They looked in my car. I am very conservative, and there are so many guns, knives, baseball bats, frying pans, slingshots, water balloons, pointed sticks, bananas, cherries (black and red), and
mangoes in there it will hardly roll.
Data is timeless and valuable. Information has a limited shelf life. Lloyd's of London has data that goes back hundreds of years. Let's hope that many years in the future, someone will look at this data and decide not to drive off the same bridge again.
Learning that the best way for everyone to get along is that you let them live how they wish to live and they let you live how you wish to live. A socially liberal live-and-let-live attitude.
True. And impossible. People don't do this in large groups. As soon as there is a majority group that does not like Activity A, they want to use that majority to control the minority by banning Activity A. It does not make any difference what activity, from gay marriage to gun ownership, owning an SUV to eminent domain. Fifty-percent-plus-one thinks they should have the right to tell everyone else what they can an cannot do.
People have been killing each other over the question of who has the Truth for thousands of years. Even factual/non-factual would not work. A true zealot will not let facts get in the way of what he believes to be true.
Ok, so is this guy Edward Nigma, or one of Frank Herbert's characters from Ix?
I expect to see this kind of story at the grocery store, next to the reports of aliens eating someone's dog, and sightings of BatBoy.
They actually claimed that it was a *scientific finding* that common anesthesia drugs were discovered permanently stored in people's fat tissue, among other things.
Well, that would explain my need for a post-lunch nap!
Three IBM machines, two AS400, one I5, and none of them worked when delivered. IBM was very good about getting parts delivered, and someone to install said parts, and once up and running they have been very reliable, but it is disconcerting to pay that much for a machine and it does not work when delivered.
How about one of the first Airbus planes, with, I think, a senior Air France pilot at the controls, that crashed on a fly-by. IIRC, the pilot did have something set wrong, but he wanted to go back into the air, the computer insisted on setting down, and they "compromised." The plane flew in a nose-up attitude into the trees.
Plus, the damn things are squeaky as hell. At least, the ones used by NW that I have been on.
Four months later they started another operation which they called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and, by email, threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them.
Some bears are Catholic, but most are Lutheran, owing less to doctrinal agreement than to a species-wide appreciation for large padded pews and good lutefisk.
Armored bears are atheists, of course.
Hmm. That would mean that all bears are from, uh, Wisconsin......
Instead of having fleets of tanker trucks with hundreds of people hauling fuel around to dozens of gas stations, you instead have a single train run by one or two people hauling up to a month's supply of coal for a big coal unit and in one single trip.
Where I live TXU runs a train loaded with coal through town in the morning, and an empty train back the other direction in the evening.
I'm not knocking your argument for using coal, just pointing out that a big plant uses a lot more coal in a month than a single train can supply.
Amen. I live in a town of about 3500. Verizon does not offer DSL for internet, they only use it to multiplex up to four lines on a single cable pair. They have reduced their workforce to the point that it takes three days to get someone to work on a POTS line. They will move faster on a special circuit problem, but if you have a new location, with new cable, where engineering has to get involved.... It's like pulling teeth.
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They looked in my car. I am very conservative, and there are so many guns, knives, baseball bats, frying pans, slingshots, water balloons, pointed sticks, bananas, cherries (black and red), and mangoes in there it will hardly roll.
I think the ad was pretty good... much better than the Seinfeld ones, anyway.
Talk about damning with faint praise....
Data is timeless and valuable. Information has a limited shelf life. Lloyd's of London has data that goes back hundreds of years. Let's hope that many years in the future, someone will look at this data and decide not to drive off the same bridge again.
Learning that the best way for everyone to get along is that you let them live how they wish to live and they let you live how you wish to live. A socially liberal live-and-let-live attitude.
True. And impossible. People don't do this in large groups. As soon as there is a majority group that does not like Activity A, they want to use that majority to control the minority by banning Activity A. It does not make any difference what activity, from gay marriage to gun ownership, owning an SUV to eminent domain. Fifty-percent-plus-one thinks they should have the right to tell everyone else what they can an cannot do.
People have been killing each other over the question of who has the Truth for thousands of years. Even factual/non-factual would not work. A true zealot will not let facts get in the way of what he believes to be true.
Ok, so is this guy Edward Nigma, or one of Frank Herbert's characters from Ix? I expect to see this kind of story at the grocery store, next to the reports of aliens eating someone's dog, and sightings of BatBoy.
It was a disaster after they broadcast it, too. Thunderbirds had better actors.
"Mr. Syndrome, your Omnidroid is here."
DC10s?
No, can't be the DC-10. Travolta owns a G-IV and 707.
They actually claimed that it was a *scientific finding* that common anesthesia drugs were discovered permanently stored in people's fat tissue, among other things.
Well, that would explain my need for a post-lunch nap!
I dunno. It sounds too much like the old joke where the punch line was, "Hand, jerk it off!"
Give me an Orb and a refurbed Orgasmatron and I will be set for life.
If you want to use that as a .sig, email me a dollar
Three IBM machines, two AS400, one I5, and none of them worked when delivered. IBM was very good about getting parts delivered, and someone to install said parts, and once up and running they have been very reliable, but it is disconcerting to pay that much for a machine and it does not work when delivered.
I'm glad they've given it a green light. Imagine having all that computer power, and not even knowing if it was switched on!
Oh, I think all the lights in the building getting dim would be sufficient.
For the first time, we will have a vice-president that looks good naked!
How about one of the first Airbus planes, with, I think, a senior Air France pilot at the controls, that crashed on a fly-by. IIRC, the pilot did have something set wrong, but he wanted to go back into the air, the computer insisted on setting down, and they "compromised." The plane flew in a nose-up attitude into the trees.
Plus, the damn things are squeaky as hell. At least, the ones used by NW that I have been on.
Four months later they started another operation which they called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and, by email, threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them.
Damn! I think I would vote for you in November!
Oh yea! I bet the Neanderthal's didn't have the iPhone!
Lucky bastards.
He could be just plag, er, quoting at length a speech by Neil Kinnock.
Ok, it's a cheap shot. It is also a reason to question everything he says.
And isn't 88 a special age for hobbits, or something?
You are thinking of "eleventy-one."
Some bears are Catholic, but most are Lutheran, owing less to doctrinal agreement than to a species-wide appreciation for large padded pews and good lutefisk. Armored bears are atheists, of course.
Hmm. That would mean that all bears are from, uh, Wisconsin......
Excluding the armored ones, of course.
Bears are Catholic?
Instead of having fleets of tanker trucks with hundreds of people hauling fuel around to dozens of gas stations, you instead have a single train run by one or two people hauling up to a month's supply of coal for a big coal unit and in one single trip.
Where I live TXU runs a train loaded with coal through town in the morning, and an empty train back the other direction in the evening.
I'm not knocking your argument for using coal, just pointing out that a big plant uses a lot more coal in a month than a single train can supply.
Amen. I live in a town of about 3500. Verizon does not offer DSL for internet, they only use it to multiplex up to four lines on a single cable pair. They have reduced their workforce to the point that it takes three days to get someone to work on a POTS line. They will move faster on a special circuit problem, but if you have a new location, with new cable, where engineering has to get involved.... It's like pulling teeth.
What was the lead researcher's name? Davros?