I was actually thinking more along the lines of references to increase in intensity and frequency of intimate activities between the green adopter and spouse.
I believe that because it was a G rated article, references to "Spousal acceptance" would be the correct euphemism for "She's jumping my bones regularly now, and she wears articles from Victoria's Secret to bed".
Amen to that. Pleasing the spouse is certainly #1.
But there is also the posibility that he was alluding to acts reserved for more intimate activities --- with increasing frquency and variety. But given the G nature of the article, fell under "spousal acceptance".
Ray loves libraries but hates the internet... I love libraries and the internet... All we need now are someone who loves the internet and hates libraries and another who hates both libraries and the internet and we can have ourselves a fully populated 2x2 truth table.
I think she just watched the 1993 SciFi movie "Demolition Man" with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes: "Send a maniac to capture a maniac".
While I understand the gut PR logic, I fail to understand how it translates into anything but "We're thinking outside the box" political cover. I think Janet Napolitano is anxious to be seen looking open minded after the "Veterans are possible terrorists" memorandum that leaked out.
PADDY is the MPAA's twisted version of the RCA dog, NIPPER. Have an image with Paddy inquisitively staring at a huge pallet of authentic MPAA DVDs with the logo: "His Master's Profit"
This reminds me of the old OLD days of clandestinely naming the mainframe MYDICK and coming up with colorful metaphors and humorous imaginary service calls to an XX chromosome type...
I mean that since mars has an atmosphere, random debris, e.g. ice particles, small stones, etc being blown about by the wind has a far greater chance of doing damage to a spacecraft than where these conditions don't exist (the Moon). On the Moon, the ONLY (impact type) danger is from micrometeorites (which would burn up in the Martian atmosphere).
Given that the planet Earth is batting only.385 on Mars missions, the extra 2 months of data makes up for it to some extent.
Since Mars does have a thin atmosphere, a probe is likely to be under far greater danger of being hit by random flying debris than on some airless hunk of rock like the Moon where only micrometeorites pose that kind of hazard.
Why build a Large Hadron Collider --- The ultimate doomsday device?
Isn't that a rather overly elaborate way to possibly eliminate all life on earth when a huge tank full of sharks with frickin laser beams would have been so much simpler?
WHAT? I should check this out this hitech fob and miss the re-re-reruns of "The Beverley Hillbillies " and "Gilligan's Island"? No WAY! Give Me Elli Mae and Mary Ann ANYDAY!
Isn't it true that Premier Election Systems (PES) has petty internal arguments on a monthly basis because it is dominated by the same people who run the parent company, Premier Matrimonial Systems (PMS)?
When mentioning Diebold, it is always crucial to mention that they now call themselves Premier Election Systems, in an attempt to make people forget that they are "that" company...
Isn't it true that Premier Election Systems (PES) has petty internal arguments on a monthly basis because it is dominated by the same people who run the parent company, Premier Matrimonial Systems (PMS)?
When mentioning Diebold, it is always crucial to mention that they now call themselves Premier Election Systems, in an attempt to make people forget that they are "that" company...
Premier Elections Systems is a subsidiary of their failed parent company, Premier Matrimonial Systems (PMS)
I can't resist the challenge of classifying the duties of 13 wives:
Wife#1 - Head Wife , as in lead wife, the matriarch of the harem. For head wife, see #7
Wife#2 - Sports equipment maintenance: cleans balls, buffs club heads, wipes shafts, etc. For similar duties see wife #7
Wife#3 - Food servicing: food prep for friends, beer fetcher, pizza gofer, etc.
Wife#3 - Personal comfort: Fanning, AC/heat control, recliner inclination monitor, foot massage, etc.
Wife#4 - Communications: answering phone with excuses as to why husband can't answer, getting the door, etc.
Wife#5 - Media control: Monitoring location of all TV and video remote controls, summarizing viewing habits of husband and printing list of shows for him, etc.
Wife#6 - Cleaning: Washing, ironing, vacuuming, etc.
Wife#7 - Head Wife - oh yeah!
Wife#s8,9,10 - Bedtime playmates, multiple partners to alleviate boredom.
Wife#11 - Backup wife for positions 1-10
Wife#12 - Secondary (redundant) backup wife.
Wife#13 - I have no idea why he would need a 13th wife! What a self-centered A-hole!
This topic has been in the back of my mind for a while now. Some musings.
If we continue to use expert systems to design things using coded models of behavior, we need to be cautious about interpreting the output of those models. Airplane wings are wind-tunnel tested to see that they conform to the model's predictions. This is well and good. But as more complex non linear chaotic objects are modeled, one needs to be crucially aware of the model as being just a "model" not the actual object (with all it's nuances and quirky behaviors). Look at the level of detail and redundancy in the space program for a lesson in exhaustive modeling, and still resulting in tragedy and gross error (Hubble comes to mind).
I remember when the Star Wars initiative was the talk of the Friday night grogs. Most engineers (at least the software designers) thought it impossible to design a bug-free mission critical system to support it, but were happy to give it the good ole college try in any case.
Rely on tools to design robots to design machines, didn't someone write a sci-fi story about that once?
Can you imagine the female "Does He Really Love Me" market segment? Half the people on the planet. I'm serious. Can you imagine the first person that marketed shoes? Rolling in the big Fortuna now. All those aspiring brides-to-be who need to know the truth.
This reminds me of the Fred Hoyle SF classic where an intelligent cloud from interstellar space surrounds the sun and only a few scientists are able to communicate with it. They were able to use the cloud to thwart others on earth from communicating with it. Brings interesting parallels to monopolies, selfishness and greed to mind.
Stephenson's detailed descriptions are VERY vivid. His extrapolation of historical characters demeanor from actual events are insightful --- Especially General Yamamoto's final moment of global realization in his crashing airplane.
I was always curious though of how faithful Stephenson was to the actual layout (e.g. various connecting huts, interior layouts, etc)?
Anybody on/. walk through Bletchley Park and visualize the elements in Cryptonomicon?
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Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Amen to making your family #1.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of references to increase in intensity and frequency of intimate activities between the green adopter and spouse.
I believe that because it was a G rated article, references to "Spousal acceptance" would be the correct euphemism for "She's jumping my bones regularly now, and she wears articles from Victoria's Secret to bed".
"Solar power works for me..."
Amen to that. Pleasing the spouse is certainly #1.
But there is also the posibility that he was alluding to acts reserved for more intimate activities --- with increasing frquency and variety. But given the G nature of the article, fell under "spousal acceptance".
Ray loves libraries but hates the internet...
I love libraries and the internet...
All we need now are someone who loves the internet and hates libraries and another who hates both libraries and the internet and we can have ourselves a fully populated 2x2 truth table.
You are taking me far too literally.
Please enhance your calm.
I think she just watched the 1993 SciFi movie "Demolition Man" with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes:
"Send a maniac to capture a maniac".
While I understand the gut PR logic, I fail to understand how it translates into anything but "We're thinking outside the box" political cover. I think Janet Napolitano is anxious to be seen looking open minded after the "Veterans are possible terrorists" memorandum that leaked out.
Now they only need 8 kids through IVF and they can have their own TV show!
PADDY is the MPAA's twisted version of the RCA dog, NIPPER.
Have an image with Paddy inquisitively staring at a huge pallet of authentic MPAA DVDs with the logo:
"His Master's Profit"
(Chuckle)
This reminds me of the old OLD days of clandestinely naming the mainframe MYDICK and coming up with colorful metaphors and humorous imaginary service calls to an XX chromosome type...
(Sigh...)
Get your ass to Mars...
Get your ass to Mars...
Get your ass to Mars...
I see how what I said can be mis-interpreted.
I mean that since mars has an atmosphere, random debris, e.g. ice particles, small stones, etc being blown about by the wind has a far greater chance of doing damage to a spacecraft than where these conditions don't exist (the Moon). On the Moon, the ONLY (impact type) danger is from micrometeorites (which would burn up in the Martian atmosphere).
Given that the planet Earth is batting only .385 on Mars missions, the extra 2 months of data makes up for it to some extent.
Since Mars does have a thin atmosphere, a probe is likely to be under far greater danger of being hit by random flying debris than on some airless hunk of rock like the Moon where only micrometeorites pose that kind of hazard.
Bye Phoenix, you gutted it out well!
Why build a Large Hadron Collider --- The ultimate doomsday device?
Isn't that a rather overly elaborate way to possibly eliminate all life on earth when a huge tank full of sharks with frickin laser beams would have been so much simpler?
WHAT?
I should check this out this hitech fob and miss the re-re-reruns of "The Beverley Hillbillies " and "Gilligan's Island"?
No WAY!
Give Me Elli Mae and Mary Ann
ANYDAY!
Isn't it true that Premier Election Systems (PES) has petty internal arguments on a monthly basis because it is dominated by the same people who run the parent company, Premier Matrimonial Systems (PMS)?
When mentioning Diebold, it is always crucial to mention that they now call themselves Premier Election Systems, in an attempt to make people forget that they are "that" company...
Isn't it true that Premier Election Systems (PES) has petty internal arguments on a monthly basis because it is dominated by the same people who run the parent company, Premier Matrimonial Systems (PMS)?
When mentioning Diebold, it is always crucial to mention that they now call themselves Premier Election Systems, in an attempt to make people forget that they are "that" company...
Premier Elections Systems is a subsidiary of their failed parent company, Premier Matrimonial Systems (PMS)
Note that all the calls went to middle east countries, including Afghanistan and Yemen, both Taliban havens.
That's a mighty big assumption. How do you know they weren't trying to stuff the phone ballot boxes for "Afghani Idol" and "Yemeni Idol"?
I can't resist the challenge of classifying the duties of 13 wives:
Wife#1 - Head Wife , as in lead wife, the matriarch of the harem. For head wife, see #7
Wife#2 - Sports equipment maintenance: cleans balls, buffs club heads, wipes shafts, etc. For similar duties see wife #7
Wife#3 - Food servicing: food prep for friends, beer fetcher, pizza gofer, etc.
Wife#3 - Personal comfort: Fanning, AC/heat control, recliner inclination monitor, foot massage, etc.
Wife#4 - Communications: answering phone with excuses as to why husband can't answer, getting the door, etc.
Wife#5 - Media control: Monitoring location of all TV and video remote controls, summarizing viewing habits of husband and printing list of shows for him, etc.
Wife#6 - Cleaning: Washing, ironing, vacuuming, etc.
Wife#7 - Head Wife - oh yeah!
Wife#s8,9,10 - Bedtime playmates, multiple partners to alleviate boredom.
Wife#11 - Backup wife for positions 1-10
Wife#12 - Secondary (redundant) backup wife.
Wife#13 - I have no idea why he would need a 13th wife! What a self-centered A-hole!
This topic has been in the back of my mind for a while now. Some musings.
If we continue to use expert systems to design things using coded models of behavior, we need to be cautious about interpreting the output of those models. Airplane wings are wind-tunnel tested to see that they conform to the model's predictions. This is well and good. But as more complex non linear chaotic objects are modeled, one needs to be crucially aware of the model as being just a "model" not the actual object (with all it's nuances and quirky behaviors). Look at the level of detail and redundancy in the space program for a lesson in exhaustive modeling, and still resulting in tragedy and gross error (Hubble comes to mind).
I remember when the Star Wars initiative was the talk of the Friday night grogs. Most engineers (at least the software designers) thought it impossible to design a bug-free mission critical system to support it, but were happy to give it the good ole college try in any case.
Rely on tools to design robots to design machines, didn't someone write a sci-fi story about that once?
The secondary market for this has to be HUGE.
Possible Spin-off:
Can you imagine the female "Does He Really Love Me" market segment? Half the people on the planet. I'm serious. Can you imagine the first person that marketed shoes? Rolling in the big Fortuna now. All those aspiring brides-to-be who need to know the truth.
This reminds me of the Fred Hoyle SF classic where an intelligent cloud from interstellar space surrounds the sun and only a few scientists are able to communicate with it. They were able to use the cloud to thwart others on earth from communicating with it. Brings interesting parallels to monopolies, selfishness and greed to mind.
This whole topic is too technical to the average HD watcher.
They only care that their knob is calibrated up to 11.
Abnormal Genes?
I thought you said -
Have Normal Jeans!
Instead of those baggy, crotch-at-the-knee, Maytag repair man vista clones.
But I guess 'Abnormal Jeans' works too.
Stephenson's detailed descriptions are VERY vivid. His extrapolation of historical characters demeanor from actual events are insightful --- Especially General Yamamoto's final moment of global realization in his crashing airplane. I was always curious though of how faithful Stephenson was to the actual layout (e.g. various connecting huts, interior layouts, etc)? Anybody on /. walk through Bletchley Park and visualize the elements in Cryptonomicon?