"She says she hasn't recovered since an incident when members of her family tried to clean up her mess."
Okay, I'm the organized one in our household, but if anyone tried to clean up after me (i.e., put stuff where I can't find it) I'd be just as unproductive as they are.
a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.
And the Hummer has an expected life of 300,000 miles? Oh, please. Look, my extended family has plenty of experience owning Toyotas and Nissans over the past two decades, and we have come to expect 200,000 miles or more. Come on, people, that's a big part of why so many Americans have abandoned Detroit for Japanese quality. Now, they weren't hybrids -- maybe the battery's lifespan is different. But if that's the case, I suspect Prius owners are laboring under the assumption that they will hold on to their cars for hundreds of thousands of miles.
If you check out Russian Rocket Boots 2 it is apparent that the boots allow you to attain these speeds pretty effortlessly. Imagine being able to run at sprint speeds for as long as you could walk or run at a very moderate pace. You could turn around and thumb your nose at Carl Lewis and his puny 100 m sprint.
I'm sure Joseph Campbell would have worthwhile advice on this subject. "Follow your bliss," perhaps, or maybe "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought."
I lived in Fremont, CA when "Terminator II" was being filmed. For the Cyberdyne office building to be blown up, the crew put something like a hundred gallons of gasoline on the roof and ignited it. The result is a big fireball, which for viewers equates to "big explosion," but it's not, really. Most explosives don't produce flames. A hand grenade, for instance, makes a little whiff of black powder, no flames, but I guess movie directors and most audience members expect to see flames shooting out all over the place.
They suck dollars from non-manned (i.e., robotic) missions whose focus IS actually collecting data for research. This is pretty well-known, but here's a recent news link that puts this into perspective -- NYTimes interview with NASA physicist Drew Shindell.
Regarding manned missions: "It's fine to do it for national spirit or exploring the cosmos, but the problem is that it comes at the cost of observing and protecting our home planet."
It's a little like what's being done on Mount Everest. Over the years, climbers have left thousands of empty oxygen bottles and other garbage scattered over the high-altitude regions. Starting in 1995, Scott Fischer and others organized charity-funded expeditions to remove the crap, not a minor undertaking given the cold and hypoxic conditions.
"Once past saying 'hello' and 'how are you?' to someone you've just met, what is next?"
* Retreat back to cube and resume coding * Avoid eye contact and hope someone else comes along to relieve you from having to make conversation * Launch into a rant * "I don't have friends/conversations/etc, you insensitive clod!" * Generic Cowboy Neal reference
Kerry LOST! We're stuck with W for FOUR MORE years, and TWO of them have gone by already. (Does that make the glass half full or half empty?) Iraq is now a total fiasco, the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea are pretty much rubbing our noses in it... geeze, is there any GOOD news? Well, I don't know, W kind of acknowledges global "climate change," but he's still an oil man and always will be. Damn.
I always thought so too, but I'm a convert now. I recently put them in all our bathroom fixtures. The wife never noticed a difference. I figured, what the hell? Let's do all the non-dimmer-equipped light fixtures. Same result so far. I'll probably keep incandescents in my favorite reading lamps, though.
Yeah, it's cold where I live and I've had the same thought. Incandescent bulbs produce visible light, which is good, and heat, also good, and... maybe a tiny amount of radiation not in the visible spectrum? Aren't they pretty close to 100 percent efficient?
Why would a landfill upgrade to Vista? Are they currently on XP? Are they even x86 architecture? I could see putting Java on them, for the garbage collection.
The economics of web-based apps are going to hit local IT departments hard. It's not just the availability of web-based spreadsheets and word processors. Very soon the same concept will be applied to back-office apps like accounting, etc. Look at Netsuite and Salesforce.com for a hint of what's coming. Replicating that functionality in-house will probably become akin to trying to reinvent an app like Google search in-house -- it just won't be economical to do so.
Same thing could happen to the user hardware. If your competitors are all on cheap terminals and your employees are still slinging around fragile and expensive laptops, the cost of supporting that could really drive a move to terminals.
65% spend more time with their plow horse/tractor/butter churn/machine tool/slide rule/whatever than they spend with their spouse. The division of labor has always taken spouses away from each other to some extent. Of the discretionary time that spouses could choose to either be together or apart, well, has that changed significantly?
Devious: (rising and crossing to a filing cabinet) "Oh well, Reverend Morrison... in your policy... in your policy... "(he opens the drawer of the filing cabins and takes out a shabby old sports jacket; he feels in the pocket and pulls out a crumpled dog-eared piece of paper then puts the coat back and shuts the ftling cabinet) ".... here we are. It states quite clearly that no claim you make will be paid."
Vicar: "Oh dear."
Devious: "You see, you unfortunately plumped for our 'Neverpay' policy, which, you know, if you never claim is wery worthwhile... but you had to claim, and, well, there it is."
Vicar: "Oh dear, oh dear."
Devious: "Still, never mind - could be worse. How's the nude lady?"
Vicar: "Oh, she's fine." (he begins to sob)
Devious: "Look... Rev... I hate to see a man cry, so shove off out' office. There's a good chap."
(The vicar goes out sobbing. Cut to outside. Vicar collects a nude lady sitting in a supermarket shopping trolley... and wheels her disconsolately away. Cut back to inside of office. Close-up on Devious. He gets out some files and starts writing. Suddenly a bishop's crook slams down on the desk in front of Devious. He looks up - his eyes register terror. Cut to reverse angle shot from below. The bishop in full mitre and robes.)
People think cars make them anonymous. For now, they are probably right. They can speed away and assume we will never meet again, or if we do, they won't be recognized. And by the way, throwing stuff is assault. But then, it's not a crime if you don't get caught, right?
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"I can't decide witch."
Now that's a beauty of a homophone error. The guy should put that in his sig.
"She says she hasn't recovered since an incident when members of her family tried to clean up her mess."
Okay, I'm the organized one in our household, but if anyone tried to clean up after me (i.e., put stuff where I can't find it) I'd be just as unproductive as they are.
a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.
And the Hummer has an expected life of 300,000 miles? Oh, please. Look, my extended family has plenty of experience owning Toyotas and Nissans over the past two decades, and we have come to expect 200,000 miles or more. Come on, people, that's a big part of why so many Americans have abandoned Detroit for Japanese quality. Now, they weren't hybrids -- maybe the battery's lifespan is different. But if that's the case, I suspect Prius owners are laboring under the assumption that they will hold on to their cars for hundreds of thousands of miles.
If you check out Russian Rocket Boots 2 it is apparent that the boots allow you to attain these speeds pretty effortlessly. Imagine being able to run at sprint speeds for as long as you could walk or run at a very moderate pace. You could turn around and thumb your nose at Carl Lewis and his puny 100 m sprint.
The research is expected to produce reversible hydrogen storage materials that can be processed into a powder
Just add water for a delicious instant beverage.
I'm sure Joseph Campbell would have worthwhile advice on this subject. "Follow your bliss," perhaps, or maybe "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought."
I lived in Fremont, CA when "Terminator II" was being filmed. For the Cyberdyne office building to be blown up, the crew put something like a hundred gallons of gasoline on the roof and ignited it. The result is a big fireball, which for viewers equates to "big explosion," but it's not, really. Most explosives don't produce flames. A hand grenade, for instance, makes a little whiff of black powder, no flames, but I guess movie directors and most audience members expect to see flames shooting out all over the place.
with Slime
as the Rover left its pitching wedge back at Canaveral.
They suck dollars from non-manned (i.e., robotic) missions whose focus IS actually collecting data for research. This is pretty well-known, but here's a recent news link that puts this into perspective -- NYTimes interview with NASA physicist Drew Shindell.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/magazine/18WWLN
Regarding manned missions: "It's fine to do it for national spirit or exploring the cosmos, but the problem is that it comes at the cost of observing and protecting our home planet."
I can just imagine cracking a tooth on the ceramic tiles these seeds must use for reentry.
It's a little like what's being done on Mount Everest. Over the years, climbers have left thousands of empty oxygen bottles and other garbage scattered over the high-altitude regions. Starting in 1995, Scott Fischer and others organized charity-funded expeditions to remove the crap, not a minor undertaking given the cold and hypoxic conditions.
Because I'm sure people have been rolling joints for a lot longer. And the user interface is a lot more intuitive.
"Once past saying 'hello' and 'how are you?' to someone you've just met, what is next?"
* Retreat back to cube and resume coding
* Avoid eye contact and hope someone else comes along to relieve you from having to make conversation
* Launch into a rant
* "I don't have friends/conversations/etc, you insensitive clod!"
* Generic Cowboy Neal reference
Kerry LOST! We're stuck with W for FOUR MORE years, and TWO of them have gone by already. (Does that make the glass half full or half empty?) Iraq is now a total fiasco, the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea are pretty much rubbing our noses in it... geeze, is there any GOOD news? Well, I don't know, W kind of acknowledges global "climate change," but he's still an oil man and always will be. Damn.
Oh, you meant president of DELL.
the paper is sucked into the lock box
I can't read that without thinking of Al Gore...
I always thought so too, but I'm a convert now. I recently put them in all our bathroom fixtures. The wife never noticed a difference. I figured, what the hell? Let's do all the non-dimmer-equipped light fixtures. Same result so far. I'll probably keep incandescents in my favorite reading lamps, though.
Yeah, it's cold where I live and I've had the same thought. Incandescent bulbs produce visible light, which is good, and heat, also good, and... maybe a tiny amount of radiation not in the visible spectrum? Aren't they pretty close to 100 percent efficient?
Why would a landfill upgrade to Vista? Are they currently on XP? Are they even x86 architecture? I could see putting Java on them, for the garbage collection.
The economics of web-based apps are going to hit local IT departments hard. It's not just the availability of web-based spreadsheets and word processors. Very soon the same concept will be applied to back-office apps like accounting, etc. Look at Netsuite and Salesforce.com for a hint of what's coming. Replicating that functionality in-house will probably become akin to trying to reinvent an app like Google search in-house -- it just won't be economical to do so.
Same thing could happen to the user hardware. If your competitors are all on cheap terminals and your employees are still slinging around fragile and expensive laptops, the cost of supporting that could really drive a move to terminals.
65% spend more time with their plow horse/tractor/butter churn/machine tool/slide rule/whatever than they spend with their spouse. The division of labor has always taken spouses away from each other to some extent. Of the discretionary time that spouses could choose to either be together or apart, well, has that changed significantly?
He'll be needing to relocate soon: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/1 2/2029215
Devious: (rising and crossing to a filing cabinet) "Oh well, Reverend Morrison ... in your policy... in your policy... "(he opens the drawer of the filing cabins and takes out a shabby old sports jacket; he feels in the pocket and pulls out a crumpled dog-eared piece of paper then puts the coat back and shuts the ftling cabinet) ".... here we are. It states quite clearly that no claim you make will be paid."
... but you had to claim, and, well, there it is."
Vicar: "Oh dear."
Devious: "You see, you unfortunately plumped for our 'Neverpay' policy, which, you know, if you never claim is wery worthwhile
Vicar: "Oh dear, oh dear."
Devious: "Still, never mind - could be worse. How's the nude lady?"
Vicar: "Oh, she's fine." (he begins to sob)
Devious: "Look... Rev... I hate to see a man cry, so shove off out' office. There's a good chap."
(The vicar goes out sobbing. Cut to outside. Vicar collects a nude lady sitting in a supermarket shopping trolley... and wheels her disconsolately away. Cut back to inside of office. Close-up on Devious. He gets out some files and starts writing. Suddenly a bishop's crook slams down on the desk in front of Devious. He looks up - his eyes register terror. Cut to reverse angle shot from below. The bishop in full mitre and robes.)
Bishop: "OK, Devious... Don't move!"
Devious: "The bishop!"
Now it's levitating spiders? I am so screwed.
People think cars make them anonymous. For now, they are probably right. They can speed away and assume we will never meet again, or if we do, they won't be recognized. And by the way, throwing stuff is assault. But then, it's not a crime if you don't get caught, right?