I think the problem would be finding a Token Ring LAN to connect to. I can't remember seeing one of those beasts in the last 10 years. Racks of 8228s with connectors that looked like mouths of aliens in a sci-fi flick . . .
can't say that I miss them . . .
Actually, that's the way government math works. The representative wrings out $3000 from Congress. He returns to his constituency and yells, "Y'all gettin' $30000!"
Being off by an order of magnitude is "compliant with government levels of computational accuracy."
Don't wear this when going through airport security . . . a T-shirt impregnated with iron filings, like that won't set off the metal detectors. Even if they finally figure out that the T-shirt is setting the alarm off, they won't let you on the plane with it. You might be . . . "The T-shirt Bomber!" Following in the steps of such great stars as the shoe and underwear bombers.
Oh, and what else might be in your suitcase? Expect a long, uncomfortable stay with airport security.
Has anybody tried to take a roll of tinfoil on a flight?
Actually, I think this weapon, oh sorry, device might have a frightening psychological effect on folk who can't really comprehend what the thing is doing. They know about guns that shoot bullets. But this thing didn't shoot anything, but they're suddenly feeling uncomfortably hot.
"Yo, they're using black magic! Is that allowed by the Geneva Conventions?"
Remember, when the first US troops arrived in Afghanistan, the Afghanis thought that mirrored sunglasses had X-ray vision, so that the soldiers could peep at their wives. Even if the local Taliban leader has a microwave oven at home and tries to explain:
"Do no worry! It is harmless! It is just like my microwave oven here . . . oh, um . . . "
Because they cannot control what SpaceX does, or where it spends its money, Senators are throwing temper tantrums, screaming hysterically and jumping up and down like their assess were on fire. Live from the Senate:
"Dirty, dirty, dirty! I want spending for my state! Bad, bad, bad! Darn, darn, darn!"
Senate staffers hope to placate them with a large supply of Happy Meals. Unfortunately, when they do calm down, they will immediately consider legislation that will put SpaceX under their thumb.
I'm sure NASA could do some really amazing stuff . . . if it wasn't for those meddling kids in the Senate . . .
Yep. You still have Freedom of Speech. Go out on your front lawn and yell your lungs out. Print out pamphlets, and hand them out downtown. All OK.
Buy a Ham radio set off eBay, and broadcast your political line. Oops, sorry, the government regulates the air, and can order Ham operators off the air. They government controls broadcast medium.
Now the Internet stuck a weed up their ass: it is like a broadcast medium, but the government doesn't control it . . . yet. That is why they are taking the first step with Internet Kill Switch. A finer granularity will follow.
We are lucky that the Internet grew so fast, that they didn't have time to regulate it. Otherwise, we would all be lining up for Internet Web Site Licenses.
"We have decided to sell the iPhone, without a required carrier contract. Just pick a carrier that you like based on the services they offer, their coverage, and experiences that you have had with them. Of course, we will continue to offer bundled offerings for those who want them."
"Oh, and we will be releasing a free SDK, so anyone can write their own apps for it."
Coming soon. He's always yapping about how his content is being "stolen" and distributed on the Internet. So he can demand that ISPs be taxed for carrying his content, too.
Is there anyone else, who feels that ISPs are distributing their content, without them seeing a cent?
If this Music tax passes, the flood gates will be opened . . .
Just so if you go on vacation, and decide to take your gaming graphics card, instead of your girlfriend . . . it should be great for getting flagged, when going through airport security.
TSA agent: "Sir, what exactly is this . . . ?"
Gamer: "It's the fastest graphics card in the world, as we know it! And it costs $1200 . . . and came with this great briefcase!"
TSA to colleague: "I don't see any Apple logo on it. Cuff him, and put him on the next flight to Guantanamo. Send the briefcase to the lab in Langley, and see if they can figure out how this weapon of mass destruction works . .."
What if the U.S. were to set up a radio station across the border from a nation, and began broadcasting propaganda into said nation?
Set up a numbers station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station instead. It's more fun and sporting to keep them chasing their own tails, instead of flooding them with propaganda, which they can understand and refute.
Now, what does that message mean, for whom it is for . . . ?
High fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING, food products that boil down to simple carbs, trans fats and salt, and beverages that are little more than sugar water with some caramel coloring. This is a company designed to maximize profit by exploiting the still-ingrained hunter-gatherer instincts in us all, and what of the externalities associated with a lifestyle of chugging soft drinks and pounding Cheetos and Fritos?
I was taught that there are four major food groups: salt, sugar, fat and starch . . .
If our hunter-gatherer ancestors went out looking for Pepsi . . . I don't think that much of civilization as we know it would be around.
Hmm . . . what a question for them? "Do you want a Mammoth for dinner, or should I just pick up some packs of Cheetos and Fritos?"
Cue to alien archeologists in the future scratching their heads, and saying "This species seemed to die out, because of diabetes and heart disease . . . how the hell did that happen?"
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"This slide rule has obviously been tampered with! So said the teacher!"
"A slide rule? Luxury! When I was a school boy we only had an abacus!"
"Ha, that's nothing! When I was in school we weren't allowed to count using our fingers!"
(With apologies to Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch)
With two lawyers, you would get a wire.
With two politicians, you get a missing penny.
I think the problem would be finding a Token Ring LAN to connect to. I can't remember seeing one of those beasts in the last 10 years. Racks of 8228s with connectors that looked like mouths of aliens in a sci-fi flick . . . can't say that I miss them . . .
Actually, that's the way government math works. The representative wrings out $3000 from Congress. He returns to his constituency and yells, "Y'all gettin' $30000!"
Being off by an order of magnitude is "compliant with government levels of computational accuracy."
Don't wear this when going through airport security . . . a T-shirt impregnated with iron filings, like that won't set off the metal detectors. Even if they finally figure out that the T-shirt is setting the alarm off, they won't let you on the plane with it. You might be . . . "The T-shirt Bomber!" Following in the steps of such great stars as the shoe and underwear bombers.
Oh, and what else might be in your suitcase? Expect a long, uncomfortable stay with airport security.
Has anybody tried to take a roll of tinfoil on a flight?
Actually, I think this weapon, oh sorry, device might have a frightening psychological effect on folk who can't really comprehend what the thing is doing. They know about guns that shoot bullets. But this thing didn't shoot anything, but they're suddenly feeling uncomfortably hot.
"Yo, they're using black magic! Is that allowed by the Geneva Conventions?"
Remember, when the first US troops arrived in Afghanistan, the Afghanis thought that mirrored sunglasses had X-ray vision, so that the soldiers could peep at their wives. Even if the local Taliban leader has a microwave oven at home and tries to explain:
"Do no worry! It is harmless! It is just like my microwave oven here . . . oh, um . . . "
Because they cannot control what SpaceX does, or where it spends its money, Senators are throwing temper tantrums, screaming hysterically and jumping up and down like their assess were on fire. Live from the Senate:
"Dirty, dirty, dirty! I want spending for my state! Bad, bad, bad! Darn, darn, darn!"
Senate staffers hope to placate them with a large supply of Happy Meals. Unfortunately, when they do calm down, they will immediately consider legislation that will put SpaceX under their thumb.
I'm sure NASA could do some really amazing stuff . . . if it wasn't for those meddling kids in the Senate . . .
It kind of surprises me that no one has ever taken a turtle from Texas and put it in the ocean in Florida just to see what would happen.
Well, that's my vacation plans settled.
Airline Check-in in Texas: "Two for Florida? Um, where's the other passenger?"
Me: "It's this here turtle."
On the airplane . . .
Me: "Stewardess, another Martini for me and another squid for the turtle."
Stewardess: "I think you've had enough, sir."
Me: "Don't worry, the turtle is driving."
So does the drone have a radio relay back to the pilot on the ground; so the pilot can talk to the air traffic controllers in the area of the drone?
I dunno, just wondering.
Just not on the venue which got seized.
Yep. You still have Freedom of Speech. Go out on your front lawn and yell your lungs out. Print out pamphlets, and hand them out downtown. All OK.
Buy a Ham radio set off eBay, and broadcast your political line. Oops, sorry, the government regulates the air, and can order Ham operators off the air. They government controls broadcast medium.
Now the Internet stuck a weed up their ass: it is like a broadcast medium, but the government doesn't control it . . . yet. That is why they are taking the first step with Internet Kill Switch. A finer granularity will follow.
We are lucky that the Internet grew so fast, that they didn't have time to regulate it. Otherwise, we would all be lining up for Internet Web Site Licenses.
The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics will claim that they are a bigger threat than binaural beats: http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/07/15/166220/Sound-As-the-New-Illegal-Narcotic
Well, now every country will want their own currency symbol . . . it's a status symbol now.
"MY country has a symbol for our currency . . . where's YOURS?"
How about a Human Hamster Wheel? http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://hamsterwheel.randolphblogs.net/files/2008/03/img_0301-small.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hamsterwheel.randolphblogs.net/&h=346&w=519&sz=67&tbnid=83eGg0QncG5AvM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhamster%2Bwheel%2Bgenerator&hl=en&usg=__7lqrQ-jbWTtsjojaOOj4a0a03Sc=&sa=X&ei=12lATJKnAY6oOKjs5NwM&ved=0CCsQ9QEwBg
Wow, that URL makes my head hurt!
In the military, pulling Hamster Wheel duty ranks down there with Latrine duty or KP duty . . .
"We have decided to sell the iPhone, without a required carrier contract. Just pick a carrier that you like based on the services they offer, their coverage, and experiences that you have had with them. Of course, we will continue to offer bundled offerings for those who want them."
"Oh, and we will be releasing a free SDK, so anyone can write their own apps for it."
I guess that should be the dream on scenario.
The move is seen, in part anyway, as a way for the agency to win more heart and braaaaiiiiiinnns of the advanced science community.
There, fixed that for 'em.
Interviewer: "At the start, you will be involved with testing this new weapon system."
Interviewee: "Hey, what happened to the researchers who used to work on this project?"
Interviewer: "Oh, you know, the tough work here can sometimes just devour you."
Bad comic: ". . . tip the veal, try the waitress . . ."
Coming soon. He's always yapping about how his content is being "stolen" and distributed on the Internet. So he can demand that ISPs be taxed for carrying his content, too.
Is there anyone else, who feels that ISPs are distributing their content, without them seeing a cent?
If this Music tax passes, the flood gates will be opened . . .
To truly enjoy one of my favorite films . . . "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension"
Some please wake me up, when that firmware upgrade is announced.
Why exactly is light being associated with birds; are they carrying flashlights when hunting for shrimp now?
Not flashlights, lasers. Gentlemen, we now have a threat from the air!
No more mouse batteries. Ever. Unless you already need to change the batteries in your hand, Mr. Steve Austin.
You didn't read the fine print in the rules of the Challenges, which clearly announces:
1) In which Senators' states the contests will be held, and . . .
2) What percentages of components, from which states the contestants must use . . .
The Chinese are experts with monkey martial arts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Monkey
Obviously, fungi-bacteria cellulose clothes is an acquired taste. It grows on you.
What if it acquires a taste for you?
I wouldn't mind it growing on me, but if it starts nibbling on me . . . .
Just so if you go on vacation, and decide to take your gaming graphics card, instead of your girlfriend . . . it should be great for getting flagged, when going through airport security.
TSA agent: "Sir, what exactly is this . . . ?"
Gamer: "It's the fastest graphics card in the world, as we know it! And it costs $1200 . . . and came with this great briefcase!"
TSA to colleague: "I don't see any Apple logo on it. Cuff him, and put him on the next flight to Guantanamo. Send the briefcase to the lab in Langley, and see if they can figure out how this weapon of mass destruction works . . ."
What if the U.S. were to set up a radio station across the border from a nation, and began broadcasting propaganda into said nation?
Set up a numbers station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station instead. It's more fun and sporting to keep them chasing their own tails, instead of flooding them with propaganda, which they can understand and refute.
Now, what does that message mean, for whom it is for . . . ?
High fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING, food products that boil down to simple carbs, trans fats and salt, and beverages that are little more than sugar water with some caramel coloring. This is a company designed to maximize profit by exploiting the still-ingrained hunter-gatherer instincts in us all, and what of the externalities associated with a lifestyle of chugging soft drinks and pounding Cheetos and Fritos?
I was taught that there are four major food groups: salt, sugar, fat and starch . . .
If our hunter-gatherer ancestors went out looking for Pepsi . . . I don't think that much of civilization as we know it would be around.
Hmm . . . what a question for them? "Do you want a Mammoth for dinner, or should I just pick up some packs of Cheetos and Fritos?"
Cue to alien archeologists in the future scratching their heads, and saying "This species seemed to die out, because of diabetes and heart disease . . . how the hell did that happen?"