake?
and we're running out of milk!
I'm no engineer/beta scientist. Hence, all the smoke and mirrors surrounding Cold Fusion confuse me; How does it relate to 'hot' Fusion? (i.e. what are the difference, besides the completely obvious) What kind of fusion project is ITER?
perhaps they only measured broadband activity in and around my desktop... ?
HAHAAAAAA.. while all you idiots were playing your hercules 2 colour tankbattle games, WE amiga-lovers had our full colour, lushly animated Moonstone !! A campaign map capable of being played by 4 (!!!!!!) people, buy swords armor, throw knives, duel eachother, magic, potions, clear areas get your head ripped off in a properly animated fashion!.. decades ahead of its time...DECADES!
think of all the camera-cellphones coming out nowadays!! The increase in traffic-related deaths will take monumental proportions! Soon enough, we'll be driving to work on bumpy roads....
awesome!.. we could use it to test the effects of growing lettuce in zero-G circumstances.. now if only we could get the Russians and Japanese to agree to have their components adjacent...
I think we're on the verge of redefining 'can't lose' here...
well go eat at Matsuyo!, save yourself a couple of thousand dollars each day!
I'm sure the EBSCOHOST database sports a host of literature regarding socio-architectural influences on organisational achievement, employee integrity/efficiency, etc
2 years in his basement trying to make something explode... maybe the kid just needs masturbation instructions.
Just as the US and other nations have done on multiple occasions, Kyoto-nations could show some GUTS and legally force a ban on all goods produced by methods disregarding the Kyoto protocol (read: all goods produced with energy).
How's that for a change?.. oh..and yes its not gonna happen, and yes its because the WTO is US-dominated, and yes that is a natural extension of historical power become institution, and no, i am not anti-US.
MAN!.. it'd be just like the 80's, papercuts and big metal barrels!
Went to a lecture on Noam Chomsky once. (Many know him from his books but don't realise he is actually a cutting edge linguist). Now according to standards set out during the lecture, dutch isn't really a language. He meant in the way that most languages obey certain grammar rules, where Dutch somehow combined English and Japanese grammar in a rather arbitrairy fashion. Conclusion: Dutch is not really a language, and you can't really ever learn it!
starting with: the Netherlands - Nederland