I heard somewhere that they were implementing XUL into these personal robots. I, for one, can't wait for the autokill extension... or for that matter, the grammer nazi extension: "*SYNTAX ERROR* 'Whom' is preferred over 'who'"
You know... it's odd... my sister's boyfriend bought her a laptop about 6 months prior to Vista's release. XP was victim of a very bad error and the machine needed reformatted. The XP disc that was provided by Dell (actually, it wasn't provided, I had to call and have them send one) did not include SP2, and you couldn't even START the Windows installation because of missing drivers. Luckily, a USB stick with the drivers and a slipstreamed version of the XP disc did work a miracle, but I just wonder why they would have sent a disc that you couldn't even install from?
What if someone just used a proxy changing site to access www.i-am-a-terrorist.com -- like www.hidemyass.com -- the LE would only get the IP for the hide my ass website and wouldn't have a clue where you were... right?
The main difference is that I always felt a little guilty about bying someones music just because I wanted the cassette it was recorded on. If I had mod points, this would be modded funny, or insightful.
Say you are at an electronics store and you are buying a computer. The salesman tells you that this computer has a 4ghz dual-core processor, 8gigs of RAM, dual tv tuner, windows vista ultimate edition, a terrabyte of disk space, top o' the line nvidia graphics card, etc. Tells you that you can only return it if it doesn't work. You buy it, take it home, start it up, and it has windows 3.1, 128mb RAM, a pentium 1 processor, 500mb hard drive, a radio antenna, and an onboard ega graphics card. He wins b/c he can say whatever he wants due to free speech, and you lose b/c it works and you can't return it.
Good point. It's actually my girlfriend's favorite scent, as she's said numerous times that she would love to have it bottled as an air freshener or even as a perfume.
I immediately searched eBay for affected CD's after reading this post. I'm finding it somewhat hard to determine which were "original" rootkitted CD's and which ones are the newer non-rootkitted CD's. If I knew for sure, I would buy a bunch and make some money. Someone should mod parent up.
I work for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Not all of the electric companies in PA have net metering available at this times, but AFAIK the ones that do have it available DO require that you have two meters (for exactly the reasons you mention), and you usually have to rent the second one at about $5/month.
Here is a list from the book The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present by John Galbraith Simmons. It has the religion of each scientist listed. Enjoy!
Atheists (people who consciously and deliberately reject as falsehood the claim that gods exist) make up about 4% of the world's population. Agnostics (people who lack belief in gods for whatever reason) make up one-fifth (or 20%) of the world's population. Let's assume that this is the same for the US. In 1999 the US population was 272,690,813. At this time the total number of scientists and engineers employed in the US was 10,981,600, although more that half (7,440,800) were not employed in S&E occupations. There were approximately 3.5 million individuals holding S&E occupations that year (or 1.2% of the total US population). The most recent study of religion among scientists shows that 38% of natural scientists held "disbelief" while roughly 60% held belief in God. The ratio of disbelievers is approx 1 athiest for every 5 agnostic, so we can assume that about 7.6% of scientists were athiest, 30.4% were agnostic, and the rest beleived in God. This means that 2.4% of US athiests were scientists... 2.4% of 4% of the total population of the US. Obviously athiests are in the minority in the scientific community.
I would eat the food described in the story you linked to. I've actually known about that for quite a while. I like organic food: It tastes better (fresher), it doesn't have unnecessary additives, and it's better for the environment. I'm also not opposed to eating non-organic food; actually, 75+% of what I eat is probably not organic. I don't really care much about cloning. As long as the host and clone are not harmed in any way, I don't see why it's wrong. I like stem cell research. And oh yeah, PS.
You do realise that monkeys/apes (which we evolved FROM) are vegetarian?
No, I didn't realize that... neither did Wikipedia apparently: [Apes] are best described as omnivorous, their diet consisting of fruit, grass seeds, and in most cases some quantities of meat and invertebrates--either hunted or scavenged--along with anything else available and easily digested.
Actually, I'm not saying it's wrong. It's just very disgusting and neanderthalistic in my opinion. We are evolved creatures; we are at the point with all of our technology (being able to synthesize proteins, the multitude of vitamins at our disposal, etc.) that we no longer NEED to feed on flesh to survive. Yet, we choose to eat other sentient beings because of their taste. The thought of eating meat brings to my mind a caveman ripping the leg off of some pre-historic cow and ripping into it with his razor-sharp teeth. Just unnecessary and anti-evolutionary, that's all.
Good point. So, when your mother dies, maybe you can just eat her remains after the funeral. After all, a protein is just a protein. Better not let her go to waste.;-)
From the talk page of the Wikipedia article:
Given that the decay spectrum of the supposed axion is e+e-, the axion must be a boson (and as an effective degree of freedom from chiral condensate it could hardly be anything else).
So... are you saying that nothing ever actually "touches" anything? For example, I hold a rubber ball in my hand: the rubber ball is levitating in my hand because of the repulsion between my hand's electrons and the ball's electrons?
What if I were just an average Joe that didn't have the time or inclination to read through my Voter's Guide and check the internet for news articles? What if all I got for information were the crappy little issue ads put out by the special interest groups?
If you don't have the inclination to vote, then don't. We that DO have the inclination don't want you to. And those of us that do have the time and inclination can also participate in special "internet forums" to discuss the pros and cons of the bills and whatnot. Of course everyone would post anonymously, but with our PGP keys you will know who is a scientist who works in the field of topic you are about to vote for and who is not. This is a great idea, not a stupid one.
As far as California goes, that's not exactly the best example of an Electronic Direct Democracy. It can be done, and it can be the best thing the world has ever seen.
The government should develop a new "internet" of sorts, give access to every citizen, provide each citizen with a special proprietary "voting box" that is connected to this "internet". Everyone can vote from his or her home. This way, we could also vote directly concerning different bills and acts in congress, instead of having some stupid representative that doesn't properly represent you do your voting for you. They can come up with the ideas, but we can vote for them. I like this idea...
Any takers?
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I heard somewhere that they were implementing XUL into these personal robots. I, for one, can't wait for the autokill extension... or for that matter, the grammer nazi extension: "*SYNTAX ERROR* 'Whom' is preferred over 'who'"
You know... it's odd... my sister's boyfriend bought her a laptop about 6 months prior to Vista's release. XP was victim of a very bad error and the machine needed reformatted. The XP disc that was provided by Dell (actually, it wasn't provided, I had to call and have them send one) did not include SP2, and you couldn't even START the Windows installation because of missing drivers. Luckily, a USB stick with the drivers and a slipstreamed version of the XP disc did work a miracle, but I just wonder why they would have sent a disc that you couldn't even install from?
What if someone just used a proxy changing site to access www.i-am-a-terrorist.com -- like www.hidemyass.com -- the LE would only get the IP for the hide my ass website and wouldn't have a clue where you were... right?
I'm posting from my Wii right now. I just bought Wii Play and am looking forward to Metroid Prime 3. I think the Wii has lived up to its hype.
Say you are at an electronics store and you are buying a computer. The salesman tells you that this computer has a 4ghz dual-core processor, 8gigs of RAM, dual tv tuner, windows vista ultimate edition, a terrabyte of disk space, top o' the line nvidia graphics card, etc. Tells you that you can only return it if it doesn't work. You buy it, take it home, start it up, and it has windows 3.1, 128mb RAM, a pentium 1 processor, 500mb hard drive, a radio antenna, and an onboard ega graphics card. He wins b/c he can say whatever he wants due to free speech, and you lose b/c it works and you can't return it.
Good point. It's actually my girlfriend's favorite scent, as she's said numerous times that she would love to have it bottled as an air freshener or even as a perfume.
I immediately searched eBay for affected CD's after reading this post. I'm finding it somewhat hard to determine which were "original" rootkitted CD's and which ones are the newer non-rootkitted CD's. If I knew for sure, I would buy a bunch and make some money. Someone should mod parent up.
In PA, most of the homebrew energy comes from wind turbines rather than solar panels.
I work for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Not all of the electric companies in PA have net metering available at this times, but AFAIK the ones that do have it available DO require that you have two meters (for exactly the reasons you mention), and you usually have to rent the second one at about $5/month.
Wow... that'll teach me to RTFS before posting.
So, will I be able to buy a Total HD Player that plays both Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs? I'd like one of those.
Here is a list from the book The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present by John Galbraith Simmons. It has the religion of each scientist listed. Enjoy!
Atheists (people who consciously and deliberately reject as falsehood the claim that gods exist) make up about 4% of the world's population. Agnostics (people who lack belief in gods for whatever reason) make up one-fifth (or 20%) of the world's population. Let's assume that this is the same for the US. In 1999 the US population was 272,690,813. At this time the total number of scientists and engineers employed in the US was 10,981,600, although more that half (7,440,800) were not employed in S&E occupations. There were approximately 3.5 million individuals holding S&E occupations that year (or 1.2% of the total US population). The most recent study of religion among scientists shows that 38% of natural scientists held "disbelief" while roughly 60% held belief in God. The ratio of disbelievers is approx 1 athiest for every 5 agnostic, so we can assume that about 7.6% of scientists were athiest, 30.4% were agnostic, and the rest beleived in God. This means that 2.4% of US athiests were scientists... 2.4% of 4% of the total population of the US. Obviously athiests are in the minority in the scientific community.
Statistically speaking, you are a moron.
You do realise that monkeys/apes (which we evolved FROM) are vegetarian?
No, I didn't realize that... neither did Wikipedia apparently: [Apes] are best described as omnivorous, their diet consisting of fruit, grass seeds, and in most cases some quantities of meat and invertebrates--either hunted or scavenged--along with anything else available and easily digested.
Actually, I'm not saying it's wrong. It's just very disgusting and neanderthalistic in my opinion. We are evolved creatures; we are at the point with all of our technology (being able to synthesize proteins, the multitude of vitamins at our disposal, etc.) that we no longer NEED to feed on flesh to survive. Yet, we choose to eat other sentient beings because of their taste. The thought of eating meat brings to my mind a caveman ripping the leg off of some pre-historic cow and ripping into it with his razor-sharp teeth. Just unnecessary and anti-evolutionary, that's all.
Good point. So, when your mother dies, maybe you can just eat her remains after the funeral. After all, a protein is just a protein. Better not let her go to waste. ;-)
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You are a moron.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a musician is defined as: One who composes, conducts, or performs music, especially instrumental music.
So... are you saying that nothing ever actually "touches" anything? For example, I hold a rubber ball in my hand: the rubber ball is levitating in my hand because of the repulsion between my hand's electrons and the ball's electrons?
What if I were just an average Joe that didn't have the time or inclination to read through my Voter's Guide and check the internet for news articles? What if all I got for information were the crappy little issue ads put out by the special interest groups?
If you don't have the inclination to vote, then don't. We that DO have the inclination don't want you to. And those of us that do have the time and inclination can also participate in special "internet forums" to discuss the pros and cons of the bills and whatnot. Of course everyone would post anonymously, but with our PGP keys you will know who is a scientist who works in the field of topic you are about to vote for and who is not. This is a great idea, not a stupid one.
As far as California goes, that's not exactly the best example of an Electronic Direct Democracy. It can be done, and it can be the best thing the world has ever seen.
This is my favorite idea. I've thought this for years! Keep up the good work!
The government should develop a new "internet" of sorts, give access to every citizen, provide each citizen with a special proprietary "voting box" that is connected to this "internet". Everyone can vote from his or her home. This way, we could also vote directly concerning different bills and acts in congress, instead of having some stupid representative that doesn't properly represent you do your voting for you. They can come up with the ideas, but we can vote for them. I like this idea... Any takers?