The design fault,is this,the metal latch will not close after a few months use, so you can insert MD but NOT play it
Take it apart and try to fix it. If it's off warranty anyway, then why not try? Not enough people even try and repair things themselves. If it's just that the lid doesn't stay closed, try a piece of tape. If the latch itself triggers some kind of sensor, try and hack around it. Kind of ghetto but hey, new minidisc players don't grow on trees.
But really, why should they not admit it's a cockup? there's nothing wrong in admitting a Mars probe failed, it's already quite an achievement to send man-made things there, and it's understood that there are risks involved, and that there's a very real probability that the mission will fail.
I suspect a lot of people in power (Democrat and Republican) view NASA as an incredible waste of money that could be better spent buying useless new weapons systems, or funding another impingement on the US Constitution. IMO, the only reasons NASA still has funding at all are the economic spinoffs to the areospace sector, and the fact that it serves as a distraction to divert the public eye from far more wasteful and incompetent government agencies.
Any open admission of a "cockup" would be handing NASA's enemies another nail in its coffin, an excuse for more funding cutbacks resulting in more failure-prone shoestring missions, thus continuing the cycle until NASA is nothing but a guy who goes around to schools telling the kids how great space used to be.
I know you're being witty, but did they label him a security risk because he WAS one, or because they had to find a risk somewhere to justify their consultation fee so they picked the geek who knew the most passwords?
I mean, if they found out he was posting on the internet saying "My company sucks, one day they'll push me too far and I'll install backdoors on all their servers" then they may have a point. I'm guessing that's not the most likely scenario though:-P
I know (IIRC) that he's only supposed to be able to *bamf* to places he can see, or places he's very familiar with (?) but I thought they used his power with remarkable restraint considering how FREAKING USEFUL he is:) I mean, he shouldn't have been able to rescue Rogue when the plane depressurized either, but it made for a great dramatic scene (I also really liked Jean Grey's "less is more" approach to dealing with the missiles).
Where's the moral hazard in spending hours listening to two grotesquely overpriveleged young women bitching about how you can't get good drugs this week and how they broke a $5000 pair of shoes while drunk and it was their FAVORITE PAIR and what an asshole Rick Solomon is and how you can't get good help these days and who the &^%% is this loser who's been hanging out with us all evening maybe he has some good drugs./Sanity hazard/ maybe...
For some of us, it's more like a method of furnishing our homes, decorating our walls and when things get really bad, finding the "refrigerator crate of our dreams" to keep the rain off.
I suspect that forcing bars to serve out of "airline bottles" was a response to rampant drink-watering, not the morality of drinking. Or possibly it was an attempt to indirectly drive up the cost of hard liquor to reduce drinking? But yeah, it's surprising how few of those "little" bottles it takes to get quite hammered:-D
Ten to one this story never reaches even the back page of the paper. Citibank refuses to even admit that anything happened (if I read the article correctly) and the average reporter would find most of this account incomprehensible. Until the Marines burst into the Russian Credit Card Theives' base and rescue the pretty blonde army woman they've been imprisoning there, this isn't "news" by a long shot, and the corporate media will continue to say hackers = criminals, because that's the story that is most easily sensationalized.
"The hackneyed inclusion of Saruman as petty mastermind is both belittling to him and a jarring shift in his characterization."
Saruman went mad with his desire for power over others, and after the possibility of being Sauron's powerful sidekick was crushed, he took his few remaining followers, and went to take over a place he knew he could conquer - The Shire, full of poorly-armed Hobbits. Not to mention, he was taking the opportunity to despoil the homeland of some of his most hated foes, while they were away "protecting" it, and after they had shown him mercy. Oh the irony. Seems pretty in-character to me.
The vertical-dumbbell shaped Guardian UAV looks homely, but as a surveillance platform it makes sense, lots of space for your spy gear on a small airframe and it's not like you have to dogfight with the damn thing...
... it's the tape which supposedly has hotel heiress Paris Hilton banging her boyfriend (recorded by him with her knowledge). Arguably, she has a right to try and restrain its distribution. Though, arguably, if she had made no fuss, people would forget about it almost instantly. I hear it's pretty lame anyway.
"Uhhm. Wouldn't they all have to be pretty much shaped like a flat circular disk to work?"
Nope. Flat, yes, circular, no. You've never seen the novelty discs shaped like US states, the maple leaf etc? The data track only inhabits the inner part where there are no interruptions, picture a square with a circle inscribed inside it, touching all 4 sides: the "corners" would have no data. Oh yeah, they should be more or less balanced too, or I bet they'd cause wear on your CD player motor if you played them a lot. Which is unlikely considering the stupid crap that tends to be on novelty-shaped CD's...
It's not "responsibility to accept advertising" so much as the consumer has to recognize that banners provide websites with revenue, but that ignoring them is your right. It would also be the website owner's right to use paid subscriptions as an alternate revenue model. Cable TV is an example of what happens when you get the annoying ads AND have to pay for the content - people resent it. I think cable only became near-ubiquitous because there was no other way for people to get access to all those shows they want to watch. Hence the popularity of stealing cable (same ads, no cash cost), and now mini satellite dishes (same price, same ads but a zillion channels).
The pre-commercial internet was nice in many ways, but it sure had a lot less stuff on it. And not all the extra stuff is bad stuff.
I hate to break it to you, her being your mom and all, but she's being kind of a jerk. I guess the take-home message is: she doesn't want to learn, so don't waste your time. You probably wouldn't like old Elvis movies either, or whatever the hell it is old people like to watch;-)
... if Finland is at all like North America, they'd receive a huge backlash, and they'd never air another adult-oriented animated program again ever, in any time slot, just to make sure some kids weren't accidentally watching or something.
Well, I've been collecting pr0n with you in it for three years, and I only have 2300 MB of it so far. Is there a newsgroup or something I don't know about? "alt.sex.pictures.shoten"?
Lumping "Resident Evil" in with "Mortal Combat" is a little harsh, IMO. While much of it was highly derivative of previous zombie movies, I found that it didn't set off my crap detector so many times as to be un-entertaining. And it was actually scary.
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The design fault,is this ,the metal latch will not close after a few months use, so you can insert MD but NOT play it
Take it apart and try to fix it. If it's off warranty anyway, then why not try? Not enough people even try and repair things themselves. If it's just that the lid doesn't stay closed, try a piece of tape. If the latch itself triggers some kind of sensor, try and hack around it. Kind of ghetto but hey, new minidisc players don't grow on trees.
Haha, I'm an idiot. Just goes to show that even if you RTFA, your ideas can get the best of you sometimes...
But really, why should they not admit it's a cockup? there's nothing wrong in admitting a Mars probe failed, it's already quite an achievement to send man-made things there, and it's understood that there are risks involved, and that there's a very real probability that the mission will fail.
I suspect a lot of people in power (Democrat and Republican) view NASA as an incredible waste of money that could be better spent buying useless new weapons systems, or funding another impingement on the US Constitution. IMO, the only reasons NASA still has funding at all are the economic spinoffs to the areospace sector, and the fact that it serves as a distraction to divert the public eye from far more wasteful and incompetent government agencies.
Any open admission of a "cockup" would be handing NASA's enemies another nail in its coffin, an excuse for more funding cutbacks resulting in more failure-prone shoestring missions, thus continuing the cycle until NASA is nothing but a guy who goes around to schools telling the kids how great space used to be.
Why are you wasting time here? There's "slash" fanfic to be written, dammit!
I get the joke, I know it's funny, but my little PC gentile heart just won't let me laugh...
I know you're being witty, but did they label him a security risk because he WAS one, or because they had to find a risk somewhere to justify their consultation fee so they picked the geek who knew the most passwords?
:-P
I mean, if they found out he was posting on the internet saying "My company sucks, one day they'll push me too far and I'll install backdoors on all their servers" then they may have a point. I'm guessing that's not the most likely scenario though
I know (IIRC) that he's only supposed to be able to *bamf* to places he can see, or places he's very familiar with (?) but I thought they used his power with remarkable restraint considering how FREAKING USEFUL he is :) I mean, he shouldn't have been able to rescue Rogue when the plane depressurized either, but it made for a great dramatic scene (I also really liked Jean Grey's "less is more" approach to dealing with the missiles).
... probably isn't a cypherpunk.
Don't worry, we've learned our lesson, no more war.
Where's the moral hazard in spending hours listening to two grotesquely overpriveleged young women bitching about how you can't get good drugs this week and how they broke a $5000 pair of shoes while drunk and it was their FAVORITE PAIR and what an asshole Rick Solomon is and how you can't get good help these days and who the &^%% is this loser who's been hanging out with us all evening maybe he has some good drugs. /Sanity hazard/ maybe...
Yeah, but if you're still "up" at the *end* of a Debbie movie it didn't do its job.
For some of us, it's more like a method of furnishing our homes, decorating our walls and when things get really bad, finding the "refrigerator crate of our dreams" to keep the rain off.
I suspect that forcing bars to serve out of "airline bottles" was a response to rampant drink-watering, not the morality of drinking. Or possibly it was an attempt to indirectly drive up the cost of hard liquor to reduce drinking? But yeah, it's surprising how few of those "little" bottles it takes to get quite hammered :-D
Ten to one this story never reaches even the back page of the paper. Citibank refuses to even admit that anything happened (if I read the article correctly) and the average reporter would find most of this account incomprehensible. Until the Marines burst into the Russian Credit Card Theives' base and rescue the pretty blonde army woman they've been imprisoning there, this isn't "news" by a long shot, and the corporate media will continue to say hackers = criminals, because that's the story that is most easily sensationalized.
"The hackneyed inclusion of Saruman as petty mastermind is both belittling to him and a jarring shift in his characterization."
Saruman went mad with his desire for power over others, and after the possibility of being Sauron's powerful sidekick was crushed, he took his few remaining followers, and went to take over a place he knew he could conquer - The Shire, full of poorly-armed Hobbits. Not to mention, he was taking the opportunity to despoil the homeland of some of his most hated foes, while they were away "protecting" it, and after they had shown him mercy. Oh the irony. Seems pretty in-character to me.
The vertical-dumbbell shaped Guardian UAV looks homely, but as a surveillance platform it makes sense, lots of space for your spy gear on a small airframe and it's not like you have to dogfight with the damn thing...
... it's the tape which supposedly has hotel heiress Paris Hilton banging her boyfriend (recorded by him with her knowledge). Arguably, she has a right to try and restrain its distribution. Though, arguably, if she had made no fuss, people would forget about it almost instantly. I hear it's pretty lame anyway.
"Uhhm. Wouldn't they all have to be pretty much shaped like a flat circular disk to work?"
Nope. Flat, yes, circular, no. You've never seen the novelty discs shaped like US states, the maple leaf etc? The data track only inhabits the inner part where there are no interruptions, picture a square with a circle inscribed inside it, touching all 4 sides: the "corners" would have no data. Oh yeah, they should be more or less balanced too, or I bet they'd cause wear on your CD player motor if you played them a lot. Which is unlikely considering the stupid crap that tends to be on novelty-shaped CD's...
It's not "responsibility to accept advertising" so much as the consumer has to recognize that banners provide websites with revenue, but that ignoring them is your right. It would also be the website owner's right to use paid subscriptions as an alternate revenue model. Cable TV is an example of what happens when you get the annoying ads AND have to pay for the content - people resent it. I think cable only became near-ubiquitous because there was no other way for people to get access to all those shows they want to watch. Hence the popularity of stealing cable (same ads, no cash cost), and now mini satellite dishes (same price, same ads but a zillion channels).
The pre-commercial internet was nice in many ways, but it sure had a lot less stuff on it.
And not all the extra stuff is bad stuff.
I hate to break it to you, her being your mom and all, but she's being kind of a jerk. I guess the take-home message is: she doesn't want to learn, so don't waste your time. You probably wouldn't like old Elvis movies either, or whatever the hell it is old people like to watch ;-)
... if Finland is at all like North America, they'd receive a huge backlash, and they'd never air another adult-oriented animated program again ever, in any time slot, just to make sure some kids weren't accidentally watching or something.
Well, I've been collecting pr0n with you in it for three years, and I only have 2300 MB of it so far. Is there a newsgroup or something I don't know about? "alt.sex.pictures.shoten"?
What category should the NRA be in if not "weapons"?
Well, since they don't have a "retards" category...
(with apologies to the actual retards)
Lumping "Resident Evil" in with "Mortal Combat" is a little harsh, IMO. While much of it was highly derivative of previous zombie movies, I found that it didn't set off my crap detector so many times as to be un-entertaining. And it was actually scary.
That's what I was thinking, but you never know, some people are more easily excited than others...