I'm curious, why choose the Green Party over the NDP? I've always been NDP, because I see them being socially liberal and whose views coincide with my own. I just not sure what the GP offers above them...
Metallica had the same thing going for the first decade of their careers. You'd get a special "Recording Section" pass and get to sit/stand right by the speaker stack for the best sound. Then they did an about face with the whole Napster thing, and we all know how that went over.
Living in Canada, and being a scientist, I encounter both systems equally on a regular basis. But the only reason that we commonly use imperial units of weight measurement is because our neighbour to the south refuses to go metric. It is much much easier to measure in SI units because conversion is not necessary when working within SI. For volumes, it's likewise easier to use metric and the weight to volume conversion is simple (1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram). Just the concept of base-10 counting is simplicity in itself.
The US is one of the last bastions of imperial measurement in the world (and UK measure in stones of all things!), while the rest have converted to metric and SI providing consistency from country to country. Because of the persistence of the US using imperial, we must constantly convert when making business transactions and engineering new products. This is a major bottleneck in my view. Not to mention millions of dollars were lost when metric-imperial conversion error was made for a Mars probe.
PS: I thought the SNL skit with Dan Aykroyd describing the Decabet (metric alphabet) was hilarious!
Now wouldn't it be nice if the scanned image could be OCR'd, but with a twist - a scenic picture is converted to a paragraph describing its detail, then text-messaged to your friend of choice. This would work especially well for pr0n and new sack-mates...
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I saw that too. He used camo-netting and had it propped up in true tent-like fashion. Great story he had, where is he now?
Being a scientist, I much prefer the unambiguous language of botany when it comes to fruits and vegetables.
But it makes me wonder, how did it ever come to be in gastronomy that a tomato is a vegetable, or a squash, or a cucumber, but a pineapple, a pear, and a banana are all fruits? What was the original criteria for separating these obviously analogous plant-parts into different classifications?
Yeah, I'll stick with the botanical definitions thanx.
Get ready to lose hope. Quoth thy host, Kathy Griffin:
"How did the guys react to Melana? The guys all had different reactions [to Melana]. Some were in love within 20 seconds, others seemed more into each other. Talking about Star Trek, going in the hot tub. Nerd guys aren't so into chicks, they're into comics and fantasy football."
It's just The Hindmost adjusting our orbit from the control center hidden in Mars. Soon those bussard ramjets are going to be glowing with plasma as the push us back on course.
Oh, and a couple million inhabitants will die in the process, but that's just collateral damage.
"That seems to be an issue nobody addressed, but if it is this seems like technology the military could use to create active camouflage. Just take a pic of the view opposite the direction the vehicle is traveling and display it on the front and vice versa."
Hello Cloaking Device! Now if only they'd invent transporters...
...it can't be hooked up directly to a TV to view a DVD. Only through a computer linkage can it that be done. This product will be totally cool when I can take it to my luddite grandmother's house where there is no computer and hook it up to her TV while she's baking brownies.
I read this book only a couple months ago and enjoyed it. It was a little slower than I was expecting. Maybe the recent Hollywood-produced films which buildup fear until the point of impact are the cause, whereas this book dwells more on what happened afterward, which is a better story anyway. It's interesting to see the fractioning of society and the loss of civilization (not to mention having to update the maps with new coastlines).
Prior to this I read Footfall by the same authors, and now I'm reading Niven's acclaimed Ringworld. I love this scifi stuff!
While disagreeing with you on the soul bit, I agree that resurrection requires the whole body. But what happens when the person of antiquity has died, their material substance decays and is absorbed by the earth? Their atoms become the atoms of an earthworm, or a bacterium. Down the road, those atoms somehow become part of another human, who dies, and the cycle is completed. Cremation is even better at this if the ashes are released into the wind. So how can both people be fully resurrected if they in fact shared the same atoms? Surely one or the other will be deficient. And if plants and animals of all kinds are included in resurrection, well, that's a much bigger problem.
Is the reason that we use air-tight caskets nowadays is because people want to keep all the atoms in one place for resurrection? How is the living-dead person going to get out of the tomb if the coffin is locked shut?
Not to mention that DLP is the technology in the projectors made by Christie Digital. These projectors are the ones used in select theatres across the world to show Episode 2 - AOTC in digital format. I've seen it. Quite nice.
"The firm requirement for all science - whether stereotypical or historical - lies in secure testability, not direct observation. We must be able to determine whether our hypotheses are definitely wrong or probably correct (we leave assertions of certainty to preachers and politicians)." - SJG, Wonderful Life, pg. 282
And did you see the interview with Tom Clancy on 9/11 on CNN? He started speaking about how the attack was bound to happen and that we shouldn't have been surprised - then they cut him off and went to commercial. After the ad-break, he wasn't heard from again!
The tempature of water being a liquid is between 255K and 310K
I'm confused. Last I heard, water's melting and boiling points are 273 and 373 K respectively. Did or I miss something, or did I get my biology degree on luck?
And last I can remember, when I was walking around outside at 255 K, the water I saw was all quite solid.
Don't forget the major means to produce the attentuated Polio virus, shipped it to the US for vaccine production.
And the fact that we have a larger oil reserve than Saudi Arabia.
And the fact that Bell made the world's first phone call in Ontario.
And the fact that we had the world's first nuclear accident at Chalk River.
And the fact that we can walk the planet proudly wearing our flag and be welcomed with open arms, while our southern neighbours are not so lucky.
And the fact that we have the lowest population density in the world.
And the fact that we have the cheapest high speed internet access in the world.
And the fact that we are the most technologically savvy society in the world.
And the fact that a great deal of the formost researchers in the US have been educated at Canadian universities.
And the fact that it was a Canadian - Paul Shaffeur - who was the first to say the word "fu(k" on television.
And the fact that OUR movies are uncensored (even softcore p0rn) after 9pm at night on CityTV because we don't have the stupid FCC breathing down necks.
...the hyena's will go straight for the cane toads and get stoned! Then they'll try to capture and sell the toads to other animals, but the first one's free you see - to get you hooked! That's how hyena's work, they'll devious buggers I tell ya!
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I'm curious, why choose the Green Party over the NDP? I've always been NDP, because I see them being socially liberal and whose views coincide with my own. I just not sure what the GP offers above them...
I used to wonder why /.ers would complain about the bias and censorship of the overlords who control this news forum, now I know why.
I submitted this story a week and a half ago and it was rejected. Now an AC submits it and gets the credit. Bastards.
http://slashdot.org/~Canuckanuck
Metallica had the same thing going for the first decade of their careers. You'd get a special "Recording Section" pass and get to sit/stand right by the speaker stack for the best sound. Then they did an about face with the whole Napster thing, and we all know how that went over.
Living in Canada, and being a scientist, I encounter both systems equally on a regular basis. But the only reason that we commonly use imperial units of weight measurement is because our neighbour to the south refuses to go metric. It is much much easier to measure in SI units because conversion is not necessary when working within SI. For volumes, it's likewise easier to use metric and the weight to volume conversion is simple (1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram). Just the concept of base-10 counting is simplicity in itself.
The US is one of the last bastions of imperial measurement in the world (and UK measure in stones of all things!), while the rest have converted to metric and SI providing consistency from country to country. Because of the persistence of the US using imperial, we must constantly convert when making business transactions and engineering new products. This is a major bottleneck in my view. Not to mention millions of dollars were lost when metric-imperial conversion error was made for a Mars probe.
PS: I thought the SNL skit with Dan Aykroyd describing the Decabet (metric alphabet) was hilarious!
Now wouldn't it be nice if the scanned image could be OCR'd, but with a twist - a scenic picture is converted to a paragraph describing its detail, then text-messaged to your friend of choice. This would work especially well for pr0n and new sack-mates...
I am a banana!
I saw that too. He used camo-netting and had it propped up in true tent-like fashion. Great story he had, where is he now?
So a banana is a berry then?
Being a scientist, I much prefer the unambiguous language of botany when it comes to fruits and vegetables.
But it makes me wonder, how did it ever come to be in gastronomy that a tomato is a vegetable, or a squash, or a cucumber, but a pineapple, a pear, and a banana are all fruits? What was the original criteria for separating these obviously analogous plant-parts into different classifications?
Yeah, I'll stick with the botanical definitions thanx.
Get ready to lose hope. Quoth thy host, Kathy Griffin:
"How did the guys react to Melana?
The guys all had different reactions [to Melana]. Some were in love within 20 seconds, others seemed more into each other. Talking about Star Trek, going in the hot tub. Nerd guys aren't so into chicks, they're into comics and fantasy football."
Gil Hamilton?
I'm 2/3 the way through Ringworld Throne! Are you trying to spoil it for me!?!
It's just The Hindmost adjusting our orbit from the control center hidden in Mars. Soon those bussard ramjets are going to be glowing with plasma as the push us back on course.
Oh, and a couple million inhabitants will die in the process, but that's just collateral damage.
Actually, the Vikings were around a lot earlier than Columbus.
"That seems to be an issue nobody addressed, but if it is this seems like technology the military could use to create active camouflage. Just take a pic of the view opposite the direction the vehicle is traveling and display it on the front and vice versa."
Hello Cloaking Device! Now if only they'd invent transporters...
...it can't be hooked up directly to a TV to view a DVD. Only through a computer linkage can it that be done. This product will be totally cool when I can take it to my luddite grandmother's house where there is no computer and hook it up to her TV while she's baking brownies.
Only then will it rock!
I read this book only a couple months ago and enjoyed it. It was a little slower than I was expecting. Maybe the recent Hollywood-produced films which buildup fear until the point of impact are the cause, whereas this book dwells more on what happened afterward, which is a better story anyway. It's interesting to see the fractioning of society and the loss of civilization (not to mention having to update the maps with new coastlines).
Prior to this I read Footfall by the same authors, and now I'm reading Niven's acclaimed Ringworld. I love this scifi stuff!
While disagreeing with you on the soul bit, I agree that resurrection requires the whole body. But what happens when the person of antiquity has died, their material substance decays and is absorbed by the earth? Their atoms become the atoms of an earthworm, or a bacterium. Down the road, those atoms somehow become part of another human, who dies, and the cycle is completed. Cremation is even better at this if the ashes are released into the wind. So how can both people be fully resurrected if they in fact shared the same atoms? Surely one or the other will be deficient. And if plants and animals of all kinds are included in resurrection, well, that's a much bigger problem.
Is the reason that we use air-tight caskets nowadays is because people want to keep all the atoms in one place for resurrection? How is the living-dead person going to get out of the tomb if the coffin is locked shut?
Perplexing...
Not to mention that DLP is the technology in the projectors made by Christie Digital. These projectors are the ones used in select theatres across the world to show Episode 2 - AOTC in digital format. I've seen it. Quite nice.
And another, my favourite:
"The firm requirement for all science - whether stereotypical or historical - lies in secure testability, not direct observation. We must be able to determine whether our hypotheses are definitely wrong or probably correct (we leave assertions of certainty to preachers and politicians)." - SJG, Wonderful Life, pg. 282
And did you see the interview with Tom Clancy on 9/11 on CNN? He started speaking about how the attack was bound to happen and that we shouldn't have been surprised - then they cut him off and went to commercial. After the ad-break, he wasn't heard from again!
The tempature of water being a liquid is between 255K and 310K
I'm confused. Last I heard, water's melting and boiling points are 273 and 373 K respectively. Did or I miss something, or did I get my biology degree on luck?
And last I can remember, when I was walking around outside at 255 K, the water I saw was all quite solid.
Don't forget the major means to produce the attentuated Polio virus, shipped it to the US for vaccine production.
And the fact that we have a larger oil reserve than Saudi Arabia.
And the fact that Bell made the world's first phone call in Ontario.
And the fact that we had the world's first nuclear accident at Chalk River.
And the fact that we can walk the planet proudly wearing our flag and be welcomed with open arms, while our southern neighbours are not so lucky.
And the fact that we have the lowest population density in the world.
And the fact that we have the cheapest high speed internet access in the world.
And the fact that we are the most technologically savvy society in the world.
And the fact that a great deal of the formost researchers in the US have been educated at Canadian universities.
And the fact that it was a Canadian - Paul Shaffeur - who was the first to say the word "fu(k" on television.
And the fact that OUR movies are uncensored (even softcore p0rn) after 9pm at night on CityTV because we don't have the stupid FCC breathing down necks.
And there's lots more.
But you need a fission bomb first in order to drive the fusion bomb reaction. I.E. In every H bomb, there's a little A bomb that makes it go...
...the hyena's will go straight for the cane toads and get stoned! Then they'll try to capture and sell the toads to other animals, but the first one's free you see - to get you hooked! That's how hyena's work, they'll devious buggers I tell ya!