You're supposed to worship it. For most of its existence, only a selected few could read it anyway. At least Christians can now RTFM, and think a bit about what's in there now. Instead of having someone else tell them what to think about what's in there.
Although, it's inherent in religions of all stripes to tend to stray on the dogmatic side. Although all these indigenous folks can now read the Bible, who knows if they can understand what's in there. I don't think the authors of the Bible even knew themselves.
What if a company patents something that is "vital to the security of the country," like a "Terrorist-Find-O-Matic?" Can't the government say, "tough shit, we need that?"
I was about to start working on my "Crotch-Groping-O-Matic" device, but if the TSA folks are going to just steal it from me, I won't bother.
I knew there would be a use for that old Electroshock Therapy machine that I picked up dirt cheap from military surplus.
If you wait long enough, wacky medical treatments become in vogue again. Like leeches, that are used for skin grafts.
My original plans of using the Electroshock Therapy machine to keep the neighborhood kids off my lawn did not go down too well with the neighbors, the police, and various other government agencies. Until they found no law against owning an Electroshock Therapy, and threatening to use it on kids on my lawn.
By then the neighbors wouldn't let their kids anywhere near my ranch anyway, so I guess it was effective after all.
Now about my plans for opening a private sniper school . . .
Friends of friends often call me about computer problems, and don't know their admin password. They set it when they turn on the box the first time, and forget it. So if it was something like this, I'd actually believe it. If it was something she used every day, I'd be more skeptical. Although, I've heard of folks who temporarily forgot stuff due to traumatic shock. Maybe being in court has wigged her out?
There is one proven judicial method and means to find out if she really forgot it. It's aquatic with a board, but it is not surfing. And definitely no fun.
People would just do what they do on any other holiday: sleep late, go to the "Special Voting Day Sale," have a cookout, drink beer, sit around, watch the "Voting Day Bowl Game" on TV, drink more beer, etc.
Maybe there is some sort of Internet Reference Counter worming its way through the Web. It looks at papers, and gives points to people who get referenced a lot. People who reference you are tallied as your friends, so you will know to reference them. People who publish in your area, but don't reference you, are foes, and get negative points. You can buy or sell references or points on eBay and pay for them with Bitcoins. People with lots of points are "Blue Chip" in the points futures markets. Points can be used to suppress rival research.
Hey, doesn't Facebook or Google do this already . . . ? . . . for an extra fee ? . . . ?
Technology Battles Today: Won in the Courts . . . not in the labs.
The first step in creating a fantastic, new tech gadget . . . is making sure all the legal issues are worked out, even before you start developing and idea. If some court is going to block you down the road, there is no point in investing in a new project.
Ladies and Gentlemen, lawyers are now the first troops at the front of technology development!
Sound like weather in Europe, at the moment . . .
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"Outer space is a hostile environment for humans, characterized by an airless vacuum, thermal extremes, ionizing radiation and speeding micro meteoroids."
Space Suit Vogue Designers should look at fashion trends in Europe right now . . . how are folks there dressing to survive the hostile environment outside theirs?
Less well-known are the dangers posed by long-term exposure to microgravity or zero-g conditions, which over time severely saps the strength of astronauts' muscles and bones.
Sound like they just need some couch potatoes as test subjects. Again, look to Europe for volunteers. During a cold spell, people would rather sit around on their fat, hairy asses, than go outside and freeze their fat, hairy asses.
Any volunteers to be a paid test subject? All you need to do is sit around for a long period of time, whilst wearing a new, trendy Space Suit.
What no X-Ray Specs? I bet you could sell them to the Homeland Security folks, whether they worked or not. That would unnerve terrorist if they thought that the security folks could see through their clothes.
US soldiers had a similar problem in Afghanistan: country yokels thought that the soldiers' mirrored sunglasses could see through their wives burqas.
Which is what future archeologists will be asking:
"This site must have consumed so much power . . . to store all this crap . . . we must be missing something! There is something important here hidden in secret code . . . "
" . . . or most of the people on the planet at that time were frivolous imbeciles . . . "
Interestingly, if the Nokia N9 had been available in all markets, it might have sold almost 5M units and pushed Nokia into profitability."
Truer words not said.
I noticed last week in a big electronics store in Germany, that N9s were now on sale there. Originally, they were not sold here . . . but Amazon Germany sold imports from Austria. It will be interesting to see if this starts to spread to other markets.
I'm sure the Austrian sales force made their quota for N9s.
+5 Insightful, Informative. I'll add that it is also quite funny, if you enjoy that dry, British, Monty Python style. The English level may be intimidating for non-native speakers at first, but if you want to learn top-notch English, here is your benchmark. After reading this, everything else seems written at a Dr. Suess level.
Oh, and take a look at Viz as well, a satirical adult comic. Low humor for high brows.
If oil companies' made cars, would they be fuel efficient? Hell, no. The more gas sold, the more oil profits.
It is the same with phone companies. The want you to call and use a lot of data traffic. What they don't want, are flat rates, where they get stuck with the bill. They want to charge every second to the customer. And every bit of unused bandwidth is lost profit for them.
Flood the market of the target country with modified cheap cell phones that include this capability hidden inside. Presto, involuntary Spy Nation! Maybe so US cell carriers have some experience that they could share here with the technology.
The higher ups in such countries will want to have contraband high-end smart phones. Stuff 'em with all kinds of spy goodies, including a remotely activated battery bomb. When some particularly nasty critter answers the phone, relieve him of the weight on his shoulders.
As soon as the word spreads around that a computer geek has married into the family, you will start getting calls from all sorts of distant relatives of your wife:
"I didn't change anything, but my computer stopped working . . . "
You might as well meet them all now, face to face, before you have to deal with them on the phone.
I'm sure I've seen this on one of the many CSI cities already: the wall screen flashes pictures of shoes from the national strategic shoe database, until it stops with a match. Guilty person found.
Hmmm . . . Hasso Plattner? SAP founder? What does SAP want to do with this footwear recognition system . . . ?
Half seriously, why not get a bloodhound to sniff the shoes? It should be able to recognize someone who is naughty or someone who is nice, friend or foe, really fast.
Although, when the poor critter has to smell my shoes in the summer, it would roll over and die . . .
So, they don't manufacture iStuff thingies in the US. But look how they are helping to build up the strategic American lawsuit industry! The US will be the world's leader and #1 in the lawsuit business!
No need to invade Third World countries any more . . . sue the pants of them!
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You're supposed to worship it. For most of its existence, only a selected few could read it anyway. At least Christians can now RTFM, and think a bit about what's in there now. Instead of having someone else tell them what to think about what's in there.
Although, it's inherent in religions of all stripes to tend to stray on the dogmatic side. Although all these indigenous folks can now read the Bible, who knows if they can understand what's in there. I don't think the authors of the Bible even knew themselves.
The Thai floods also disrupted the supply chain for digital cameras. It would be interesting to know how things are doing on that front.
What if a company patents something that is "vital to the security of the country," like a "Terrorist-Find-O-Matic?" Can't the government say, "tough shit, we need that?"
I was about to start working on my "Crotch-Groping-O-Matic" device, but if the TSA folks are going to just steal it from me, I won't bother.
I knew there would be a use for that old Electroshock Therapy machine that I picked up dirt cheap from military surplus.
If you wait long enough, wacky medical treatments become in vogue again. Like leeches, that are used for skin grafts.
My original plans of using the Electroshock Therapy machine to keep the neighborhood kids off my lawn did not go down too well with the neighbors, the police, and various other government agencies. Until they found no law against owning an Electroshock Therapy, and threatening to use it on kids on my lawn.
By then the neighbors wouldn't let their kids anywhere near my ranch anyway, so I guess it was effective after all.
Now about my plans for opening a private sniper school . . .
Friends of friends often call me about computer problems, and don't know their admin password. They set it when they turn on the box the first time, and forget it. So if it was something like this, I'd actually believe it. If it was something she used every day, I'd be more skeptical. Although, I've heard of folks who temporarily forgot stuff due to traumatic shock. Maybe being in court has wigged her out?
There is one proven judicial method and means to find out if she really forgot it. It's aquatic with a board, but it is not surfing. And definitely no fun.
How do I know?
All the stars are still there.
People would just do what they do on any other holiday: sleep late, go to the "Special Voting Day Sale," have a cookout, drink beer, sit around, watch the "Voting Day Bowl Game" on TV, drink more beer, etc.
Everything except go out and vote.
Maybe there is some sort of Internet Reference Counter worming its way through the Web. It looks at papers, and gives points to people who get referenced a lot. People who reference you are tallied as your friends, so you will know to reference them. People who publish in your area, but don't reference you, are foes, and get negative points. You can buy or sell references or points on eBay and pay for them with Bitcoins. People with lots of points are "Blue Chip" in the points futures markets. Points can be used to suppress rival research.
Hey, doesn't Facebook or Google do this already . . . ? . . . for an extra fee ? . . . ?
Technology Battles Today: Won in the Courts . . . not in the labs.
The first step in creating a fantastic, new tech gadget . . . is making sure all the legal issues are worked out, even before you start developing and idea. If some court is going to block you down the road, there is no point in investing in a new project.
Ladies and Gentlemen, lawyers are now the first troops at the front of technology development!
"Outer space is a hostile environment for humans, characterized by an airless vacuum, thermal extremes, ionizing radiation and speeding micro meteoroids."
Space Suit Vogue Designers should look at fashion trends in Europe right now . . . how are folks there dressing to survive the hostile environment outside theirs?
Less well-known are the dangers posed by long-term exposure to microgravity or zero-g conditions, which over time severely saps the strength of astronauts' muscles and bones.
Sound like they just need some couch potatoes as test subjects. Again, look to Europe for volunteers. During a cold spell, people would rather sit around on their fat, hairy asses, than go outside and freeze their fat, hairy asses.
Any volunteers to be a paid test subject? All you need to do is sit around for a long period of time, whilst wearing a new, trendy Space Suit.
What no X-Ray Specs? I bet you could sell them to the Homeland Security folks, whether they worked or not. That would unnerve terrorist if they thought that the security folks could see through their clothes.
US soldiers had a similar problem in Afghanistan: country yokels thought that the soldiers' mirrored sunglasses could see through their wives burqas.
Just remember to keep your head down at all times . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills
Of course, they weren't aiming at elephants . . .
. . . I'll just stick with my fleet of "Cherry 2000s", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000, thanks anyway . . .
Which is what future archeologists will be asking:
"This site must have consumed so much power . . . to store all this crap . . . we must be missing something! There is something important here hidden in secret code . . . "
" . . . or most of the people on the planet at that time were frivolous imbeciles . . . "
Interestingly, if the Nokia N9 had been available in all markets, it might have sold almost 5M units and pushed Nokia into profitability."
Truer words not said.
I noticed last week in a big electronics store in Germany, that N9s were now on sale there. Originally, they were not sold here . . . but Amazon Germany sold imports from Austria. It will be interesting to see if this starts to spread to other markets.
I'm sure the Austrian sales force made their quota for N9s.
"I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record"
Oh yeah? Well, don't get so distressed
Did I happen to mention that I'm impressed?
Reporter: "Mr. Romney, when will we again send a man to the Moon?"
Romney: "As soon as Newt Gingrich has packed his bags. Preferably, before the next primary."
+5 Insightful, Informative. I'll add that it is also quite funny, if you enjoy that dry, British, Monty Python style. The English level may be intimidating for non-native speakers at first, but if you want to learn top-notch English, here is your benchmark. After reading this, everything else seems written at a Dr. Suess level.
Oh, and take a look at Viz as well, a satirical adult comic. Low humor for high brows.
If oil companies' made cars, would they be fuel efficient? Hell, no. The more gas sold, the more oil profits.
It is the same with phone companies. The want you to call and use a lot of data traffic. What they don't want, are flat rates, where they get stuck with the bill. They want to charge every second to the customer. And every bit of unused bandwidth is lost profit for them.
Flood the market of the target country with modified cheap cell phones that include this capability hidden inside. Presto, involuntary Spy Nation! Maybe so US cell carriers have some experience that they could share here with the technology.
The higher ups in such countries will want to have contraband high-end smart phones. Stuff 'em with all kinds of spy goodies, including a remotely activated battery bomb. When some particularly nasty critter answers the phone, relieve him of the weight on his shoulders.
As soon as the word spreads around that a computer geek has married into the family, you will start getting calls from all sorts of distant relatives of your wife:
"I didn't change anything, but my computer stopped working . . . "
You might as well meet them all now, face to face, before you have to deal with them on the phone.
I'm sure I've seen this on one of the many CSI cities already: the wall screen flashes pictures of shoes from the national strategic shoe database, until it stops with a match. Guilty person found.
Hmmm . . . Hasso Plattner? SAP founder? What does SAP want to do with this footwear recognition system . . . ?
Half seriously, why not get a bloodhound to sniff the shoes? It should be able to recognize someone who is naughty or someone who is nice, friend or foe, really fast.
Although, when the poor critter has to smell my shoes in the summer, it would roll over and die . . .
"This is NOT a new player. In order to play this game, please replace the current player with a new one, and start again."
"This system does NOT accept used players."
So if this President of the United States of American thing doesn't work out, maybe he can campaign to be the President of the Moon?
So, they don't manufacture iStuff thingies in the US. But look how they are helping to build up the strategic American lawsuit industry! The US will be the world's leader and #1 in the lawsuit business!
No need to invade Third World countries any more . . . sue the pants of them!