Using every day objects and the sort is pretty commonplace on the battlefield. Back during the Napoleanic war soldiers used to piss down the barrels of their guns to clean them out. In World war I, allied soldiers brought bathtubs with them into the trenches, and would launch them with catapults into the enemy trenches. The Germans and Turks had developed completely different bathtubs at the time, and were terrified of the Allied tubs. This always led to a horrendous panic in the German trenches, which would almost always be followed by a push across no mans land by the allies. It's said that the Dardanelles could have been taken, had Churchill been provided with adequate bathtubs. During World War II allied soldiers brought white makeup along with them so if they ever got caught they'd paint themselves up like mimes. When the Germans tried to question them and saw the white makeup they just let them go, knowing that there'd be absolutely no way they could get a mime to talk. Then during the Korean war soldiers made good use of old coffee grounds. Since the North Koreans knew soldiers always drank a lot of coffee, if they found old coffee grounds they assumed there was a base near by and retreat. In the first Iraq war American soldiers used to bring soccer balls along with them. At the outbreak of the war almost all of Iraq's soccer balls were destroyed in a freak smoke stack toppeling. When ever the Americans got in a serious fire fight, they'd just lob their soccer ball into the frey and all the enemy soldiers would just stop and try to get it, which usually ended quite badly for the enemy. Unfortunatley Iraq was able to build up a tremendous stock pile of soccer balls since the first war, so the strategy doesn't work any more.
It's quite remarkible how such common things can prove to be so useful. I think it's overall a great testimant to human ingenuity in time of war.
These glasses would be quite useful for sky divers, they could see their altitude and current speed in their glasses as opposed to asking a mathematician after they land. Every time I've been sky diving the mathematician in the booth at the landing site charged nearly $100 just to tell me how fast I was going. Then once I brought along a calculator and started calculating my velocity right there. Then the mathematician got really pissed off and tried to take the calculator away from me. Then the other sky divers grabbed him and wrapped him up in a chute and rolled him into a near by river. I did all the calculations for the other sky divers for free.
The trouble was after that the mathematician went and told the National Mathematicians Union about what I did. So the Union went to the Sky Divers Collective and told them if they kept up this 'bastard math' as they called it, they'd completely blacklist the entire skydiving community. This was a tough call on the part of the Collective, since they had something of a symbiotic relationship with the Mathematicians Union. Instead of trying to call the Union's bluff the Sky Divers Collective just blacklisted ME from ever sky diving again. I think that was a real kick in the teeth, since the conditions of the blacklist meant I wasn't even allowed to use a chute to save my own life.
These computer monitor glasses would be a well deserved kick in the teeth for the National Mathematicians Union which I think has gotten a little too big for its britches. I imagine they'll probably be the biggest opponants of the computer glasses.
You know this makes perfect sense. Every year I give money to UNICEF and every year it's the same bloody thing. People over in the third world are still starving. All this time I've been asking what the hell have they been doing with all that money they get.. And now I understand.. The starving people in the third world just can't take it out of their bank accounts.
What we need is some kind of text based indicator that shows somebody's being sarcastic. That'd ruin China's attempts at any sort of censorship. Say there's an article about China's wonderful human rights record. There could be a little;-) at the end of it so when you get to the end you go 'Ohhh! They were being sarcastic. Bloody Chinese government and their clearly horrible human rights record, I'm changing my vote!'
Beating China's oppressive regime is pretty easy when you think about it;-)
I imagine you would be able to figure out your rating pretty quick if you went to check into your flight, and the person behind the counter said 'Oh I'm sorry, but you've been banned from this flight. You're viewed as a potential threat'. Then you'd say 'WHAT?! What the hell did I ever do?!' then they'd say 'We're not allowed to disclose that information, though from the looks of it, it might have had something to do with the chicken'.
I have a lot of trouble believing these findings. It's well known that the ancient Egyptians were a very 'slow on the uptake' sort of people. This is reasonably apparent with their crazy style of writing. The Egyptians had some notion that rhyming appeased the gods or something to that effect. So naturally all their writings rhymed. Take this classic example: 'Man with a snake, boat on a lake. Bird in the sky, weird curly eye'. If you could say the Egyptians contributed ANYTHING to modern society that would have to be rhyming. Before the Egyptians came along no society had developed an actual working rhyming system. The ancient Greeks came closest. Homer's Odyssey was the closest the Greeks ever came to an actual rhyming system, though, in its native Latin the Odyssey will cause a sane man to go mad.
One might wonder what this has to do with the ancient Egyptians capacity to mix concrete. Well it has a LOT to do with it. You have to remember the ancient Egyptians were very keen on rhyming. The entire mummification process rhymed, as well as all the names of all the pharaohs. So it's only logical that all their building materials should rhyme as well. Concrete doesn't rhyme with anything. Therefore the ancient Egyptians didn't use it.
This if you will, is the cornerstone of Egyptology.
That last minute heavy lobbying is the worst kind. I was over in Ottawa and the lobbyists were doing their heavy lobbying. It's almost like watching a plague of locusts consume a corn field except in this case it's a huge swarm of businessmen cramming money wherever it fits. About 30 people were killed due to what doctors described as 'obtuse consumption'. I tell you, there's something really off putting about seeing a dead homeless man with hundred dollar bills crammed down his throat.
High technology is superficially attractive when you sort of think about it... I mean a fridge that tells me recipies! Wow! And my toaster keeps me up to date on the traffic conditions! WOOOW! And my mirror will help me pick out an outfit! WWOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!! But then when you REALLY think about it, it's not even useful. I don't know about anybody else but my daily gettin' goin' routine is pretty simple to begin with. The TV gives me the news, the fridge holds my food, and I choose an outfit based on what's actually clean at the monent. How in the hell is a computer going to streamline an already extremely basic routine? It seems to me it's just technology for the sake of technology. A voice activated oven is pretty useless. If you're gonna be hoisting a 30 pound turkey into an oven it doesn't seem too far fetched to activate it manually.
The only practicality I can see to this junk is for the disabled. Or rich toffs who need to brag to their friends about how their house nearly burned down because they watched a porno movie within earshot of their computerised grease fryer.
Before the Mao Tse Tung drafted China's charter of rights back in 1947 he sealed a message in a box an buried it in his back yard. Few people know that box contained a message to the future asking if there was anything they should include in the charter just to be on the safe side. What wound up happening was an adventure the likes of which Mao had never exected. With the help of a robot and the science team that built that robot Mao travelled across time, and some of the universe to ban everything he found objecionable in the charter of rights.
When you look at it that way getting a life sentence for hostng a porn site doesn't seem so ludicrous.
They probably accidently hired a monkey, and due to the beaurocracy within the company they haven't been able to fire it. It just keeps getting transferred.
The same thing happened with Ford, except in their case they accidently hired seven polar bears. They were responsible for the Pinto fiasco.
Child porn is terrible no matter how you look at it. Would you be comfortable knowing there are pornographic pictures of your child on the internet? I'd say.. 99.9% of everybody would very much like to see anybody posting/looking at that crap to be fed through a wood chipper. The government is already cracking down on these sites, but if they went the next step and just outright banned them all it wouldn't harm anybody.
I'm not trying to be a troll here. It seems to me poeple get upset if anything on the internet gets censored, they somehow think that once one thing gets censored it's only a matter of time before everything else gets censored.
C'mon people, there's no such thing as real freedom.
It seems to me these days that people on Slashdot get up in arms if ANYBODY ever considers trying to 'censor' the internet. IT'S CHILD PORNOGRAPHY! IT NEEDS TO BE BANNED! I'd prefer it if the government took steps to go after those people. Perhaps you should be more concerned if the government starts banning things like regular wholesome porn. If that starts happening you could write an article on THAT.
These little 'moments' you keep having about your rights on the internet are really getting old. Rest assured some child pornographer will be smiling when he reads about your indignation.
Jesus never said anything about people accepting him to avoid hell. There's actually a passage in the bible that says folks who chose the 'wrong' religion but still led a good life will still be accepted into the kingdom of heaven.
The religious nuts tend to avoid anything that might involve inclusiveness or helping their fellow people regardless of their differences. It doesn't jive with Jesus' actual message of chasing people with sticks.
The trouble is, scientists aren't artists. They generally don't follow any sort of asthetic principles when developing robots. Take the mighty steam shovel for example. Few people know that it was intended to be the most human like robot ever built, however the 'Nanny bot 1.0' proved to be terrible at changing diapers and doing anything that didn't involve crushing people to death and using its giant arm to bury the evidance. Later on its robotic brain was removed and it was remarketed as a novelty arm wrestling device. It wasn't until two years ago that the patent was bought out by the CAT corperation and it was put to use as a hydrolic digging machine. It's an unusual success story overall but it's a good example of how scientists are almost pre-disposed to be terrible at making robots humanlike.
I have my doubts about any claims they're making right now.
I was thinking of the ancient Egyptians, they're gaining a foothold in the american mid-west. They wouldn't be too pleased to find out they've been throwing an important vital organ in the garbage all these years.
It is 'recon' I was trying to make a joke.. Apparently references to Loradidine are dead.
I recon this is probably going to throw the ol' religious community for a loop. I don't think there's anything in the bible about neuroscience, or proteins that fire when you remember things.
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Using every day objects and the sort is pretty commonplace on the battlefield. Back during the Napoleanic war soldiers used to piss down the barrels of their guns to clean them out. In World war I, allied soldiers brought bathtubs with them into the trenches, and would launch them with catapults into the enemy trenches. The Germans and Turks had developed completely different bathtubs at the time, and were terrified of the Allied tubs. This always led to a horrendous panic in the German trenches, which would almost always be followed by a push across no mans land by the allies. It's said that the Dardanelles could have been taken, had Churchill been provided with adequate bathtubs. During World War II allied soldiers brought white makeup along with them so if they ever got caught they'd paint themselves up like mimes. When the Germans tried to question them and saw the white makeup they just let them go, knowing that there'd be absolutely no way they could get a mime to talk. Then during the Korean war soldiers made good use of old coffee grounds. Since the North Koreans knew soldiers always drank a lot of coffee, if they found old coffee grounds they assumed there was a base near by and retreat. In the first Iraq war American soldiers used to bring soccer balls along with them. At the outbreak of the war almost all of Iraq's soccer balls were destroyed in a freak smoke stack toppeling. When ever the Americans got in a serious fire fight, they'd just lob their soccer ball into the frey and all the enemy soldiers would just stop and try to get it, which usually ended quite badly for the enemy. Unfortunatley Iraq was able to build up a tremendous stock pile of soccer balls since the first war, so the strategy doesn't work any more.
It's quite remarkible how such common things can prove to be so useful. I think it's overall a great testimant to human ingenuity in time of war.
These glasses would be quite useful for sky divers, they could see their altitude and current speed in their glasses as opposed to asking a mathematician after they land. Every time I've been sky diving the mathematician in the booth at the landing site charged nearly $100 just to tell me how fast I was going. Then once I brought along a calculator and started calculating my velocity right there. Then the mathematician got really pissed off and tried to take the calculator away from me. Then the other sky divers grabbed him and wrapped him up in a chute and rolled him into a near by river. I did all the calculations for the other sky divers for free.
The trouble was after that the mathematician went and told the National Mathematicians Union about what I did. So the Union went to the Sky Divers Collective and told them if they kept up this 'bastard math' as they called it, they'd completely blacklist the entire skydiving community. This was a tough call on the part of the Collective, since they had something of a symbiotic relationship with the Mathematicians Union. Instead of trying to call the Union's bluff the Sky Divers Collective just blacklisted ME from ever sky diving again. I think that was a real kick in the teeth, since the conditions of the blacklist meant I wasn't even allowed to use a chute to save my own life.
These computer monitor glasses would be a well deserved kick in the teeth for the National Mathematicians Union which I think has gotten a little too big for its britches. I imagine they'll probably be the biggest opponants of the computer glasses.
You know this makes perfect sense. Every year I give money to UNICEF and every year it's the same bloody thing. People over in the third world are still starving. All this time I've been asking what the hell have they been doing with all that money they get.. And now I understand.. The starving people in the third world just can't take it out of their bank accounts.
What we need is some kind of text based indicator that shows somebody's being sarcastic. That'd ruin China's attempts at any sort of censorship. Say there's an article about China's wonderful human rights record. There could be a little ;-) at the end of it so when you get to the end you go 'Ohhh! They were being sarcastic. Bloody Chinese government and their clearly horrible human rights record, I'm changing my vote!'
;-)
Beating China's oppressive regime is pretty easy when you think about it
That's the internet for you.
I imagine you would be able to figure out your rating pretty quick if you went to check into your flight, and the person behind the counter said 'Oh I'm sorry, but you've been banned from this flight. You're viewed as a potential threat'. Then you'd say 'WHAT?! What the hell did I ever do?!' then they'd say 'We're not allowed to disclose that information, though from the looks of it, it might have had something to do with the chicken'.
I have a lot of trouble believing these findings. It's well known that the ancient Egyptians were a very 'slow on the uptake' sort of people. This is reasonably apparent with their crazy style of writing. The Egyptians had some notion that rhyming appeased the gods or something to that effect. So naturally all their writings rhymed. Take this classic example: 'Man with a snake, boat on a lake. Bird in the sky, weird curly eye'. If you could say the Egyptians contributed ANYTHING to modern society that would have to be rhyming. Before the Egyptians came along no society had developed an actual working rhyming system. The ancient Greeks came closest. Homer's Odyssey was the closest the Greeks ever came to an actual rhyming system, though, in its native Latin the Odyssey will cause a sane man to go mad.
One might wonder what this has to do with the ancient Egyptians capacity to mix concrete. Well it has a LOT to do with it. You have to remember the ancient Egyptians were very keen on rhyming. The entire mummification process rhymed, as well as all the names of all the pharaohs. So it's only logical that all their building materials should rhyme as well. Concrete doesn't rhyme with anything. Therefore the ancient Egyptians didn't use it.
This if you will, is the cornerstone of Egyptology.
That last minute heavy lobbying is the worst kind. I was over in Ottawa and the lobbyists were doing their heavy lobbying. It's almost like watching a plague of locusts consume a corn field except in this case it's a huge swarm of businessmen cramming money wherever it fits. About 30 people were killed due to what doctors described as 'obtuse consumption'. I tell you, there's something really off putting about seeing a dead homeless man with hundred dollar bills crammed down his throat.
High technology is superficially attractive when you sort of think about it... I mean a fridge that tells me recipies! Wow! And my toaster keeps me up to date on the traffic conditions! WOOOW! And my mirror will help me pick out an outfit! WWOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!! But then when you REALLY think about it, it's not even useful. I don't know about anybody else but my daily gettin' goin' routine is pretty simple to begin with. The TV gives me the news, the fridge holds my food, and I choose an outfit based on what's actually clean at the monent. How in the hell is a computer going to streamline an already extremely basic routine? It seems to me it's just technology for the sake of technology. A voice activated oven is pretty useless. If you're gonna be hoisting a 30 pound turkey into an oven it doesn't seem too far fetched to activate it manually.
The only practicality I can see to this junk is for the disabled. Or rich toffs who need to brag to their friends about how their house nearly burned down because they watched a porno movie within earshot of their computerised grease fryer.
Before the Mao Tse Tung drafted China's charter of rights back in 1947 he sealed a message in a box an buried it in his back yard. Few people know that box contained a message to the future asking if there was anything they should include in the charter just to be on the safe side. What wound up happening was an adventure the likes of which Mao had never exected. With the help of a robot and the science team that built that robot Mao travelled across time, and some of the universe to ban everything he found objecionable in the charter of rights.
When you look at it that way getting a life sentence for hostng a porn site doesn't seem so ludicrous.
Wifi is harmful. I'm jacking my neighbors line right now. I imagine if he finds out he'll bash my head in with a wrench... There's your brain damage.
They probably accidently hired a monkey, and due to the beaurocracy within the company they haven't been able to fire it. It just keeps getting transferred.
The same thing happened with Ford, except in their case they accidently hired seven polar bears. They were responsible for the Pinto fiasco.
Child porn is terrible no matter how you look at it. Would you be comfortable knowing there are pornographic pictures of your child on the internet? I'd say.. 99.9% of everybody would very much like to see anybody posting/looking at that crap to be fed through a wood chipper. The government is already cracking down on these sites, but if they went the next step and just outright banned them all it wouldn't harm anybody.
I'm not trying to be a troll here. It seems to me poeple get upset if anything on the internet gets censored, they somehow think that once one thing gets censored it's only a matter of time before everything else gets censored.
C'mon people, there's no such thing as real freedom.
It seems to me these days that people on Slashdot get up in arms if ANYBODY ever considers trying to 'censor' the internet. IT'S CHILD PORNOGRAPHY! IT NEEDS TO BE BANNED! I'd prefer it if the government took steps to go after those people. Perhaps you should be more concerned if the government starts banning things like regular wholesome porn. If that starts happening you could write an article on THAT.
These little 'moments' you keep having about your rights on the internet are really getting old. Rest assured some child pornographer will be smiling when he reads about your indignation.
Jesus never said anything about people accepting him to avoid hell. There's actually a passage in the bible that says folks who chose the 'wrong' religion but still led a good life will still be accepted into the kingdom of heaven.
The religious nuts tend to avoid anything that might involve inclusiveness or helping their fellow people regardless of their differences. It doesn't jive with Jesus' actual message of chasing people with sticks.
The trouble is, scientists aren't artists. They generally don't follow any sort of asthetic principles when developing robots. Take the mighty steam shovel for example. Few people know that it was intended to be the most human like robot ever built, however the 'Nanny bot 1.0' proved to be terrible at changing diapers and doing anything that didn't involve crushing people to death and using its giant arm to bury the evidance. Later on its robotic brain was removed and it was remarketed as a novelty arm wrestling device. It wasn't until two years ago that the patent was bought out by the CAT corperation and it was put to use as a hydrolic digging machine.
It's an unusual success story overall but it's a good example of how scientists are almost pre-disposed to be terrible at making robots humanlike.
I have my doubts about any claims they're making right now.
I was thinking of the ancient Egyptians, they're gaining a foothold in the american mid-west. They wouldn't be too pleased to find out they've been throwing an important vital organ in the garbage all these years.
It is 'recon' I was trying to make a joke.. Apparently references to Loradidine are dead.
I recon this is probably going to throw the ol' religious community for a loop. I don't think there's anything in the bible about neuroscience, or proteins that fire when you remember things.
It really makes you think.