Comment Re:Link to the transcript? (Score 0) 111
We don't have an hour of free time to blow...
Maybe if you spent less time vying for first post you would...
We don't have an hour of free time to blow...
Maybe if you spent less time vying for first post you would...
When your mind is software you can just alter your perception of time and fast forward through all the boring parts.
Next thing you know it will be the end of the universe and you'll have fast forwarded through everything of substance!
With a growth in his chest, two ruptured disks and no job, Verone hoped a three-year stint in prison would afford him the health care he needed
... But the charge of larceny, not armed robbery, is unlikely to keep Verone behind bars for more than 12 months
You can't win. Even the simplest of plans the powers that be manage to screw you over on.
Yes but this guy cant afford a lawyer so a 3 year sentence could still be a possibility!
You do know that there is an amazingly simple way to separate the salt from the water, right? It is called evaporation.
The concepts of desalination are certainly quite simple, its the economics that are complicated.
After the battery is discharged, the salt water is drained and fresh water is added to begin the cycle again.
This is awesome, we can use up all our fresh water and would have an unlimited supply of salt water!
The problem is most Slashdotters were hailing as "free speech" the Facebook thing where someone decided an employer couldn't fire an employee for blatantly badmouthing him on Faceboook.
I think in this case there is some implied confidentiality given to the student. Maybe she didnt name names (I did not RTFA), but perhaps the identity could have been inferred by those in the class or their parents.
Frankly though, if i were a school administrator, trying to keep students in school, or attract more students to the school, i would argue that she is damaging the public image of the institution and thus financially harming it.
Young man (seeing Churchill leaving the bathroom without washing his hands): At Eton they taught us to wash our hands after using the toilet.
Churchill: At Harrow they taught us not to piss on our hands.
Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you implying that no one can hear you punch the clown?
Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you saying no one can hear you choke the chicken?
::facepalm::
If what's being reported is accurate, they've discovered a life form whose DNA was previously thought to be completely, unequivocally, no-exceptions impossible. Not just "we haven't found it", but impossible.
From the NASA article, according to Carl Pilcher, this was already thought possible: "Until now a life form using arsenic as a building block was only theoretical, but now we know such life exists in Mono Lake."
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
