There ought to be a law that bans electoral bodies from passing laws with provisions to make the voting body an exception to the law being passed.
Except that these are exceptionally cheap to operate. If you ban them altogether, then you make running for office that much more expensive. Political 'speech' is not something to be restricted lightly.
Besides, they would probably just exempt themselves from the 'We cant exempt ourselves' law
How would an equidistant supercharger (thus, one that is 200 miles from each of two points, themselves 400 miles apart) fail to help drivers with cars that have a 230 mile range?
The numbers they are going off of are for a 'Rapid-Charge', which, as defined in TFA, would add around 150 miles of range in 30 minutes. You could of course charge for longer and get the full 230 miles out of the smaller range vehicle and make the 400 mile trip.
...So if the yeti, bigfoot, the lochness monster etc... exist and are being sited more often by people now then they used to be, why don't we have any non-blurry pictures of them.
"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here." - Mitch Hedberg
are the scientists working with it particularly bright?
I don't think CERN scientists have a higher ratio of photon radiance in the visible spectrum (or even outside it) than scientists in other institutions.
But we won't know for sure until we load them up, smash them together and see what comes out.
Just a question: Have any of you ever actually done the math...
By going contract free, I save about $10-20/month, but it still comes out to $2k over 2 years.
$20 a month * 12 months a year * 2 years == 480.
My tolerance for this sort of pedantry grows smaller by the day.
But how much smaller? 20%? 50%? How are we supposed to know how to correct you if you don't give us these details?
Only on slashdot and other tech blogs can something so trivial as the PS3's DRM be considered as bad as what happened to Lisa McPherson, or any other number of deaths, morbidities or other horror stories to come out of the COS.
Hell, once I saw someone say that we should riot in the street Egyptian style because of what Sony's doing. Here's a bit of perspective. Egyptians rioted on the streets because they couldn't eat. Not because they can't play Xbill and Nethack on their consoles.
The link between the items mentioned in the summary is not that 'These things are bad in a similar way/to a similar degree', but rather 'These things are backed by entities with huge resources, and said entities would all put those resources to bare in an effort to have materials removed.'
...nit pic interesting things to death.
It's actually 'nitpick'
(See what I did there?)
3. Not everything has to have a left/right slant. Can't we have an article about gardening without any political commentary?
I was reading an article about gardening the other day that had some very interesting ideas on how to handle bushes.
Speaking of bushes, did you know that Bush was also a recent president, and that a lot of his policies aren't seen in a very positive light? Discuss....
...And now i find out he died approximately when i was reminded of it. If i was paranormally inclined i'd claim to have psychic powers...
So it's YOUR fault he died!
Get him!
...(oddly enough, I have blocked idle from the front page, but I still see this story)
Were there any disc-shaped objects silently hovering nearby while you loaded the page?
The missing mass is comprised of all the socks that have slipped through the spacetime continuum when you put them in the washing machine. They emit no radiation, but exert gravity. It's especially grave when you can't find a matching pair.
I've always held to the 'Sock Fairy' theory. It explains both the missing sock, and how the nickle that you hear bouncing around in the dryer got there.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
