You eat pizza without oregano as well? I hate it when those small leaves stick in between your teeth.
Pubes are part of the experience. Gross, well perhaps, but still part of it.
By that not saying I prefer women who not shave, just that both flavours have their function.
And the last few Star Wars movies were utter crap, so he made the right choice:)
Touché... any responses I could have made to the diffrent flavours of Ford became moot and died with this.
I humbly admit defeat.
That's pretty amusing considering the similarity between the two characters. That's like saying "I like Vanilla Ice Cream with chopped up chocclate flakes in it but not Stracchiatella Ice Cream. (essentially vanilla ice cream with choccolate sprinkles should your Ice Cream market differ from mine)"
but added to the fact that it doesn't have 3G (which all of it's competitors at this price-point does have) this becomes a no-show for me at least.
I've been thinking about that, and realized that anywhere where the 3G coverage is decent enough to give me any functionality I will be close to a WiFi spot anyways. At least here in Sweden. The 3G modem for my laptop is truly a joke since I can only use it in my home in central Stockholm and as soon as I go to my mothers summer cottage or my inlaws house in the countryside I'm relegated to GPRS anyway. And this in a country that prides itself about it's quick adaptation to cellular networks and almost have more cell phones than inhabitants.
3G is neat on paper but actually not a selling point for me.
Sadly this is not a case of "whatever works best" though I see that debate is currently going on in this thread, Personally I think whatever goes best is a matter of personal flavour, but it's a matter of what system will be used by the majority of players involved.
Since the moon project most likely will involve more countries than USA, Thailand, Myanmar and Liberia it kind of defaults to Metric regardless of the wishes of the US populace. Especially since the involved NASA scientists seem willing to to the transition.
This will eventually be more and more true, due to the growing need for transglobal involvment into the space venture. If we are ever going to get to Mars or beyond we can't have terriorial pissing or "space races" it will need to be a unified effort due to the sheer magnitude of the undertaking.
Besides, I defy to prove that your american made tractor would have been a lesser tractor if it had been made using metrics instead of "imperial" measurements. The quality of the recources, workmanship and materials involved are not derived from the measurments after all.
You could of course choose to see this as me admitting your point, but actually I'm not. Or rather both our points stem from the same basic fact, only I try to apply a more practical (global) approach to it while you're stuck in a US centric thinking that eventually will prove a failure. The world won't change to accomodate US needs, so the US will sooner or later have to adapt it's needs to what the worlds will offer or withdraw to isolation. (And I think history proves quite well that isolation wasn't the best strategy to cope with a changeing world... though Myanmar might disagree with me.)
And if the americans land on the moon by themselves using only american made components and a system programmed entirely by americans to suit american needs you will be proven right.
As soon as ESA gets involved you will look silly.
(I think you get beat up if you ask for 568mL of beer in a bar)
In sweden we solved that by ordering a generic large Lager which, depending on the pub, will vary from.25 litres to.45 litres and will cost anywhere in between 20 Crowns and 55 Crowns. The level of watering down is a science unto itself and will not be touched upon in this post except to say that the bars with the cheapest beer usually have the smallest and most likely less beerlike beers.
I buy my beer in bottles. (Which often is more expensive regardless of the size of the bottle but you won't get quite as ripped off)
People are usually to quick to bash organized religion. While I do oppose organizing as a general principle it's not the organization of religion that's harmful. There are some pretty good organized religions out there.
It's the institutionalization of religion that is the big threat.
God on his own didnt hurt many (if you weren't egyptian or lived in Sodom and Gomorrah, but bear with me on this) untill he got taken from the people and put in the hands of the clergy.
True, there are good priests just as well as there are good religions, but on the whole clergy has proven through history to be nothing more than a bunch of hippocrites growing fat of saying "God loves me more than he loves you, so if you want to catch mammoths, or don't want your crops to fail, or don't want to be burned at the stake for witchcraft you'd better give me (oh, sorry give "God") a cut and let me fondle your virgin daughter for God as well."
I e nothing more really than a bunch of thugs running a celestial protection racket.
It is in this great historical tradition that the right wing christians prosper.
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Are we by the way expecting physical media to be a big part of the way Porn is distributed for very long?
You eat pizza without oregano as well? I hate it when those small leaves stick in between your teeth.
Pubes are part of the experience. Gross, well perhaps, but still part of it.
By that not saying I prefer women who not shave, just that both flavours have their function.
And the last few Star Wars movies were utter crap, so he made the right choice :)
Touché... any responses I could have made to the diffrent flavours of Ford became moot and died with this. I humbly admit defeat.
That's pretty amusing considering the similarity between the two characters. That's like saying "I like Vanilla Ice Cream with chopped up chocclate flakes in it but not Stracchiatella Ice Cream. (essentially vanilla ice cream with choccolate sprinkles should your Ice Cream market differ from mine)"
but added to the fact that it doesn't have 3G (which all of it's competitors at this price-point does have) this becomes a no-show for me at least.
I've been thinking about that, and realized that anywhere where the 3G coverage is decent enough to give me any functionality I will be close to a WiFi spot anyways. At least here in Sweden. The 3G modem for my laptop is truly a joke since I can only use it in my home in central Stockholm and as soon as I go to my mothers summer cottage or my inlaws house in the countryside I'm relegated to GPRS anyway. And this in a country that prides itself about it's quick adaptation to cellular networks and almost have more cell phones than inhabitants.
3G is neat on paper but actually not a selling point for me.
Sadly this is not a case of "whatever works best" though I see that debate is currently going on in this thread, Personally I think whatever goes best is a matter of personal flavour, but it's a matter of what system will be used by the majority of players involved.
Since the moon project most likely will involve more countries than USA, Thailand, Myanmar and Liberia it kind of defaults to Metric regardless of the wishes of the US populace. Especially since the involved NASA scientists seem willing to to the transition.
This will eventually be more and more true, due to the growing need for transglobal involvment into the space venture. If we are ever going to get to Mars or beyond we can't have terriorial pissing or "space races" it will need to be a unified effort due to the sheer magnitude of the undertaking.
Besides, I defy to prove that your american made tractor would have been a lesser tractor if it had been made using metrics instead of "imperial" measurements. The quality of the recources, workmanship and materials involved are not derived from the measurments after all.
You could of course choose to see this as me admitting your point, but actually I'm not. Or rather both our points stem from the same basic fact, only I try to apply a more practical (global) approach to it while you're stuck in a US centric thinking that eventually will prove a failure. The world won't change to accomodate US needs, so the US will sooner or later have to adapt it's needs to what the worlds will offer or withdraw to isolation. (And I think history proves quite well that isolation wasn't the best strategy to cope with a changeing world... though Myanmar might disagree with me.)
And if the americans land on the moon by themselves using only american made components and a system programmed entirely by americans to suit american needs you will be proven right.
As soon as ESA gets involved you will look silly.
(I think you get beat up if you ask for 568mL of beer in a bar) In sweden we solved that by ordering a generic large Lager which, depending on the pub, will vary from .25 litres to .45 litres and will cost anywhere in between 20 Crowns and 55 Crowns. The level of watering down is a science unto itself and will not be touched upon in this post except to say that the bars with the cheapest beer usually have the smallest and most likely less beerlike beers.
I buy my beer in bottles. (Which often is more expensive regardless of the size of the bottle but you won't get quite as ripped off)
People are usually to quick to bash organized religion. While I do oppose organizing as a general principle it's not the organization of religion that's harmful. There are some pretty good organized religions out there. It's the institutionalization of religion that is the big threat. God on his own didnt hurt many (if you weren't egyptian or lived in Sodom and Gomorrah, but bear with me on this) untill he got taken from the people and put in the hands of the clergy. True, there are good priests just as well as there are good religions, but on the whole clergy has proven through history to be nothing more than a bunch of hippocrites growing fat of saying "God loves me more than he loves you, so if you want to catch mammoths, or don't want your crops to fail, or don't want to be burned at the stake for witchcraft you'd better give me (oh, sorry give "God") a cut and let me fondle your virgin daughter for God as well." I e nothing more really than a bunch of thugs running a celestial protection racket. It is in this great historical tradition that the right wing christians prosper.