Comment Re:"JUST" 12 light years? LOL. (Score 1) 420
Probably not the book you're thinking of, but still an interesting take on time dilation effects is the Forever War by Joe Haldeman...
Require people to carry a pistol on flights is the answer.
I agree. Plus there's the bonus I can pop a cap in the next motherfucker who reclines his seat into my long-suffering knees!
<Gilda Radner>never mind</Gilda Radner>
There are no 100% solutions to our energy problems.
This is a 4% solution.
You only need 24 more 4% solutions to get to 100%.
Seriously? There have been what, 23 deaths so far? Out of a population of over 300 million people that is nothing.
Here's a helpful statistical hint for you. Only a very small subset of that 300 million got the injections.
If all 300 million people got injections and only 23 died, then you would have a point. But they didn't, so STFU, you're talking out your ass.
Why is it necessary to give my tax money to stupid insurance companies and a car company that makes cars that people don't want to buy?
Because it was a good investment? The portion of the bailout money that you refer to was all paid back with interest...
Pedestrian crossing?
You rang?
Consider only the first one. All you have to do is get out of the way, OK things like the pipeline. That's all it takes for item (1) to happen and bring us a lot of home-brewed energy very quickly.
It doesn't make any difference where the oil comes from, it's a world market. The Keystone pipeline is designed to get oil to -China- more efficiently because that's where the market is.
Producing more oil domestically does nothing to increase energy independence because any domestically-produced oil goes on the world market.
I wonder how much data can be transmitted with this technology.
None.
Europicola.
Dog-bowled Ethiopian Mocha Harrar + Cuban Turquino Lavado.
Offtopic??? That was classic, should have at least been modded as Funny.
The problem is that lately all you see for the first half of a discussion is an endless stream of jokes ("classic" and "not so classic"). Believe it or not, most people don't come here for the jokes, they come here for technical discussion.
The problem is that slashdot has the "funny" mod, and as far as comment visibility, treats it the same as the "insightful" or "interesting" mod.
To hack around this shortcoming in the mod system, some mods choose to mod down the jokes to try to improve the S/N ratio.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
