A nation that tries to deal with its social problems completely before tackling expansion and technological progress will be destroyed by the nations that don't.
Thanks for the idea. I'm going to go look right now to see if there is a fund set up for donations to keep Arecibo open, and if there is, I'll check my bank balance to see if a donation is in the budget.
Meanwhile, you just keep whining about "the scientists" and how awful it is that a fraction of a percent of your tax money is used to fund research.
Of course, this means that if there ever is an asteroid headed our way, and we have a spaceship ready to evacuate us, you don't get a seat. You can just sit there with your slightly lower taxes and wait to become a crater.
Personally, for the true nostalgia experience, I'd like to hear a recording of Physical Graffiti that makes it sound as close as possible to the tape deck in a 1979 Camaro. Then I'd feel right at home.
I was an English major, so there wasn't much cause for me to learn how to use a slide rule. I do, however, still have and use the English department's equivalent: a paperback Roget's Thesaurus.
I think my dad has a slide rule somewhere still. Hell, knowing him, he probably still uses it.
Oh, no! I have a four-year-old iPod and a two-year-old Mac Mini! I no longer fit the stereotype! I'd better go throw some money away right away, so people know how to pigeonhole me.
I actually WANT the police to overreact in cases like this in order to keep me safer.
I don't. I want them to react, but not overreact. Which, in this case, is what it sounds like they did.
There are a lot of things that sound funny in your pot-smoke-filled dorm room that arent't so funny in real life, and this is one of them, but I do believe that the appropriate punishment for it is "a good scare," which she has gotten already.
Unfortuately, the way things are now, this girl will probably be banned from flying, placed on a watch-list somewhere, and never live down this one dumb college stunt, and that is an overreaction.
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Thanks for the idea. I'm going to go look right now to see if there is a fund set up for donations to keep Arecibo open, and if there is, I'll check my bank balance to see if a donation is in the budget.
Meanwhile, you just keep whining about "the scientists" and how awful it is that a fraction of a percent of your tax money is used to fund research.
Of course, this means that if there ever is an asteroid headed our way, and we have a spaceship ready to evacuate us, you don't get a seat. You can just sit there with your slightly lower taxes and wait to become a crater.
Absolutely. They're concerned with feng shui while the house is burning down.
I know who Tesla was. "Modern Day Cowboy" was an awesome song.
Cool, thanks! I've been looking for a new desktop background.
Tell them no thanks; I've read their pamphlets and I wasn't impressed.
Yet another reason to watch Firefly .
Well, he asked for the phone number of the girl holding the Uzi, but she turned him down.
I love point-and-click adventure games, but that one drove me nuts. Solve a puzzle, watch a ten minute movie. Repeat ad infinitum.
Actually, I heard it was going to be about Jar-Jar solving murders. In a little gray trench coat.
"Meesa just want to know one more ting..."
gloriaestefan.mp3?
One-two-three-four, come on baby check your email, five-six-seven times...
I was thinking more like a period of indentured servitude. You pretend to be me and get caught, then I OWN you. Literally.
Personally, for the true nostalgia experience, I'd like to hear a recording of Physical Graffiti that makes it sound as close as possible to the tape deck in a 1979 Camaro. Then I'd feel right at home.
Nah, it only gets a T rating.
I mean, that's only enough power to run 4, maybe 8 DeLoreans.
...it's still Radiohead.
"This food is terrible." "Yeah, but the portions are HUGE!"
You can't.
You can, however, accumulate, add, aggrandize, aggregate, augment, beef up, boost, breed, build up, compound, cube, double, enlarge, expand, extend, generate, heighten, increase, magnify, manifold, mount, populate, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, raise, repeat, rise, spread, and square with it.
I was an English major, so there wasn't much cause for me to learn how to use a slide rule. I do, however, still have and use the English department's equivalent: a paperback Roget's Thesaurus.
I think my dad has a slide rule somewhere still. Hell, knowing him, he probably still uses it.
Good grief, enough with Greg Stillson already!
Oops. I mean Ron Paul. I always do that.
Oh, no! I have a four-year-old iPod and a two-year-old Mac Mini! I no longer fit the stereotype! I'd better go throw some money away right away, so people know how to pigeonhole me.
Or, just keep using a perfectly good computer as-is, instead of "upgrading" just because something new came out.
I don't. I want them to react, but not overreact. Which, in this case, is what it sounds like they did.
There are a lot of things that sound funny in your pot-smoke-filled dorm room that arent't so funny in real life, and this is one of them, but I do believe that the appropriate punishment for it is "a good scare," which she has gotten already.
Unfortuately, the way things are now, this girl will probably be banned from flying, placed on a watch-list somewhere, and never live down this one dumb college stunt, and that is an overreaction.
Do you really think Transformers sheets would have helped you to get a girl to stay over?
And here's a list to get you started.
Actually, it made me think of the Cruciatus Curse from the Harry Potter books. Unforgivable in that world, as well as in this one.