Given a choice between professionally built and amateur built, I leave you with one nugget of wisdom: Noah's ark was built by Amateurs, The Titanic was built by professionals.
Kind of chilling...the Columbia crew's wake up song on one of the days was Hotel California. This kind of gives new meaning to "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave." *raises glass*
I still say we need to reactivate the Saturn 5s. We've got several models that may or may not work..the Smithsonian still has the plans...so let's reverse engineer the rocket, update it a bit and launch the thing into space. For those of you who say we can't reenginer the Saturn 5, let me point out the fact that Chrysler has been doing just this with their car models for the last 5 years. Put Chrysler's engineers in charge of the reemergence of the S5, and we're golden. For the guidance system, we use Microsoft's engineers, they steal a comparable guidance system and "tweak it" then sell at the government standard price.
Sorry, but I gotta do the Obligatory quote, and I do apologize to the NASA folks that I'm about to tick off:
Rockhound: Hey Harry.
Harry Stamper: What?
Rockhound: You realize we're sitting on 45,000 pounds of fuel, one nuclear warhead and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder? Makes you feel good doesn't it?
Harry: Yeah, Rock.
Tonight and the garden: GEEK THUNDERDOME. A three round, no holds barred cage match between the Visual basic developers and the Java developers. Only one language will take it!! Whos syntax will reign supreme?! Find out all about it on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!
believe me, if you don't like the present situation, remember, it gets worse as you go up the chain of replacements. You've got a person who can strategically do the least harm atm, let's keep it that way..
Oblig: "Well done android, the Enrichment center is required to remind you that Vista hell is a real place, where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."
Speaking of task completion, a company I worked with, recently moved locations..in order to get the co workers to assist with the move, they threw a huge LAN party with a quad T3 uplink and gigabit LAN... At the end of the night, employees got prizes..and the next morning, they disassembled the LAN and moved it to the new location..
Pretty good for employee morale.:)
hmm...what were the makes and models of the 4 aircraft used in the attacks?
2 United flights
2 American Airlines flights..
Strange..there are a few questions that remain unanswered.
Anyone stop to think that the way Trades 1 and 2 were built..the main support for the buildings was the exterior? Its equivalent to a Ziploc bag...the main support is the fabric of the bag. If a large hole were punched into a bag full of water, what would happen? The skeleton of the bag would fail and containment would be breached, resulting in collapse. In a manner of speaking, this is what happened to Trades 1 and 2... a large hole was punched into all sides of the main support structure...perforating the bag...the result was a total, catastrophic failure. One of the towers leaned a bit one way, then fell straight downward...the other just went down.. We're fortunate that the towers came straight down, as designed...otherwise, 1160 feet of Manhattan would have been crushed and there would have been more casualties. The building's tops with the amount of damage they took, trade 1 from 95-105 and trade 2 from I think 70+ to 85 probably would have had to come down anyway from the damage they took. It's sad that they had to collapse with that many people in or under them, but think of how many people it would have been had these attacks occurred only an hour later. The 3000 people would have more likely been 10-100 times that in the area. Point being, it could always have been worse. I think there are many questions still left unanswered, but those will come in time, when a private investigation is funded.
Ever heard of the Phrase "Give them time to get the wrong idea, it makes things go smoother"?
Its perfect...3-4 years bungling things, then wham...9/11...perfect storm...everyone thinks youre an idiot, carte blanche to do whatever you want. Bush may be a little country, but he's not stupid.
Here at Apple we'd like to make note of the fact that we've recently hired all the hardware designers from Verizon wireless. If your Iphone isn't working, simply call our Technical Support and they will happily make you go through inane troubleshooting steps, talk to you like a child and pollitically correctly call you an idiot...and finally reach a respectable resolution to your problem...by selling you a refurbished Iphone 3g instead of a new one.
umm...have you seen the drivers in Texas? Rhand is you've ever driven on US-225? The only freeway in houston where the speed limit is a "suggestion". You do not do the speedlimit on 225...unless you want to get run over. the speed limit on this highway is 65...thats the suggested speed, the actual is somewhere in the neghiborhood of 85-90.
Now...all we gotta do is ditch the lawnmower engine and drop in a boxter engine...can you see the first office chair that pulls a G and a half, and goes 0-60 in under 3 seconds?:)
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That opens a Whole new can of worms for prank ideas...
see Wierd Al's "it's all about the pentiums" for my reaction to this comment. :)
Given a choice between professionally built and amateur built, I leave you with one nugget of wisdom: Noah's ark was built by Amateurs, The Titanic was built by professionals.
Astris Semper Fidelis.
Kind of chilling...the Columbia crew's wake up song on one of the days was Hotel California. This kind of gives new meaning to "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave." *raises glass*
I still say we need to reactivate the Saturn 5s. We've got several models that may or may not work..the Smithsonian still has the plans...so let's reverse engineer the rocket, update it a bit and launch the thing into space. For those of you who say we can't reenginer the Saturn 5, let me point out the fact that Chrysler has been doing just this with their car models for the last 5 years. Put Chrysler's engineers in charge of the reemergence of the S5, and we're golden. For the guidance system, we use Microsoft's engineers, they steal a comparable guidance system and "tweak it" then sell at the government standard price.
Amen Brother. :)
Sorry, but I gotta do the Obligatory quote, and I do apologize to the NASA folks that I'm about to tick off: Rockhound: Hey Harry. Harry Stamper: What? Rockhound: You realize we're sitting on 45,000 pounds of fuel, one nuclear warhead and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder? Makes you feel good doesn't it? Harry: Yeah, Rock.
Tonight and the garden: GEEK THUNDERDOME. A three round, no holds barred cage match between the Visual basic developers and the Java developers. Only one language will take it!! Whos syntax will reign supreme?! Find out all about it on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!
Smalltalk is an art, not a religion. :)
"They were stopping everyone driving on that particular stretch of sidewalk...."
believe me, if you don't like the present situation, remember, it gets worse as you go up the chain of replacements. You've got a person who can strategically do the least harm atm, let's keep it that way..
Time to buy stock in Reynolds and a lifetime supply of tinfoil. I'm selling tinfoil hats, $50.00 apeice, today only.
Oblig: "Well done android, the Enrichment center is required to remind you that Vista hell is a real place, where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."
Speaking of task completion, a company I worked with, recently moved locations..in order to get the co workers to assist with the move, they threw a huge LAN party with a quad T3 uplink and gigabit LAN... At the end of the night, employees got prizes..and the next morning, they disassembled the LAN and moved it to the new location.. Pretty good for employee morale. :)
hmm...what were the makes and models of the 4 aircraft used in the attacks? 2 United flights 2 American Airlines flights.. Strange..there are a few questions that remain unanswered.
Anyone stop to think that the way Trades 1 and 2 were built..the main support for the buildings was the exterior? Its equivalent to a Ziploc bag...the main support is the fabric of the bag. If a large hole were punched into a bag full of water, what would happen? The skeleton of the bag would fail and containment would be breached, resulting in collapse. In a manner of speaking, this is what happened to Trades 1 and 2... a large hole was punched into all sides of the main support structure...perforating the bag...the result was a total, catastrophic failure. One of the towers leaned a bit one way, then fell straight downward...the other just went down.. We're fortunate that the towers came straight down, as designed...otherwise, 1160 feet of Manhattan would have been crushed and there would have been more casualties. The building's tops with the amount of damage they took, trade 1 from 95-105 and trade 2 from I think 70+ to 85 probably would have had to come down anyway from the damage they took. It's sad that they had to collapse with that many people in or under them, but think of how many people it would have been had these attacks occurred only an hour later. The 3000 people would have more likely been 10-100 times that in the area. Point being, it could always have been worse. I think there are many questions still left unanswered, but those will come in time, when a private investigation is funded.
Amen Brother.
Okay...since when did we change the tagline of this country from Land of the free and home of the brave to Peace through superior firepower?
Ever heard of the Phrase "Give them time to get the wrong idea, it makes things go smoother"? Its perfect...3-4 years bungling things, then wham...9/11...perfect storm...everyone thinks youre an idiot, carte blanche to do whatever you want. Bush may be a little country, but he's not stupid.
Here at Apple we'd like to make note of the fact that we've recently hired all the hardware designers from Verizon wireless. If your Iphone isn't working, simply call our Technical Support and they will happily make you go through inane troubleshooting steps, talk to you like a child and pollitically correctly call you an idiot...and finally reach a respectable resolution to your problem...by selling you a refurbished Iphone 3g instead of a new one.
Fortunately I'm using my Asbestos keyboard today. Ahem: Vista is mana from heaven. Mac OSX stinks, Linux couldnt define usability. Flame on.
amazing how the internet changes the news. :)
umm...have you seen the drivers in Texas? Rhand is you've ever driven on US-225? The only freeway in houston where the speed limit is a "suggestion". You do not do the speedlimit on 225...unless you want to get run over. the speed limit on this highway is 65...thats the suggested speed, the actual is somewhere in the neghiborhood of 85-90.
Now...all we gotta do is ditch the lawnmower engine and drop in a boxter engine...can you see the first office chair that pulls a G and a half, and goes 0-60 in under 3 seconds? :)