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16y ago
After much deliberation from top management we have decided that the 10x lithium battery device must be brought in on-time and under budget. Sincerely, Thaddeus Plotz.
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16y ago
Legalizing all software copying across the board would be a type of socialism or communism. The programmer, designer, coder, etc is due just compensation. As the majority of human effort goes into research and data aquisition, there must b
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16y ago
First you make a law but don't enforce it. Nobody fights it off. Then when it is established, it starts getting enforced. If you want to steal away human rights (right to make copies of data that you own), you can't just do it all at onc
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16y ago
The future of warfare is in robots making war time strategic decisions, guys, can't we just take this to its logical conclusion and settle matters over a nice game of chess.... Best 2 out of 3? Ultimately war will exist entirely online, bec
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16y ago
This brand of toaster is better than the others because it is 10 times harder to make toast than the other brands. It is 10 times harder for an evil person to come into my house and make toast.
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16y ago
For those of you saying that no injustice has occurred here and saying that an equivalent punishment would occur in America under these circumstances. Lets review what would happen to this girl in America vs China: 1. That person does not
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16y ago
I've noticed a nasty trend where people use the word "Impossible" as another word for difficult, time consuming or hard. In order to prove something impossible you have to do two things, a) have a complete mastery over every property and to
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16y ago
http://www.barefootsworld.net/prophesy.html Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809) "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American peo
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16y ago
The wheels are powering the fan blowing rearward I assume at a 1 to 1 ratio into the wind. The cart requires an initial "push" from the human. The wind pushes both the fan blades and the cart. So the net push from the wind > net drag
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16y ago
"Ugly" needs to broken out by category: ugly on the outside? Ugly personality? Ugly mental illness? Ugly by car accident or Ugly by DNA? Ugly not intelligent? The dating game in this country is broken, as evidence I point at the 50%+ div
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16y ago
there might be entire civilizations of life forms billions of years ahead of us technology wise inside the atoms that make up the particles in the air we breath. Our entire universe may be an atom that makes up a single blob unit of a cell
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16y ago
A bully/psychopathic/sociopathic boss can kill a passion for excellence in any job in a matter of a few work days. It's a huge task to completely take control of what things motivate you even when you are being punished for good behavior, a
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16y ago
Your correct it is not flat, it's value is modified by how much gold can be mined by companies. Also it is modified by how many people want the metal itself. What I meant to say that if you worked hard for a year 200 years ago and saved yo
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16y ago
Pre 1982 pennies are worth like 2 or 3 cents melted down I believe. They are becoming more and more rare because they are made of copper, a valuable resource. The federal reserve is printing money out of thin air and diluting the currency
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16y ago
What about the scientology protests? I think there was an element of social media fueling that fire.
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The future of space colonization is not finding other worlds, unless we get warp drive. The future of space colonization is man made structures orbiting our sun, gathering resources from nearby planets and shuttling them here. The sun is
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16y ago
Another big one is to automate common tasks. Get some software that tracks everything you do, and make a list of the most common things you do on a day to day basis. If you find something that takes up a lot of mental energy or time. The
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16y ago
He should have gotten a lawyer when the FBI said: "your fine, nothing to worry about, don't get a lawyer".
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Meetings don't write code: Chit-chat: having everyone in the room wait for two people to talk to eachother about one project. Not getting in, done and out: Discovering what you are trying to figure out in the meeting rather than before the
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16y ago
It's not really a "ray" because the reflective panels don't direct all the light to one location. It just directs most of the light to a smaller location. To qualify as a "death ray" it would need to be shaped more like a giant magnifying
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16y ago
You can't just say (Bullet hole here) + (returned plane) = (don't need to as much armor there). You also need to understand the circumstances of how the plane returned. Was it crippled and just barely made it back with critical systems st
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This just in, huge concave structure lined with reflective materials causes unexpected strange heating effect from the sun, says engineers. News at 11.
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This just in, confidant men more attractive to women. In other news the pope is catholic and water is still wet.
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revisor, the psychopath/sociopath discovers your algorithm for detecting evil behavior and self compensates. So your notion of "just avoid the bad behavior" doesn't really work. The roller coaster example is an incorrect analogy because t
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16y ago
http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html Is spooky right-on, for 4 years of my work I had a co worker who was a psychopath/sociopath the entire time and I hadn't realized, he fit EVERY one of these items. Read these items, print it out and tape
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16y ago
problem because if you had a stable highly elliptical orbit of two bodies, the attraction would be greater during the approaching phase than the departure phase. The equation would not be balanced. Elliptical orbits would degrade due to t
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16y ago
Maybe data could travel faster than light if we find a property of the universe which goes faster than light. I imagine a bowling ball rolling down a blanket stretched tight at half light speed. The bowl shape of the blanket in front of th
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16y ago
The speed of gravity is either infinity or millions of times faster than the speed of light. If the speed of gravity was the speed of light, then heavy objects passing near the earth would have more gravity than objects passing away. Less
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16y ago
I do mind the idea of a cashless society because then there will be no way for anonymous purchases. It's like saying: "I don't mind being set on fire just so long as they make provision that I won't get too hot. Uhhh.. yeah. We'll get r
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George Orwell 1984 exhibit A: the two way view-screens, you never know when your being watched. exhibit B: global tracking system, from when you come out of your mother to your grave. We can only hope that going forward, men will resolve to
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