Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were smart guys. Why did they not choose a government based by the people, of the people and for the people, who chose not to throw shoes at at particular candidate?
And it would be a hoot and a half, with Larry King moderating.
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Many people take sleeping pills, pain pills, mix them with booze.
Straight up, or on the rocks?
And these all cloud or fog the memory, and bring out bizarre behavior.
... working for a few months on a Blagojevich'ed project does that to me, too.
I went through a period of sleeplessness and my doctor gave me a Ambien(a hypnotic) to put me down at night.
Well, either your doctor is a saint, or a sadist, when we put our dog down, she never got up again.
My girlfriend has stories of me cooking dinner, calling my parents, and moving around the house very slowly.
Hey, great for your girlfriend ("He finally cooked dinner for me!"). Great for your parents ("He called us again!"). And if you were moving around very slowly, you probably didn't wake up with any bruises, from any events that you don't remember to have occurred.
Please keep it quiet, or my girlfriend and my parents will try to push this stuff on me.
Oh, and sorry for making fun, but thanks for
some definitely useful information about a medication to avoid.
Hmmm... was this a 12+ hour "War and Peace," watch-until-you-drop mini-series episode? Or a normal 2 hour special, or what? 18 minutes sounds like an awfully lot of footage.
I know that one of the "C's" in CBC stands for Canadian, but it sounds like the other one stands for circumcision: "Hell, you can cut 18 minutes off the top of *anything*."
Don't military educations include the study of famous historical campaigns... not just to discover the secrets of why one side won, but also to analyze why the other side lost?
"A fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man learns from the mistakes of others."
But giving your enemy access to your strategy and tactics in a lost campaign is just plain dumb-ass, for your future conflicts.
Boynton and his team had noticed, on a test version of TEGA, that the brackets at the bottom of this cover were just a hair's width too big, and as a result obstructed the doors. They sent revised designs for the cover to the manufacturer, Honeybee Robotics of New York. New parts were delivered and installed. But Honeybee had made the new parts using the original flawed designs -- and nobody in Tucson checked them. "They should've caught it and we should've caught it, but neither of us did," says Boynton, ruefully.
. . . which is why NASA needs to hire my mother as oven test engineer. Not only would she have noticed "hair's width" difference, she would have taken every opportunity she had to complain to everyone she knows, and even total strangers about it.
On the other hand, once the door problem got fixed, she would find something else wrong with it, and the damn thing would probably never get off the ground.
I was under the impression that other than the wrt54gl (the one I bought, naturally), none of them run linux anymore.
If the folks at Cisco decide that potential lawsuits and being forced to open source code that they would rather not, is not worth the risk/trouble.
It's a shame, really. I would have preferred to have seen the FSF and Cisco settle this behind closed doors, without a lawsuit, as a win-win for everyone.
What's next? They going to ask Washington for a bailout as well?
I does seem to be the business plan du Jour now, doesn't it?
Just replace "overpaid developers" with "overpaid union workers", and it sounds creepily familiar to the big 3 auto company Senate hearings.
No, it can't be that the management's business plan is Blagojevich'ed, blame the workers salaries. And the executives are earning how much?
Yes, Ballmer will testify before the Senate, that although he does not need money now, if the iPhone app industry had problems, he might need a few billion on a credit line, because that will affect him, as well.
So tomorrow, instead of telling my teacher, "the dog ate my homework," I can tell her, "WordPad ate my homework, and had the rest of my computer for dessert!"
It didn't work with, "the cat ate my gym suit" either.
. . . I receive absolute *zero* external spam. Our IT department seems to be top notch at that.
All the spam I receive is from internal sources. Some you can "op-out" on. Some you can't. I block those. But it sometimes seems to be a hopeless "Whack-A-Mole" game, as soon as I block one, someone else turns up.
If these folks were forced to justify spamming the whole damn company, maybe I would get less company internal spam.
Unfortunately, there probably is an process for this already, and all these spammers have justified their spamming.
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Oh come on, we already have a special event for when an Illinois politician gets busted for corruption...we call it "Tuesday".
I was on vacation in Sharm el-Sheikh last April, and wandered around like a stupid tourist with a Bluetooth GPS and a Nokia N800 around my neck. Nobody seemed to care. We even went through a military checkpoint.
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Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were smart guys. Why did they not choose a government based by the people, of the people and for the people, who chose not to throw shoes at at particular candidate?
And it would be a hoot and a half, with Larry King moderating.
"It doesn't seek to identify individuals ..."
Yet.
Many people take sleeping pills, pain pills, mix them with booze.
Straight up, or on the rocks?
And these all cloud or fog the memory, and bring out bizarre behavior.
... working for a few months on a Blagojevich'ed project does that to me, too.
I went through a period of sleeplessness and my doctor gave me a Ambien(a hypnotic) to put me down at night.
Well, either your doctor is a saint, or a sadist, when we put our dog down, she never got up again.
My girlfriend has stories of me cooking dinner, calling my parents, and moving around the house very slowly.
Hey, great for your girlfriend ("He finally cooked dinner for me!"). Great for your parents ("He called us again!"). And if you were moving around very slowly, you probably didn't wake up with any bruises, from any events that you don't remember to have occurred.
Please keep it quiet, or my girlfriend and my parents will try to push this stuff on me.
Oh, and sorry for making fun, but thanks for some definitely useful information about a medication to avoid.
Hmmm ... was this a 12+ hour "War and Peace," watch-until-you-drop mini-series episode? Or a normal 2 hour special, or what? 18 minutes sounds like an awfully lot of footage.
I know that one of the "C's" in CBC stands for Canadian, but it sounds like the other one stands for circumcision: "Hell, you can cut 18 minutes off the top of *anything*."
Don't military educations include the study of famous historical campaigns ... not just to discover the secrets of why one side won, but also to analyze why the other side lost?
"A fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man learns from the mistakes of others."
But giving your enemy access to your strategy and tactics in a lost campaign is just plain dumb-ass, for your future conflicts.
If we don't extend copyright, what incentive will dead authors have to create?
If we don't cough up, they are going to crawl out of their graves, and look for alternative income sources.
Yesterday I set out in search of a way to store my documents, videos, and pictures for a long time without worrying about them.
Try a different approach, why not simply *stop* worrying about them?
Let your own brain be your backup. Lost great photos and videos of relatives and friends? At least you will have some fond memories of them.
And when you die, and thus your backup is gone, then you can *really* stop worrying about them, like totally.
From the blog:
Boynton and his team had noticed, on a test version of TEGA, that the brackets at the bottom of this cover were just a hair's width too big, and as a result obstructed the doors. They sent revised designs for the cover to the manufacturer, Honeybee Robotics of New York. New parts were delivered and installed. But Honeybee had made the new parts using the original flawed designs -- and nobody in Tucson checked them. "They should've caught it and we should've caught it, but neither of us did," says Boynton, ruefully.
. . . which is why NASA needs to hire my mother as oven test engineer. Not only would she have noticed "hair's width" difference, she would have taken every opportunity she had to complain to everyone she knows, and even total strangers about it.
On the other hand, once the door problem got fixed, she would find something else wrong with it, and the damn thing would probably never get off the ground.
The "monopoly is forever" statement was meant as a wry pun on the famous de Beers "a diamond is forever" ad slogan.
I'll buy a diamond for my girlfriend, when I know that the price has not been set by de Beers.
Hey, maybe the canadian companies won't play ball with de Beers?
But since mining companies are *really* hurting these days, I could imagine that all out them want to squeeze out profit.
. . . has as already become uncomfortable competition for de Beers: http://www.khulsey.com/jewelry/kh_jewelry_diamond_mines_russia.html
I remember reading that, eventually, Russia reach a, um, "deal" with de Beers. It is in their interest, as well, to artificially inflate the price.
But despite all this, de Beers seems to always remain de Beers.
After all, "a monopoly is forever."
The FSF had been trying to quietly resolve this for 5 years.
That's what troubles me: given that the FSF were obviously patient about it, what caused Cisco *not* to comply?
I guess we'll just have to wait to hear Cisco's side of the story.
But again, regardless of who's right, and who's wrong, publicity like this is not good for open source, and I wish this lawsuit did not come to be.
I was under the impression that other than the wrt54gl (the one I bought, naturally), none of them run linux anymore.
If the folks at Cisco decide that potential lawsuits and being forced to open source code that they would rather not, is not worth the risk/trouble.
It's a shame, really. I would have preferred to have seen the FSF and Cisco settle this behind closed doors, without a lawsuit, as a win-win for everyone.
So, as soon Yucca Mountain gets tanked up, the Earth might get another moon?
That would be cool!
Less so, if you live in what used to be Nevada.
Ah, the joys of Space 1999 Physics! Truly worthy of an Ig Nobel!
What's next? They going to ask Washington for a bailout as well?
I does seem to be the business plan du Jour now, doesn't it?
Just replace "overpaid developers" with "overpaid union workers", and it sounds creepily familiar to the big 3 auto company Senate hearings.
No, it can't be that the management's business plan is Blagojevich'ed, blame the workers salaries. And the executives are earning how much?
Yes, Ballmer will testify before the Senate, that although he does not need money now, if the iPhone app industry had problems, he might need a few billion on a credit line, because that will affect him, as well.
it's a "Record Company Bailout"
. . . and let them bail themselves out.
I read in "The Economist" a while back, that the "Art of Taxing," is like plucking a live goose for feathers.
You want to get the maximum amount of feathers, with the minimum amount of fuss.
So, try to sneak in a small tax, that nobody notices, or can do anything about. Or pick on a small minority, and whack them with a big tax.
Here we have Warner asking for a small "taste" from everybody.
I prefer to "eat alone."
So tomorrow, instead of telling my teacher, "the dog ate my homework," I can tell her, "WordPad ate my homework, and had the rest of my computer for dessert!"
It didn't work with, "the cat ate my gym suit" either.
but I speak American.
You're not supposed to speak to it, or listen to it, you are supposed to *read* it.
Hell, some folks read Hieroglyphics, Sumerian and Mayan, without being able to speak it.
Just look at English as a challenge for you to learn how to read another ancient language.
I don't think that last sentence came out quite right.
But we seem to be able to find the courage to spend $34 billion on that.
Come 'on, cough up the cash for the Space Elevator! The only thing we have to fear, is a nerve-tingling elevator ride into outer space!
No, it's the David Blaine sort of suspension: http://php.terra.com/english/gallery/lifestyle/gallery.php?gallery=10502
. . . I receive absolute *zero* external spam. Our IT department seems to be top notch at that.
All the spam I receive is from internal sources. Some you can "op-out" on. Some you can't. I block those. But it sometimes seems to be a hopeless "Whack-A-Mole" game, as soon as I block one, someone else turns up.
If these folks were forced to justify spamming the whole damn company, maybe I would get less company internal spam.
Unfortunately, there probably is an process for this already, and all these spammers have justified their spamming.
Oh come on, we already have a special event for when an Illinois politician gets busted for corruption...we call it "Tuesday".
I thought it used to be called "Daley?"
. . . I briefly skimmed the article, and neither a "Mullet" nor a "Swiss Army Knife" was mentioned.
Those are the two of the critical ingredients in Macgyver Stew.
I was on vacation in Sharm el-Sheikh last April, and wandered around like a stupid tourist with a Bluetooth GPS and a Nokia N800 around my neck. Nobody seemed to care. We even went through a military checkpoint.
Um, was I doing something illegal?
The Internet could have guided them to places where evil villains were spooking people into evil, dictatorial regimes.
Before the Internet, they just had to cruise around in the Mystery Machine in some fog, until they found some trouble to get themselves into.
Imagine an enraged Hitler, screaming: "I Vould half taken over ze Vorld wizout you meddlesome kinder!"
Oh, for optimal performance, you would have to throw in some Skooby-Snacks, as well.