Less Painful: Tally up all caffeinated beverages you drink tomorrow. Let's say you drink 5 Mt. Dews and 2 cups of coffee. For the rest of the week, just drink one less coffee or Mt. Dew. Keep subtracting one each week and you'll be off caffeine within 2 months. The important thing is to keep track of your intake and not to cheat yourself.
When do we get to shove Dubya and Saddam in a steel cage filled with blunt objects and let them go at it. Vince MacMahon will of course be the promoter and the match can be the main event to Wrestlemainia XXIV.
I would really like to know what your definition of legality is. As much I think the RIAA deserves to suck 3 day old mold encrusted pus from the bottom of Darl McBride's feet, music piracy is illegal. No ifs, ands or buts.
So which way does the causality go? Being smelly, white and pasty causing the "not getting the sex"? Or not getting sex can lead to smelly, white and pastiness?
first, china simply can't go to war with taiwan. (oh sure, they can fire some missles, but then see down the list.) see, to cross 70 miles of the strait of formosa (taiwan strait) would be an undertaking that would make normandy and okinawa be minor ops. they don't have the 1) airforce to provide cover, 2) the navy to carry them over, 3) the ability to protect the invasion from being observed from satelites, which would give us and taiwan advanced notice, 4) the ability to hold and maintain a beachhead once there. it doesn't matter if you have one million, or 10 million, troops in an invasion. if you can't support them, they're targets.
Why invade when you can lob missiles? second, china built the three gorges dam. they have so much capital (even in communist china!!) tied up in it, it generates such a large portionof power. and, it is impssible to defend from air ro missile attack. we could take it out in about 10 minutes. and they're fscking toast.
I don't think the either the U.N. or the American public would take too kindly to taking out targets by the destruction which will cause the deaths of thousands of civilians.
third, china is so dependent upon the US trade for an in flux of capital and hard currency. anything more than sabre rattling, and we shut that off, they take a shit. they are fscked.
Sorry, it's the other way around. The American consumer is addicted to cheap shit from China. Over 80% of China's population still live in rural villages and surrounding areas, they won't feel a thing in the case of an economic embargo. We, on the other hand, will be hurting if the aforementioned scenario occurs. Remember, never underestimate the idiotcy of senile men in power.
What made the first Matrix so cool was the blending of kung-fu, guns, SFX, and Trinity in leather. Other than that, the movie had a fairly cliched plot line sprinkled with pseudo philosophical babble and a heavy dose of deus ex machina at the end. Episodes 1 and 2 just didn't have any life. It didn't feel like the Star Wars that we grew up with. Maybe if you took a poll of 5-10 year olds around the country, their opinions of Episodes 1 and 2 would be different. Maybe to them, Episodes 1 and 2 are what the original trilogy is to us.
And if you really have issues with the job Jackson has done, suggest someone else who would have done better. Peter is the perfect choice IMO, as he doesn't have the ego that big producers do, an ego that would have turned LOTR in "Spielberg's LOTR".
I hear you man. I wonder what would have happened if George Lucus decided to do LOTR?
Wow, you guys really give new meaning to the concept of "Vote Early, Vote Often".
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1. Don't underestimate the other guy's greed 2. Don't get high on his own supply 3. First get the money, then get the power, then finally get the women. 4. Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
Well, assuming the encoded movie is 1GB, that would be around 8 billion bits. You have a 1 in 2^8000000000 chance of encoding the exact movie. There aren't even that many atoms in the known universe. It's safe to say that the chances aren't small, it's nigh impossible.
We added a PCI Promise ATA-133 controller so we can run our four Maxlines as all master drives. This will improve simultaneous access performance and allows for an easy upgrade to eight storage drives.
You can only sell stocks short on an uptick (aka the Uptick Rule). This means that the transaction is only allowed at a price higher than the previous. This is done to "prevent" speculators from driving down the stock price.
Short Interest Total On 9/8/03: 895,000 Total Shares For Previous Month: 459,000 Short Interest Ratio** 3 Short Interest as % of Public Float 11.93%
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It seems like that you are interested in taking the CIS/MIS route. As someone who barely made his way through the prerequisite Calculus/Linear Algebra/Discrete Math/Differential Equations, I can sympathize with your apprehension to take those courses. I had to retake Multivariable Calculus twice. My concern is not your lack of interest in Math. It is your attitude of just doing enough to get by. No matter what route you take in school or life, you should strive to be the best in your field. Even if you don't end up being the best, you will still be much higher than most others. I learned this the hard way after flunking out of school three years ago. My advice to you is this. The most important skill you can have comes in the ability to deal with other human beings. Nothing we do is in isolation. Good luck with your decision.
I've always heard it pronounced as "kuh-nooth". You can check out his God and Computers lecture series here: http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_program.html?progra m_id=50 - excellent stuff.
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Painful way: Cold Turkey.
Less Painful: Tally up all caffeinated beverages you drink tomorrow. Let's say you drink 5 Mt. Dews and 2 cups of coffee. For the rest of the week, just drink one less coffee or Mt. Dew. Keep subtracting one each week and you'll be off caffeine within 2 months. The important thing is to keep track of your intake and not to cheat yourself.
Nine ladies dancing for $4,230.89? Where are they from, the Spearmint Rhino?
And what will they charge Saddam with?
Well, the whole "being in bed with the devil" thing would be a good excuse for the prosecution.
When do we get to shove Dubya and Saddam in a steel cage filled with blunt objects and let them go at it. Vince MacMahon will of course be the promoter and the match can be the main event to Wrestlemainia XXIV.
I would really like to know what your definition of legality is. As much I think the RIAA deserves to suck 3 day old mold encrusted pus from the bottom of Darl McBride's feet, music piracy is illegal. No ifs, ands or buts.
So which way does the causality go? Being smelly, white and pasty causing the "not getting the sex"? Or not getting sex can lead to smelly, white and pastiness?
first, china simply can't go to war with taiwan. (oh sure, they can fire some missles, but then see down the list.) see, to cross 70 miles of the strait of formosa (taiwan strait) would be an undertaking that would make normandy and okinawa be minor ops. they don't have the 1) airforce to provide cover, 2) the navy to carry them over, 3) the ability to protect the invasion from being observed from satelites, which would give us and taiwan advanced notice, 4) the ability to hold and maintain a beachhead once there. it doesn't matter if you have one million, or 10 million, troops in an invasion. if you can't support them, they're targets.
Why invade when you can lob missiles?
second, china built the three gorges dam. they have so much capital (even in communist china!!) tied up in it, it generates such a large portionof power. and, it is impssible to defend from air ro missile attack. we could take it out in about 10 minutes. and they're fscking toast.
I don't think the either the U.N. or the American public would take too kindly to taking out targets by the destruction which will cause the deaths of thousands of civilians.
third, china is so dependent upon the US trade for an in flux of capital and hard currency. anything more than sabre rattling, and we shut that off, they take a shit. they are fscked.
Sorry, it's the other way around. The American consumer is addicted to cheap shit from China. Over 80% of China's population still live in rural villages and surrounding areas, they won't feel a thing in the case of an economic embargo. We, on the other hand, will be hurting if the aforementioned scenario occurs. Remember, never underestimate the idiotcy of senile men in power.
Does this mean in 2018 I can put my cat Schrodinger and a vial of hydrocyanic acid in my PC and watch the sparks fly?
The theory is there's a companion dwarf star to our Sun 1-3 light years away. Here's some info.
Hey, you're gonna write the sequel to Hooked on Phonics?
What made the first Matrix so cool was the blending of kung-fu, guns, SFX, and Trinity in leather. Other than that, the movie had a fairly cliched plot line sprinkled with pseudo philosophical babble and a heavy dose of deus ex machina at the end. Episodes 1 and 2 just didn't have any life. It didn't feel like the Star Wars that we grew up with. Maybe if you took a poll of 5-10 year olds around the country, their opinions of Episodes 1 and 2 would be different. Maybe to them, Episodes 1 and 2 are what the original trilogy is to us.
More than that, it could be the first franchise ever that didn't, at the end of the day, let audiences down--.
Actually, I think the Debbie Does Dallas franchise did a pretty decent job of keeping its audience up.
And if you really have issues with the job Jackson has done, suggest someone else who would have done better. Peter is the perfect choice IMO, as he doesn't have the ego that big producers do, an ego that would have turned LOTR in "Spielberg's LOTR".
I hear you man. I wonder what would have happened if George Lucus decided to do LOTR?
[begin dream sequence]
Gollum: Meesa want yousa Precioussss, okie-day?
[end dream sequence]
er... must go volunteer for Ebola vaccinations now...
yodabyte = (2^100)?
Wow, you guys really give new meaning to the concept of "Vote Early, Vote Often".
1. Don't underestimate the other guy's greed
2. Don't get high on his own supply
3. First get the money, then get the power, then finally get the women.
4. Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
The current concensus seems to be around 10e80 atoms.
A 70kg human will have around 7e27 atoms.
Well, assuming the encoded movie is 1GB, that would be around 8 billion bits. You have a 1 in 2^8000000000 chance of encoding the exact movie. There aren't even that many atoms in the known universe. It's safe to say that the chances aren't small, it's nigh impossible.
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ATA-133 controllers
We added a PCI Promise ATA-133 controller so we can run our four Maxlines as all master drives. This will improve simultaneous access performance and allows for an easy upgrade to eight storage drives.
Cost: $30
You can only sell stocks short on an uptick (aka the Uptick Rule). This means that the transaction is only allowed at a price higher than the previous. This is done to "prevent" speculators from driving down the stock price.
Detailed quote from today's Wall Street Journal:
Short Interest
Total On
9/8/03: 895,000
Total Shares For
Previous Month: 459,000
Short Interest
Ratio** 3
Short Interest as
% of Public Float 11.93%
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It seems like that you are interested in taking the CIS/MIS route. As someone who barely made his way through the prerequisite Calculus/Linear Algebra/Discrete Math/Differential Equations, I can sympathize with your apprehension to take those courses. I had to retake Multivariable Calculus twice. My concern is not your lack of interest in Math. It is your attitude of just doing enough to get by. No matter what route you take in school or life, you should strive to be the best in your field. Even if you don't end up being the best, you will still be much higher than most others. I learned this the hard way after flunking out of school three years ago. My advice to you is this. The most important skill you can have comes in the ability to deal with other human beings. Nothing we do is in isolation. Good luck with your decision.
I've always heard it pronounced as "kuh-nooth". You can check out his God and Computers lecture series here: http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_program.html?progra m_id=50 - excellent stuff.
If you build it, geeks will come.