or $51.1 million a year. That's a sizeable amount of cash
You and I would love to have $51.1 million dollars. However, I'll quote the following from NY Newsday:
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With the decision announced yesterday, up to six anti-missile interceptors will be installed at Fort Greely and four more at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California by the end of 2004. As many as 10 more interceptors will be added to the Alaska site by the end of 2005. They are designed for use against long-range missiles. In addition, between 10 and 20 sea-based interceptors for use against short- and medium-range missiles will be deployed on three U.S. Navy Aegis vessels by 2005.
Kadish said that the deployment would cost $17.5 billion over the next two years, but that $16 billion had already been budgeted to fund the testing program. Critics say the cost of the program could eventually soar into the hundreds of billions.
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OK, now we're talking about $17.5 billion dollars for 30-40 (35) missiles to be deployed. DEPLOYED, not R&D. We're talking $25 million per missile here. So they could deploy one missile per year, every year, for 18 years in order to stop 2/3's of the missiles that some country might launch against them. Yay!
Re:Bob forbid that this should ever come to pass.
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Thank Scrod I didn't have to post this. The fatality rate for even the machine that they dream of would be 100 times that of a car. Think about the training and technology that goes into an airport. Are we going to implement a system like that for every frat party on earth?
Re:A few flying platform and jetpack projects
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Let me just say that I don't really know about either the Hiller machine or the Solotrek machine. However, saying a car gets 20 MPG city and 25 MPG highway is one thing. Saying your flying machine gets 1.5 or 2 hours in the air seems a bit, uh, imprecise to me. I saw the Faces of Death video where the guy parachuted into the alligator pit;)
Re:Congratulations Mr. Marthouse, You've Invented.
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We're plunking $1 billion into the Springfield Interchange near where I live
At the beginning of the process, the user enters a password on the watch. "That's to make sure an imposter isn't wearing your token," Noble says. Then, each second, the laptop broadcasts a cryptographic request that only the token can correctly answer. This procedure, an exchange of cryptographic numbers, is a standard security measure.
People will still use stupid passwords. GONG!. They'll use the same letter conventions that 99% of the population uses. I guarantee that one guy with a high-end laptop could walk through an office and guess 99% of the passwords within a few minutes. Or maybe they'll guess 1% and get the temp's password. Good enough, access to the internal network is almost always sufficient to own the rest of the network.
There is no technology that will override stupidity.
---- T1 = Robot tries to kill a human from the past, a human from the future tries to stop it.
T2 = Robot tries to kill a human from the past, a robot (ooooh! a robot this time!) from the future triest to stop it.
OK, what the hell is different about these two movies? The only thing they did is substitute Arnold as the Bad Guy for the Good Guy and make the other guy a robot as well. BOOOORING. Let's get some originality here, not just switch up plot devices.
Very interesting that you point this out. I hadn't really considered the male angle of this phenomenon, only the female angle.
Ever notice how women on the internet almost always advertise their gender? Stained wife-beater, Hitler moustache, playground lurking perverts not withstanding, ACTUAL women truly enjoy the Internet lifestyle. This only increases exponentially with how geeky the forum is. If it's a simple screenname/handle/nick, they might be "jane125851", but if it's an MMORPG forum they might also post a pic (real or otherwise, it doesn't make a difference). I think women who are otherwise jilted by men are very attracted to the Internet, and can become addicted to the way that men act around them in a non-confrontational setting. And not without good reason either. Nerdmen on the Internet are so smitten with women with similar tastes (being on the net constitutes "a taste") that they will do virtually (pun intended) anything to please them.
I could go on and on, but I guess my point is that male geeks on the net like to advertise that they do have women, female geeks on the net like to advertise that they want attention.
-- Kent Brockman's breaking news story, ``Brother from the Same Planet''
Brockman: This just in. A fistfight is in progress in downtown Springfield. Early reports indicate, and this is very preliminary, that one of the fighters is a giant lizard. [inset of Godzilla] Do we have a source on this?... Uh huh. A bunch of drunken frat boys.... All right, I could use some names. I. P. Freeley.
Wasn't it one of the editors that said that only 5% of/. readers actually read the comments? Imagine the 95% of us that are going to go into work tommorow and drop this bomb on our coworkers, only to have them ask us to quote our source. "Uh, Slashdot quoting some fanboy site." "Riiiight."
Re:Some interesting quotes about the flick...
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Tolkien has said that he wrote the book as a "period piece", in the universe of The Heroic Epic. Critisize this movie for the lack of gender equality and you're going to have a long list of other classics to bash. (not directed at YOU, obviously)
And I defy you to say that all the fancy graphics in the world make any game more fun to play with a couple friends than Baseball for the NES.
Re:What a waste(no pun intended)...
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no, it was the simpsons, see here: "We need some more Secret Sauce. Put this mayonnaise in the sun." -- Mr. Peterson, manager of Krusty Burger to Abe Simpson
This was before his manslaughter conviction for when his bodyguard, Malik Lee, shot a guy at an L.A. park. How do you think Snoop felt after going to prison for 3 years?
First of all, Snoop was never convicted of this crime, he was cleared of all charges, as was his bodyguard because it was in self-defense. Second, his only conviction was for drug-related charges years before he became famous. If you want to learn more, and not just be an ignorant fuck, please visit this site, which might let you do something novel, such posting a flame response that is actually correct!
bah slashcode ate some of my chars as html code (didn't i say Plain Old Text?), that should've read:
(Gangster1's hoe hits on Snoop)
Gangster1: Yeah whassup nigga? What the fuck's wrong with you?
Snoop: Yo nigga whas happenin fool? You know the name of the game, your bitch chose me. Nigga we can handle this like some gentlemen or we can get into some gangsta shit
Let me preface this by saying that i'm a huge snoop fan and though he often raps about shooting people, slapping hoez, pimping hoez, selling crack, driving drunk, killing cops, etc. I'm of the opinion that lyrics mimic society, not the other way around. I mean, after listening to snoop or watching Boyz 'n' the Hood I too fantasize about doing drive-bys on niggaz that talk shit about my hoe (or whatever), but I don't do it. Why? Cuz I'm a middle class white guy who didn't grow up in the ghetto and learn how to conduct himself by absorbing the crime going on all around him. Still, you're wrong. From his first album, Doggystyle, Snoop often raps about killing people, such as in U Betta Recognize (Pump Pump Intro):...
Gangster1: Yeah whassup nigga? What the fuck's wrong with you?
Snoop: Yo nigga whas happenin fool? You know the name of the game, your bitch chose me. Nigga we can handle this like some gentlemen or we can get into some gangsta shit
Gangster1: So whassup nigga?
Snoop: Have it your motherfuckin way
Gangster1: Well whassup?
Snoop: That's whassup nigga
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Who Am I (What's My Name?):
It's like that and as a matter of fact [rat-tat-tat-tat] Cuz I never hesitate to put a nigga on his back [Yeah, so peep out the manuscript
You see that it's a must we drop gangsta shit]... Mr. One Eight Seven on a motherfuckin cop... Robbin motherfuckers then I kill dem blood claats
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Tha Shiznit
So lay back in the cut, motherfucker 'fore you get shot It's 1-8-7 on a motherfuckin cop... And serve your ass with a motherfuckin AK
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Serial Killa
Now break yourself motherfucker, 'fore you make me take this 211 to another level
Etc., etc., it goes on and on. So don't tell me it's all about parties.
Let me guess: you don't live in Manhattan. You try living in the most populated city in America, The Great Satan, the hub of international commerce, and see how safe YOU feel.
Re:You Americans are funny sometimes...
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I don't want to flame, but 80mph is really fucking weak.. Commuters do 80mph, not people who are trying to have fun in their cars. If I turn 25 MPG in my BMW M3 I'm happy, and I'm also going nearly twice as fast as you are. Also, I pay 1/3 of what you pay for gas. Also, the US eats more oil than all of europe.. so keep the xenophobic comments to yourself.
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or $51.1 million a year. That's a sizeable amount of cash
You and I would love to have $51.1 million dollars. However, I'll quote the following from NY Newsday:
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With the decision announced yesterday, up to six anti-missile interceptors will be installed at Fort Greely and four more at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California by the end of 2004. As many as 10 more interceptors will be added to the Alaska site by the end of 2005. They are designed for use against long-range missiles. In addition, between 10 and 20 sea-based interceptors for use against short- and medium-range missiles will be deployed on three U.S. Navy Aegis vessels by 2005.
Kadish said that the deployment would cost $17.5 billion over the next two years, but that $16 billion had already been budgeted to fund the testing program. Critics say the cost of the program could eventually soar into the hundreds of billions.
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OK, now we're talking about $17.5 billion dollars for 30-40 (35) missiles to be deployed. DEPLOYED, not R&D. We're talking $25 million per missile here. So they could deploy one missile per year, every year, for 18 years in order to stop 2/3's of the missiles that some country might launch against them. Yay!
Thank Scrod I didn't have to post this. The fatality rate for even the machine that they dream of would be 100 times that of a car. Think about the training and technology that goes into an airport. Are we going to implement a system like that for every frat party on earth?
Let me just say that I don't really know about either the Hiller machine or the Solotrek machine. However, saying a car gets 20 MPG city and 25 MPG highway is one thing. Saying your flying machine gets 1.5 or 2 hours in the air seems a bit, uh, imprecise to me. I saw the Faces of Death video where the guy parachuted into the alligator pit ;)
We're plunking $1 billion into the Springfield Interchange near where I live
Clearly what you need is a monorail.
Manditory:
Burns: Are you acquainted with our state's stringent usury laws?
Homer: Usury?
Burns: Oh, silly me! I must've just made up a word that doesn't exist.
First of all, they only discuss inventions, not ideas. Second, the (special) theory of relativity was first published in 1905.
Total load time averages, rank them (windows-centric because IIRC there is no Linux QT player):
- DivX/mpg/aviDivX/asf: Windows Media Player
- DivX/aviDivX Tha Playa
- RM/RAM RealPlayer
- QuickTime Quicktime Player
Now, why did they choose Quicktime as the dominant movie format?
At the beginning of the process, the user enters a password on the watch. "That's to make sure an imposter isn't wearing your token," Noble says. Then, each second, the laptop broadcasts a cryptographic request that only the token can correctly answer. This procedure, an exchange of cryptographic numbers, is a standard security measure.
People will still use stupid passwords. GONG!. They'll use the same letter conventions that 99% of the population uses. I guarantee that one guy with a high-end laptop could walk through an office and guess 99% of the passwords within a few minutes. Or maybe they'll guess 1% and get the temp's password. Good enough, access to the internal network is almost always sufficient to own the rest of the network.
There is no technology that will override stupidity.
Back when T2 came out you posted:
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T1 = Robot tries to kill a human from the past, a human from the future tries to stop it.
T2 = Robot tries to kill a human from the past, a robot (ooooh! a robot this time!) from the future triest to stop it.
OK, what the hell is different about these two movies? The only thing they did is substitute Arnold as the Bad Guy for the Good Guy and make the other guy a robot as well. BOOOORING. Let's get some originality here, not just switch up plot devices.
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I don't get it. Spam is a luncheon meat or internet bulk mail. Maybe You've Got Male Genitalia with due respect to Family Guy.
Very interesting that you point this out. I hadn't really considered the male angle of this phenomenon, only the female angle.
Ever notice how women on the internet almost always advertise their gender? Stained wife-beater, Hitler moustache, playground lurking perverts not withstanding, ACTUAL women truly enjoy the Internet lifestyle. This only increases exponentially with how geeky the forum is. If it's a simple screenname/handle/nick, they might be "jane125851", but if it's an MMORPG forum they might also post a pic (real or otherwise, it doesn't make a difference). I think women who are otherwise jilted by men are very attracted to the Internet, and can become addicted to the way that men act around them in a non-confrontational setting. And not without good reason either. Nerdmen on the Internet are so smitten with women with similar tastes (being on the net constitutes "a taste") that they will do virtually (pun intended) anything to please them.
I could go on and on, but I guess my point is that male geeks on the net like to advertise that they do have women, female geeks on the net like to advertise that they want attention.
-- Kent Brockman's breaking news story, ``Brother from the Same Planet''
... Uh huh. A bunch of drunken frat boys. ... All right, I could use some names. I. P. Freeley.
Brockman: This just in. A fistfight is in progress in downtown Springfield. Early reports indicate, and this is very preliminary, that one of the fighters is a giant lizard. [inset of Godzilla] Do we have a source on this?
Compliments of www.snpp.com
Particularly since Penny Arcade just did a comic on it.
Wasn't it one of the editors that said that only 5% of /. readers actually read the comments? Imagine the 95% of us that are going to go into work tommorow and drop this bomb on our coworkers, only to have them ask us to quote our source. "Uh, Slashdot quoting some fanboy site." "Riiiight."
Tolkien has said that he wrote the book as a "period piece", in the universe of The Heroic Epic. Critisize this movie for the lack of gender equality and you're going to have a long list of other classics to bash. (not directed at YOU, obviously)
Zelda 1 for the NES: still the Best Game Ever
And I defy you to say that all the fancy graphics in the world make any game more fun to play with a couple friends than Baseball for the NES.
no, it was the simpsons, see here: "We need some more Secret Sauce. Put this mayonnaise in the sun." -- Mr. Peterson, manager of Krusty Burger to Abe Simpson
First of all, Snoop was never convicted of this crime, he was cleared of all charges, as was his bodyguard because it was in self-defense. Second, his only conviction was for drug-related charges years before he became famous. If you want to learn more, and not just be an ignorant fuck, please visit this site, which might let you do something novel, such posting a flame response that is actually correct!
bah slashcode ate some of my chars as html code (didn't i say Plain Old Text?), that should've read:
(Gangster1's hoe hits on Snoop)
Gangster1: Yeah whassup nigga? What the fuck's wrong with you?
Snoop: Yo nigga whas happenin fool? You know the name of the game, your bitch chose me. Nigga we can handle this like some gentlemen or we can get into some gangsta shit
Gangster1: So whassup nigga?
Snoop: Have it your motherfuckin way
Gangster1: Well whassup?
(shots fired)
Snoop: That's whassup nigga
Let me preface this by saying that i'm a huge snoop fan and though he often raps about shooting people, slapping hoez, pimping hoez, selling crack, driving drunk, killing cops, etc. I'm of the opinion that lyrics mimic society, not the other way around. I mean, after listening to snoop or watching Boyz 'n' the Hood I too fantasize about doing drive-bys on niggaz that talk shit about my hoe (or whatever), but I don't do it. Why? Cuz I'm a middle class white guy who didn't grow up in the ghetto and learn how to conduct himself by absorbing the crime going on all around him. Still, you're wrong. From his first album, Doggystyle, Snoop often raps about killing people, such as in U Betta Recognize (Pump Pump Intro): ...
... ...
...
Gangster1: Yeah whassup nigga? What the fuck's wrong with you?
Snoop: Yo nigga whas happenin fool? You know the name of the game, your bitch chose me. Nigga we can handle this like some gentlemen or we can get into some gangsta shit
Gangster1: So whassup nigga?
Snoop: Have it your motherfuckin way
Gangster1: Well whassup?
Snoop: That's whassup nigga
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Who Am I (What's My Name?):
It's like that and as a matter of fact [rat-tat-tat-tat]
Cuz I never hesitate to put a nigga on his back
[Yeah, so peep out the manuscript
You see that it's a must we drop gangsta shit]
Mr. One Eight Seven on a motherfuckin cop
Robbin motherfuckers then I kill dem blood claats
------
Tha Shiznit
So lay back in the cut, motherfucker 'fore you get shot
It's 1-8-7 on a motherfuckin cop
And serve your ass with a motherfuckin AK
------
Serial Killa
Now break yourself motherfucker, 'fore you make me
take this 211 to another level
Etc., etc., it goes on and on. So don't tell me it's all about parties.
Ah yes, give up my apartment, my job, my girlfriend, my friends, my community. Great idea. If your town was attacked by terrorists would you move?
Let me guess: you don't live in Manhattan. You try living in the most populated city in America, The Great Satan, the hub of international commerce, and see how safe YOU feel.
I don't want to flame, but 80mph is really fucking weak.. Commuters do 80mph, not people who are trying to have fun in their cars. If I turn 25 MPG in my BMW M3 I'm happy, and I'm also going nearly twice as fast as you are. Also, I pay 1/3 of what you pay for gas. Also, the US eats more oil than all of europe.. so keep the xenophobic comments to yourself.
At 220 MPG the european community can pay the same effective price for gas that we do in the US with our SUV's!
What sort of criminal would use a stolen credit card to buy a tracking device?