That's why Star Wars 7 will focus on the melting of the glaciers of Hoth and the "war on women" by remnants of the Old Empire.
And with a clever bit of licensing, will be co-marketed alongside the inspirational and dramatic family comedy: We Bought a Tauntaun Zoo
Anyone remember the seventies pre-Star Wars? You couldn't produce an SF film unless it had a downer ending.
Highlights of the early 70s include the USA abandoning the gold peg, the CIA overthrowing the government of Chile, the Vietnam War showing itself a failure, the oil crisis, Pol Pot killing millions in Cambodia, African countries overthrowing their leaders, etc etc etc.
The 70s were a dark and stormy time.
And don't forget that the Cuban Missile crisis, despite happening the previous decade, had a serious effect on the US psyche.
Statistically the only problem the "smart gun" solves can is already taken care of by responsible gun owners with a safe.
Yet Another Responsible Gun Owner Shoots His Own Penis
At least five American men have shot off their penises since 2010.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/yet-another-responsible-gun-owner-shoots
I keep hearing about these responsible gun owners who are so very careful with their dangerous weapons, so I can only conclude that this guy did it on purpose!
The problem for the "responsible gun owner" is that they have to be responsible every. single. time.
Why not use technology to help with that?
Or do you accept that a certain minimal number of children accidentally killing each other and dudes shooting themselves in the dick is the price we pay for freedom that is arbitrarily unregulated.
Sorry this whole story is some attempt to fill a boring summer void.
The pedant in me desperately wants to point out that Spock is half human and feels emotions too.
Liberia is/was classified as a "fragile state," despite being near the bottom of the failed state index.
Cultural issues exacerbated the spread, but the actual problem is the Liberian Government's inability to (or decision not to) mobilize resources and quarantine infected patients or infected areas.
People are already calling for the President's resignation and arguing that the her poor *handling of this plague has pushed Liberia back towards being a failed state.
*and a general inability to create a viable healthcare system during her 9 years in office.
Why would automated software pick the "real" words over the BLR version?
Those BLR guys are going out of their way to produce something ridiculous.
You can train recognition software using real language samples and some grammar rules.
Why would you assume that we can't strap these two technologies together?
If you want to understand why the new inhalers are so expensive, read this:
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/the-soaring-cost-of-a-simple-breath.html
It's a product of the USA's captured regulatory system.
Europe doesn't have the same problem, for a variety of reasons.
The largest container ships have huge particulate emissions, but that's because there's no regulation on particulate emissions according to international law.
The lack of regulations is why container ships use Bunker No. 6.
It is one grade above the stuff we use to make asphalt and the dirtiest part of oil that can still be used for fuel.
If allowed to cool to room temperature, it turns into a semi-solid.
Countries have started creating regulations for marine engine particulate emissions near their shores,
but banning bunker fuel would have serious effects on the global shipping industry and product prices.
As an investor in renewables, China is well in the lead of ever other nation.
Either the Pew report or that article is giving you an incomplete picture.
China, despite being a leader in nuclear and renewable power, is also going balls out to build coal-gasification plants.
China will be closing some coal power plants, but only ones nearest to its major cities (and responsible for the atrocious air quality). These will be replaced with 50 coal-to-gas plants in NW China and the synthetic natural gas will be shipped to new power plants in/near the cities. Cleaner air, but more CO2 per unit of power.
As a side note, China is responsible for about half the world's coal consumption, with no declines predicted.
They're huge slow(ish) moving, crazy expensive floating cities that could be made irrelevant with a salvo of cheap, dumb missles. (aegis be damned) They're dreadnoughts waiting for their Taranto.
The reason you damn them is exactly the reason they are relevant.
Floating cities. Carrier groups are essentially a military base on the move.
Hospitals, ammo dumps, fuel/food resupply, helicopters and airplanes, drones, marines, logistical support, etc.
The idea that we can adequately project force with only bombs is ludicrous and not something that can be explained in a
If you want to communicate, plug something in (or use near-field etc)
NFC is a misnomer.
With a sensitive enough receiver, you don't need to be "near" a NFC device to hear it talking.
With a large enough magnetic field, you don't need to be "near" a NFC device to get it talking.
I've never considered myself a "denier", and yet every time I ask someone to point to the evidence, I hear that slur tossed out. I've only briefly attempted to search for evidence online, and had virtually no success except to find things like the 97% consensus page at NASA's site. So, if anyone here has better sources, I'm all "ears".
Start here: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/#datdow
Actually, you'll probably need to start with at least one college degree in meteorology or climatology.
Or, in other words, the raw data is meaningless to a non-expert in the field.
We are guided by consensus a thousand ways every single day,
but it's only climate science where people seem to get bent out of shape.
Then, at least, there will be no more nasty little low-intensity squabbles as we try to referee this crap and all doubt about the threat Islam poses to the species will be gone.
one can dream
You were doing fairly well until the very end.
Bigotry aside, it's extremely naive to assume this is fundamentally motivated by religion.
The Islamists are not doing anything essentially different than what can be seen in Africa,
where you have warlords controlling large swaths of territory with no religious motivations.
Bigotry is blinding you to realpolitik.
The class action settlement is, at most, $5,408.33 per *worker
Take out the 25% cut for the lawyers, and it's $4,056.25 per *worker.
Lawyers and companies love to wave around these big figures as if it's a success, but it's actually a huge joke.
*I used 60,000, but TFA says "more than 60,000"
4k Blu-Ray drives and movies are scheduled for next year.
They'll be using H.265 compression and some new DRM.
I'll end up with one, but only if/when my current blu-ray player dies.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
