So in the end we become intragalactic porno producers... giving some poor unsuspecting planet a facial in the name of science. Never mind that things might already be developing there with no help needed... "No Honey, this is really good for your skin, I promise!"
No whooshing... the MBA wankers call it "leveraging synergies". Selling you both the problem and the cure is very lucrative, as it ensures you can "monetize the product lifecycle throughout its various phases while having complementary product offerings providing multiple revenue streams from the same user".
Reminds me of the Firesign Theater line: "But, Gee, Dad - I still don't understand how you can be the Peoples Prosecutor and my defense lawyer at the same time..." "Easy, son. That way I can see that you are persecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Digging != Mining You dig in soft material, which is often found under karst type layers like limestone, sandstone, gypsum, salt, etc.... That's why we get sink holes, soft layers under karst.
...It simply won't be done expensively when it can be done less expensively.
I have to agree. but what I don't understand is why build at all... DIG. Find a shelf of something similar to limestone or even thick sandstone and tunnel under it. If done properly you could have large areas supported by wrapped and bound pillars of what ever it is you are removing. Spray a humidity barrier on the walls and ceiling to keep your water from going away. Transfer excess heat to the surface and use the temperature difference to capture some electricity. The idea of growing things using sunlight is going to need augmentation at the very least, so just use the pink LED method already working here. Then you have to fab airlocks... LOTS of them. Most of the nasty stuff that can happen is at the surface, so I would not spend more time up there than is needed for exploring, testing, and of course real estate promotion. I can already see the billboard: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Frozen By Now. Great place to ship the cryogenically inclined among us... may need to work on the slogan...
My screen reader stuttered over that... Did you mean robot sex? 'cause I'm thinking some tight-ass already started working on laws about that... Great, now I'm stuck with the image of a octo-copter trying to fly with a sex toy ziptied to it! Attention All Units: Be on the lookout for a low flying drone that appears Very Happy to see you!
I tested it in 2004 with a fresh XP (no SP1) install and it was infected in less than one minute. This was done on a small shop test bench, outside the office firewall. We never even had to fire up Internet Explorer.
Backtalk? Is that a protocol to allow us to open an unannounced overlay chat window in the middle of some random CSR's desktop? Cause that would be nice...
One small jiggle for a man, one giant blur for humanity! Actually, some of the side shots of craters are a great example of shadows seemingly "going the wrong way" do to topology. And the curvature of the moon is so apparent on shots featuring a horizon, very nice. Thanks NASA.
Not only are you flushing your money down the toilet, but getting all those empty bottles out of our waste stream would be a great benefit for all of us.
I'm rich enough that I only fill my toilet tanks with the finest imported bottled water. It's only the best for my effluence!
Yaz
Re-bottle that and you could sell it as "Affluent Effluent" brand liquid fertilizer!
My question is: When does the copyright run out on this thing? Now that I think about it, copyright will probably be extended well past 1000 years before 10% of this GIF even shows. Mickey Mouse will live forever!
I don't see it as a COI. Amazon sells stuff, including streaming services, that is their Primary Interest. If a hardware vendor chooses not to support the streaming service Amazon sells, why should Amazon sell the hardware? My corner grocer stopped selling a cream cheese made from yogurt and that space is now filled by it's own brand of similar (but lesser value) yogurt cheese... that's OK because they own the store, not me. I wish they would sell what I want, but they don't so if really I want it I can shop elsewhere. Not every store has to sell every product. Other stores sell the products, and if the products are good they may soon be selling more of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest
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I'm warning you, Dobbs...
Hey, Don't mess with someone who plays a bugle like that,
He might do it again!
I just can not believe you forgot vibrator...
So in the end we become intragalactic porno producers...
giving some poor unsuspecting planet a facial in the name of science.
Never mind that things might already be developing there with no help needed...
"No Honey, this is really good for your skin, I promise!"
This idea seems to be well reasoned.
It has great potential to be both cost effective and practical...
It's obviously lacking Congressional Oversight.
No whooshing ... the MBA wankers call it "leveraging synergies". Selling you both the problem and the cure is very lucrative, as it ensures you can "monetize the product lifecycle throughout its various phases while having complementary product offerings providing multiple revenue streams from the same user".
Reminds me of the Firesign Theater line:
"But, Gee, Dad - I still don't understand how you can be the Peoples Prosecutor and my defense lawyer at the same time..."
"Easy, son. That way I can see that you are persecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Digging != Mining
You dig in soft material, which is often found under karst type layers like limestone, sandstone, gypsum, salt, etc.... That's why we get sink holes, soft layers under karst.
...It simply won't be done expensively when it can be done less expensively.
I have to agree. but what I don't understand is why build at all... DIG. Find a shelf of something similar to limestone or even thick sandstone and tunnel under it. If done properly you could have large areas supported by wrapped and bound pillars of what ever it is you are removing. Spray a humidity barrier on the walls and ceiling to keep your water from going away. Transfer excess heat to the surface and use the temperature difference to capture some electricity. The idea of growing things using sunlight is going to need augmentation at the very least, so just use the pink LED method already working here. Then you have to fab airlocks... LOTS of them. Most of the nasty stuff that can happen is at the surface, so I would not spend more time up there than is needed for exploring, testing, and of course real estate promotion.
I can already see the billboard:
If You Lived Here,
You'd Be Frozen By Now.
Great place to ship the cryogenically inclined among us... may need to work on the slogan...
PHEH! This is obviously a case for robots.txt
My screen reader stuttered over that...
Did you mean robot sex?
'cause I'm thinking some tight-ass already started working on laws about that...
Great, now I'm stuck with the image of a octo-copter trying to fly with a sex toy ziptied to it!
Attention All Units:
Be on the lookout for a low flying drone that appears Very Happy to see you!
Don't cha know, the cow level is a lie!
You are all cows. Cows say meow. meow! meow! MEEOOWW cows meow. Meow say the cows. YOU EDGE COWS!!!
FTFY
It sounds like your cows are a bunch of pussies...
Just saying...
Well, looking at this I would not locate anything expensive or critical in that area:
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/pacnw/rescasp1.html
This particular gif is an attention grabber:
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/pacnw/graphic/a2.gif
The Pacific Northwest is one of those spots on earth where a lot of tectonic action (both thrust and subduction) mix with volcanic instability to churn the crust of the planet:
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/pacnw/map.html
I know every area has it's own hazards (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/products/) but making something flood and/or tornado proof is a lot easier than making it hover while the ground moves.
I tested it in 2004 with a fresh XP (no SP1) install and it was infected in less than one minute. This was done on a small shop test bench, outside the office firewall. We never even had to fire up Internet Explorer.
I know "cheap" VR is giving VR a "bad rep", but what are the actual quantitative differences?
Slight horizontal misalignment due to fatter wallet?
Backtalk? Is that a protocol to allow us to open an unannounced overlay chat window in the middle of some random CSR's desktop?
Cause that would be nice...
I have to admit I would like to see Less SASS on websites...
what consumers actually care about.
"Give me convenience or give me death!"
Would you settle for convenience and death?
Will hail from India, China, and Philippines. Maybe dealing with a robot is better than dealing with them. At least you can understand its accent.
unless they out source speech synthesis...
Brazil is gonna have a hell of a time with the Olympics next year.
Oh, I think they'll have plenty of support...
or I could have said "due to topology"...
We get to see Neil's blurry thumb 2,000 times.
One small jiggle for a man, one giant blur for humanity!
Actually, some of the side shots of craters are a great example of shadows seemingly "going the wrong way" do to topology. And the curvature of the moon is so apparent on shots featuring a horizon, very nice. Thanks NASA.
Not only are you flushing your money down the toilet, but getting all those empty bottles out of our waste stream would be a great benefit for all of us.
I'm rich enough that I only fill my toilet tanks with the finest imported bottled water. It's only the best for my effluence!
Yaz
Re-bottle that and you could sell it as "Affluent Effluent" brand liquid fertilizer!
My question is:
When does the copyright run out on this thing?
Now that I think about it, copyright will probably be extended well past 1000 years before 10% of this GIF even shows.
Mickey Mouse will live forever!
I don't see it as a COI. Amazon sells stuff, including streaming services, that is their Primary Interest. If a hardware vendor chooses not to support the streaming service Amazon sells, why should Amazon sell the hardware? My corner grocer stopped selling a cream cheese made from yogurt and that space is now filled by it's own brand of similar (but lesser value) yogurt cheese... that's OK because they own the store, not me. I wish they would sell what I want, but they don't so if really I want it I can shop elsewhere. Not every store has to sell every product. Other stores sell the products, and if the products are good they may soon be selling more of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest
Jeez. It'd be less fork-fest and more bug-kakke.
Well... That's an image I didn't need...
never gonna look at my phone the same way again...
The term is "consumer." But what baffles me is how does one "consume" a stream of bits?
One byte at a time?
Panache got forked. It's now Flamboyance 3.1.4
I hope the new developers are flexible...