Unless there is a fusion reaction? >br>
The good news: we discovered cold fusion.
The bad news: we blew up the planet.
I mean, really, could it hurt to do a little experiment at a larger scale than the last one and see if it makes a big crater (perhaps while we are repairing the LHC--sometime in the next couple of months)? If there's no boom, then we're golden to proceed, if there IS a big boom, then we've found a relatively simple method of cold fusion, and free energy for everyone (not to mention the fact that we don't turn Europe into an extension of the Atlantic Ocean)!
Think again. All the Democrats had to do was block the spending bills that contained money for Iraq. All that is needed for that is a simple majority, and you can't veto what doesn't get to your desk. Had they done that, it would have FORCED Bush to the table, and they could have FORCED him to withdraw from Iraq.
Imagine that, going back to the way things were supposed to be (wars requiring a Declaration of War from Congress), rather than the President simply being able to jump on a plane and invade any country he wants under false pretenses.
Vlad the Impaler is a national hero in Hungary. He was a war hero who turned back the Turks and saved Europe from a Muslim invasion, yet today, he's a "vampire".
Bush will never be remembered in such a way, simply because he HASN'T done anything to help America, only presided over it's decline. Nixon was known during his time to have opened up China.
In practice, there is little difference between incompetence and evil, and they should be handled in a similar way.
Impeaching him now would cause a close examination of all of his unconstitutional policies, and get a lot of them thrown out, or at least dragged out into the light so future presidents won't be able to use them.
Also, there's this little thing called 'accountability' that a certain current United States President likes to harp on a lot of the time (when it supports what he wants).
Honestly, I think that a pretty large proportion of our presidents should have left office at the end of a hangman's noose, and none that I can think of deserve that end more so than Bush Jr.
Well, I am a business man, and work for a corporation that deals regularly with NDAs and IP. If there is no signature, it's just a statement, and won't hold up in court. We have had lots of companies try to steal our IP, so I am fairly well versed in the intricacies of such agreements, and the implications of not having one.
Yeah, having them as re-entry vehicles makes a lot of sense. That would actually work from any altitude, no parachute required.
That said, I STILL don't like the idea of having the engine on the climber. I mean, if that was anywhere near a good idea, then that would be how we do regular elevators, but it isn't.
Having a counterweight system would allow for 4 times the traffic, as your could have payloads on both sides of the pulley, where with the climber, it would have to climb back down to the ground (takes time), or it would have to be jettisoned and land as a re-entry vehicle (expensive). With the car/counterweight model, you minimize the moving parts, and leave them in a place where they can be easily and inexpensively serviced.
I always thought that the idea of having a climber was a bit asinine. I mean, what do you do when there is a power failure half way to geostationary orbit? It's nigh on impossible to make it that far on a regular basis without foul ups. It would be far better by my estimation to work it like a real elevator and have a pulley/counterweight system and move the engine up onto the space station. There might be a fixed cable providing stability, along with the tether connecting to the counterweight/launching stations.
A big plus for this is that you wouldn't be limited to a single crawler, but you could have almost any number of pulleys going at once. If something happens on one of the pulleys, you could evacuate the people in the payload by sending another car down for rendezvous.
So, having a democracy that allowed slavery means that democracy is evil?
Fascism, F*CK YEAH!
But seriously, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because some backwards states wanted to keep slavery doesn't mean that we should all just kowtow to an all powerful central government.
Not really. If they could, then oxidation wouldn't be an issue for bacteria anymore. One of the body's primary mechanisms for bacteria killing and biofilm disruption is selective oxidation, generally catalyticaly produced superoxide or peroxide. Any strain of bacteria that could resist that defense system while still being able to resist the other (molecular) ones would be able to run roughshod over the immune systems of even healthy people, probably wiping out entire species or even classes of species before a new response could evolve in the host organism.
This has happened a couple of times, giving us new species like fungi and such. The biomolecular hoops the bacteria would have to jump through to gain resistance to this would certainly give us a new kingdom, not just a new species. The likelihood of a new kingdom emerging seems pretty remote, given that there are only 6 that are known to have ever existed.
There is only one proven way to avoid oxidation by oxygen-based free radicals, and that is the production of superoxide dismutase (SOD), which is the best defense possible against such species, working at the diffusion limit. Even working that fast, it doesn't go fast enough to protect single cells, so it is worthless for bacteria. The only thing they can do is develop thicker hulls, or evolve into multi-cellular beings. And, as I mentioned, the genetic changes required for such mutations are staggeringly complex, and extremely unlikely.
The charge was that he was stockpiling new WMDs, possibly including nukes, after the Iraqi surrender at the end of Gulf War 1.
If you want to talk about some crap, consider that the rockets he used against the Kurds were of American manufacture, and that America supported the action at the time (remember the infamous photograph of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam?).
The Bush administration has continuously moved the goalposts and changed objectives and reasons for this war to hide the fact that it is nothing more than an unjustified war for oil. In fact, it might even be worse than that, since they didn't really seem to move to secure the oil infrastructure (just the oil fields) one wonders if they didn't invade to drive UP the cost of oil. If that is the case, then it is the one thing his administration has succeeded in doing. Now, we think $100/barrel oil is cheap, where before Bush took office, we thought $30/barrel oil was expensive...
Antibacterial soaps target specific molecules on the surface of bacterial membranes, or interfere with some metabolic process. This stuff directly oxidizes the bonds on the surface of the membrane. The only way to develop resistance would be to change the nature of the membrane dramatically.
That would mean (by definition) that they have evolved into a new species. More than likely, they wouldn't be able to live inside the body anymore.
I am working on developing a similar technology in my lab, one that I would argue is better, because it doesn't require light or UV.
Yes. If I'm not mistaken, groups from Tibet populated Indochina about 6000 years ago. I think the Tibetens are fairly closely related to the Mongols and other groups of formerly nomadic north Asians.
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Hey, don't listen to this guy, he's stupid!
God prefers sluts. That's why He created STDs.
If you put in some oak chips. Some home brewers and small wineries age their wine this way since they can't afford a full sized oak barrel.
Unless there is a fusion reaction?
>br> The good news: we discovered cold fusion.
The bad news: we blew up the planet.
I mean, really, could it hurt to do a little experiment at a larger scale than the last one and see if it makes a big crater (perhaps while we are repairing the LHC--sometime in the next couple of months)? If there's no boom, then we're golden to proceed, if there IS a big boom, then we've found a relatively simple method of cold fusion, and free energy for everyone (not to mention the fact that we don't turn Europe into an extension of the Atlantic Ocean)!
It's a win-win, really.
Nevermind that, if we could only regulate the whores in Congress, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with!
Think again. All the Democrats had to do was block the spending bills that contained money for Iraq. All that is needed for that is a simple majority, and you can't veto what doesn't get to your desk. Had they done that, it would have FORCED Bush to the table, and they could have FORCED him to withdraw from Iraq.
Imagine that, going back to the way things were supposed to be (wars requiring a Declaration of War from Congress), rather than the President simply being able to jump on a plane and invade any country he wants under false pretenses.
Vlad the Impaler is a national hero in Hungary. He was a war hero who turned back the Turks and saved Europe from a Muslim invasion, yet today, he's a "vampire".
Bush will never be remembered in such a way, simply because he HASN'T done anything to help America, only presided over it's decline. Nixon was known during his time to have opened up China.
In practice, there is little difference between incompetence and evil, and they should be handled in a similar way.
Impeaching him now would cause a close examination of all of his unconstitutional policies, and get a lot of them thrown out, or at least dragged out into the light so future presidents won't be able to use them.
Also, there's this little thing called 'accountability' that a certain current United States President likes to harp on a lot of the time (when it supports what he wants).
Honestly, I think that a pretty large proportion of our presidents should have left office at the end of a hangman's noose, and none that I can think of deserve that end more so than Bush Jr.
Well, I am a business man, and work for a corporation that deals regularly with NDAs and IP. If there is no signature, it's just a statement, and won't hold up in court. We have had lots of companies try to steal our IP, so I am fairly well versed in the intricacies of such agreements, and the implications of not having one.
What is an "electoral lottery"?
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Wow, accidently hitting the wrong button while modding is +4 Interesting on Slashdot? We're more boring than I ever imagined.
Clicking a EULA is pretty damn far from signing a NDA.
Apple needs to get real. Unless they have a physical signature on file, they'll have no standing in any court outside of Imaginationland.
That is pretty obvious, even to me, a lowly IANAL.
Yeah, having them as re-entry vehicles makes a lot of sense. That would actually work from any altitude, no parachute required.
That said, I STILL don't like the idea of having the engine on the climber. I mean, if that was anywhere near a good idea, then that would be how we do regular elevators, but it isn't.
Having a counterweight system would allow for 4 times the traffic, as your could have payloads on both sides of the pulley, where with the climber, it would have to climb back down to the ground (takes time), or it would have to be jettisoned and land as a re-entry vehicle (expensive). With the car/counterweight model, you minimize the moving parts, and leave them in a place where they can be easily and inexpensively serviced.
When they need to kill someone hiding in a pipe, obviously.
Oh, wait, you said 'wenches', I get it now.
I always thought that the idea of having a climber was a bit asinine. I mean, what do you do when there is a power failure half way to geostationary orbit? It's nigh on impossible to make it that far on a regular basis without foul ups. It would be far better by my estimation to work it like a real elevator and have a pulley/counterweight system and move the engine up onto the space station. There might be a fixed cable providing stability, along with the tether connecting to the counterweight/launching stations.
A big plus for this is that you wouldn't be limited to a single crawler, but you could have almost any number of pulleys going at once. If something happens on one of the pulleys, you could evacuate the people in the payload by sending another car down for rendezvous.
So, having a democracy that allowed slavery means that democracy is evil?
Fascism, F*CK YEAH!
But seriously, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because some backwards states wanted to keep slavery doesn't mean that we should all just kowtow to an all powerful central government.
I SO wanted to mod this funny.
Not really. If they could, then oxidation wouldn't be an issue for bacteria anymore. One of the body's primary mechanisms for bacteria killing and biofilm disruption is selective oxidation, generally catalyticaly produced superoxide or peroxide. Any strain of bacteria that could resist that defense system while still being able to resist the other (molecular) ones would be able to run roughshod over the immune systems of even healthy people, probably wiping out entire species or even classes of species before a new response could evolve in the host organism.
This has happened a couple of times, giving us new species like fungi and such. The biomolecular hoops the bacteria would have to jump through to gain resistance to this would certainly give us a new kingdom, not just a new species. The likelihood of a new kingdom emerging seems pretty remote, given that there are only 6 that are known to have ever existed.
There is only one proven way to avoid oxidation by oxygen-based free radicals, and that is the production of superoxide dismutase (SOD), which is the best defense possible against such species, working at the diffusion limit. Even working that fast, it doesn't go fast enough to protect single cells, so it is worthless for bacteria. The only thing they can do is develop thicker hulls, or evolve into multi-cellular beings. And, as I mentioned, the genetic changes required for such mutations are staggeringly complex, and extremely unlikely.
That's the smallest projector I've ever seen.
The charge was that he was stockpiling new WMDs, possibly including nukes, after the Iraqi surrender at the end of Gulf War 1.
If you want to talk about some crap, consider that the rockets he used against the Kurds were of American manufacture, and that America supported the action at the time (remember the infamous photograph of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam?).
The Bush administration has continuously moved the goalposts and changed objectives and reasons for this war to hide the fact that it is nothing more than an unjustified war for oil. In fact, it might even be worse than that, since they didn't really seem to move to secure the oil infrastructure (just the oil fields) one wonders if they didn't invade to drive UP the cost of oil. If that is the case, then it is the one thing his administration has succeeded in doing. Now, we think $100/barrel oil is cheap, where before Bush took office, we thought $30/barrel oil was expensive...
Antibacterial soaps target specific molecules on the surface of bacterial membranes, or interfere with some metabolic process. This stuff directly oxidizes the bonds on the surface of the membrane. The only way to develop resistance would be to change the nature of the membrane dramatically.
That would mean (by definition) that they have evolved into a new species. More than likely, they wouldn't be able to live inside the body anymore.
I am working on developing a similar technology in my lab, one that I would argue is better, because it doesn't require light or UV.
More importantly, will it be "fluid"-proof?
Thanks!
Care to provide their names and/or their websites? I would love to drop my crappy service, where I pay $100+ per month for two phones.
Yes. If I'm not mistaken, groups from Tibet populated Indochina about 6000 years ago. I think the Tibetens are fairly closely related to the Mongols and other groups of formerly nomadic north Asians.