Nowadays that includes foreign audiences because roughly half of the revenue from big-budget movies comes from overseas. So they deliberately limit the scripts to what translates easily to any culture, and that leaves pretty much nothing other than famous faces, pretty girls and big explosions.
Ironically, I like to watch non-American movies because they expose me to other cultures...
Turn off automatic notifications and don't check your email outside working hours.
Volkswagen's solutions fixes the symptoms, but not the cause. Besides, when you _do_ need to send a message outside working hours, how are you supposed to do that?
Michael Ende's The Neverending Story is a great book, which shouldn't be judged by that horrible 80s movie...
I also read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge a while back (as a result of a Slashdot comment!) and very much recommend it. It's an interesting depiction of a world where the Internet is omnipresent through augmented reality.
In most of Europe, removing a blog like this is a no-brainer. Europe is more concerned with freedom of expression and freedom of the press than the US notion of "free speech". For Europeans free speech as a concept is to be able to express one's ideas and thoughts without harrasment or fear of political oppression.
A blog designed to harrass a single person with no political agenda? "Censoring" that is the sane thing to do if you ask me. Society doesn't exist to protect one person's ability to make another one's life miserable.
An interesting short story about the potential of genetic viral design in the hands of a fundamentalist:
http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Moral%20Virologist
Det är inte så farligt.
I have heard good things about the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA:
http://www.computerhistory.org/
Sadly, the place was closed for renovations when I happened to be in town...
I've had a doctor tell me that I / my kid has a bacterial infection but it's not that serious, so the best option is to rest and let the body's own immune system take care of it.
Yet, something tells me that those doctors would have prescribed antibiotics if I had cluelessly demanded that I get 'proper medicine'...
Based on the projected risks predicted in the IPCC report, CO2 would probably be less risky. It depends on what kind of nuclear catastrophes you're talking about, though. 3 mile island, no problem. Chernobyl, bad bad.
If we can develop the technology to repair damage caused by ionizing radiation, and that's a big if, then the CO2 might be a bigger problem. Most wildlife has shortish lifespans, long lived humans have bigger issues of course. But we really have a pretty poor idea how we are changing the planet, so I think trying to use less energy and avoiding oil/coal makes sense until we have better alternatives.
I don't claim to be informed, just blabbering here.
PS. TFA does say that they apparently aren't planning to close, only upgrade the plants, which sounds quite sensible.
Which is worse:
Taking the risk of a few nuclear catastrophes during the next couple of centuries, or to keep dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere ignoring the fact that it pretty darn definitely has some effect in the long term...
Wild prediction: People 200 years from now are going to look upon us like idiots who thought relocating people due to a nuclear accident was harder than getting all that 'effing carbon dioxide back where it belongs and restoring the climactic balance to a reasonable degree.
If he's anything like I was when I was a kid, he'd take it apart to try to see how it worked... and completely ruin it in the process.
That's the beauty of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk
Pretty cool project.
Just passing the levels is easy, mostly. But getting three stars on a level usually requires strategic thinking. That, combined with the fact that you don't have to commit to play for more than about 30 seconds at a time seem make Angry Birds a winner with lasting entertainment potential.
I'm writing this because I was actually quite surprised at how well the game works. I dismissed it as a fad for quite some time. But ultimately it was much more fun than I thought it would be.
...I could totally see this failing due to privacy legislature relating to patient records.
I guess hospitals should start buying 3D-printers then?
If all else fails, lower your standards.
