Maybe if we all save up our belly-button lint, we could use it to save AIG, or GM, or both?
"The Economist" has an article this week that "Victory Gardens" are coming back. My grandmother always accused me of trying to grow potatoes in my ears . . . maybe this guy just did some parallel research with naval gardening activities, in these tough economic times.
(IANARS) There's simply no way that any space agency could prepare and launch a probe with less than three days notice, and likely no good way to pre-build one without knowing what size/speed asteroid we might be lucky enough to launch at.
I dunno . . . The Thunderbirds seem to be able to get anywhere they want to go, real fast. And Doctor Who just seems to be able to go where ever he damn well pleases, as well.
So the engineers at Lenovo have pretty much crammed more "computer" into this laptop than any laptop has had crammed so far. Two screens, nearly full keyboard, two pointing devices, a digitizer tablet, along with a metric crapload of CPU, video, disk, memory, along with the usual gamut of notebook options.
But wait . . . if you order NOW, we will include the Spiral Slicer (tm) as well!
. . . and a Ginsu:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginsu
For sheer impracticality, space elevator is one of the silliest ideas ever.
The Big Orbital Hand In The Sky (BOHITS) drops the Space Yo-yo and it spins as the nanotube tether unravels, since the other end of the tether is attached to the Big Middle Finger In The Sky. When it is just a few feet above the Earth, at the end of the tether, the clutch pulls away from the axle, and it spins, while the ground crew load up the non-spinning cargo core. Then the Big Middle Finger In The Sky jerks the tether, causing the clutch to grab the axle again, and the spinning of the Space Yo-yo climbs up into space again, rewinding the tether for the next trip.
If you take a look at Wikipedia's Yo-yo page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyo), you will discover, that Yo-yos are a proven and tested technology since 1000 B.C. The Space Yo-yo would simply need to address a few engineering scaling issues.
. . . didn't he have swarms of 'dem critters? Sicked 'em on the Ancient Egyptians, and stuff. Since Moses was a meticulous man, he probably kept the blueprints for his remote controlled insects in a safe place. All we need to do is find the Ark of the Covenant; the plans are probably in there.
Or have the patents belonging to biblical leaders expired already?
And if you need God to power the insects, that might be a bit of a problem. Only CERN has that much energy at their disposal.
If your school has a problem with a plague of pig-tailed teenagers, with Samsung Crickets crammed in their cracks . . .
Just give me a call; I'm sure our committee can work something out.
Sorry, over 18 only.
It's too bad that this story... cracked . . . after the Barcelona Mobile Exhibition . . . I would have loved to have seen Nokia and other execs grilled about if they have a strategy for ass-crack centric devices.
Since he seems to want to own everything that ever was, and ever will be, in the Internet, he might as well have your bloody EULA as well.
It's real easy, just set a fake email account with one of the many aliases that Mark Zuckerberg is known to use, and sign it with that. Note, this list is not exhaustive:
Well, the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl (http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl)
believed that it was possible for the ancient Egyptians to sail to South America. He built a raft out of papyrus reeds and had a couple of goes at it, himself.
Whether the ancient Egyptians actually undertook such a journey, and came back with their luggage stuffed with cocaine, is a matter for pure speculation.
So when the falcons eventually eliminate the nasty birds that bring our planes down, which is their food source . . . they will go out seeking alternative food sources . . . like your cat, your dog or your toddler.
Don't trust 'dem boirds.
Well, at least if you are not a lawyer . . .
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. . . you won't be among the first against the wall when The Revolution comes.
Hard skills, like hacking Perl scripts to keep The Leader supplied with porn, will trump soft skills, like litigating about microwaving poodles.
I was actually on a conference call concerning an Open Source thingie, when someone stated that, "We're planning in the future to 'grow smaller'"
I don't think he even believed it himself. But the sheer audacity to let those words over his lips truly amazed me.
Nuthin' ever gets 'no smaller, except your pay check, after taxes, and you take inflation into account.
Well, maybe your retirement fund . . . and the value of your house . . .
The gas tank of my car seems to be getting bigger . . . it used to hold only 50 euros of diesel, now it can hold about 75 euros! Wow, that's innovation, a growing gas tank!
Arm that robot snake with a chainsaw and a shotgun, and program him to babble like a neurotic "Evil Dead" Bruce Campbell.
Let a bunch of them loose on your enemy, and you won't have to worry about any casualties on your side.
Soldiers are mentally prepared to face other soldiers in combat situations. They are not mentally prepared to face chainsaw and shotgun wielding robot snakes.
. . . speeding through their neighborhood whilst "farting out a series of small fusion bombs."
They will come looking for us.
"Hey, Earthling, is this your flatulent spacecraft that fouled our air? We'd just like to return it to you, by chucking it at one of your major cities."
M1 Carbines for the US, and Holleriths for the Nazis? What a brilliant business strategy! European explosive manufacturers made tons of money supplying both Iran and Iraq during their war in the 1980's. But I guess you're not supposed to do this if your country is on one side of the conflict.
I suppose that IBM would claim that the Nazis had taken over the subsidiary, and that IBM in the US had no control over it. I believe that Ford and GM (Opel) had the same problem with their subsidiaries, and faced the same allegations after the war.
If the case in the book is so strong, why hasn't anyone sued IBM over it?
"Hey, Daryl McBride! Here's your chance to try to sue IBM again!"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamesters_of_Triskelion
Each bottle comes with a tinfoil bikini and a giant can opener for your wife or girlfriend, and Kirk's "Training Harness" for yourself.
Send the kids to relative for the weekend, and recreate the infamous battle between the Thralls and the Newcomers in your very own bedroom.
Invite the neighbors to come over and watch and place bets with quatloos.
Maybe if we all save up our belly-button lint, we could use it to save AIG, or GM, or both?
"The Economist" has an article this week that "Victory Gardens" are coming back. My grandmother always accused me of trying to grow potatoes in my ears . . . maybe this guy just did some parallel research with naval gardening activities, in these tough economic times.
(IANARS) There's simply no way that any space agency could prepare and launch a probe with less than three days notice, and likely no good way to pre-build one without knowing what size/speed asteroid we might be lucky enough to launch at.
I dunno . . . The Thunderbirds seem to be able to get anywhere they want to go, real fast. And Doctor Who just seems to be able to go where ever he damn well pleases, as well.
It'll set you back between 3000 and 8000 cool US dollars.
I'm personally waiting for ThinkPad Reserve Edition of this: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/15/thinkpad-reserve-edition-unveiled/
What? $8000? . . . that's chump-change.
So the engineers at Lenovo have pretty much crammed more "computer" into this laptop than any laptop has had crammed so far. Two screens, nearly full keyboard, two pointing devices, a digitizer tablet, along with a metric crapload of CPU, video, disk, memory, along with the usual gamut of notebook options.
But wait . . . if you order NOW, we will include the Spiral Slicer (tm) as well!
. . . and a Ginsu:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginsu
Assuming of course that those globs are water and not Martian spit or something else.
Maybe a Martian dog walked by, took a whiff of the lander, and promptly took a piss on it?
Now that would be a headline for the press, "Traces of dogs found on Mars."
For sheer impracticality, space elevator is one of the silliest ideas ever.
The Big Orbital Hand In The Sky (BOHITS) drops the Space Yo-yo and it spins as the nanotube tether unravels, since the other end of the tether is attached to the Big Middle Finger In The Sky. When it is just a few feet above the Earth, at the end of the tether, the clutch pulls away from the axle, and it spins, while the ground crew load up the non-spinning cargo core. Then the Big Middle Finger In The Sky jerks the tether, causing the clutch to grab the axle again, and the spinning of the Space Yo-yo climbs up into space again, rewinding the tether for the next trip.
If you take a look at Wikipedia's Yo-yo page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyo), you will discover, that Yo-yos are a proven and tested technology since 1000 B.C. The Space Yo-yo would simply need to address a few engineering scaling issues.
. . . which runs on the Nokia N800/N810 "Internet Tablets" (www.maemo.org). They might have done some tweaking, since this is Linux running on SSDs.
. . . didn't he have swarms of 'dem critters? Sicked 'em on the Ancient Egyptians, and stuff. Since Moses was a meticulous man, he probably kept the blueprints for his remote controlled insects in a safe place. All we need to do is find the Ark of the Covenant; the plans are probably in there.
Or have the patents belonging to biblical leaders expired already?
And if you need God to power the insects, that might be a bit of a problem. Only CERN has that much energy at their disposal.
. . . like, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_can_telephone
Those executives have big pockets to hold these.
Why Doesn't the IWF Notify Those Whom They Block?
Because their main weapon is surprise!
Well, surprise and fear . . . and vicious devotion to the pope . . . wait . . . their three main weapons . . .
This better fits the description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
And, considering that it is/was practiced by our pals in the Big Music Industry . . . doesn't make it any more palatable.
Or some special committee for behaviour?
If your school has a problem with a plague of pig-tailed teenagers, with Samsung Crickets crammed in their cracks . . .
Just give me a call; I'm sure our committee can work something out.
Sorry, over 18 only.
It's too bad that this story ... cracked . . . after the Barcelona Mobile Exhibition . . . I would have loved to have seen Nokia and other execs grilled about if they have a strategy for ass-crack centric devices.
Since he seems to want to own everything that ever was, and ever will be, in the Internet, he might as well have your bloody EULA as well.
It's real easy, just set a fake email account with one of the many aliases that Mark Zuckerberg is known to use, and sign it with that. Note, this list is not exhaustive:
Well, the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl (http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl) believed that it was possible for the ancient Egyptians to sail to South America. He built a raft out of papyrus reeds and had a couple of goes at it, himself.
Whether the ancient Egyptians actually undertook such a journey, and came back with their luggage stuffed with cocaine, is a matter for pure speculation.
Well, this might work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jive_filter
. . . (eliminate food that the birds eat) . . .
So when the falcons eventually eliminate the nasty birds that bring our planes down, which is their food source . . . they will go out seeking alternative food sources . . . like your cat, your dog or your toddler.
Don't trust 'dem boirds.
. . . you won't be among the first against the wall when The Revolution comes.
Hard skills, like hacking Perl scripts to keep The Leader supplied with porn, will trump soft skills, like litigating about microwaving poodles.
Beware . . . it IS coming . . .
I was actually on a conference call concerning an Open Source thingie, when someone stated that, "We're planning in the future to 'grow smaller'"
I don't think he even believed it himself. But the sheer audacity to let those words over his lips truly amazed me.
Nuthin' ever gets 'no smaller, except your pay check, after taxes, and you take inflation into account.
Well, maybe your retirement fund . . . and the value of your house . . .
The gas tank of my car seems to be getting bigger . . . it used to hold only 50 euros of diesel, now it can hold about 75 euros! Wow, that's innovation, a growing gas tank!
Arm that robot snake with a chainsaw and a shotgun, and program him to babble like a neurotic "Evil Dead" Bruce Campbell.
Let a bunch of them loose on your enemy, and you won't have to worry about any casualties on your side.
Soldiers are mentally prepared to face other soldiers in combat situations. They are not mentally prepared to face chainsaw and shotgun wielding robot snakes.
". . . huh, huh . . huh, huh . . . Beavis, we're like watching Cum-Cast now . . ."
". . . heh, heh . . . hehehe . . . Wait they're showing football again . . . change it! Change it!"
. . . anyone remember Lamarck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarck)?
His approach would be simple, and would only require 13 cats, 1 chick (of child-bearing age), a gallon of Elmer's glue, and yourself.
The step-by-step:
Damn, that Darwin, and his "Natural Selection" hooey . . . life would be more interesting under Lamarck.
. . . speeding through their neighborhood whilst "farting out a series of small fusion bombs."
They will come looking for us.
"Hey, Earthling, is this your flatulent spacecraft that fouled our air? We'd just like to return it to you, by chucking it at one of your major cities."
"Ever Onward IBM": http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oh3gqOEKU
M1 Carbines for the US, and Holleriths for the Nazis? What a brilliant business strategy! European explosive manufacturers made tons of money supplying both Iran and Iraq during their war in the 1980's. But I guess you're not supposed to do this if your country is on one side of the conflict.
I suppose that IBM would claim that the Nazis had taken over the subsidiary, and that IBM in the US had no control over it. I believe that Ford and GM (Opel) had the same problem with their subsidiaries, and faced the same allegations after the war.
If the case in the book is so strong, why hasn't anyone sued IBM over it?
"Hey, Daryl McBride! Here's your chance to try to sue IBM again!"
Or maybe some militant animal rights groups can sue them over this: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV2154.html
Didn't the toilet on the ISS break down a while back? Maybe NASA would be interested in a more reliable model.
I'm sure a lot of folks would be able to rig up a prototype with parts available from their local building supply store.
Did "Make" magazine have a "Build Your Own Zero Gravity Toilet (ZGT)" article yet?
Or just install the ZGT in your house to impress your guests, when they read the sign on the door of your bathroom stating:
"Attention! Zero Gravity Toilet! Read these instructions carefully!"