When Congress wanted to make some spending cuts, something called the "Superconducting Supercollider" is an obvious candidate. If they had named it instead, "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Collider" it would have been running right now.
'No-one apart from JRA and our supplier knows which intersections have that system.'
This reminds me when my Dad's RCA location put up a chain link fence around the place. The next weekend, the fence was stolen!
Well, duh! That fence was probably sold to another customer a week later.
So I would think that someone at "JRA and our supplier" has a friend at a bar, and one night he said, "Oh, did you know that there are SIM chips in traffic lights now . .."
Buzz Aldrin already got the prize, so if you plan to visit the Moon, don't be disappointed when you can't find it.
When he was confronted by one of those Apollo Moon landing hoaxer kooks, who screamed, "Show us the prize!", the 70+ years old Aldrin responded by knocking the kook's teeth out.
Back in the 70's, I bought this at Spencer Gifts for a friend. It had small cardboard ships to toss into the toilet, and you could try to sink by pissing on them. If your bladder is full of beer, and your blood full of alcohol, it is a hoot and a half.
This "game" is much more challenging for women.
For the non-US folks, Spencer Gifts is a chain of stores in malls (shopping centers) in the US. They sell crap, like stuff to throw into the toilet and piss on.
give machines or robots visual intelligence similar to humans
Sounds like a grand idea. What we need are robots that have more intelligence to humans. It might sound like a bad idea, but we already have enough idiots running around, we don't need to reinforce them with piles of robots.
Hell, look at it this way, maybe humans will be doing outsourcing for robots in the future?
As someone who has spent a lot of time commuting on trains in central Europe, I would welcome this. If my office drove up to pick me up at the door. But if the train is only serving Lutefisk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk , I'll pass. Now if I could only remember the name of the fish that they put into the cans, where the fermentation turns the cans into a hand grenade form . . .
If the train went to Bullerbyn, that would be fantastic. I could invite Skrollan for a drink. Skrollan is the coolest Swedish name for a chick.
... I've been playing that skin thing for years. Now, in High School, I played trumpet. But no-one seemed to be able to find sexual innuendos for that instrument. Does anyone have some bassoon jokes?
And the folks at the Classic concert might not be amused with whit the, um results.
Some folks from the former East Germany sometimes ask me if the Apollo Moon landings were faked. Some admitted that they were taught so in school. Wrong shadows, flapping flag, etc.
I reply that I got up at 04:00 EST when Apollo 14 was on the Moon, and Alan Shepard knocked around some golf balls. Walter Cronkite looked liked he was grabbed out of the grave, and did not seemed amused that CBS dragged him out of bed to report on the Moon walk.
Golf balls on the Moon? Not even the wackiest Hollywood director could think that thing up.
Of course, the definitive evidence for the Moon landings is a mirror they left behind, which is used to shoot lasers at to determine the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Of course, one could argue that a Moon chick dropped her compact powder kit . . .
"Ministry of Information and Culture" sounds very wimpy to me. They need a Ministry of Truth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Truth . That would get those meddling kids on the Internet back into line.
"If it wasn't for those meddling Internet kids... etc"
So they can leave the Warfare out. Or is there an 147st Mobile Pizza Baker Infantry? Or a 139th Airborne Flower Pickers? Warfare is the military's core competency, so they can leave it out of the acronym.
Plus, folks with lots of weapons can choose whatever acronym they damn choose.
Some of them had slightly dubious backgrounds, like using slave labor to build the V-2 rockets. Werner von Braun just wanted to build rockets, so he ended up with some a bunch of bad company (Nazis) during World War II, who were willing to finance his work.
Later, while in the US, von Braun had trouble conniving government folks that they should invest in rocket technology. He even turned to Walt Disney to make a film about his space travel dreams. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the government folks changed their minds.
... the parking lots have displays showing how many spots are still free. When you drive in and get your ticket, the number is decremented. When you drive out, putting the paid ticket back into the machine, it gets incremented. Very simple and effective. However, you need to be physically close to the parking lot to see the display. But I'm not sure if I want a bunch of folks fiddling with their smart phones, while trying to drive as well.
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I believe his full name is Tim "Tools Head" Muglia.
10,000 years ago, when I was still in High School, we had pot heads, crack heads, but no tools heads. We just called them all collectively "heads."
"Ya see that guy over there? He does 'tools.' If you need some 'tools', go to the 'tools head'."
"Wanna do some 'tools'?"
When Congress wanted to make some spending cuts, something called the "Superconducting Supercollider" is an obvious candidate. If they had named it instead, "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Collider" it would have been running right now.
The rest of us will be eating healthy Ramen Noodles.
I'm sure it's about to go down.
It's turtles . . . all the way down . . .
So the world will end in 2012!
Only if you are on Social Security, For the rest of the folks, just keep on paying those Social Security taxes . . .
. . . and stay in your homes; there is no danger.
'No-one apart from JRA and our supplier knows which intersections have that system.'
This reminds me when my Dad's RCA location put up a chain link fence around the place. The next weekend, the fence was stolen!
Well, duh! That fence was probably sold to another customer a week later.
So I would think that someone at "JRA and our supplier" has a friend at a bar, and one night he said, "Oh, did you know that there are SIM chips in traffic lights now . . ."
Profit split.
I was hoping for caramel.
It's "candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize."
Buzz Aldrin already got the prize, so if you plan to visit the Moon, don't be disappointed when you can't find it.
When he was confronted by one of those Apollo Moon landing hoaxer kooks, who screamed, "Show us the prize!", the 70+ years old Aldrin responded by knocking the kook's teeth out.
If I ever meet Aldrin in a bar, I'm buying.
Manager: "Why do you need a pay raise?"
Me: "Um, because my job makes me feel like I'm in the asshole of he world."
I think I'm probably the only person in the entire country who didn't see it.
"But I was paid a tidy sum to appear on the telly, so fuck the god-damned meteor ."
Back in the 70's, I bought this at Spencer Gifts for a friend. It had small cardboard ships to toss into the toilet, and you could try to sink by pissing on them. If your bladder is full of beer, and your blood full of alcohol, it is a hoot and a half.
This "game" is much more challenging for women.
For the non-US folks, Spencer Gifts is a chain of stores in malls (shopping centers) in the US. They sell crap, like stuff to throw into the toilet and piss on.
give machines or robots visual intelligence similar to humans
Sounds like a grand idea. What we need are robots that have more intelligence to humans. It might sound like a bad idea, but we already have enough idiots running around, we don't need to reinforce them with piles of robots.
Hell, look at it this way, maybe humans will be doing outsourcing for robots in the future?
...now they are tackling a much more difficult game of Jeopardy. For fun and profit.
Hmm ... something doesn't seem to be right here ...
... it sounds like an accident with a contraceptive in a time machine. Move along; nothing to see here.
They hopped about in their personalized Pullman car: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_car
That looked like cool living ...
As someone who has spent a lot of time commuting on trains in central Europe, I would welcome this. If my office drove up to pick me up at the door. But if the train is only serving Lutefisk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk , I'll pass. Now if I could only remember the name of the fish that they put into the cans, where the fermentation turns the cans into a hand grenade form . . .
If the train went to Bullerbyn, that would be fantastic. I could invite Skrollan for a drink. Skrollan is the coolest Swedish name for a chick.
The Norwegians are also top runners with their sheep head stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalahove
My first message would have been "Houston, we are like totally fucked. This space ship? This fucking fucker is fucking fucked!"
Houston would have replied: "M'kay . . . what exactly is the problem?"
I guess with my sewer-mouth, I won't need to apply for an astronaut post anywhere.
... I've been playing that skin thing for years. Now, in High School, I played trumpet. But no-one seemed to be able to find sexual innuendos for that instrument. Does anyone have some bassoon jokes?
And the folks at the Classic concert might not be amused with whit the, um results.
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Some folks from the former East Germany sometimes ask me if the Apollo Moon landings were faked. Some admitted that they were taught so in school. Wrong shadows, flapping flag, etc.
I reply that I got up at 04:00 EST when Apollo 14 was on the Moon, and Alan Shepard knocked around some golf balls. Walter Cronkite looked liked he was grabbed out of the grave, and did not seemed amused that CBS dragged him out of bed to report on the Moon walk.
Golf balls on the Moon? Not even the wackiest Hollywood director could think that thing up.
Of course, the definitive evidence for the Moon landings is a mirror they left behind, which is used to shoot lasers at to determine the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Of course, one could argue that a Moon chick dropped her compact powder kit . . .
"Ministry of Information and Culture" sounds very wimpy to me. They need a Ministry of Truth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Truth . That would get those meddling kids on the Internet back into line.
"If it wasn't for those meddling Internet kids ... etc"
So they can leave the Warfare out. Or is there an 147st Mobile Pizza Baker Infantry? Or a 139th Airborne Flower Pickers? Warfare is the military's core competency, so they can leave it out of the acronym.
Plus, folks with lots of weapons can choose whatever acronym they damn choose.
"If it weren't for Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, we wouldn't have NASA today!"?
No, NASA was built on German scientists. See Operation Paperclip for details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Some of them had slightly dubious backgrounds, like using slave labor to build the V-2 rockets. Werner von Braun just wanted to build rockets, so he ended up with some a bunch of bad company (Nazis) during World War II, who were willing to finance his work.
Later, while in the US, von Braun had trouble conniving government folks that they should invest in rocket technology. He even turned to Walt Disney to make a film about his space travel dreams. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the government folks changed their minds.
"I got an action figure!" "I got some DRAM chips!" "I got a rock."
. But to me it just looks like a house of cards. You're just gambling on investor confidence in a company.
I don't think folks have confidence in Apple. They have confidence in Steve Jobs, because like him or not, he has always delivered over the years.
Now, if he goes into a hospital for a pimple on his butt, or an ingrown toenail, that stock is going to tank really fast.
It would be nice if he could mentor a protege. Just so folks would know how things will continue when he's gone.
... the parking lots have displays showing how many spots are still free. When you drive in and get your ticket, the number is decremented. When you drive out, putting the paid ticket back into the machine, it gets incremented. Very simple and effective. However, you need to be physically close to the parking lot to see the display. But I'm not sure if I want a bunch of folks fiddling with their smart phones, while trying to drive as well.