What the Zimbabwean government says they are afraid of is losing export business to Europe, which does not allow BE food. That, and the president is stupidly independant.
The fact that everyone involved on the USA side says the IP concerns are stupid doesn't stop Slashdot's journalism.
Some people have things against genetically altered food. For a lot of reasons other than the patents associated with them.
On the plus side, Japan has a rather nice privatized education system, but then again the whole entire cultural incentive towards honor and creating a good name for ones self, and in this instance one's educational institution, is a major part of that, factors which American society lacks in the same quantity that Japanese society has.
From what I hear, to get into the good universities you have to score well on the test and have enough money to afford it. Although I know a lot of Japanese people that are going to university in Japan and planning on coming to America to work, because they get much better educations over there, as a whole.
It has already been shown that American schools will put up with almost any level of B.S. students in order to keep funding, where as many schools in Japan will kick out disgraceful students in order to keep a good name.
Wrong. US (America isn't a country, and my.sig is a quote) schools do kick people out. Academic Probation. Fall below academic probation for 2 semesters/terms and see how much they care about funding. There are ways around it, such as having rich relatives donating stadiums and what not, but you still get your ass kicked out quick.
Prep schools, and uni's all do it.
You make very good points about discrimination though. Public schools are in no way tailored for the minority group. They want cookie cutter students who all conform nicely. Those who stray from the trail of normality seldom do good, even when those kids may very well be geniuses.
I think this falls under the somewhat bastard-ish things to do, but I think it does actually motivate. If you write a little script to post CVS statistics (Assuming you use CVS, or another management system.) to the intranet site (or some other highly visible location) and make sure everyone can see who is doing what that needs to, generally people will perform better. If no one is looking over their shoulder, people tend to slack off (*checks over his shoulder*, good, lets continue).
Another way to do it is use a project tracking tool that has percentage completed goals in a nice display. IPM does this (Search Freshmeat for it) in a nice easy to see display. Shows a little graph of percent done per project and it allows multiple users.
Show them you are waiting for them. If 1 or 2 people are waiting for 3 more, the 3 should start feeling awkward. That and you have a conclusive tool to show the boss man that the rest of your team sucks. You can also post little notes, "Stuck? Ask someone for help." and such.
I got stuck with a developer who couldn't write one javascript function in 2 weeks. It was absurd, the boss didn't fire her because they both came from the same town in India and enjoyed to talk about life back home. We just cut her out of the loop. She received no projects. When my boss would ask me, I'd tell him she couldn't finish and to prove it would give her some minute task that wasn't important and after a couple weeks wouldn't have it finished. No biggie, don't rely and you don't get disappointed.
"Mpeg layer 3, it's compressed audio" "Oh, aren't those illegal?" "Some of them, not all of them" "Oh, then can I have some?" "Sure".... "I put it in my CD player and it didn't work." "No, you need an mp3 player"
4 years ago.. I think you are confused when Napster went commercial
At least in the conversation you stated it has to do with music and not some stupid sounding fantasy-based name. MP3 has something to do with the file format. It's a good name. CD has something to do with the format. It's a good name.
Ogg Vorbis has something to do with.. a Fantasy character(s). Not a good name. Just my $0.02.
I'm entitled to my opinion on this, and you wont change it:)
Besides, what does frequency modulation (FM) have to do with music anyway?;-) What is commonly transmitted over FM radio signals?
Music. Yes, Music. The #1 thing transmitted over FM radio signals.
That's just another acronym, one among thousands. After a while they get to be just background noise. MP3, MPG, FM, AM, TV, GNU, GPL -- all background noise, and cornerstone words in certain peoples daily life. If you want recognition you make it easy to remember and easy to say. Acronyms do that, that is why they are so widely used. They go into the background and get remembered.
Fantasy is a niche market. Granted, so is Ogg Vorbis for now. I like names that not only give you some idea as to what it does, but sound somewhat like english and not something from a rejected Tolkien novel.
Here's just one suggestion of what I have in mind, just off the top of my head, "PFM" - catchy, has the FM to think of music (Patent Free Media).
That and the full name fits in the extention. Is it an Ogg? No It's an Ogg Vorbis! Then why is it.ogg? Oh, that's right 8+3 mentality. So have a 3 letter acronym or something. Just my $0.02.
I'm not embarrassed at all by saying it. I think it is a stupid name.
"what format is that?" "Ogg Vorbis." "What?" "It's Ogg Vorbis." "What the hell is an ogg vorbis?" "So, these guys don't like mp3 because of the patent issues so they came up with their own format and they named it ogg vorbis." "Why ogg vorbis?" "It's some fantasy thing, a tribute or something." "Like Lord of the Rings" "Uh, yeah, something like that." [continues]
Wrong. Slashdot does report things but having headlines and departments with a bit of satire. The comments, and they call themselves editors. They used to say Journalists, too. (Hey, Emmett).
The shooter is the editors. They are the ones who commit the act. It's called integrity, really. They are getting a lot better, but still not quite there.
Person A writes a story, for say, wired. Person B reads story, writes an inaccurate summary and submits to slashdot. Person C, who is a/. editor, reads the summary, makes sure the link is valid, then posts headline comments and commentary based on the summary and not the actual article.
Person A had nothing to do with the poor "journalism". Person B did, but it's not their fault really, they didn't post it. Lets think of them as the bullets. They are just tools. Slashdot would be the gun. This is the thing that actually throws stupid at high velocity towards someone else (or in this case, a mass of people). Person C is the shooter. They consciously and deliberately pull the trigger and propogate stupidity.
If Slashdot was a forum, it would just link to the stories and not post commentaries and changed headlines. The editors wouldn't have some super power to have comments that everyone sees. Forum moderators don't have the power to force everyone to read their gibberish,/. doesn't have that./. itself pawns itself off as a news site. Read the header. News for nerds.
As for/. editors correcting mistakes, yes they do have the right and I believe the responsibility. However, they should do it in the ethical way (which they do) and post an update. Like, "Update: Sorry we didn't mean to say your mother is a goat." or what not.
Just my $0.02.
Hell, after this I'm pretty sure my karma wont be excellent anymore.
I agree that the journalists tend to be lazy, but don't blame/. for reporting that is done by an idiot.
Uhm,/. = Lazy "journalists".
The headlines, the department, the summary is all picked by the editor. Lets not use journalist, because there is not a single journalist employed by slashdot. You are blaming the bullets, and missing the gun and the shooter.
It wouldn't crash, but it would look horribly obscured. They provided a set of GL libs that supposedly mutated the perspective to work. Some times they worked, sometimes they didn't. If we used some GL code that hacked around a bit more than the norm it seemed to have some problems.
If we used their GL lib, and coded something specifically for it it would work awesome. Also, switching it over to the regular GL lib and switching the fov back would also work. Was a lot of fun, but there are a lot of problems running regular applications in a spherical display.
The analysis isn't conclusive because it's not only done by a bunch of tin-foil hat wearing people who think Art Bell should be president, but completely flawed.
Have you seen the original photos? I mean the originals. The real originals.
Let me tell you a story, it's about Mars. You see, Mars has this face on it, right? It's a human face, that's how the story goes, if I recall. I saw the original feed. I had access to all of those images. Every single mars image we have ever taken, straight from the archives.
You know what? All those "Mars Face" images are doctored. In a really easy way, just playing around with overlay and contrast and you get a very nice face.
If you think that analyzing photographs and only photographs is considered real research than you really do need to take a forensics course when you get into college. If it would have been real research they would have explained and counter-proofed all the rebuttals.
Such as why there is no crater. Which I think is the stupidest one of all. We are talking landing at less than 2 feet per second. 2 feet per second. You jump harder than that dipshit. I don't see craters forming on NBA courts everywhere. Hell, I don't see craters forming out in the dirt when you jump up and down.
Anyway, go open your eyes read up on light reflection on the moon and physics, and you will see that you sound like a complete fucking moron right now trying to say this is a hoax.
I dont want a cell phone that gets web pages, gets email, plays games, sings songs, or allows me to control my television. I want a cell phone that lasts more than two hours on a damn battery. Funny, I cant find one that doesnt do all the useless crap anymore, but I *SURE* cant find one that lives up to even its manufacturers claims on power consumption.
Ericsson T68. I get about 6 hours of talk time on it. I was on the phone last night for over an hour and my battery meter is still full. It also tells you how much battery life to expect. From what I can tell, it is mostly accurate. At full charge it reports 6h33m. GSM/GPRS phone, color screen (which you can switch to black and white and increase battery life further)
Full WAP support, Bluetooth, and a full PIM. I don't need my CLIE anymore. The best part? It's pretty damn small, can fit in my pants pocket comfortably.
The difference between a network file system being mounted with server dictated permissions and the two-headed hard drive is you don't need the write-server to be on the network. Or at least on an external network.
The first thing I thought while reading this was, "Damn that's a good idea.. I can't believe I've never thought of anything close to that."
There are a lot of details, but I think as a basic block to build on for security this is a very good thing.
Quake does some creative drawing with this as well. I was at a job and we had a Vision Dome (too lazy to pull link) that was a small scale imax style dome out in front.
We loaded quake, and it has the 180 degree profile and we were very surprised to see objects that weren't displayed on screen being displayed. All we did was tweak the GL viewport to get the display going. So.. Quake wouldn't work. Never know.. Halo may have perspective ratios setup for that.
2) Cost. I cannot aford a Mac. I wish I enough money to buy one. I do not resent the people can because they have this much money, nor am I particularly impressed that you have that much money. I do not hate you because you own a Mac, please do not look down on me because I don't.
...you'll plow ahead without really listening to the arguments of all those around you?
Sorry, but it's his company first off, and he does listen to the arguments of those around him. So freaking what? No one is forcing you to use.NET or Mono. What harm does it cause to the linux community to add another language that increases interoperability with other operating systems, even if it is one that most the zealot nuts don't like.
People will adopt the C# language if it catches on, and making it available on other platforms would help it catch on. Then once it's popular enough for Microsoft to take the reigns, they'll play around with it however they like.
You mean just like Sun tried to do? It will be much less effective for Microsoft to try to do that because of clean room implementation. The Mono C# compiler uses the specs of the language. If Microsoft wants to break interoperability they still can, beyond that you don't have to worry about them having the power to enforce licensing for people using the syntax of the language.
You're offering no more than, say, GCC already offers, except you're throwing in the additional bonus of contributing to the success of a company whose business model is based upon crushing ALL competition.
Sorry - I didn't realize that GCC provided.NET capable development with C# -- could you provide a link? Sometimes in helping fortify yourself, you help fortify your enemy. I would like to remind you that the Microsoft development community is not the enemy, the company, maybe is. Working with the Microsoft developing community is a step forward in getting a unified platform architecture -- maybe that's what he wants? I know I'd like to be able to have my software run the same way on OS X, Win, and all flavors of Unix.
How can you possibly think that is positive, unless some other factor you haven't mentioned proves this to be a worthwhile pursuit?
Simple -- how can you possibly think that it isn't positive. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. I stand nothing to gain, and I think it's a great idea and will probably start developing for it. Miguel has been very open, including his Slashdot interview, what more do you think you are entitled to? You aren't even entitled to that, he did it to help support the community that supports him. I applaud his efforts, and his ability to look past the evil face of Microsoft to see that there is in fact a good thing.
As for SMB, I can still smbmount all my boxes so I'm not losing sleep about that, either.
You need to relax, either come up with an alternative to.NET or shut the hell up because it frankly, is none of your business what he does with his time.
My favorite Alzheimer's experience involves my wonderful grandma, as well, who has been dead for quite some time now.
When we were growing up we'd go visit, and my grandma would always ask my brother and I if we had a dog. We'd politely say, "No gramma, we don't have a dog." and five minutes later be repeating ourselves. Her response was also, always, the same: Every boy should have a dog.
Finally, my mum grew so sick of it that she said, "I know lyin is wrong but if she asks you one more damn time you tell her you have a dog!"
A few years later, we were on a fairly lengthy road trip of a few hours and about 30 minutes away from the house (Away from any place to use a restroom of any sort, even the bad ones) she pipes up, "Excuse me, I need to use the restroom." -- we start to panic, and explain to her she'll have to hold it for just a bit longer. By the time we got back to the house she had completely forgotten (and was insisting she never had to) about going to the bathroom. That worried us, but luckily the car seat was still dry.:)
I'd join you on your monorail, but I can't pay the fare because my wallet was just nicked. I'd think of riding the bus, but the crazy homeless man assaulted me last time.
I think I'll stick with a motorcycle.
And the "shared environments" do squander irreplaceable resource. Granted, per person less but it still does. While I was in London I took the tubes every chance I could, then a cab after the tubes closed. Mostly because I don't want to spend 2 hours at 3:30 in the morning getting home on the busses when I can take a cab and be there in 20.
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It's a concern, but not the reason. RTFA.
What the Zimbabwean government says they are afraid of is losing export business to Europe, which does not allow BE food. That, and the president is stupidly independant.
The fact that everyone involved on the USA side says the IP concerns are stupid doesn't stop Slashdot's journalism.
Some people have things against genetically altered food. For a lot of reasons other than the patents associated with them.
It might have started out when being black was a "bad thing". Don't know of the real origins.
It doesn't mean being black is bad. It just means that you are calling upon both parties lambasting the other for being obviously the same thing.
It's origin is Cervantes' Don Quixote.
You can find ethnic slurs in almost anything. Chess, Pool, France Surrendering...
On the plus side, Japan has a rather nice privatized education system, but then again the whole entire cultural incentive towards honor and creating a good name for ones self, and in this instance one's educational institution, is a major part of that, factors which American society lacks in the same quantity that Japanese society has.
.sig is a quote) schools do kick people out. Academic Probation. Fall below academic probation for 2 semesters/terms and see how much they care about funding. There are ways around it, such as having rich relatives donating stadiums and what not, but you still get your ass kicked out quick.
From what I hear, to get into the good universities you have to score well on the test and have enough money to afford it. Although I know a lot of Japanese people that are going to university in Japan and planning on coming to America to work, because they get much better educations over there, as a whole.
It has already been shown that American schools will put up with almost any level of B.S. students in order to keep funding, where as many schools in Japan will kick out disgraceful students in order to keep a good name.
Wrong. US (America isn't a country, and my
Prep schools, and uni's all do it.
You make very good points about discrimination though. Public schools are in no way tailored for the minority group. They want cookie cutter students who all conform nicely. Those who stray from the trail of normality seldom do good, even when those kids may very well be geniuses.
I think this falls under the somewhat bastard-ish things to do, but I think it does actually motivate. If you write a little script to post CVS statistics (Assuming you use CVS, or another management system.) to the intranet site (or some other highly visible location) and make sure everyone can see who is doing what that needs to, generally people will perform better. If no one is looking over their shoulder, people tend to slack off (*checks over his shoulder*, good, lets continue).
Another way to do it is use a project tracking tool that has percentage completed goals in a nice display. IPM does this (Search Freshmeat for it) in a nice easy to see display. Shows a little graph of percent done per project and it allows multiple users.
Show them you are waiting for them. If 1 or 2 people are waiting for 3 more, the 3 should start feeling awkward. That and you have a conclusive tool to show the boss man that the rest of your team sucks. You can also post little notes, "Stuck? Ask someone for help." and such.
I got stuck with a developer who couldn't write one javascript function in 2 weeks. It was absurd, the boss didn't fire her because they both came from the same town in India and enjoyed to talk about life back home. We just cut her out of the loop. She received no projects. When my boss would ask me, I'd tell him she couldn't finish and to prove it would give her some minute task that wasn't important and after a couple weeks wouldn't have it finished. No biggie, don't rely and you don't get disappointed.
"Mpeg layer 3, it's compressed audio"
"Oh, aren't those illegal?"
"Some of them, not all of them"
"Oh, then can I have some?"
"Sure"
"I put it in my CD player and it didn't work."
"No, you need an mp3 player"
4 years ago
At least in the conversation you stated it has to do with music and not some stupid sounding fantasy-based name. MP3 has something to do with the file format. It's a good name. CD has something to do with the format. It's a good name.
Ogg Vorbis has something to do with.. a Fantasy character(s). Not a good name. Just my $0.02.
I'm entitled to my opinion on this, and you wont change it
Besides, what does frequency modulation (FM) have to do with music anyway? ;-)
What is commonly transmitted over FM radio signals?
Music. Yes, Music. The #1 thing transmitted over FM radio signals.
That's just another acronym, one among thousands. After a while they get to be just background noise.
MP3, MPG, FM, AM, TV, GNU, GPL -- all background noise, and cornerstone words in certain peoples daily life. If you want recognition you make it easy to remember and easy to say. Acronyms do that, that is why they are so widely used. They go into the background and get remembered.
Fantasy is a niche market. Granted, so is Ogg Vorbis for now. I like names that not only give you some idea as to what it does, but sound somewhat like english and not something from a rejected Tolkien novel.
.ogg? Oh, that's right 8+3 mentality. So have a 3 letter acronym or something. Just my $0.02.
Here's just one suggestion of what I have in mind, just off the top of my head, "PFM" - catchy, has the FM to think of music (Patent Free Media).
That and the full name fits in the extention. Is it an Ogg? No It's an Ogg Vorbis! Then why is it
I'm not embarrassed at all by saying it. I think it is a stupid name.
"what format is that?"
"Ogg Vorbis."
"What?"
"It's Ogg Vorbis."
"What the hell is an ogg vorbis?"
"So, these guys don't like mp3 because of the patent issues so they came up with their own format and they named it ogg vorbis."
"Why ogg vorbis?"
"It's some fantasy thing, a tribute or something."
"Like Lord of the Rings"
"Uh, yeah, something like that."
[continues]
Sorry -- I'd rather avoid that conversation.
Wrong. Slashdot does report things but having headlines and departments with a bit of satire. The comments, and they call themselves editors. They used to say Journalists, too. (Hey, Emmett).
/. editor, reads the summary, makes sure the link is valid, then posts headline comments and commentary based on the summary and not the actual article.
/. doesn't have that. /. itself pawns itself off as a news site. Read the header. News for nerds.
/. editors correcting mistakes, yes they do have the right and I believe the responsibility. However, they should do it in the ethical way (which they do) and post an update. Like, "Update: Sorry we didn't mean to say your mother is a goat." or what not.
The shooter is the editors. They are the ones who commit the act. It's called integrity, really. They are getting a lot better, but still not quite there.
Person A writes a story, for say, wired. Person B reads story, writes an inaccurate summary and submits to slashdot. Person C, who is a
Person A had nothing to do with the poor "journalism". Person B did, but it's not their fault really, they didn't post it. Lets think of them as the bullets. They are just tools.
Slashdot would be the gun. This is the thing that actually throws stupid at high velocity towards someone else (or in this case, a mass of people). Person C is the shooter. They consciously and deliberately pull the trigger and propogate stupidity.
If Slashdot was a forum, it would just link to the stories and not post commentaries and changed headlines. The editors wouldn't have some super power to have comments that everyone sees. Forum moderators don't have the power to force everyone to read their gibberish,
As for
Just my $0.02.
Hell, after this I'm pretty sure my karma wont be excellent anymore.
I agree that the journalists tend to be lazy, but don't blame /. for reporting that is done by an idiot.
/. = Lazy "journalists".
Uhm,
The headlines, the department, the summary is all picked by the editor. Lets not use journalist, because there is not a single journalist employed by slashdot. You are blaming the bullets, and missing the gun and the shooter.
It wouldn't crash, but it would look horribly obscured. They provided a set of GL libs that supposedly mutated the perspective to work. Some times they worked, sometimes they didn't. If we used some GL code that hacked around a bit more than the norm it seemed to have some problems.
If we used their GL lib, and coded something specifically for it it would work awesome. Also, switching it over to the regular GL lib and switching the fov back would also work. Was a lot of fun, but there are a lot of problems running regular applications in a spherical display.
I do have to say though that you gave me one of the biggest laughs I've ever had on slashdot. Granted, it was mostly at my own expense.
I gotta thank you for that one.
Wooo.. sorry - I finally got through to see the site.
.. hehe ..
hehe.
Uhm,
No hard feelings mate?
The analysis isn't conclusive because it's not only done by a bunch of tin-foil hat wearing people who think Art Bell should be president, but completely flawed.
Have you seen the original photos? I mean the originals. The real originals.
Let me tell you a story, it's about Mars. You see, Mars has this face on it, right? It's a human face, that's how the story goes, if I recall. I saw the original feed. I had access to all of those images. Every single mars image we have ever taken, straight from the archives.
You know what? All those "Mars Face" images are doctored. In a really easy way, just playing around with overlay and contrast and you get a very nice face.
If you think that analyzing photographs and only photographs is considered real research than you really do need to take a forensics course when you get into college. If it would have been real research they would have explained and counter-proofed all the rebuttals.
Such as why there is no crater. Which I think is the stupidest one of all. We are talking landing at less than 2 feet per second. 2 feet per second. You jump harder than that dipshit. I don't see craters forming on NBA courts everywhere. Hell, I don't see craters forming out in the dirt when you jump up and down.
Anyway, go open your eyes read up on light reflection on the moon and physics, and you will see that you sound like a complete fucking moron right now trying to say this is a hoax.
I dont want a cell phone that gets web pages, gets email, plays games, sings songs, or allows me to control my television. I want a cell phone that lasts more than two hours on a damn battery. Funny, I cant find one that doesnt do all the useless crap anymore, but I *SURE* cant find one that lives up to even its manufacturers claims on power consumption.
Ericsson T68. I get about 6 hours of talk time on it. I was on the phone last night for over an hour and my battery meter is still full. It also tells you how much battery life to expect. From what I can tell, it is mostly accurate. At full charge it reports 6h33m. GSM/GPRS phone, color screen (which you can switch to black and white and increase battery life further)
Full WAP support, Bluetooth, and a full PIM. I don't need my CLIE anymore. The best part? It's pretty damn small, can fit in my pants pocket comfortably.
The difference between a network file system being mounted with server dictated permissions and the two-headed hard drive is you don't need the write-server to be on the network. Or at least on an external network.
The first thing I thought while reading this was, "Damn that's a good idea.. I can't believe I've never thought of anything close to that."
There are a lot of details, but I think as a basic block to build on for security this is a very good thing.
That was why fov = 180 didn't work. After some mild hacking it looked ok. Custom GL code however worked fine, using skew algorithms.
We did, and setting fov to 180 didn't work nearly as planned.
Quake does some creative drawing with this as well. I was at a job and we had a Vision Dome (too lazy to pull link) that was a small scale imax style dome out in front.
We loaded quake, and it has the 180 degree profile and we were very surprised to see objects that weren't displayed on screen being displayed. All we did was tweak the GL viewport to get the display going. So.. Quake wouldn't work. Never know.. Halo may have perspective ratios setup for that.
2) Cost. I cannot aford a Mac. I wish I enough money to buy one. I do not resent the people can because they have this much money, nor am I particularly impressed that you have that much money. I do not hate you because you own a Mac, please do not look down on me because I don't.
:-)
Mac people look down on someone? Nahh
...you'll plow ahead without really listening to the arguments of all those around you?
.NET or Mono. What harm does it cause to the linux community to add another language that increases interoperability with other operating systems, even if it is one that most the zealot nuts don't like.
.NET capable development with C# -- could you provide a link? Sometimes in helping fortify yourself, you help fortify your enemy. I would like to remind you that the Microsoft development community is not the enemy, the company, maybe is. Working with the Microsoft developing community is a step forward in getting a unified platform architecture -- maybe that's what he wants? I know I'd like to be able to have my software run the same way on OS X, Win, and all flavors of Unix.
.NET or shut the hell up because it frankly, is none of your business what he does with his time.
Sorry, but it's his company first off, and he does listen to the arguments of those around him. So freaking what? No one is forcing you to use
People will adopt the C# language if it catches on, and making it available on other platforms would help it catch on. Then once it's popular enough for Microsoft to take the reigns, they'll play around with it however they like.
You mean just like Sun tried to do? It will be much less effective for Microsoft to try to do that because of clean room implementation. The Mono C# compiler uses the specs of the language. If Microsoft wants to break interoperability they still can, beyond that you don't have to worry about them having the power to enforce licensing for people using the syntax of the language.
You're offering no more than, say, GCC already offers, except you're throwing in the additional bonus of contributing to the success of a company whose business model is based upon crushing ALL competition.
Sorry - I didn't realize that GCC provided
How can you possibly think that is positive, unless some other factor you haven't mentioned proves this to be a worthwhile pursuit?
Simple -- how can you possibly think that it isn't positive. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. I stand nothing to gain, and I think it's a great idea and will probably start developing for it. Miguel has been very open, including his Slashdot interview, what more do you think you are entitled to? You aren't even entitled to that, he did it to help support the community that supports him. I applaud his efforts, and his ability to look past the evil face of Microsoft to see that there is in fact a good thing.
As for SMB, I can still smbmount all my boxes so I'm not losing sleep about that, either.
You need to relax, either come up with an alternative to
Well, when my mom was 6 or something she got bit by a dog (Minor damage, nothing permanent) and ever since hates dogs.
I tried to talk her into letting me get a Rottweiler, which is the only dog I'm interested in getting, but that was a no go.
My favorite Alzheimer's experience involves my wonderful grandma, as well, who has been dead for quite some time now.
:)
When we were growing up we'd go visit, and my grandma would always ask my brother and I if we had a dog. We'd politely say, "No gramma, we don't have a dog." and five minutes later be repeating ourselves. Her response was also, always, the same: Every boy should have a dog.
Finally, my mum grew so sick of it that she said, "I know lyin is wrong but if she asks you one more damn time you tell her you have a dog!"
A few years later, we were on a fairly lengthy road trip of a few hours and about 30 minutes away from the house (Away from any place to use a restroom of any sort, even the bad ones) she pipes up, "Excuse me, I need to use the restroom." -- we start to panic, and explain to her she'll have to hold it for just a bit longer. By the time we got back to the house she had completely forgotten (and was insisting she never had to) about going to the bathroom. That worried us, but luckily the car seat was still dry.
When it's France, however, the folks from Yahoo stand up and defend [sfgate.com] their right to independent content. Strange dualism going on there, wouldn't you say.
Yahoo attacks, and France surrenders.
I'd join you on your monorail, but I can't pay the fare because my wallet was just nicked. I'd think of riding the bus, but the crazy homeless man assaulted me last time.
I think I'll stick with a motorcycle.
And the "shared environments" do squander irreplaceable resource. Granted, per person less but it still does. While I was in London I took the tubes every chance I could, then a cab after the tubes closed. Mostly because I don't want to spend 2 hours at 3:30 in the morning getting home on the busses when I can take a cab and be there in 20.