Basketballs would have been relatively tiny in giant dinosaur hands, so they would probably have gripped them in their dinosaur fists rather than in the palms like modern man. So it doesn't really matter which way their wrists were oriented.
Also, the dinosaurs would have eaten the basketballs, thinking they were cleverly shaped poppy air eggs. To the primitive dinosaur palette, this would have been something of a delicacy or novelty, like pop rocks are to modern man.
But we, the US of A, are a country of middlemen! How are we supposed to survive and feed our children if we actually have to, I don't know, do real work instead of creating sequels, remakes, covers, rehashes, and reworks ad infinitum?
"We send people into the remote areas because the people already there are often more concerned with surviving, and also the people "already there" often don't have the training, equipment or resources to contact the outside world."
Agrgeed. Not to mention that the people already there tend not to have the same cultural capital as us. The cultural link is part of what makes the story actually resonate with the reader. Otherwise news reporting would be just dry reporting of a series of facts that could easily just be represented as bullet points.
I'm sure there's some areas of the world where blogging would work just fine, but I'm not so sure there is a capable blogger who can write compelling stories absolutely everywhere in the world that news is happening.
I stream media to my xbox360 using Twonky media server running on my Linux powered Linkstation NAS.
No mods required. Works right out of the box on both systems. Well, I had to install a custom firmware on the linkstation, but that is beside the point. Twonky should work well from any other vanilla linux distro. Now if MS can get around to implementing a DivX 7 codec so I can stream mkv files and h.264 I would be in hog heaven.
If someone threatened my family, mob or not, I would burn their house to the goddamned ground. No police. No lawyers. Just me, a bow, and a flaming arrow fired through an upstairs window at 2am.
If they are going to make threats to me, they better be prepared to carry them out.
"Because he's competent? This is why IT hates management.
IT is about getting stuff done, if you can't do it right the computer won't run, nothing personal, you just can't hack it, literally.
Management is all about politics and keeping smarter people away from you so you look better, nothing gets done. "
No, probably because he's a dick. Or at least sounds like he is.
Anyway, if management isn't surrounding themselves with people that are smarter than they are, then they're doing it wrong. I mean, that's the whole point, isn't it? You have a business endeavor that does X. You hire people who are experts in X and *manage* them to achieve a desirable outcome. Its not rocket science for Pete's sake. Unless your business endeavor is manufacturing rockets. In which case the principle still holds.
But if we let the gays get married, pretty soon we'll all be forced to get gay married. Most likely to our dogs. That's how these things work. Its called the gay agenda. Look it up.
Why would the record companies care about what format they sell to the consumer anyway? If anything they should be making up for any minor drop in sales by vastly reduced infrastructure costs.
I think there is a bigger worry here though. If Joe T. Plumber loves music from the 70's, and bought a particular track first on vinyl, then cassette, then CD, and now mp3, how the hell are they going to sell the same track to him again? Non-DRM digital files represent the end of a very lucrative sales cycle. A format shift is a format shift, but this concept must scare the living shit out of them. About the only way they can resell that track to him is if he somehow loses it, and whatever reseller he bought it from doesn't do replacements. IOW, digital files don't wear out, and can't really be obsoleted.
If you consider the track to be the basic atomic unit of music rather than the album, I wonder how sales per unit have done historically if you exclude double and triple and quadruple buys for format shifts, lost/broken media, hardware obsolescence, compilations sales, etc. My guess is probably that sort of thing made up more of their bread-n-butter than the marketing execs would care to admit.
My guess is they knew this since '97, hell maybe even since '47, and that's why they've had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the mp3 age.
That's kind of a sensational headline isn't it? I mean, the entire state of South Carolina is going to jam cell phones!? My god that is Fascist! Oh wait. They want to do it in prisons. Snore. I mean, I guess the sensational headline did its job, because if they would have added 'in prisons' to the end of it, I would have thought 'big deal, prisoners aren't supposed to have mobile phones anyway'.
Its sort of like writing a headline that says 'US To Mandate Switch to Nuclear Fission Powered Cars', and then in the summary say (by the year 4062).
Except it's not fraud, and it's not illegal. What the government did, arresting a foreign criminal who committed a crime in the USA, is perfectly legal. How they got him to enter into the USA, by setting up a fake job interview, is also perfectly legal. I can set up fake job interviews with as many people as I want. So can the feds. It's not against the law.
But what most people seem to be missing is the sheer stupidity of the criminal. If a company I had hacked into, stolen source code from, and embarrassed publicly suddenly invited me to their corporate HQ in a foreign country, I would be a weee bit suspcious.
I like the cut of your jibe. I'd like you to come work for me at my company's corporate HQ in East Kerplechistan. How soon can we get you booked in here for an interview?
"There are a lot of places where unholy cludges exist and are perpetuated because it's a lot easier to live with them than it is to try and change everything that depends on them."
You're telling me. I personally witnessed a critical point that 75% of all internet data passes through in an unnamed very large University that is powered by a goddamned lobster on a treadmill! If Pinchy ever gives up the ghost, we are all well and truly FCKed.
I thought you were going to say a large figure. I mean, I work for a Big Ten school and $100K just isn't a lot of money to us. Its probably cheaper as a CYA measure more than anything else.
"I used to never understand the mentality of someone that would see a nice car in a parking lot...something expensive like a Viper or Porsche....and key it."
Aw man! you know people who do this? you do not fuck with a man's automobile. I mean, you just don't do it. If that ever happens to my car, I hope I catch the guy who does it. It would be worth it to have it keyed just to catch him...
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Would *you* want to be the one who calls the penalty on the T-rex?
Basketballs would have been relatively tiny in giant dinosaur hands, so they would probably have gripped them in their dinosaur fists rather than in the palms like modern man. So it doesn't really matter which way their wrists were oriented.
Also, the dinosaurs would have eaten the basketballs, thinking they were cleverly shaped poppy air eggs. To the primitive dinosaur palette, this would have been something of a delicacy or novelty, like pop rocks are to modern man.
But we, the US of A, are a country of middlemen! How are we supposed to survive and feed our children if we actually have to, I don't know, do real work instead of creating sequels, remakes, covers, rehashes, and reworks ad infinitum?
"We send people into the remote areas because the people already there are often more concerned with surviving, and also the people "already there" often don't have the training, equipment or resources to contact the outside world."
Agrgeed. Not to mention that the people already there tend not to have the same cultural capital as us. The cultural link is part of what makes the story actually resonate with the reader. Otherwise news reporting would be just dry reporting of a series of facts that could easily just be represented as bullet points.
I'm sure there's some areas of the world where blogging would work just fine, but I'm not so sure there is a capable blogger who can write compelling stories absolutely everywhere in the world that news is happening.
"one text on municipal refuse advised that "trucks for the removal of dead horses should be hung low, to avoid an excessive lift.""
Coincidentally, that is exactly the same as what the text on my penis advises.
OK, smart guy, but what if you hid the camera in a ten gallon hat?
I stream media to my xbox360 using Twonky media server running on my Linux powered Linkstation NAS.
No mods required. Works right out of the box on both systems. Well, I had to install a custom firmware on the linkstation, but that is beside the point. Twonky should work well from any other vanilla linux distro. Now if MS can get around to implementing a DivX 7 codec so I can stream mkv files and h.264 I would be in hog heaven.
It was torture just reading this reply.
If someone threatened my family, mob or not, I would burn their house to the goddamned ground. No police. No lawyers. Just me, a bow, and a flaming arrow fired through an upstairs window at 2am.
If they are going to make threats to me, they better be prepared to carry them out.
"Because he's competent? This is why IT hates management.
IT is about getting stuff done, if you can't do it right the computer won't run, nothing personal, you just can't hack it, literally.
Management is all about politics and keeping smarter people away from you so you look better, nothing gets done. "
No, probably because he's a dick. Or at least sounds like he is.
Anyway, if management isn't surrounding themselves with people that are smarter than they are, then they're doing it wrong. I mean, that's the whole point, isn't it? You have a business endeavor that does X. You hire people who are experts in X and *manage* them to achieve a desirable outcome. Its not rocket science for Pete's sake. Unless your business endeavor is manufacturing rockets. In which case the principle still holds.
But if we let the gays get married, pretty soon we'll all be forced to get gay married. Most likely to our dogs. That's how these things work. Its called the gay agenda. Look it up.
I'm pretty sure Octopussies is also correct.
OK, I'll bite -- Why don't we buy games for the Commodore anymore?
I apologize, it was a little igneous of me.
Why would the record companies care about what format they sell to the consumer anyway? If anything they should be making up for any minor drop in sales by vastly reduced infrastructure costs.
I think there is a bigger worry here though. If Joe T. Plumber loves music from the 70's, and bought a particular track first on vinyl, then cassette, then CD, and now mp3, how the hell are they going to sell the same track to him again? Non-DRM digital files represent the end of a very lucrative sales cycle. A format shift is a format shift, but this concept must scare the living shit out of them. About the only way they can resell that track to him is if he somehow loses it, and whatever reseller he bought it from doesn't do replacements. IOW, digital files don't wear out, and can't really be obsoleted.
If you consider the track to be the basic atomic unit of music rather than the album, I wonder how sales per unit have done historically if you exclude double and triple and quadruple buys for format shifts, lost/broken media, hardware obsolescence, compilations sales, etc. My guess is probably that sort of thing made up more of their bread-n-butter than the marketing execs would care to admit.
My guess is they knew this since '97, hell maybe even since '47, and that's why they've had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the mp3 age.
I regretfully agree. Hundreds of failed mating experiments between my pet rocks seem to support your hypothesis. My life, it seems, has been wasted.
...What a load of Schist.
There ain't no monkeys in MY pet rock's family tree!
That's kind of a sensational headline isn't it? I mean, the entire state of South Carolina is going to jam cell phones!? My god that is Fascist! Oh wait. They want to do it in prisons. Snore. I mean, I guess the sensational headline did its job, because if they would have added 'in prisons' to the end of it, I would have thought 'big deal, prisoners aren't supposed to have mobile phones anyway'.
Its sort of like writing a headline that says 'US To Mandate Switch to Nuclear Fission Powered Cars', and then in the summary say (by the year 4062).
Except it's not fraud, and it's not illegal. What the government did, arresting a foreign criminal who committed a crime in the USA, is perfectly legal. How they got him to enter into the USA, by setting up a fake job interview, is also perfectly legal. I can set up fake job interviews with as many people as I want. So can the feds. It's not against the law.
But what most people seem to be missing is the sheer stupidity of the criminal. If a company I had hacked into, stolen source code from, and embarrassed publicly suddenly invited me to their corporate HQ in a foreign country, I would be a weee bit suspcious.
I like the cut of your jibe. I'd like you to come work for me at my company's corporate HQ in East Kerplechistan. How soon can we get you booked in here for an interview?
"There are a lot of places where unholy cludges exist and are perpetuated because it's a lot easier to live with them than it is to try and change everything that depends on them."
You're telling me. I personally witnessed a critical point that 75% of all internet data passes through in an unnamed very large University that is powered by a goddamned lobster on a treadmill! If Pinchy ever gives up the ghost, we are all well and truly FCKed.
I thought you were going to say a large figure. I mean, I work for a Big Ten school and $100K just isn't a lot of money to us. Its probably cheaper as a CYA measure more than anything else.
That is why we need government legislation to mandate that all volume indicators go up to 11.
"I used to never understand the mentality of someone that would see a nice car in a parking lot...something expensive like a Viper or Porsche....and key it."
Aw man! you know people who do this? you do not fuck with a man's automobile. I mean, you just don't do it. If that ever happens to my car, I hope I catch the guy who does it. It would be worth it to have it keyed just to catch him...
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