Maybe it's the grainy movie, but as a lip-reader, it caught my eye... that, and many face "wrinkles" that usually appear when smiling, frowning, or even raising your eyebrows seems to be missing as well...
Speed kills, plain and simple. Taken to the extreme, if everyone slowed to 0 MPH, there would be no accidents. As speed increases, the rate of accidents do go up in proportion to speed.
I'll have to disagree here after having watched traffic on the Autobahn.
Inattentive, road-rule-ignorant drivers are the danger, IMHO.
Actually, now that I think about it, there's no reason that there has to be any logical or rational connection between the question and answer, just as long as you remember what it is. I mean, is anybody at your bank going to complain if your answer to the question, "What city did you grow up in?" is, "Judy Garland," and if so, why?
Dang. Busted.
This is one of my fave tricks. I have a standard set of answers to match those questions, and as you indicated, they have NOTHING to do with the question. Simple, basic, and with multiple possible answers per question, I just try the first, then second if the first doesn't work, etc....
Ultimately it's bullshit, any chemistry student, knows not to randomly mix chemicals. And a retired chem prof definitely knows not to. More likely than not, it's less dangerous allowing him to have and use them than it is the general public.
Agreed. My dad could probably, as a knowledgable ham operator, cause all sorts of havok across a wide band of radio with great detriment to emergency services, airports, etc...
But he doesn't. Now retired, he's got the time to experiment with whatever ideas come up, responsibly. He's approaching 65, mentally active, and recently affirmed he'll never stop learning. Similarly, ol' Vic Deeb could research all kinds of ideas, maybe even finding something new and wonderful for our benefit.
I'm getting pretty annoyed with the government taking away our most entertaining/educational toys just because they're afraid we'll poke our eye out.
Depends on how you mean that. According to this section of the Half-Life article, Sierra made one, said they were going to release it, and then never did....
Makes you wonder if it's just sitting in a vault somewhere....
If I really felt the need to morally justify it, I could claim that it's better for them to get hit once with a low-value transaction rather than get really screwed on a big-ticket purchase in hopes that they'd learn and pay more attention/think things through, but honestly I'd feel a lot dirtier thinking about it that way.
If, when thinking about it, you find your moral justification makes you feel "dirtier", you might want to ask yourself if it's "moral" to begin with.
Kinda strikes me like that Oral Roberts "I'll die before the end of the month if you don't send me money!" scam. Whether Grandma sent $1 or $1000, it was still {IMHO} immoral.
Media is designed to have a certain life cycle, after a certain time, you should repurchase it.
You can say the same of ANY physical product. They all break down in one way or another. If you need new tires, do you purchase a new car?
Think of media as something consumable. you have a certain number of "views", and then it essentially degrades, and you should either discard it, or repurchase it if it is worth it to the consumer.
While the RIAA/MPAA would LOVE us to think of our media this way, it's a crock. Would you accept your car only taking a certain number of trips before you're forced to buy a new one?
This ensures everyone is fairly compensated.
Mighty interesting take on the meaning of "fair"....
Believe it or not people actually want to know what's good and what's not.
...and I'm still waiting for the critic whose musical/movie tastes match mine. If you can find a national critic that liked "Howard the Duck" and Weird Al's "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead" then we'll talk.
Personally, I find new music from my musician friends, not from online/Meatspace reviews.
I suspect that you would be better off if they all took a 5-year vacation.
A thought came to mind: What if on even-numbered years, Congress met to make new laws, and on odd-, they each have to personally review and rescind at at least some the crap they passed the prior session?
I would recommend that you recognize that the data you are looking for is not available from any benchmark suite that is trustworthy, and accept that you will remain ignorant of the truth of the matter regardless of if you use benchmarking software or not.
Y'know, "I have no earthly idea" would've been easier to type...;)
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Maybe it's the grainy movie, but as a lip-reader, it caught my eye... that, and many face "wrinkles" that usually appear when smiling, frowning, or even raising your eyebrows seems to be missing as well...
But in a small wal-mart in northern wisconsin they have signs stating that there is to be NO overnight RV camping... I wonder why that would be?
If you remember what cousin Bubba Joe did at the wedding, you'd not want his RV within 5 miles of you, either...
my finger is that small, you insensitive clod! -- the "mythical" girl on Slashdot
How d'ya get anything done with one-inch fingers?!?
The term is called ambulance chasing.
...and if I'm not a lawyer/doctor hawking my services to accident victims, then no, it's not...
In Texas, "ambulance chasing" seems to be limited to "lawyers and chiropractors"...
Speed kills, plain and simple. Taken to the extreme, if everyone slowed to 0 MPH, there would be no accidents. As speed increases, the rate of accidents do go up in proportion to speed.
I'll have to disagree here after having watched traffic on the Autobahn.
Inattentive, road-rule-ignorant drivers are the danger, IMHO.
Actually, now that I think about it, there's no reason that there has to be any logical or rational connection between the question and answer, just as long as you remember what it is. I mean, is anybody at your bank going to complain if your answer to the question, "What city did you grow up in?" is, "Judy Garland," and if so, why?
Dang. Busted.
This is one of my fave tricks. I have a standard set of answers to match those questions, and as you indicated, they have NOTHING to do with the question. Simple, basic, and with multiple possible answers per question, I just try the first, then second if the first doesn't work, etc....
They tried a mass of politician neurons first, but the robot kept speeding directly for the wall.
...and tried to shag the wall once it reached it...
I'd like some clarification, please... You said:
This is incorrect. Russia actually only attacked in South Osetia.
but two sentences later, you said:
Russia probably contributed air support but likely no troops.
I'd consider "air support" to mean attacking, unless you meant support operations like C3....
Which did you mean?
Ultimately it's bullshit, any chemistry student, knows not to randomly mix chemicals. And a retired chem prof definitely knows not to. More likely than not, it's less dangerous allowing him to have and use them than it is the general public.
Agreed. My dad could probably, as a knowledgable ham operator, cause all sorts of havok across a wide band of radio with great detriment to emergency services, airports, etc...
But he doesn't. Now retired, he's got the time to experiment with whatever ideas come up, responsibly. He's approaching 65, mentally active, and recently affirmed he'll never stop learning. Similarly, ol' Vic Deeb could research all kinds of ideas, maybe even finding something new and wonderful for our benefit.
I'm getting pretty annoyed with the government taking away our most entertaining/educational toys just because they're afraid we'll poke our eye out.
Was the immorality in the lie, in taking advantage of people that may not be bright enough to tell it's a lie, or both?
As for the lie in the "IAR" app? Had it been available longer, I can guarantee that someone that isn't rich would've gotten their mitts on it...
No, a Syndicate is an enterprise democratically managed by its workers.
That's actually one of many ways the word syndicate is used...not the only one.
For example, I'm fairly sure that a crime syndicate is NOT democratically managed...
What's Cherenkov radiation?
I'll take "another way to spell Cerenkov radiation" for $200, Alex..
There is no Half Life for Mac.
Depends on how you mean that. According to this section of the Half-Life article, Sierra made one, said they were going to release it, and then never did....
Makes you wonder if it's just sitting in a vault somewhere....
If I really felt the need to morally justify it, I could claim that it's better for them to get hit once with a low-value transaction rather than get really screwed on a big-ticket purchase in hopes that they'd learn and pay more attention/think things through, but honestly I'd feel a lot dirtier thinking about it that way.
If, when thinking about it, you find your moral justification makes you feel "dirtier", you might want to ask yourself if it's "moral" to begin with.
Kinda strikes me like that Oral Roberts "I'll die before the end of the month if you don't send me money!" scam. Whether Grandma sent $1 or $1000, it was still {IMHO} immoral.
...but not physical make-up like melanin content and genital location.
You mean you can have genitals in other locations than the norm? I just thought people were kidding when they called their boss a dick-head.
If apple allowed just anyone to write anything for their systems they would take a big hit in that sphere of their product offering.
All good and well, but answer this:
With the above in mind, why did they allow this product to be sold to begin with?
As my 750 up-hour (last reboot was by choice)
...and then there's the other end of the spectrum...
Thanks a lot for cluing them in...
Actually, t'were Dana Carvey who first mentioned it... while channeling Ross Perot:
"You can't pee into a coffee filter and get Folgers crytals. It just doesn't work that way."
Unfortunately, NASA ran into some copyright / prior art issues with Frank Herbert's estate and they had to resort to drinking reprocessed pee.
Wouldn't that last run afoul of a certain Kevin Costner property as well?
Yes, I think we can all agree that your jokes were pretty tasteless.
The odds that anyone would find that funny are gastronomical...
I don't understand why people have this fixation with long-term ownership of media.
...and just how long is the copyright period again?
When a disc begins skipping, or scratching, it is time to replace it.
You want to live in a "disposable" society, fine. For the rest of us, pardon if we try to fix something before getting rid of it outright.
Downloading the song/movie/etc is not appropriate, you must re-purchase the media.
Listening to Sony's lawyers again, are we?
Media is designed to have a certain life cycle, after a certain time, you should repurchase it.
You can say the same of ANY physical product. They all break down in one way or another. If you need new tires, do you purchase a new car?
Think of media as something consumable. you have a certain number of "views", and then it essentially degrades, and you should either discard it, or repurchase it if it is worth it to the consumer.
While the RIAA/MPAA would LOVE us to think of our media this way, it's a crock. Would you accept your car only taking a certain number of trips before you're forced to buy a new one?
This ensures everyone is fairly compensated.
Mighty interesting take on the meaning of "fair"....
Believe it or not people actually want to know what's good and what's not.
...and I'm still waiting for the critic whose musical/movie tastes match mine. If you can find a national critic that liked "Howard the Duck" and Weird Al's "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead" then we'll talk.
Personally, I find new music from my musician friends, not from online/Meatspace reviews.
...and that's fitting enough inspiration to continue to inspire?
Darn skippy it is. It'll inspire 'em to make a rocket that doesn't explode. Make sense?
I suspect that you would be better off if they all took a 5-year vacation.
A thought came to mind: What if on even-numbered years, Congress met to make new laws, and on odd-, they each have to personally review and rescind at at least some the crap they passed the prior session?
Anyone?
I would recommend that you recognize that the data you are looking for is not available from any benchmark suite that is trustworthy, and accept that you will remain ignorant of the truth of the matter regardless of if you use benchmarking software or not.
Y'know, "I have no earthly idea" would've been easier to type... ;)
...and I'll take the red pill, thanks!