Winter, you know that "weather" thing with the white stuff and the smooth slippery stuff and all the cold?
I'm surprised someone hasn't released "The Seasons" in IMax for the urbanites.
About half of the year around here you don't want to do any sort of driving without a full tank. Even if it's just 10 miles. A little short range vehicle like that would not be practical at all. I can't really imagine a one-wheel-in-the-back covered trike doing anything other than getting stuck with any amount of snow.
USA a "free government"? Best one I've heard all day.
You need money to get legislation. You need money to be able to even run for office. You need the backing of corrupt and outdated self-created and self-sustaining bureaucracies once you do get elected.
I wouldn't call that free.
Of course legislation doesn't have the people's best interests in mind. The people aren't part of the government. The people are just actors in a theater production that's held every couple of years.
Unfortunately we have this class of workers called "lawyers" that have done quite a good job of ensuring their paychecks will continue to roll in.
Starting a non-trivial business isn't something you just go out and do on a whim (in general, *dons anti-pedant armor anyways*). Sure, you can try, but good luck complying with every local, state and federal code involved with your business and may $DIETY help you once someone finds a reason to sue you.
E-mail just gets dumped in the bit bucket. You have to send snail mail with real paper, generally the type that includes the line "pay to the order of" to buy the, err, get the attention of a congresscritter.
Celsius is too wussy for climates with real weather.
'Round here 32F can be shorts, t-shirt and sandal weather. OC just sounds too cold for such a warm day.
Sure, eventually Celsius catches up but that point tends to fall outside of standard human operational temperature range.
On the other end Celsius just wouldn't work since it is traditional that the temperature is the same as the humidity after about 65F during road construction season.
Saying you can read Japanese (kanji, whose characters came from the Chinese a long time ago) if you can read Chinese is like saying you can read German if you can read English.
English and German may share the same basic character set but the way the language uses them is different (andthentherestheGermanknackofmakinglonguberwords). The characters may look the same but they carry different meanings between the Japanese and Chinese languages.
It's the old "but it's not a perfect solution!" claptrap.
Yes, bit frost is a flawed solution.
No, there isn't a perfect solution nor will there ever be a perfect solution.
Do we sit around and wait for the perfect solution or do we try to make due with what we have available?
Anyways, a repressive regime most likely wouldn't even allow the project (which is paid for at the government level) into the country. Go find some other near dead horse to beat.
Anything can be misused as an assistive technology for dictators in their efforts to control their people.
Pen(cil) and paper? Leaves written records. A certain Cardinal had a pertinent quote for that.
The kid sitting next to you? Would probably sell you out so he could get a bag of rice for his family that is starving.
Who do you think would employ the teachers if the dictator is that paranoid or controlling? Commit a thoughtcrime against The Most Benevolent Leader and you and your family go off on a permanent vacation.
Apparently all the ones that changed their minds were on the planes.
I don't see wave after wave of people trying to storm our beaches, rape our infidel women or blow up idolatrous symbols of capitalistic greed over here.
The only reason "they" are relevant any more is that "they" are today's Commie Pinko Red Bastards. "They" are a useful scare tactic, and that's it. I might care once they start killing more people over here than amount that die to three wheeled volkswagen eurkel-mobile collisions.
No one could ever have something like a four hour drive to the nearest major league stadium which with one wrong turn could include a trip through the seedier part of the city?
That'd never happen because everyone lives in perfect happy little suburban utopias where everything is a five minute walk away.
Sad thing is I predict you'll get insightful and this will get flamebait.
Better hope the insurgents don't start thinking like that...
An even better plan: stop killing people and *MAKING* insurgents, take some personal responsibility in securing yourself and your surroundings and then see to getting back our rights.
Coffee house coffee, which with stretching of the definition fits Starbucks, is not something to be measured by volume but by the amount of time it gets you for the space you take up in the coffee house. Basically, the coffee is a token to represent an amount of pre-paid rent.
A $4 coffee that lets you sit in the coffee house for an hour is a far better deal than the same coffee ordered to go.
Want to truly enjoy coffee house coffee? First, find a real coffee house with patrons of interest to you. Next, order a coffee or other beverage you actually enjoy drinking (and tasting). Third, do not guzzle the beverage, take your time. Finally, sit, relax and turn off your damn cell phone.
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That'd be a great vehicle for the winter.
Winter, you know that "weather" thing with the white stuff and the smooth slippery stuff and all the cold?
I'm surprised someone hasn't released "The Seasons" in IMax for the urbanites.
About half of the year around here you don't want to do any sort of driving without a full tank. Even if it's just 10 miles. A little short range vehicle like that would not be practical at all. I can't really imagine a one-wheel-in-the-back covered trike doing anything other than getting stuck with any amount of snow.
I doubt that was a windows mobile IE supporter, must have been a mozilla fanboy.
Really, try IE and Minimo on an otherwise fully capable Windows Mobile palmtop. Then see if you have a valid reason for modding this down.
Just maybe, a browser will emerge for Windows Mobile that doesn't completely suck.
Is the ability to actually SAVE files that difficult for this platform? IE and Minimo say so.
To use a Vimes quote: "Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses."
Batman doesn't operate under the law. LEOs have laws that say they can kill. Bats doesn't have the law to say when he could and could not kill.
For Batman to remain Batman, he can't become the Executioner.
Frankly, that's exactly why I don't hate linux.
All of my hate allocated towards linux is spent on hating the damned "Fix it yourself!" people.
Linux the OS is ok. The fanboys can all DIA(OS)F.
Some days I wish I was just *trying* to be Simplicio.
USA a "free government"? Best one I've heard all day.
You need money to get legislation. You need money to be able to even run for office. You need the backing of corrupt and outdated self-created and self-sustaining bureaucracies once you do get elected.
I wouldn't call that free.
Of course legislation doesn't have the people's best interests in mind. The people aren't part of the government. The people are just actors in a theater production that's held every couple of years.
Free government, man that's a good one.
No one ever mentions snirt. Snow + dirt = snirt.
Unfortunately we have this class of workers called "lawyers" that have done quite a good job of ensuring their paychecks will continue to roll in.
Starting a non-trivial business isn't something you just go out and do on a whim (in general, *dons anti-pedant armor anyways*). Sure, you can try, but good luck complying with every local, state and federal code involved with your business and may $DIETY help you once someone finds a reason to sue you.
And then there's the insurances...
I believe there's some CEOs out there that got their hands on a copy of the Shadowrun timeline and thought it was an actual business plan.
The sad thing is I believe that currently the corporate future in Shadowrun is an optimistic outlook.
(And this is the FASA/Wizkids/CGL SR not the microsoft abomination.)
It can't be WWIII. We don't declare war anymore. Too many hoops to jump through.
Iran would be YAPA (Yet Another Police Action).
E-mail just gets dumped in the bit bucket. You have to send snail mail with real paper, generally the type that includes the line "pay to the order of" to buy the, err, get the attention of a congresscritter.
I felt lucky when I got a book that actually weighed more than a few ounces.
$150 for a book 5"x7" and 1/3" thick is something to complain about.
Perhaps if you'd have used slugs instead of buckshot the deer would have had a more humane death.
Aiming for something a bit more vital than the guts would have helped as well.
Celsius is too wussy for climates with real weather.
'Round here 32F can be shorts, t-shirt and sandal weather. OC just sounds too cold for such a warm day.
Sure, eventually Celsius catches up but that point tends to fall outside of standard human operational temperature range.
On the other end Celsius just wouldn't work since it is traditional that the temperature is the same as the humidity after about 65F during road construction season.
Death Coil is a horror effect.
Saying you can read Japanese (kanji, whose characters came from the Chinese a long time ago) if you can read Chinese is like saying you can read German if you can read English.
English and German may share the same basic character set but the way the language uses them is different (andthentherestheGermanknackofmakinglonguberwords). The characters may look the same but they carry different meanings between the Japanese and Chinese languages.
It's the old "but it's not a perfect solution!" claptrap.
Yes, bit frost is a flawed solution.
No, there isn't a perfect solution nor will there ever be a perfect solution.
Do we sit around and wait for the perfect solution or do we try to make due with what we have available?
Anyways, a repressive regime most likely wouldn't even allow the project (which is paid for at the government level) into the country. Go find some other near dead horse to beat.
Anything can be misused as an assistive technology for dictators in their efforts to control their people.
Pen(cil) and paper? Leaves written records. A certain Cardinal had a pertinent quote for that.
The kid sitting next to you? Would probably sell you out so he could get a bag of rice for his family that is starving.
Who do you think would employ the teachers if the dictator is that paranoid or controlling? Commit a thoughtcrime against The Most Benevolent Leader and you and your family go off on a permanent vacation.
Apparently all the ones that changed their minds were on the planes.
I don't see wave after wave of people trying to storm our beaches, rape our infidel women or blow up idolatrous symbols of capitalistic greed over here.
The only reason "they" are relevant any more is that "they" are today's Commie Pinko Red Bastards.
"They" are a useful scare tactic, and that's it. I might care once they start killing more people over here than amount that die to three wheeled volkswagen eurkel-mobile collisions.
No one could ever have something like a four hour drive to the nearest major league stadium which with one wrong turn could include a trip through the seedier part of the city?
That'd never happen because everyone lives in perfect happy little suburban utopias where everything is a five minute walk away.
Sad thing is I predict you'll get insightful and this will get flamebait.
There's the trip to and from the stadium for starters.
Mr. Murphy and his laws are another reason.
Better hope the insurgents don't start thinking like that...
An even better plan: stop killing people and *MAKING* insurgents, take some personal responsibility in securing yourself and your surroundings and then see to getting back our rights.
*cough* classic controller *cough*
*hack* gamecube controller *hack*
Time for "You're not doing it right."
Coffee house coffee, which with stretching of the definition fits Starbucks, is not something to be measured by volume but by the amount of time it gets you for the space you take up in the coffee house. Basically, the coffee is a token to represent an amount of pre-paid rent.
A $4 coffee that lets you sit in the coffee house for an hour is a far better deal than the same coffee ordered to go.
Want to truly enjoy coffee house coffee? First, find a real coffee house with patrons of interest to you. Next, order a coffee or other beverage you actually enjoy drinking (and tasting). Third, do not guzzle the beverage, take your time. Finally, sit, relax and turn off your damn cell phone.