I love stratospheric prices for artisan goods as much as the next guy — this however is about as classy as the "I am rich" app.
McIntosh minus 19 points for lending your name to this.
McIntosh minus 19 points for lending your name to this.
I thought we learned in 2010 (or maybe 2009) that there wasn't enough matter in the good ol' cosmos to cause it to contract via a Big Crunch. That in fact everything will just keep moving away from everything else until it is cold, dark and lifeless.
@Valkyrie607 is epistemically responsible:
Come on. That's about as fair as saying, "Okay co-atheists, Hitler, Stalin, and Kim Jong-il are your co-believers".
It's sensationalism to judge a world-view/philosophy by its abusers or misinterpreters.
And from that if you then say, "Christians are still stupid because of the theory of creation", take note there are "old-world" versus "new-world" creationists. The "old-world" creationists essentially buy into everything science has to say, but ascribes to a deity the role as a first-cause that created and triggered the original singularity resulting in the Big Bang prior to time and creation itself, as well as nudging the universe with fine-tunnings in order to have a habitable universe with the physical laws we have today.
My co-thiests are also Galileo, Einstein, Copernicus, Plank, Pascal, Mother Theresa. There is an argument that the good company out-weighs the bad.
Come on. That's about as fair as saying, "Okay co-atheists, Hitler, Stalin, and Kim Jong-il are your co-believers".
It's sensationalism to judge a world-view/philosophy by its abusers or misinterpreters.
And from that if you then say, "Christians are still stupid because of the theory of creation", take note there are "old-world" versus "new-world" creationists. The "old-world" creationists essentially buy into everything science has to say, but ascribes to a deity the role as a first-cause that created and triggered the original singularity resulting in the Big Bang prior to time and creation itself, as well as nudging the universe with fine-tunnings in order to have a habitable universe with the physical laws we have today.
My co-thiests are also Galileo, Einstein, Copernicus, Plank, Pascal, Mother Theresa. There is an argument that the good company out-weighs the bad.
@Eggyhead85: Props, sir.
@RuckingFetard: AND I couldn't agree more. I know I have ADD, but when verbal ticks like that show up I literally stop listening to their message, preoccupied instead with anticipation over the next inevitable "and".
I have issues.
I have issues.
Seriously?! This what we've come to? This is modernity? This is us, the free world? I'm a happy meat eater. And yet the evidence for our cruel and unnecessary trivialization of animals through modern food production continues to press in on me from all sides.
Good Lord in Heaven, we are the most technologically advanced societies (US / Can) the planet has ever seen and we can't use our collective grey matter to minimize (eliminate) the suffering of other life forms?
I'm under no delusions that my tenderloin was once a living, breathing, life. And I give thanks every time I have a steak, that something died so I could live / enjoy (or at least I try to remember to give thanks). But these videos do not reveal a disconnect, they reveal an unnecessary shame on us moderns.
I'm not going to become a vegetarian. But I will now no longer eat meat from non-humane sources. I recognize that deciphering what humane is (free range debates, etc.) itself another discussion. But it's a step. We all need to take a step. A step back. Then forward in a new direction.
Bloody hell, those videos are haunting. Thanks Giz.
Good Lord in Heaven, we are the most technologically advanced societies (US / Can) the planet has ever seen and we can't use our collective grey matter to minimize (eliminate) the suffering of other life forms?
I'm under no delusions that my tenderloin was once a living, breathing, life. And I give thanks every time I have a steak, that something died so I could live / enjoy (or at least I try to remember to give thanks). But these videos do not reveal a disconnect, they reveal an unnecessary shame on us moderns.
I'm not going to become a vegetarian. But I will now no longer eat meat from non-humane sources. I recognize that deciphering what humane is (free range debates, etc.) itself another discussion. But it's a step. We all need to take a step. A step back. Then forward in a new direction.
Bloody hell, those videos are haunting. Thanks Giz.
From up here in Canada I find this all remarkably interesting.
If the TSA was convinced their new imaging tech was the best way to keep planes leaving the US safe than using their scanners should be mandatory. Full stop. None of this opt-out malarky. You shouldn't allow someone to opt out simply because it of political correctedness.
Now, if the scanners are unconstitutional or in violation of whatever your charter of rights and freedoms equivalent is, or deleterious to health (or all of the above) then a case should be brought against the feds in court, no? Evidence presented, weighed and a decision made by the judiciary.
That said, sooner or later your government is going to ban cellphones or any recording devices at security checkpoints. These youtube vids of nine year olds getting the full security pat downs are idiotic and damming.
I have to say, as a Canadian, it seems your government is getting more and more intrusive in the name of safety. Which doesn't bode well for me, because we usually have to let you lads take the lead on these matter. Is that Patriot Act still around?
Seriously America, you've turned back evil in two world wars, defeated communism and lead the free world rather successfully for a generation-plus. Figure this shit out.
If the TSA was convinced their new imaging tech was the best way to keep planes leaving the US safe than using their scanners should be mandatory. Full stop. None of this opt-out malarky. You shouldn't allow someone to opt out simply because it of political correctedness.
Now, if the scanners are unconstitutional or in violation of whatever your charter of rights and freedoms equivalent is, or deleterious to health (or all of the above) then a case should be brought against the feds in court, no? Evidence presented, weighed and a decision made by the judiciary.
That said, sooner or later your government is going to ban cellphones or any recording devices at security checkpoints. These youtube vids of nine year olds getting the full security pat downs are idiotic and damming.
I have to say, as a Canadian, it seems your government is getting more and more intrusive in the name of safety. Which doesn't bode well for me, because we usually have to let you lads take the lead on these matter. Is that Patriot Act still around?
Seriously America, you've turned back evil in two world wars, defeated communism and lead the free world rather successfully for a generation-plus. Figure this shit out.
@Aaron Smith: I think you are nailing it. It seems to me, in North America (so this include the Great White North), we are trying to make security manageable by the least intelligent and therefore relying on technology to do all the work. But by expecting well-trained (and that's the key word) to the heavy lifting and having technology fill in the gaps or try and point smart humans in the right direction, we aren't going to be frisking 11 year old girls or asking breast cancer survivor to show their prosthesis.
@Hatman88: Hey, I'm a brown guy living in Canada and every time I clear customs for the US I am always a little nervous. Perhaps this is cold, but I'm not that bent out of shape by profiling. Waiting 3-hours is hard to justify though, no doubt about it. It takes about 2 hours to clear customs to the US in Canada. Canada!
@The Count of Monte Fisto: That is a very decent point. I wonder if finding enough people who are trained or can be trained to follow the Israeli model is therefore possible. It's not like the TSA agents — I'm guessing — are making big cake. So you likely aren't attracting the cream all the time. That said, I applaud the Israeli attitude, the idea of being intelligent about it.
I read this and I buy it entirely.
[www.thestar.com]
Israel gets passengers from the parking lot to the lounge in 25 minutes.
[www.thestar.com]
Israel gets passengers from the parking lot to the lounge in 25 minutes.
It was like a day in the life of Wall-E.
I'm running an old 15" MBP and have no true need for a 13" (or 11") MBA. But I remain, nevertheless, tempted — perhaps for the shear pleasure of not having to lug a Pro around.
I have an iPad, and while I have used it in a coffee shop for writing (using Writer), it works only in a pinch. I wouldn't want it as a day-to-day work rig. It sits on my coffee table and frankly, when I'm at home, in front of the TV and generally not working, I'm on the iPad. Largely because — I reason — I can easily pull the screen right up to my face. It's a more visceral device.
These are $1000 luxury items and while not truly worth the cake, they are fabulous to have around and integrate seamlessly into work-/life-life thanks to DropBox, Taskpaper, SimpleNote, Notational Velo. et al.
When my 15" MBP dies, the 13" MBA will replace it. No question.
I have an iPad, and while I have used it in a coffee shop for writing (using Writer), it works only in a pinch. I wouldn't want it as a day-to-day work rig. It sits on my coffee table and frankly, when I'm at home, in front of the TV and generally not working, I'm on the iPad. Largely because — I reason — I can easily pull the screen right up to my face. It's a more visceral device.
These are $1000 luxury items and while not truly worth the cake, they are fabulous to have around and integrate seamlessly into work-/life-life thanks to DropBox, Taskpaper, SimpleNote, Notational Velo. et al.
When my 15" MBP dies, the 13" MBA will replace it. No question.
As fully entrenched I am in the Apple ecosystem, that phone OS along with Windows 7 really makes me see them as a completely fair alternative to Planet Mac. It just comes down to buying really good hardware and not cheaping out. I suppose that is why Jobso still likes to control not just the software but the box it comes in.
I understand the dynamics and physics of lift that enable flying, blah, blah, blah — but it still makes no sense to me that something that big can be in the freakin' air. Anything as big or bigger than a Canada Goose flying is freakin' magic.
Also, the 747 is the sex. The A380 looks like a walrus compared to that form. Not like the Europeans to get design / aesthetics egregiously wrong. Though that's only my opinion.
Also, the 747 is the sex. The A380 looks like a walrus compared to that form. Not like the Europeans to get design / aesthetics egregiously wrong. Though that's only my opinion.
I really enjoy the accompanying ships in the group. The submarine, the destroyer (?). That's bloody brilliant.
@11thRS: Thank you. I've always been curious what the actual name of the effect was as well as the explanation for its occurrence.
That is the Las Vegas of 'choppers. Damn sexy. What's the effect you witness with the rotary blades spinning with the appearance of slow motion?
Ok. Seriously guys. Why do you have to almost invariably show Canada covered in snow? Though we do love winter — it's like the outdoors is one big beer cooler.
The Canadian would like to know if the US has ever recorded a reactor meltdown on board nuclear powered vessel. I'm curious why it's safe to have aircraft carriers and submarines powered by nuclear power with men and women working in such close proximity but the enviro lobby is so spooked by the idea of more prolific nuclear power?
