Journalism used to be about taking risks to bring critical public interest information to everyone, with a strong ethic and moral code. Now it seems that to most of the industry, it's about finding out what trouble Lindsay Lohan will get into next.
A lot of traffic DOES go through it however, and could prove to be extremely problematic to go around for the rest of the world. If my ability to reach certain websites from Canada goes down just because a single line somewhere in Boston went out, imagine what the entire COUNTRY getting shut down would do at that point.
Better still - keep the deorbiting fuel reserve separate from the normal operations fuel reserve, so that even if you use the satellite until it's depleted and useless, it will still have the untouched recall option fuel ready to use. This would prevent the administrators higher up from being tempted to use the deorbit fuel to squeeze another decade of use instead of doing the right thing.
You turn the crank that turns the gears, it turns the lever that swings the boot, it kicks the bucket and drops the ball, it rolls down the stairs and down the slide, it hits the pole and pushes the hand and knocks the marble down the chute, into the bathtub and down the hole, onto the seesaw launching the man, THE TRAP IS SET HERE COMES THE NET!
A reasonably priced controller with a precise D-pad would certainly beat searching through eBay for an arcade fighting stick priced less than 250$ when it comes to Street Fighter 4...
Have you seen Glenn start crying live on the air as he was denouncing the families of 9/11 victims as selfish profiteers trying to exploit the victims for their own profit? I think Beck is way out there already.
"any jackass with money" covers the rappers and actors.
True, but I meant non-famous rich jackasses who don't have three million people who religiously follow their tweet pages with such pearls of wisdom as "my corn flakes tasted funny today"
So I really want to know if this is a ridiculous idea someone came up with or some form of pay out as a favor. It makes absolutely no sense. Besides this is the same military that sent Humvee with no doors or armor. Their only defense was to cover the floor with sand bags and pray they didn't take fire through the doors.
Expect any combination of bribes, blackmail and under the desk blowjobs to be involved in the approval process.
Tell me though, if you don't think it was a witch hunt, why did backing dry up when they tried to move on to television to clean up all the violence that children saw in the moving pictures? The unrealistic violence of Larry, Moe and Curly is okay because... ?
There was much more money made with television than with comics at the time. I doubt that Magnavox and RCA would have taken kindly to a witch hunt in their money growing fields.
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His Darwin Award is on the way.
Journalism used to be about taking risks to bring critical public interest information to everyone, with a strong ethic and moral code. Now it seems that to most of the industry, it's about finding out what trouble Lindsay Lohan will get into next.
A lot of traffic DOES go through it however, and could prove to be extremely problematic to go around for the rest of the world. If my ability to reach certain websites from Canada goes down just because a single line somewhere in Boston went out, imagine what the entire COUNTRY getting shut down would do at that point.
That certainly explains the widespread appeal of youtube fail videos starring spectacular parkour and skateboard wipeouts.
They'll never want to eavesdrop on private communication data again!
Better still - keep the deorbiting fuel reserve separate from the normal operations fuel reserve, so that even if you use the satellite until it's depleted and useless, it will still have the untouched recall option fuel ready to use. This would prevent the administrators higher up from being tempted to use the deorbit fuel to squeeze another decade of use instead of doing the right thing.
Vader: "... and the empire will be defeated by EWOKS!"
Luke: "That's... very unlikely!"
I had to look up the mechanism on wikipedia, all I could remember was the first and last line.
... goes as follows:
You turn the crank that turns the gears, it turns the lever that swings the boot, it kicks the bucket and drops the ball, it rolls down the stairs and down the slide, it hits the pole and pushes the hand and knocks the marble down the chute, into the bathtub and down the hole, onto the seesaw launching the man, THE TRAP IS SET HERE COMES THE NET!
Except that we don't breathe those directly from the source?
Because the drinking public has been clamoring for years for a whiskey that reminds them of grandfatherly child abuse?
A reasonably priced controller with a precise D-pad would certainly beat searching through eBay for an arcade fighting stick priced less than 250$ when it comes to Street Fighter 4...
Please tell me about the CAN'T EAT MORE. (Would you like to take 5 minutes to register me?)
Nietzche would probably refuse to board that train on the basis that it has no free will.
Have you seen Glenn start crying live on the air as he was denouncing the families of 9/11 victims as selfish profiteers trying to exploit the victims for their own profit? I think Beck is way out there already.
human has over another, the first question should be: How will/can this authority be abused?
Or more accurately, how soon? Smart money says "monday before lunch."
He's on the unseen part of the map where angry emotional outburst meets paranoid fear.
But he needs my help right now! He's just trying to get the millions of dollars stolen from him in the revolution!
"any jackass with money" covers the rappers and actors.
True, but I meant non-famous rich jackasses who don't have three million people who religiously follow their tweet pages with such pearls of wisdom as "my corn flakes tasted funny today"
So I really want to know if this is a ridiculous idea someone came up with or some form of pay out as a favor. It makes absolutely no sense. Besides this is the same military that sent Humvee with no doors or armor. Their only defense was to cover the floor with sand bags and pray they didn't take fire through the doors.
Expect any combination of bribes, blackmail and under the desk blowjobs to be involved in the approval process.
Dang those kids and their fancy telegraph! When I was their age, all we had was the pony express and we liked it, dagnabbit!
Citing a wikipedia article in court is equal to citing a law book which is full of crossed out sections, liquid paper deletions and penciled in notes.
Tell me though, if you don't think it was a witch hunt, why did backing dry up when they tried to move on to television to clean up all the violence that children saw in the moving pictures? The unrealistic violence of Larry, Moe and Curly is okay because ... ?
There was much more money made with television than with comics at the time. I doubt that Magnavox and RCA would have taken kindly to a witch hunt in their money growing fields.
Where iPhone ads are well designed in promoting the iPhone, the Marcus PSP ads seem solely geared towards promoting Marcus himself above the PSP.
... until hollywood actors, then rappers, then any jackass with money wants to buy one?