It will come as a shock to some that, even though Obama has taken office, a lot of the nation is overcast today. We still have to pay to go to the doctor. Dog poo does not yet smell like peppermint. And I've yet to get a raise or better offer this week.
I like the guy and, although some of his plans make me nervous (I'm a pretty staunch fiscal conservative), I'm optimistic that he'll do a good job. But it is kind of satisfying to see him reveal that he's not quite the guy that so many people see up on that pedestal.
2) Modifying the movie, and the extra's, violates the TOC. Just like any contract, if you do not like it then do not sign for it and do not use the product. If you like the product that much then use it how they asked you to use it.
It's not that I disagree with your motivation or principle - I think piracy is bad. It's just that you're wrong - I didn't sign any damned contract. What do you mean, "do not sign for it"? I just follow the laws as they apply where I live. (Well pretty close, I do rip what I buy to avi and put it on a hard drive before storing the media in case of a crash...)
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
I wish that people would stop referencing my welcome without a verb to tell me what's so special about it. What about my welcome?
Some people can do it. Really (wiki says up to 250 wpm) - It's incredible. Frankly, even though I consider myself fairly intelligent, some people type faster than I can read. Some machines are built for I/O, others for processing. Some are just all around good.
I'll go down to Florida tonight, get smashed, walk up to the first cop I see and demand the test. Three short months later me and my chemistry degree have a competing product on the market.
If you walk up to a cop and he arrests you for DUI, you may have a decent false arrest case on your hands - Forget engineering a breathalyzer.
It's not like they don't have what's best for you in mind.
Actually, in all seriousness, I believe that they do. I think that all the paranoia about them trying to enslave our minds to support some massive corporate/governing elite by censoring our movements, restricting our speech, and stripping our rights away is nonsense. I think that the Intelligence agencies and probably better than half of our governing body is motivated (mainly) by wanting to do what's best for us and keep us safe.
The problem is that their idea of what's "best for us" may not line up with mine and I'll be damned if I'm going to voluntarily abandon rights because it may-or-may-not make some minimal impact on my safety that would be dwarfed by efforts on the non-terror front. I don't so much question their intentions (although I don't object too loudly when other people do - blind trust is usually a bad idea), I just object to their methods.
I don't think it's so much about opposing him as it is about all of these "historic firsts" being heralded as signs from heaven that America has redefined itself and grown up.
For the first time a woman is giving the inaugural sermon. Meh - Wouldn't it be a bigger sign of progress if that wasn't news?
For the first time the president had his picture taken with a digital camera. Meh - So the White House is catching up with most of the other major photographers.
For the first time we have a president (elect) that's half-Hawaiian. Again, wouldn't it be a bigger sign of progress if that wasn't news?
I hope for good things to come and am optimistic that Obama will do a fine job and that people's faith in him will inspire a stronger market. I didn't vote for him (I went Barr/Root), but I'd love to see him succeed. But why is EVERYTHING he does some historic landmark?
Actually when I was experiencing sleep-deprivation once the hallucinations were about on par with LSD. When I had a 120 degree (f) fever and, on tons of codeine, the hallucinations were FAR more realistic and convincing. Not that I would recommend anyone getting strep for the trip.
The longest I've been up was roughly a week (I finally passed out about halfway through day 7). I've seen things saying that people die sooner than that, but maybe the copious amounts of ephedrine I was ingesting helped along the way (I'd take it in pill form during the day to make it through classes, then be stuck unable to sleep all night).
Anyway, by the end of the experience the effects I was experiencing blew LSD & psilocibin out of the water (although I was not having fun). I had no idea what was going on and was just kind of floating through my usual routine wondering WTF was going on. No hallucinations like with the other drugs, but massive confusion and a general "disconnected" feeling that I've never paralleled. Bad, bad idea - Not recommended.
Having never done LSD (or any other drug, for that matter....) I have never experienced this.
Sorry - this is a little off-topic, but you hit a peeve of mine. I believe you when you say you've never done LSD. I'll even buy that you've never done any drug that's illegal in the country you live in. It's entirely possible that you've never tried alcohol, nicotine, or caffeine (although that would be surprising). But any drug? Really?
I'd recommend aspirin for general aches and ibuprofen for muscle soreness and headaches, provided that you have something in your stomach. Also, a nice cup of green tea with some sugar is a good way to start off your morning (you know, if you want to get into the heavier stuff).
Sorry, it just bugs me that "medicine" comes in prescription bottles and "drugs" come in baggies and that some people see no correlation between the two.
Actually, come to think of it, anything on this list would qualify as a conspiracy and, until being proved out, anyone suggesting the truth would have looked like a conspiracy theory nutjob.
I saw a program about a guy that was actually taken prisoner for stumbling onto a fairly major conspiracy in order to keep him quiet. He had discovered that flu vaccine was being tainted in order to send people into a shopping frenzy just before the holiday season. He was taken to an island with others that had stumbled onto various things that couldn't be allowed to slip into public knowledge (the secret for turning water into gasoline, etc).
IIRC, he escaped on a boat built by another prisoner (Number 6) that was built out of toilet paper and scabs. It was small and smelly, but carried him to safety.
We've got a plan from Net10 (not for everybody - It's $.10/minute at a minimum average of $15/month or so). When we accept a SMS message, it costs $.05 but we do get to see who sent it before committing to reading it - Declining to read it saves your nickel. Not exactly what you're asking for, but it does allow us to reject the trash without paying for messages or signing up for unlimited SMS.
First, I recommend everyone get a plan with free SMS.
No. No way.
I have a land-line with a bottom-basement plan that suits my needs just fine (with the occasional exception of missing call-waiting when trying to get through to my wife). We have a cell phone that we pay $15/month for (150 minutes - WAY more than we need). When we accept a text, it costs us $.05 (and usually isn't worth that). If I could find a cheaper plan, I'd take it - But no way am I signing up for a more expensive plan just so that I don't have to pay for people to send me crap I don't want without incurring additional expense.
Also, I'm on board with the fire thing, but nailing fingers is more time than I'm willing to dedicate to torture. Let's just stick to killing them with fire - Simple, cheap, clean, and effective.
It doesn't cost you money to answer (and hang up on) a telemarketer. And there's a no-call list in most states that works pretty well.
Well, kind of. I value my time at home and when I'm doing something that I don't enjoy, I expect to be compensated (pay check, home improvement, if-I-don't-clean-this-shit-up-my-wife-will-leave-me, etc.) Just because I don't see a new number on my phone bill doesn't mean I'm not sacrificing something of value.
Since the don't-call-list, I've received only a handful of telemarketing calls but still get political, charity, and survey calls. My typical response is to ask the caller whether they're volunteering their time to call me. If they are, I'll give them a couple of minutes to make their pitch (if it's a political call and the person is motivated and well-informed, I may talk for a while if I have nothing going on - charities I prefer to research myself rather than take the word of a random caller). If they're being paid (typically the case for surveys and mixed results for charity/political), I ask why they expect me to spend time on the call for free when they won't. Ends the call pretty effectively.
Agreed that your idea would look "wicked cool", however I see a couple of problems. In order to keep the acceleration low enough to avoid destroying the plane and killing the passengers during take-off, the band will have to be fairly soft and very long. Although if we can stretch it constantly over the entire length of a sharply inclined runway, that may be enough.
The second problem, however, is that the major technical hurdle will not be the launch. In order to stop the aircraft, you'll need a very large and very soft catcher's mitt at each airport to accommodate landings. I wish you the best of luck securing funding to pursue your new eco-friendly launch procedure, but I fear that you'll find an insurmountable hurdle at the other end.
You can not replace people who have a cult built around them. Someone different has to replace the cult.
Not entirely true.
Sure, I was upset when I had to remove my Tom Baker figure from my shrine and replace it with Peter Davidson. It was painful again when I took Peter down and put up Colin Baker. Recently I had to remove Christopher Eccleston and put up David Tennant, who'll I'll be removing soon again.
It hurts every time - Regeneration is a painful process. But I'm still a loyal cult member.
If something is living on Mars now that isn't something we dragged from Earth, then that is tremendously valuable, even if it turns out to be equivalent to primitive bacteria.
I don't really see the "tremendous value" in that knowledge. Or, more accurately, I can't fathom why that knowledge would be more valuable than learning that we can successfully transplant living organisms and watch them thrive.
I don't really care where life came from, I want to know where it can go.
Yes, I'm in the West. I saw my flag on the pile of skulls down there. The fact that the image is horrible and obviously inciting violence against me and many others is horrible.
But, horrible or not, you have to admit that the graphic design quality is much better than it is on most of the radical Islamic propaganda that you see posted on CNN, BBC, etc. Rather like looking at a highly artistic, gold flaked swastika I guess...
Trees absorb more CO2 in their first 50 years of life than in their second (I know - [citation needed] - if anyone has one please post). Does a newly planted tree absorb as much as a 100 year old tree? No. But on a 100-year scale, chopping down and replanting is the better move. I don't think that pointing out that they're replanting is at all disingenuous.
Well put. Hacking a phone system and disrupting your enemies communications infrastructure? That's cyber-war. DDOS on emergency services? That's cyber-war. Maybe if they're really disrupting commerce for major web-sites this would be worth calling out, but this looks like it's just silly vandalism.
I have to admit, though, when I saw that 'Death to the West' graphic in TFA, my first thought was that it looked pretty cool...
What I want is a reader that is bathroom and bathub friendly. Also one I could take outdoors and not worry about it getting rained on or something if I happen to leave it out on the deck by accident.
Actually Amazon sells transparent covers for the Kindle that make it fairly impervious to rain, spills, tub accidents, etc. And, if you're worried about a bathroom disaster, they're priced low enough that they can be treated as disposable (I've actually thrown more than one away myself.)
Why one of these isn't bundled when you purchase a Kindle, I have no idea.
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It will come as a shock to some that, even though Obama has taken office, a lot of the nation is overcast today. We still have to pay to go to the doctor. Dog poo does not yet smell like peppermint. And I've yet to get a raise or better offer this week.
I like the guy and, although some of his plans make me nervous (I'm a pretty staunch fiscal conservative), I'm optimistic that he'll do a good job. But it is kind of satisfying to see him reveal that he's not quite the guy that so many people see up on that pedestal.
2) Modifying the movie, and the extra's, violates the TOC. Just like any contract, if you do not like it then do not sign for it and do not use the product. If you like the product that much then use it how they asked you to use it.
It's not that I disagree with your motivation or principle - I think piracy is bad. It's just that you're wrong - I didn't sign any damned contract. What do you mean, "do not sign for it"? I just follow the laws as they apply where I live. (Well pretty close, I do rip what I buy to avi and put it on a hard drive before storing the media in case of a crash...)
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
I wish that people would stop referencing my welcome without a verb to tell me what's so special about it. What about my welcome?
Scratch is good too. Variables, loops, iterators, etc. Along with cute cartoon characters. My boy started at 2 and is learning well.
Some people can do it. Really (wiki says up to 250 wpm) - It's incredible. Frankly, even though I consider myself fairly intelligent, some people type faster than I can read. Some machines are built for I/O, others for processing. Some are just all around good.
Not necessarily.
I've only met my brother's wife's brother a couple of times and am not sure that he's any kind of official relation to me.
I'll go down to Florida tonight, get smashed, walk up to the first cop I see and demand the test. Three short months later me and my chemistry degree have a competing product on the market.
If you walk up to a cop and he arrests you for DUI, you may have a decent false arrest case on your hands - Forget engineering a breathalyzer.
It's not like they don't have what's best for you in mind.
Actually, in all seriousness, I believe that they do. I think that all the paranoia about them trying to enslave our minds to support some massive corporate/governing elite by censoring our movements, restricting our speech, and stripping our rights away is nonsense. I think that the Intelligence agencies and probably better than half of our governing body is motivated (mainly) by wanting to do what's best for us and keep us safe.
The problem is that their idea of what's "best for us" may not line up with mine and I'll be damned if I'm going to voluntarily abandon rights because it may-or-may-not make some minimal impact on my safety that would be dwarfed by efforts on the non-terror front. I don't so much question their intentions (although I don't object too loudly when other people do - blind trust is usually a bad idea), I just object to their methods.
I don't think it's so much about opposing him as it is about all of these "historic firsts" being heralded as signs from heaven that America has redefined itself and grown up.
For the first time a woman is giving the inaugural sermon. Meh - Wouldn't it be a bigger sign of progress if that wasn't news?
For the first time the president had his picture taken with a digital camera. Meh - So the White House is catching up with most of the other major photographers.
For the first time we have a president (elect) that's half-Hawaiian. Again, wouldn't it be a bigger sign of progress if that wasn't news?
I hope for good things to come and am optimistic that Obama will do a fine job and that people's faith in him will inspire a stronger market. I didn't vote for him (I went Barr/Root), but I'd love to see him succeed. But why is EVERYTHING he does some historic landmark?
Actually when I was experiencing sleep-deprivation once the hallucinations were about on par with LSD. When I had a 120 degree (f) fever and, on tons of codeine, the hallucinations were FAR more realistic and convincing. Not that I would recommend anyone getting strep for the trip.
The longest I've been up was roughly a week (I finally passed out about halfway through day 7). I've seen things saying that people die sooner than that, but maybe the copious amounts of ephedrine I was ingesting helped along the way (I'd take it in pill form during the day to make it through classes, then be stuck unable to sleep all night).
Anyway, by the end of the experience the effects I was experiencing blew LSD & psilocibin out of the water (although I was not having fun). I had no idea what was going on and was just kind of floating through my usual routine wondering WTF was going on. No hallucinations like with the other drugs, but massive confusion and a general "disconnected" feeling that I've never paralleled. Bad, bad idea - Not recommended.
Having never done LSD (or any other drug, for that matter....) I have never experienced this.
Sorry - this is a little off-topic, but you hit a peeve of mine. I believe you when you say you've never done LSD. I'll even buy that you've never done any drug that's illegal in the country you live in. It's entirely possible that you've never tried alcohol, nicotine, or caffeine (although that would be surprising). But any drug? Really?
I'd recommend aspirin for general aches and ibuprofen for muscle soreness and headaches, provided that you have something in your stomach. Also, a nice cup of green tea with some sugar is a good way to start off your morning (you know, if you want to get into the heavier stuff).
Sorry, it just bugs me that "medicine" comes in prescription bottles and "drugs" come in baggies and that some people see no correlation between the two.
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Actually, come to think of it, anything on this list would qualify as a conspiracy and, until being proved out, anyone suggesting the truth would have looked like a conspiracy theory nutjob.
I saw a program about a guy that was actually taken prisoner for stumbling onto a fairly major conspiracy in order to keep him quiet. He had discovered that flu vaccine was being tainted in order to send people into a shopping frenzy just before the holiday season. He was taken to an island with others that had stumbled onto various things that couldn't be allowed to slip into public knowledge (the secret for turning water into gasoline, etc).
IIRC, he escaped on a boat built by another prisoner (Number 6) that was built out of toilet paper and scabs. It was small and smelly, but carried him to safety.
This is MIT we're talking about. Searching other schools for your cheerleader-eye-candy may be a good move anyway.
We've got a plan from Net10 (not for everybody - It's $.10/minute at a minimum average of $15/month or so). When we accept a SMS message, it costs $.05 but we do get to see who sent it before committing to reading it - Declining to read it saves your nickel. Not exactly what you're asking for, but it does allow us to reject the trash without paying for messages or signing up for unlimited SMS.
First, I recommend everyone get a plan with free SMS.
No. No way.
I have a land-line with a bottom-basement plan that suits my needs just fine (with the occasional exception of missing call-waiting when trying to get through to my wife). We have a cell phone that we pay $15/month for (150 minutes - WAY more than we need). When we accept a text, it costs us $.05 (and usually isn't worth that). If I could find a cheaper plan, I'd take it - But no way am I signing up for a more expensive plan just so that I don't have to pay for people to send me crap I don't want without incurring additional expense.
Also, I'm on board with the fire thing, but nailing fingers is more time than I'm willing to dedicate to torture. Let's just stick to killing them with fire - Simple, cheap, clean, and effective.
It doesn't cost you money to answer (and hang up on) a telemarketer. And there's a no-call list in most states that works pretty well.
Well, kind of. I value my time at home and when I'm doing something that I don't enjoy, I expect to be compensated (pay check, home improvement, if-I-don't-clean-this-shit-up-my-wife-will-leave-me, etc.) Just because I don't see a new number on my phone bill doesn't mean I'm not sacrificing something of value.
Since the don't-call-list, I've received only a handful of telemarketing calls but still get political, charity, and survey calls. My typical response is to ask the caller whether they're volunteering their time to call me. If they are, I'll give them a couple of minutes to make their pitch (if it's a political call and the person is motivated and well-informed, I may talk for a while if I have nothing going on - charities I prefer to research myself rather than take the word of a random caller). If they're being paid (typically the case for surveys and mixed results for charity/political), I ask why they expect me to spend time on the call for free when they won't. Ends the call pretty effectively.
Agreed that your idea would look "wicked cool", however I see a couple of problems. In order to keep the acceleration low enough to avoid destroying the plane and killing the passengers during take-off, the band will have to be fairly soft and very long. Although if we can stretch it constantly over the entire length of a sharply inclined runway, that may be enough.
The second problem, however, is that the major technical hurdle will not be the launch. In order to stop the aircraft, you'll need a very large and very soft catcher's mitt at each airport to accommodate landings. I wish you the best of luck securing funding to pursue your new eco-friendly launch procedure, but I fear that you'll find an insurmountable hurdle at the other end.
Maybe I can help.
The correct pronunciation of the word "Woodge" is something like the Polish pronunciation of "Lodz".
There once was a company called Dell,
Who saw their costs starting to swell,
Labor in Lodz
Attracted their jobs,
So they told the Irish, "Go to hell".
You can not replace people who have a cult built around them. Someone different has to replace the cult.
Not entirely true.
Sure, I was upset when I had to remove my Tom Baker figure from my shrine and replace it with Peter Davidson. It was painful again when I took Peter down and put up Colin Baker. Recently I had to remove Christopher Eccleston and put up David Tennant, who'll I'll be removing soon again.
It hurts every time - Regeneration is a painful process. But I'm still a loyal cult member.
If something is living on Mars now that isn't something we dragged from Earth, then that is tremendously valuable, even if it turns out to be equivalent to primitive bacteria.
I don't really see the "tremendous value" in that knowledge. Or, more accurately, I can't fathom why that knowledge would be more valuable than learning that we can successfully transplant living organisms and watch them thrive.
I don't really care where life came from, I want to know where it can go.
Yes, I'm in the West. I saw my flag on the pile of skulls down there. The fact that the image is horrible and obviously inciting violence against me and many others is horrible.
But, horrible or not, you have to admit that the graphic design quality is much better than it is on most of the radical Islamic propaganda that you see posted on CNN, BBC, etc. Rather like looking at a highly artistic, gold flaked swastika I guess...
Trees absorb more CO2 in their first 50 years of life than in their second (I know - [citation needed] - if anyone has one please post). Does a newly planted tree absorb as much as a 100 year old tree? No. But on a 100-year scale, chopping down and replanting is the better move. I don't think that pointing out that they're replanting is at all disingenuous.
Well put. Hacking a phone system and disrupting your enemies communications infrastructure? That's cyber-war. DDOS on emergency services? That's cyber-war. Maybe if they're really disrupting commerce for major web-sites this would be worth calling out, but this looks like it's just silly vandalism.
I have to admit, though, when I saw that 'Death to the West' graphic in TFA, my first thought was that it looked pretty cool...
What I want is a reader that is bathroom and bathub friendly. Also one I could take outdoors and not worry about it getting rained on or something if I happen to leave it out on the deck by accident.
Actually Amazon sells transparent covers for the Kindle that make it fairly impervious to rain, spills, tub accidents, etc. And, if you're worried about a bathroom disaster, they're priced low enough that they can be treated as disposable (I've actually thrown more than one away myself.)
Why one of these isn't bundled when you purchase a Kindle, I have no idea.