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Private property. Keep out
I'm just angered by the insinuance that somehow because someone owns something that was granted to them by the government that somehow they have a monopoly over it and the right to shut me out on a whim.

I'm pretty sure he was alluding to the following line from Signs performed by Tesla.

And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and I yelled at the house
"Hey, what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out, or to keep Mother Nature in
If God was here he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kind of sinner!"

All you Zombies Hide Your Faces.

You put the lime in the coconut and mix them both together
put the lime in the coconut then you feel better

It's always sad when the world loses a great teacher but I've never heard of him here in Australia. Judging from the posts in this thread, it's sounds like his methods were similar to the late great Prof. Sumner Miller who entertained, educated and influenced many people from my generation.

Trivia question: Is he the "Mr Wizard" in the song walking on the sun?

As Tom Leher says smut is in the eye of the beholder. While it's true that occasionally nothing satisfies like a youtube video of 12 midgets getting it on with a llama and a hot nurse in a swimming pool filled with K-Y jelly, it can be just as much fun (Well, OK, almost as much fun) to look for homoerotic undertones in 1980's era cartoons (What do you think all those Smurfs were doing before Smurfette arrived?!) or in America's favorite gladatorial sport (12 men in tight pants all piling on top of one another? Come on!) I bet if you looked hard enough you could find porn everywhere! Even on the front pages of CNN. OK generally not on Google's though. You need to go to the next page on google for that. After entering "12 midgets getting it on with a llama and a hot nurse in a swimming pool filled with K-Y jelly".

I love to work I love to run I love to waterski, snowboard, jetski
Skydive, parasail, hang-glide, rollerblade, mountainbike, bungee-jump
Well I mean I'd love to do these things if I ever had the time

And then we banned slavery. Like that made things better. Then you got the whole bloody awful business of chaining all the slaves together so you could sling the whole lot of 'em overboard at once if you catch sight of the Royal Navy on your way across and claim innocence.

Well, it did make things better! We spent a fortune putting warships on the West African coast in order to stop the trade. The "sling the whole lot of them over" trick stopped working as well - simply owning a ship that was rigged for slavery (deck arrangements, etc.) was enough to have you prosecuted.

It took us far, far, too long to make the right decision, but when we did we at least tried to do something about the situation (although owning of slaves in British Dominions wasn't illegal until about a decade or so later [my memory is bad in the mornings, check this if it really matters to you]). Thanks for the Ali quote, BTW, lovely!

Without wishing to stir things up too much, the reason that the US gets so much criticism for slavery, folks, is that a large chunk of your ancestors fought a bloody war to retain their 'right' to use slaves (among other things, yes, I know)! It might also be possible to point to a near-apartheid that continued until the mid-60s, and whose effects are still so demonstrable within US society today, as a reason why some people think that the history and legacy of US slavery needs to be confronted - and, as a happy coincidence, I note that it's black history month (in the US, at least, although my general view on things like this is nicely summed up by Tom Lehrer).

...and the first thing to go? That damn plastic Jesus!

for a musical history, see "Heart of the Apple Lisa ... A filk by Jordan Kare...http://www.jg.org/folk/artists/fredsmall/ap plelisa.html ...of the original work by Mr. Fred Small (includes chords) http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/theheart.htm

And what's the problem with that? I love smut.

We'll try to stay serene and calm
When Alabama gets the bomb.

(Tom Lehrer's Who's Next?)

Wouldn't your Driver's Ed teacher (aka the basketball coach) be much happier if he could verify your skills in one of these, rather than from the passenger seat with nothing but a second brake pedal between him and being pwnx0rd by a bridge abutment?

It's not such a crazy idea... check out the Truck Driver Simulation Mobile Classroom. It's a full-sized full-motion multi-screen 18-wheeler simulator, designed to help train professional truck drivers. The unit -- which itself is housed in an 18-wheeler trailer -- claims to be "unlike any in the world," although the folks in the UK are trying to catch up.

Myself, I'd like to see what it's really like to climb in the cab and say ... so we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight, I says let them truckers roll, 10-4, 'cause we got a mighty Convoy rockin' through the night...

http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/daisybel.htm

That is the song that HAL sings, but he only sings "daisy, daisy give me your answer do, I'm half crazy all for the love of you" if I remember right.

This song was also the first one ever sung by a computer in the real world. Not only are the letters HAL each one letter behind the letters IBM, but HAL's last words were IBM's first words.

Arthur C Clarke claims this is all a coincidence, and it's even mentioned in 2010 with a response of "we've been trying to kill that rumor for years" or something.

In a country where the federal government has been concentrating power in the capital, I can't see where she gets such bizarre ideas.

I picture innocent's DNA filed next to Arlo Gutherie's fingerprints.

(Those who don't get the reference, search for "we don't like your kind" here.)

And from Tom Lehrer: "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down." :-)

things are just to "perfect" to randomly appear. [...] our bodies are amazing pieces of machinery

I have trouble believing in a kind and loving god. Maybe there is a greater power out there, but he's got a twisted sense of humour.

*Sigh* You beat me to the Tom Lehrer ref... by seven d@mn minutes...
Now I will have to go listen to "Poisoning the Pigeons in The Park" to drown my sorrows...

Where did I leave those "peanuts all coated in cyanide?"
I do love the Ansari X prize, tho...
Wish NASA had prizes for -
Orbit
Moon pass-by
Moon landing

From Tom Lehrer's satirical song
Wernher Von Braun ...
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
...

For answers philosophical, turn to page 37 in your Monty Python hymnbook: The Galaxy Song

Of course, the Earth isn't a closed system, so the entrophy argument is complete bull; you see, there is this little thing called the Sun...

Of course, so's the rest of this. Today's Doonesbury is kind of apt...

Or can we define it as "having the capability to scream"?