I was at best buy and I didn't see any particular movie or CD that interested me and I had a $5 off coupon to spend.
I don't shop at best buy (or anywhere else that demands to see my receipt: ComUSA, Costco, Mars Music, etc.. I don't care what their reasons are.) but I can only imagine that they stock their shelves for the mainstream stuff.
Personally, I've given up on pop music. I've developed a fondness for the classics: Mozart, Bach, those guys: Not the Stones or Beatles. Granted, I still enjoy a good tune on the radio, but actually acquire a pop CD? I haven't done that in over ten years. The classics are less than $10 as long as you buy the generic recording by some philharmonic somewhere. Now, if you see a good looking person on the cover with a name, then you'll pay the $18 for the damn thing - same composer, just a pretty person playing it. Even a Yo Yo Ma CD is more than the Joe Schmoe CD. You know what, I don't care if it's a celebrity musician or not - I can't tell the difference. And considering all of the talented folks in the World, I don't see the point of paying $10 more for a CD because its played by a celebrity.
I heard this from a drunk who said he knew what he was talking about while I was drunk.
The fact that the freekin top speed is still classified, even after the freekin tooling has been destroyed and the fact that computational power is soooo cheap to simulate the aircraft and that all of our enemy scientists and engineers have been educated here, is just plain frickin ridiculous. Frick'n Government!
The US should switch to adipose for an almost limitless energy supply.
I had this image of thousands of fat people on tread mills and exercise bikes with generators attached. Then I had an image of liposuction machines sucking fat out of people and sending it to machines to turn it into fuel. Then my imagination started getting weird.
Now I hate computers and the last thing I want to do is go home and use one if I don't have to. To me they are a tool, not a toy. I use them to get work done, do research and lookup information.
Same here. When I went to career councilors, all of them said I should be in computers - this is after tens years in the biz and hating it. I let them know how disappointed I was in their "services".
Computers were great as a hobby, but doing it as a job is a completely different experience. I think that's the BS we're sold when we're kids that there's this one career that'll make us happy,do what you love or passionate about and the money will follow and other such non sense. Of course, there's a minority folks out there who just love law, medicine, business, and other high paying careers that love to spout this crap. But the rest of us get into the work force and become horribly disillusioned. And then we look wistfully upon the blue collar guy who just works his 40hrs, while we're working our 60+ and we have to wonder was it really worth it? Going to school getting our balls busted and for what? 60+ hours a week and to have our jobs sent oversees somewhere. Then it's to the career councilors. Don't get me wrong, a friend went to one and found her passion. She left law and became a school teacher. She teachers the IP classes and loves it even though she's making a third of what she was making as a real estate lawyer.
I guess some folks are lucking and have a passion that can actually make them a living. I know many folks who are artists and they have to do crap corporate work to pay the bills. Many are in IT, as a matter of fact.
OK, enough of my rant. I have to get back to my shit work.
There's no discussion of how long these effects last.
In America, everything we watch has violence. You can't get away from it - go ahead, try to! (God forbid if a women's nipple is shown! Think of the children! It's OK for them to see someone get shot, though.)
What I'm trying to say is, we're constantly seeing violent images. Yeah, if you just saw that one movie or played that one game and then went into a monastery, sure the effects may not last that long. But I think that the researchers are confusing long term effects with cumulative effects.
Let's face it, we're in a violent and hostile society. The signs are all over the place: road rage, shootings, media content - violence sells after all!, how people interact in everyday situations, etc...
You're thinking of the time travel experiments NASA will be doing one day. The problem, though, is how do you get the Delorean on the boosters and keep them there?
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Please follow closely how YOUR tax dollars are being spent by da comments made by Manalapan's hand-picked legal experts
Izn't dat da truth!
I don't know who's dumberer, da blogger or da people sooing him!
They gave this guy all of this attention. As someone trying to get a site up and running, getting folks to view your site is the hardest thing next to getting content.
Kuddos to this guy for getting the free publicity and I'm beginning to question the EFF's strategies here and their choices of battles.
FTFA: Would you be willing to send your DNA to a private company for analysis? If so, would you pay $999 for it?
Absolutely not! Because, even if they did find out that I was predisposed to some diseases or I even had some, exactly, pray tell, would I be able to do about it? I live a pretty healthy lifestyle as it is. And I know, based on family history what diseases I'm genetically predisposed. So, this service is worthless to me.
Second, are they going to sign a contract that states that they will not release my results to: law enforcement, trial lawyers, insurance companies, or anyone else without my expressed consent? I don't think so.
creationism-flakes. This looks like a bunch of bureaucrats protecting themselves from lawsuits and political fall-out from the religious kooks - I'm some of them are.
FTFA: "Ms. Comer's e-mail implies endorsement of the speaker and implies that T.E.A. endorses the speaker's position on a subject on which the agency must remain neutral,..." the officials said.
There in bold is where you have it. Politics. What the Texans need to do is back this person up.
I live here in Cobb County GA (Stickers on the science books telling kids that there's alternatives to evolution - remember?) It was folks who live hers who went after the school board and made them look like th hicks they are. And you know what? It was this one load mouthed religious kook who started it all. She was a lawyer by training, which, I guess helped her in getting
It would be nice if the it is found that the RIAA was involved in some serious legal wrong doing and it opened up the door to counter suits - especially by the folks who were bullied into settling.
Wow, talk about taking the slow & expensive boat to China.
From on of the links:Estimates of the cost of mounting a manned Mars mission vary enormously, from $20bn to $450bn.
You know that really going to be over a trillion dollars for the project by 2031. And, the way things are going with the World economy and the US' specifically, I'm not so sure we're going to have the money. On the other hand, China will.
A programmer new to PHP, who would like to begin learning the language, should start with any one of the many tutorial-style PHP books available.
I disagree. Beginning books are usually large tomes that are anything but concise (Python books from O'Reilly!), take pages to get to the point, and the examples can be difficult to follow.
The free online tutorials are concise, provide links to other tutorials, sometimes even editing boxes where you can experiment with a concept, written better, and they're free! After you're done with your $45 tutorial, it usually becomes a doorstop or something to throw under the cat before (hopefully) she pukes.
FTFA: "It is an unsettling and un-American scenario to envision federal agents nosing through the reading lists of law-abiding citizens while hunting for evidence against somebody else."
And:"If the government had been more diligent in looking for workarounds instead of baring its teeth when Amazon balked, it's probable that this entire First Amendment showdown could have been avoided," he wrote
Damn straight it is un-American! I just wish the agents and presecutors involved would get reprimanded! Or better yet, fired for incompetence.
the rocks have slid still shows. And if these rocks are a few hundred pounds and the texture is still there, then why can't a human walk on it and not have their footprints show?
Windows IT Pro: If a company isn't cooperative with a request for an audit, does the BSA ever take legal or other action? Kruger: There have been a number of incidents over the years where we have taken the information directly to a district court judge and applied for a court order that allowed us to go to the company unannounced and in the presence of federal marshals to conduct a surprise audit of its computers. We don't do that too often, and we basically do it to ensure that the evidence of installations isn't destroyed. That is our most extreme remedy, and even during a surprise audit, we try very hard not to be intrusive or interfere with the company's business. We typically give the company a chance to communicate to its employees as its sees fit. Some companies have represented to their employees that it is a company audit rather than a BSA audit, and we've always gone along with that.
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I don't shop at best buy (or anywhere else that demands to see my receipt: ComUSA, Costco, Mars Music, etc.. I don't care what their reasons are.) but I can only imagine that they stock their shelves for the mainstream stuff.
Personally, I've given up on pop music. I've developed a fondness for the classics: Mozart, Bach, those guys: Not the Stones or Beatles. Granted, I still enjoy a good tune on the radio, but actually acquire a pop CD? I haven't done that in over ten years. The classics are less than $10 as long as you buy the generic recording by some philharmonic somewhere. Now, if you see a good looking person on the cover with a name, then you'll pay the $18 for the damn thing - same composer, just a pretty person playing it. Even a Yo Yo Ma CD is more than the Joe Schmoe CD. You know what, I don't care if it's a celebrity musician or not - I can't tell the difference. And considering all of the talented folks in the World, I don't see the point of paying $10 more for a CD because its played by a celebrity.
The fact that the freekin top speed is still classified, even after the freekin tooling has been destroyed and the fact that computational power is soooo cheap to simulate the aircraft and that all of our enemy scientists and engineers have been educated here, is just plain frickin ridiculous. Frick'n Government!
I had this image of thousands of fat people on tread mills and exercise bikes with generators attached. Then I had an image of liposuction machines sucking fat out of people and sending it to machines to turn it into fuel. Then my imagination started getting weird.
You're assuming that the cops never make mistakes or are completely honest.
Same here. When I went to career councilors, all of them said I should be in computers - this is after tens years in the biz and hating it. I let them know how disappointed I was in their "services".
Computers were great as a hobby, but doing it as a job is a completely different experience. I think that's the BS we're sold when we're kids that there's this one career that'll make us happy,do what you love or passionate about and the money will follow and other such non sense. Of course, there's a minority folks out there who just love law, medicine, business, and other high paying careers that love to spout this crap. But the rest of us get into the work force and become horribly disillusioned. And then we look wistfully upon the blue collar guy who just works his 40hrs, while we're working our 60+ and we have to wonder was it really worth it? Going to school getting our balls busted and for what? 60+ hours a week and to have our jobs sent oversees somewhere. Then it's to the career councilors. Don't get me wrong, a friend went to one and found her passion. She left law and became a school teacher. She teachers the IP classes and loves it even though she's making a third of what she was making as a real estate lawyer.
I guess some folks are lucking and have a passion that can actually make them a living. I know many folks who are artists and they have to do crap corporate work to pay the bills. Many are in IT, as a matter of fact.
OK, enough of my rant. I have to get back to my shit work.
We're on our way to robot Kung Fu!
In America, everything we watch has violence. You can't get away from it - go ahead, try to! (God forbid if a women's nipple is shown! Think of the children! It's OK for them to see someone get shot, though.)
What I'm trying to say is, we're constantly seeing violent images. Yeah, if you just saw that one movie or played that one game and then went into a monastery, sure the effects may not last that long. But I think that the researchers are confusing long term effects with cumulative effects.
Let's face it, we're in a violent and hostile society. The signs are all over the place: road rage, shootings, media content - violence sells after all!, how people interact in everyday situations, etc...
You're thinking of the time travel experiments NASA will be doing one day. The problem, though, is how do you get the Delorean on the boosters and keep them there?
Izn't dat da truth!
I don't know who's dumberer, da blogger or da people sooing him!
They gave this guy all of this attention. As someone trying to get a site up and running, getting folks to view your site is the hardest thing next to getting content.
Kuddos to this guy for getting the free publicity and I'm beginning to question the EFF's strategies here and their choices of battles.
FTFA: Would you be willing to send your DNA to a private company for analysis? If so, would you pay $999 for it?
Absolutely not! Because, even if they did find out that I was predisposed to some diseases or I even had some, exactly, pray tell, would I be able to do about it? I live a pretty healthy lifestyle as it is. And I know, based on family history what diseases I'm genetically predisposed. So, this service is worthless to me.
Second, are they going to sign a contract that states that they will not release my results to: law enforcement, trial lawyers, insurance companies, or anyone else without my expressed consent? I don't think so.
FTFA: "Ms. Comer's e-mail implies endorsement of the speaker and implies that T.E.A. endorses the speaker's position on a subject on which the agency must remain neutral,..." the officials said.
There in bold is where you have it. Politics. What the Texans need to do is back this person up.
I live here in Cobb County GA (Stickers on the science books telling kids that there's alternatives to evolution - remember?) It was folks who live hers who went after the school board and made them look like th hicks they are. And you know what? It was this one load mouthed religious kook who started it all. She was a lawyer by training, which, I guess helped her in getting
Government
schools to do her biding.It would be nice if the it is found that the RIAA was involved in some serious legal wrong doing and it opened up the door to counter suits - especially by the folks who were bullied into settling.
if it were the RI/MPAA, it would have said 20 billion.
p/Just imagine that Simon guy saying, You call THAT data! Get out of here!"
Or, one of his gamma ray experiments goes haywire, and whenever he gets angry, well, you wouldn't like him when he's angry!
From on of the links:Estimates of the cost of mounting a manned Mars mission vary enormously, from $20bn to $450bn.
You know that really going to be over a trillion dollars for the project by 2031. And, the way things are going with the World economy and the US' specifically, I'm not so sure we're going to have the money. On the other hand, China will.
That's right! Put some mag chrome nozzles at those old babies and nothing beats the classics!
I disagree. Beginning books are usually large tomes that are anything but concise (Python books from O'Reilly!), take pages to get to the point, and the examples can be difficult to follow.
The free online tutorials are concise, provide links to other tutorials, sometimes even editing boxes where you can experiment with a concept, written better, and they're free! After you're done with your $45 tutorial, it usually becomes a doorstop or something to throw under the cat before (hopefully) she pukes.
Crop circles happened in a similar way.
And:"If the government had been more diligent in looking for workarounds instead of baring its teeth when Amazon balked, it's probable that this entire First Amendment showdown could have been avoided," he wrote
Damn straight it is un-American! I just wish the agents and presecutors involved would get reprimanded! Or better yet, fired for incompetence.
the rocks have slid still shows. And if these rocks are a few hundred pounds and the texture is still there, then why can't a human walk on it and not have their footprints show?
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Misery loves company.
I just wish the rest of the World realized this.
fun! Its better then u killing e!