How is it that the method of killing merits a greater response than the quantity of those killed? North Korea, for instance, kills tens of thousands of innocents per year and imprisions hundreds of thousands (most of whom die a slow and painful death of starvation and disease). I guess Kim is safe so long as he doesn't gas a few hundred?
Kim is safe as long as he has the means to level Seoul, for one. If we believed that Assad would completely destroy, let's say Rome, we'd leave him the fuck alone.
Yes, the summary is biased. As the article points out, it is in fact the large cars that are dangerous-- they are, however, dangerous to the smaller cars. Making cars smaller doesn't result in more deaths-- unless you have large cars on the road as well. It is the larger cars that are killing people. (and the bogus statistic comes from the "National Center for Policy Analysis"-- read: political action group paid to shill for oil companies.)
That may well be true, but which would you rather be driving in a collision, the large car or the small one?
That is a false dichotomy. The ideal preference would be small cars for everyone
This is quite possibly one of the stupidest things I have ever read. I'm regretting not reading it on my Kindle, so I could forget it quicker.
This is exactly the reason I stopped using my +1 reading glasses about 10 years ago. I simply found myself reading too fast to absorb the content.
there is probably some sort of maximum initial spin rate, and even given that rate the planet might be guaranteed to be tidally locked at this point.
Glad you answered your own question. We have a good idea of what rotation rates are possible when planets form in a disk, probable rotation rates are basically a function of composition and mass (very small objects such as small moons, asteroids, and fragments are more complicated because their rotation rates are going to be affected by frequent impacts, but even then there's a limit to what gravity can hold together)
Basically, the planet in question--Gilese 581g, is very very very old. It orbits a red dwarf star whose lifetime is in the billions of decades--20-30 billion years likely (too lazy to check for an actual figure, but it's much longer than the 10 billion years for our sun). Based on the current age of the system it (and apparently every other planet in that system, from the bottom of the wiki page on tidal locking) should already be locked.
The estimated age of the universe is 13.75 ± 0.17 billion years. Where do you guys get off voting this drivel to +5 informative
"Agnostics seem to think it doesn't matter whether someone believes in God or not."
Agnosticisim does not bother with speculating as there is no proof being presented. As an agnostic, I'm actually offended at your attempt to hijack my posistion with superimposing your observations.
There is simply no way any Slashdot editor could be oblivious to how fucking mad the users here get when someone borks that phrase.
This is quite simply Timothy sticking it to all the grammar Nazis to get more comments to an otherwise uninspired thread.
I'd argue that they are still doing automatic redirect to the Hong Kong version. The search bar on google.cn is now a cute little element that links to www.google.com.hk.
So even if you don't understand that the plainly marked link below will give you uncensored search, you're just herded to the hk version anyway.
I'm worried that a n$ game I expect to keep me interested for maybe 20 hours will be delivered in bits and pieces
* I think the girl is a model on a porn site
Nice try mate, we're not gonna watch the fucking video
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