"Hi, this is your captain speaking. Due to cost-cutting measures, there is no in flight entertainment. Please look out your windoww, and look at St. Elmo's fire instead, as we will be flying through volcanic ash. When the engines cut out, and we start to dive, please raise your hands above your head, and shout "Weeeeeeeeeeeee!"
The sky over Germany looked clear today
That sounds like a spy sign / counter-sign phrase:
Treaties usually start wars. Non-aggression pacts, especially. Even more so secretive ones.
ACTA is a product of governments of the people, by the people, for people, who have managed to create something, of the special interests, by the special interests, for the special interests.
Or fuck knows . . . the treaty is being published after it's been ratified.
England and Iceland have been in a huff ever since a lot of English tax dodgers lost their fortunes in Icelandic banks that went tits up. The British have been threatening Iceland with everything, even including their major satire weapon weapon of mass destruction, "Viz" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz )
... a lot of bugs in a project, indicate that something ain't quite right with the project. Folks scramble to figure out what needs to be done to have less bugs. When your level of bugs go down, you got your project right again.
A lot of meetings in a project, also indicate that something ain't quite right. Instead of scheduling more meetings, folks should try to figure out why they think they need so many meetings.
Just like development is proud to say, "Hey, we have less bugs!", management should be proud to say "We have less meetings!"
Instead, when an an executive asks, "Something ain't right with your project, what y'all doin' 'bout it?"
The project manager answers, "I've scheduled a meeting with them, and a meeting with the other guys, then a meeting to talk to them foreign folks, about what 'them' and 'the other guys' think . . . ", etc.
A high number of meetings in a project should be considered a negative metric.
Have there been any reactions from Big Media / Big Patents to this? Their strategy in the past has been to label these folks as common criminals when lobbying governments.
How do they swallow the fact that the Pirate Parties are now taking a legal and official route to copyright reform?
Have they issued any formal statements?
Maybe with more Pirates sailing the seas of governments, we will finally get information about what this super-secretive ACTA thing is all about.
I can't say if I am for or against the ACTA . . . because I don't know the details.
I do have a problem with so-called democracies sealing international treaties, while keeping their citizens (subjects) in the dark.
Johann Gambolputty-de-von-Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crass-cren-bon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelter-wasser-kurstlich-himble-eisenbahnwagen-guten-abend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwürstel-gespurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumeraber-schönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittleraucher-von-Hautkopft of Ulm . . . Pad.
Scene in Internet Cafe:
Waitress: "Hey, ist das ein iPad?"
Customer: "Nein, das ist ein Helmut-Hoffer-von-Ankershoffen-Pad!"
Waitress: "Oh, woulden you liken your Helmut-Hoffer-von-Ankershoffen-Pad mit our WLANen usen?"
Store Clerk: "I'm sorry, sir, but all of our hard drives come fullly loaded with tons of crap that nobody wants and nobody needs. In other words, you buy a 500G drive, with zero free space. But the content producers pay us a cut to push the shit, and we like that."
"If you want to buy an empty hard drive, that will cost you a bit extra . .."
They also said that if you want to build a heavy lift Atlas or Delta to manned spaceflight spec it would cost between $1B and $2B. And they want NASA to pay all the cost, up front.
So they actually *know* that it will cost more like $10B, and will be able to squeeze the rest out of NASA as "cost overruns" on the initial contract bid.
Who's calling Tony Soprano a gangster?
"How much dat cost?"
"How much ya got?"
This is one of the "fine arts" or "black magic" of bidding on government tenders . . . finding out how much they really have to spend. Not just what they claim in public testimony.
Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin understand and know how to make money in this business.
They are not sure yet how they will make money in the commercial market. But if they figure it out, they will be back in it . . . real soon!
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Engineers have now designed silk-based electronics that stick to the surface of the brain, similar to the way a silk dress clings to the hips.
From TFA. Now, what is on those engineers' minds . . . ?
Can someone tell me what the Large Hadron Collider is with a woman's fashion analogy . . . ?
"The Large Hadron Collider is leaking liquid helium again today . . . it's like having a run in your stockings. It has been patched with nail polish."
They found nothing in what...50 years?
Maybe them smarty-pants extraterrestrials don't want to be found?
Well, at least by us anyway.
They've probably been watching our TV shows, and have decided that "Gilligan's Island" and "Oprah Winfrey" aren't worth the trip here.
And they are intentionally keeping quiet, because they don't want us coming looking for them.
Nelson Rockefeller said of his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, "He didn't break any laws. But a lot of laws were passed because of what he did."
... and back into homes, where it belongs!
Steve Jobs doesn't like porn!?!?!?!
Time to pull him up to testify before these folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
The committee thanked the woman for her input,
Just imagine, if you will, having a beeper in your rectum or genital area, the most sensitive area of your body.
I think that I'll opt out from everything you said after "imagine" . . . Let's just skip that part.
Further prodding revealed that the woman's co-workers would torture her by activating the chips with their cell phones . . .
M'kay . . .
. . . and that the chips were implanted by "researchers with the federal government."
Finally! My tax dollars going toward something useful! To think that we could get some honest work out of government researchers!"
Isn't that what sunk Hans Reiser's excuse for chucking out the back seat of his car?
I saw some guy on the TV who said, "What a lie! Everyone knows that geeks *never* throw anything away. Even if it is broken and useless!"
He should have followed that up with, "Tip the veal! Try the waitress . . . etc."
So we should lock folks up not because they have committed a crime, but because they might commit a crime in the future.
Buy stocks in companies that build jails . . .
In China, it is common in many places to take a 30-45 minute nap after lunch, . . .
Sounds great to me! SUBSCRIBE!
Now, how do I convince my (WASPish) parents that they are Chinese?
That's the difficult part of the equation.
Icelandic is an agglutinative language like German
So, I hope that the Dieimmeislandlebendenorwegischevolkergruppentypen are performing Fehlerbehebungsmassnahmen, in order to cap that volcano.
That second, really long word, actually popped up in my email once.
. . . agglutinative . . .
"Hmmm, agglutinative . . . my word for the day. "Schatz, I'm feeling at bit agglutinative. Let's stop and get something to eat."
"Hi, this is your captain speaking. Due to cost-cutting measures, there is no in flight entertainment. Please look out your windoww, and look at St. Elmo's fire instead, as we will be flying through volcanic ash. When the engines cut out, and we start to dive, please raise your hands above your head, and shout "Weeeeeeeeeeeee!"
The sky over Germany looked clear today
That sounds like a spy sign / counter-sign phrase:
Spy 1: "It is warm in Moscow this spring.
Spy 2: "The camels are in heat."
Treaties are diplomatic tools we use to end wars.
Treaties usually start wars. Non-aggression pacts, especially. Even more so secretive ones.
ACTA is a product of governments of the people, by the people, for people, who have managed to create something, of the special interests, by the special interests, for the special interests.
Or fuck knows . . . the treaty is being published after it's been ratified.
Um, like, what happened to political debate?
... lighting up the sky ... Tunguska event, like . . . see tmz.com for details . . .
England and Iceland have been in a huff ever since a lot of English tax dodgers lost their fortunes in Icelandic banks that went tits up. The British have been threatening Iceland with everything, even including their major satire weapon weapon of mass destruction, "Viz" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz )
The Icelandians have responded with volcanic gas.
Let's hope that this situation doesn't escalate.
Rachel: "Do you mind if I smoke electronic cigarettes?"
Decker: "It won't affect the test. Give me a hit."
Israeli Customs Agents: Proud new iPad owners!
How much can you buy with 66 cent in China?
For 33 cents you can hire someone to do your work for you.
33 cents profit for you . . . per hour!
. . . and the 33 cent guy hires someone for 16.5 cents . . .
You can see now why China's economy is booming!
It was absolutely imperative that no sheep got hurt, or killed, during that test.
Sheep might have gotten hurt and killed during another test.
But Taser International certainly isn't going to tell us about that study.
I love to program. When I am really into something, I lose track of time, forget to eat and drink, etc. I can do weekly marathons of it.
However, meetings, telcos, reports seem to knock me down so much, that it's difficult to get back into the programming stride.
I dunno . . . programming seems to generate and stimulate my mind, and keeps it going by itself.
Meetings and co. make me comatose, so that it is difficult to maintain that programming stride.
Future alien archeologists will say: "These fuckwit twits must have had shit for brains."
"Let's saucer on over to another planet, Zog . . . there's nothing to learn mining this crap . . . and we might catch something here . . . ick!"
Bob Moffat ( http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-29/robert-moffat-pleads-guilty-in-galleon-group-case-update1-.html )
... a lot of bugs in a project, indicate that something ain't quite right with the project. Folks scramble to figure out what needs to be done to have less bugs. When your level of bugs go down, you got your project right again.
A lot of meetings in a project, also indicate that something ain't quite right. Instead of scheduling more meetings, folks should try to figure out why they think they need so many meetings.
Just like development is proud to say, "Hey, we have less bugs!", management should be proud to say "We have less meetings!"
Instead, when an an executive asks, "Something ain't right with your project, what y'all doin' 'bout it?"
The project manager answers, "I've scheduled a meeting with them, and a meeting with the other guys, then a meeting to talk to them foreign folks, about what 'them' and 'the other guys' think . . . ", etc.
A high number of meetings in a project should be considered a negative metric.
Have there been any reactions from Big Media / Big Patents to this? Their strategy in the past has been to label these folks as common criminals when lobbying governments.
How do they swallow the fact that the Pirate Parties are now taking a legal and official route to copyright reform?
Have they issued any formal statements?
Maybe with more Pirates sailing the seas of governments, we will finally get information about what this super-secretive ACTA thing is all about.
I can't say if I am for or against the ACTA . . . because I don't know the details.
I do have a problem with so-called democracies sealing international treaties, while keeping their citizens (subjects) in the dark.
. . . WePad is a pretty lame name. Why didn't name it after himself: Helmut-Hoffer-von-Ankershoffen-Pad?
Maybe he will get some inspiration from Monty Python ( http://www.swiss-miss.com/2007/08/the-german-baro.html ) for his next model, and call it:
Johann Gambolputty-de-von-Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crass-cren-bon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelter-wasser-kurstlich-himble-eisenbahnwagen-guten-abend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwürstel-gespurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumeraber-schönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittleraucher-von-Hautkopft of Ulm . . . Pad.
Scene in Internet Cafe:
Waitress: "Hey, ist das ein iPad?"
Customer: "Nein, das ist ein Helmut-Hoffer-von-Ankershoffen-Pad!"
Waitress: "Oh, woulden you liken your Helmut-Hoffer-von-Ankershoffen-Pad mit our WLANen usen?"
Customer: "Ja, I woulden liken mein Helmut-Hoffer-von-Ankershoffen-Pad . . . "
. . . etc . . . und so weiter . . .
Wow, what will Nokia's upcoming Maemo N9000 be called . . . ?
Store Clerk: "I'm sorry, sir, but all of our hard drives come fullly loaded with tons of crap that nobody wants and nobody needs. In other words, you buy a 500G drive, with zero free space. But the content producers pay us a cut to push the shit, and we like that."
"If you want to buy an empty hard drive, that will cost you a bit extra . . ."
They also said that if you want to build a heavy lift Atlas or Delta to manned spaceflight spec it would cost between $1B and $2B. And they want NASA to pay all the cost, up front.
So they actually *know* that it will cost more like $10B, and will be able to squeeze the rest out of NASA as "cost overruns" on the initial contract bid.
Who's calling Tony Soprano a gangster?
"How much dat cost?"
"How much ya got?"
This is one of the "fine arts" or "black magic" of bidding on government tenders . . . finding out how much they really have to spend. Not just what they claim in public testimony.
Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin understand and know how to make money in this business.
They are not sure yet how they will make money in the commercial market. But if they figure it out, they will be back in it . . . real soon!