Well, your grandma should just buy a bike, and get cycling. Here in Holland, people of all ages ride bikes every day, it prolongs your health, and keeps you alert. The 80 year old woman next door used to right her bike every day to go shopping, and it never did her any harm.
At least not until she was knocked down a killed by a truck.
After having heard his blisteringly funny guest spot on the Stve Wright In the Afternoon radio show (BBC Radio 1, about 12 years ago), I would definately say In on the joke.
Plus, he was, at the end of that year, voted the best guest they had on for the whole year.
...reliable DVD playback. That's the only time I use Windows. The restof the time I'm sitting in FreeBSD. Of course, as soon as I get the money for a new laptop, I'll probably be OSX all the way.
...the problem I see with these sort of discussions is that people think that if you don't believe in Evolution, you must be a creationist.
I personally think that Evolution is a load of twaddle, and don't have too much time for creation theory. I prefer to think of the universe as the spewings of the giant heavenly space tuna. And do you know what the funny thing is? My theory stands up just as well as the other two.
Apparently, a geek would buy 500 black-market clones of himself, while the narcissist would most likely build "a monument similar in size and scale to Mount Rushmore, featuring his own face.
Would a narcissist geek build 500 monuments, one for every clone?
Yes London does have an underground railway and train network. It also has an extensive bus network, but they are massively underfunded, decaying and over-used to almost breaking point. The mayor of London hired Bob Kiley (the man who sorted out the New York subway) to help, but Tony Blair decided this man knew squat, and overruled him on every point.
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They would probably just bomb the shit out of everything just like they do now.
I couldn't agree more. An aibo costs what $2000, whereas an abandoned puppy from the local pound costs about $10, and will last considerably longer (especially if bathed by the old fools).
I just think that when a company makes something they say is safe, it always manages to get bypassed in the most easy way. For example,
Oracle says their database is uncrackable, and then it gets exploited by a buffer overflow.
DVDs are strongly encrypted, and this encryption gets broken by a teenager.
I can see the same happening with this. There is a waterproof/kidproof lock, which actually ends up falling prey to something like talc (or something else completely innocuous).
I understand what you say about theft being fraternal, but so is child abduction. The police have twice in the last few years uncovered large child porn rings spread across the world. Think what you like about paedophiles, that they are evil, sick and twisted, and you would be right. But, if you assume they are stupid, then you couldn't be more wrong. Once this information gets passed around one group, then it can get passed onto another, and then another.
Anyway, who's to say that paedophiles would be the ones to find this iformation out. Why not the kids who have to walk around with some totally embarassing band on their arm? If I was 10, and I had to wear one of these things, I would be searching constantly for a method to get it off me.
To be quite honest I would be quite disappointed in my kids if they accepted having to wear one of these without any form of struggle whatsoever. Actually I might buy one just to see how long it takes them to get out of it.
It might be spoken like a true bachelor geek, but I am actually married with three children.
I also don't take my kids to crowded stores around Christmas time, because seeing a million santas tends to spoil the magic for them. But that's another story.
And the device won't be worth the cost for one simple reason:
Lost kids get found, unless they are abducted. If they are abducted, then the abductor will almost definately have a quick method of getting the device off, in much the same way that a new car alarm is only good until the thieves technology overtakes it (usually all of about a week).
If a parent going to allow their three year old to walk around the streets without adult supervision, then I really don't think they would care enough to bother buying this thing.
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All that says is that American involvement stopped the Russians from grabbing too much of Europe. The Germans would have still lost the war, but with American help, more of it remained capitalist.
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Well, your grandma should just buy a bike, and get cycling. Here in Holland, people of all ages ride bikes every day, it prolongs your health, and keeps you alert. The 80 year old woman next door used to right her bike every day to go shopping, and it never did her any harm.
At least not until she was knocked down a killed by a truck.
That's a bit over the top isn't it? These shows have scientologists working on them, true, but they aren't promoting the thing.
Mind you, it does sound like the sort of deliberately obscure word that Sir Humphrey Appleby might use.
After having heard his blisteringly funny guest spot on the Stve Wright In the Afternoon radio show (BBC Radio 1, about 12 years ago), I would definately say In on the joke.
Plus, he was, at the end of that year, voted the best guest they had on for the whole year.
...reliable DVD playback. That's the only time I use Windows. The restof the time I'm sitting in FreeBSD. Of course, as soon as I get the money for a new laptop, I'll probably be OSX all the way.
"but treating a community like their personal fiefdom has driven a lot of people away (to k5 and other places)"
The only problem with this is that K5 is shit boring.
...the problem I see with these sort of discussions is that people think that if you don't believe in Evolution, you must be a creationist.
I personally think that Evolution is a load of twaddle, and don't have too much time for creation theory. I prefer to think of the universe as the spewings of the giant heavenly space tuna. And do you know what the funny thing is? My theory stands up just as well as the other two.
Hey! Your website is down!
Apparently, a geek would buy 500 black-market clones of himself, while the narcissist would most likely build "a monument similar in size and scale to Mount Rushmore, featuring his own face.
Would a narcissist geek build 500 monuments, one for every clone?
I think he means Rugby, which is rather like american football, but without the girls clothes and coffee breaks.
They have them in Belgium and the Netherlands, too.
Yes London does have an underground railway and train network. It also has an extensive bus network, but they are massively underfunded, decaying and over-used to almost breaking point. The mayor of London hired Bob Kiley (the man who sorted out the New York subway) to help, but Tony Blair decided this man knew squat, and overruled him on every point.
They would probably just bomb the shit out of everything just like they do now.
Of course not. The text refers to professionals of good standing. Prostitutes are better lying.
How are you almost awarded it?
Patent Clerk: Well Mr. Inventor, I'd like to award you...
[Mr. Inventor hold out his hands to recieve patent]
Patent Clerk: PSYCH!!!
I couldn't agree more. An aibo costs what $2000, whereas an abandoned puppy from the local pound costs about $10, and will last considerably longer (especially if bathed by the old fools).
I just think that when a company makes something they say is safe, it always manages to get bypassed in the most easy way. For example,
Oracle says their database is uncrackable, and then it gets exploited by a buffer overflow.
DVDs are strongly encrypted, and this encryption gets broken by a teenager.
I can see the same happening with this. There is a waterproof/kidproof lock, which actually ends up falling prey to something like talc (or something else completely innocuous).
I understand what you say about theft being fraternal, but so is child abduction. The police have twice in the last few years uncovered large child porn rings spread across the world. Think what you like about paedophiles, that they are evil, sick and twisted, and you would be right. But, if you assume they are stupid, then you couldn't be more wrong. Once this information gets passed around one group, then it can get passed onto another, and then another.
Anyway, who's to say that paedophiles would be the ones to find this iformation out. Why not the kids who have to walk around with some totally embarassing band on their arm? If I was 10, and I had to wear one of these things, I would be searching constantly for a method to get it off me.
To be quite honest I would be quite disappointed in my kids if they accepted having to wear one of these without any form of struggle whatsoever. Actually I might buy one just to see how long it takes them to get out of it.
It might be spoken like a true bachelor geek, but I am actually married with three children.
I also don't take my kids to crowded stores around Christmas time, because seeing a million santas tends to spoil the magic for them. But that's another story.
And the device won't be worth the cost for one simple reason:
Lost kids get found, unless they are abducted. If they are abducted, then the abductor will almost definately have a quick method of getting the device off, in much the same way that a new car alarm is only good until the thieves technology overtakes it (usually all of about a week).
If a parent going to allow their three year old to walk around the streets without adult supervision, then I really don't think they would care enough to bother buying this thing.
Apparently, the next version will be kid resistant to 100 metres.
...Obi Wan GnuBe.
...do you discover a country when there are already people living there?
You probably do.
All that says is that American involvement stopped the Russians from grabbing too much of Europe. The Germans would have still lost the war, but with American help, more of it remained capitalist.