moerobotics? Wouldn't happen to be related to the MOE that I saw on Battlebots the other night would it? You might have to take something up with them if that is not the case =]
I assume they look for articles to generate good discussion. It would be a stretch for #2 to do so. We all know exactly how the discussion on #3 would turn out, and #1 is just sort of a fun fact of the day. I'm not going to turn in a story submission that googel.com points to google's english language only search am I? Because nobody cares! As far as #2, it is sad whenever somebody kills themself, but I was surprised he even made it on cnn. Maybe if Larry Wall shot himself/died someway we'd see it, but you have to pick and choose.
You would be surprised how much the movie Office Space applies to non cubical jobs as well. While working a factory I experienced many similar things to the movie. Such as, if I messed up, I had 5 people telling me about it and reminding me about it. And there was a lady one line over that would talk on her phone and had the most annoying laugh in the world (and this was a pretty loud factory too!). There's more than that, but it was pretty amazing how it paralleled to even a factor job.
So does the American Legion. They do them the 'proper way'. Actually, burning a flag is the only way to respectfully destroy a flag that is 'past its prime' so to speak. This doesn't mean throwing it in a 10 gallon metal drum in the back yard, pouring lighter fluid on it and torching it. They fold it some way and light it from a certain end, etc. There's quite an ordeal to it.
Thus said, if you do plan on getting rid of an old flag that is a bit weathered (which you should do, flying a weather beaten worn out flag is considered disrespectful as well, actually.) you should take it to the American Legion or other such organization for proper disposal.
The idea of not use contraception isn't so much as a dislike of contraception but more of the idea that intercourse with a partner is for the purpose of reproduction and not getting off. Mohandus Gandhi believed it was wrong for him to sleep with his wife without the intent of having children, (although admitted to falling from this many times. I read a very interesting interview with Gandhi and Margaret Sanger that discussed his views on the subject.) I think the issue is more of whether it is okay to have sexual intercourse for its own purposes rather than reproduction. Female circumcision is along similar lines as this. Turns intercourse into a purely reproductive process.
Uhm, I don't know how cable set it up over there, but unless you've got a cable box or some other kind of decoder that controls how many tvs you can have watching different channels, all you need to do is split the cable in the wall or coming out of the jack and everyone can watch whatever they want to. Satellite TV is more restrictive, because of the decoder box it has. Same goes for digital cable. But with plain ol' analog cable tv, as long as you don't split the cable to many times (resulting in crappy signals), you could probably have about 4 or 5 tvs in the house all watching different stations.
You pay the water company for each drop of water you use, so you are paying extra out of your pocket when your friend drinks it. You might get in trouble if you tried to charge them for it, reselling of water obtained from the water company might be illegal. Same with the power coming into your house. Now, if you were paying per bit for your cable access, then go ahead and share it with whomever you like, but if it is illegal to 'resell' it, you can't charge them for it. It's a little different when you are paying $40/mo for 'unlimited' access. I have a feeling they most likely have a clause in your contract prohibitting reselling or allowing people outside your house/apartment to use it. Otherwise, why can't I just get a splitter and run a cable for cable TV to the guy upstairs?
I would have to look more closely, but I'm pretty sure most of them have prohibitions against reselling or allowing people outside your home to use them. It wouldn't be all the difficult to write something like that in. Make reselling the service illegal (most likely already in place). Then make it illegal for anyone outside the confines of 'your home' to use it.
If run a power line to your neighbors house, then you would have to charge him for it, or pay the extra on his behalf. I believe there are laws against your reselling of power though. You would need to look into that.
35,000 a year is a lot better than what you'd make at other jobs. Isn't that average starting salary for a teacher? For a high school kid, that is real good money.
Yeah, a lot of people think they are aliens because they look at them and think of what we are led to believe are aliens. It's pretty obvious they are not sentient beings, as they are trying to get a grasp of what real life is like. Not necessarily human life, just real life. Thus, they are having a hard time finding any, and are very excited when they find the boy, who has memories of human life Of course, you would have to wonder why they would not have passed their knowledge onto each other as new robots were created. After all, if a robot created a new robot, shouldn't it start it with everything it already knows? Sort of like humans try to do. Anyway, I thought it was an appropriate ending. You could have ended it with him staring at the blue fairy for ever, or you could actually give the movie decent closure.
I never understood why people were so obsessed with 'losing weight'. For all you know the weight you are losing is just higher density muscle tissue. Wouldn't that suck? Overall health is more important than weight. Some people that are 'skinny' aren't very healthy at all. They're malnourished or lacking vitamins they need. Anyway, same thing like you said "one size fits all" isn't the way to go. Some people have perfectly healthy hearts, bodies, and minds, and are what many of us would consider to be 'chubby' or 'fat'. We don't all have to be fit and trim muscle men/women to be healthy.
Yah, I never found it all that hard. Eat healthy food. Healthy not being in a box in a grocery store that says "99% fat free". Healthy food being everything in that colorful corner of the grocery store. Fruits, vegetables, and if you eat meat, eat it. I recommend fish, salmon, etc. if you're going to eat meat, but some people love their beef, so I guess eat it.
"Diets" don't work. By definition they are temporary and restrictive. Instead, just eat GOOD food. It's pretty simple what's GOOD food. That extra large pizza with extra cheese? Not good. That orange and apple over there? Good. Those vegetables? Good.
Don't eat too many potatoes or excessively high carb foods, but don't eat nothing but steak either. Thus, eat everything in moderation, mostly good food, but don't deny yourself bad food either. Besides, most 'healthy' food that isn't processed and stamped with the 99% fat free label, is pretty good tasting. You don't hear many people saying "Boy, that orange sure was disgusting," unless it was a rotten one.
And exercise too, but do something fun. I don't know how people can ride stationary bikes or run on treadmills for an hour every day. The boredom kills me. I play racquetball and other active sports.
In summary, it's pretty much the same stuff you've been hearing all along: eat good food, and exercise. What qualifies as 'good food' is pretty easy to figure out.
*ahem* BS. You can survive without any animal products. B12 exists in soil, and this is how many other herbivores get their B12, by eating plants directly out of the soil. It is entirely possible to sustain oneself without ill health effects without eating any animal products. (Except maybe a few microorganisms/small animals that may be in the soil).
Yeah, It is very easy to hit somebody's head when it is a large square pixel instead of a nice anti-aliased, rounded head, with facial features. I noticed a drop in my abilities at UT when I went from my 466 Celeron laptop + 8 meg video card to a 1333 athlon + 64 mb geforce 2.
Eating meat is not the cause of hunger worldwide, it is corrupt and incompetent leaders.
While it may not be "THE" cause of hunger worldwide, it is quite well known that meat-based diets sustain far less people than grain-based diets. Thus, if the entire population were to switch to a grain-based diet, the earth could likely support more people. If you want real population control, force everyone to eat meat, or even better, cannibalism. Get the least bang for your energy buck!
yeah, powwow ruled. Personally, I preferred to use the chat client on IDEAnet (Indiana Dept. of Education Access network or something). They disabled it after it became wildly popular and probably sucked up a lot of resources as far as modems, etc. It's still accessible via telnet and dial-up I believe. That was a great free 1-800 number BBS. Especially when you live in the middle of nowhere, it was my only toll-free line to a BBS. =]
Someone figured that out a long time ago actually. Thomas Malthus, back in the early 1800s said that basically the human population is increasing at the same that food supplies are, but at a much greater rate. Thus, there are three inevitable population checks. Famine, War, and Disease. These will take place when we run out of resources. They'll kill off enough people that we can survive just a bit longer to do it all over again, wheee.
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moerobotics? Wouldn't happen to be related to the MOE that I saw on Battlebots the other night would it? You might have to take something up with them if that is not the case =]
Is the first most popular beer in Canada made by Elsinore?
I assume they look for articles to generate good discussion. It would be a stretch for #2 to do so. We all know exactly how the discussion on #3 would turn out, and #1 is just sort of a fun fact of the day. I'm not going to turn in a story submission that googel.com points to google's english language only search am I? Because nobody cares! As far as #2, it is sad whenever somebody kills themself, but I was surprised he even made it on cnn. Maybe if Larry Wall shot himself/died someway we'd see it, but you have to pick and choose.
Seemed the other way around to me. 15 minutes of that boy meets girl crap, except it was better, because his pickup line was "do you like kung fu?".
You would be surprised how much the movie Office Space applies to non cubical jobs as well. While working a factory I experienced many similar things to the movie. Such as, if I messed up, I had 5 people telling me about it and reminding me about it. And there was a lady one line over that would talk on her phone and had the most annoying laugh in the world (and this was a pretty loud factory too!). There's more than that, but it was pretty amazing how it paralleled to even a factor job.
So does the American Legion. They do them the 'proper way'. Actually, burning a flag is the only way to respectfully destroy a flag that is 'past its prime' so to speak. This doesn't mean throwing it in a 10 gallon metal drum in the back yard, pouring lighter fluid on it and torching it. They fold it some way and light it from a certain end, etc. There's quite an ordeal to it.
Thus said, if you do plan on getting rid of an old flag that is a bit weathered (which you should do, flying a weather beaten worn out flag is considered disrespectful as well, actually.) you should take it to the American Legion or other such organization for proper disposal.
Not unless 'Madonna' in German means Mary the mother of Jesus.
The idea of not use contraception isn't so much as a dislike of contraception but more of the idea that intercourse with a partner is for the purpose of reproduction and not getting off. Mohandus Gandhi believed it was wrong for him to sleep with his wife without the intent of having children, (although admitted to falling from this many times. I read a very interesting interview with Gandhi and Margaret Sanger that discussed his views on the subject.) I think the issue is more of whether it is okay to have sexual intercourse for its own purposes rather than reproduction. Female circumcision is along similar lines as this. Turns intercourse into a purely reproductive process.
Uhm, I don't know how cable set it up over there, but unless you've got a cable box or some other kind of decoder that controls how many tvs you can have watching different channels, all you need to do is split the cable in the wall or coming out of the jack and everyone can watch whatever they want to. Satellite TV is more restrictive, because of the decoder box it has. Same goes for digital cable. But with plain ol' analog cable tv, as long as you don't split the cable to many times (resulting in crappy signals), you could probably have about 4 or 5 tvs in the house all watching different stations.
You pay the water company for each drop of water you use, so you are paying extra out of your pocket when your friend drinks it. You might get in trouble if you tried to charge them for it, reselling of water obtained from the water company might be illegal. Same with the power coming into your house. Now, if you were paying per bit for your cable access, then go ahead and share it with whomever you like, but if it is illegal to 'resell' it, you can't charge them for it. It's a little different when you are paying $40/mo for 'unlimited' access. I have a feeling they most likely have a clause in your contract prohibitting reselling or allowing people outside your house/apartment to use it. Otherwise, why can't I just get a splitter and run a cable for cable TV to the guy upstairs?
I would have to look more closely, but I'm pretty sure most of them have prohibitions against reselling or allowing people outside your home to use them. It wouldn't be all the difficult to write something like that in. Make reselling the service illegal (most likely already in place). Then make it illegal for anyone outside the confines of 'your home' to use it.
If run a power line to your neighbors house, then you would have to charge him for it, or pay the extra on his behalf. I believe there are laws against your reselling of power though. You would need to look into that.
35,000 a year is a lot better than what you'd make at other jobs. Isn't that average starting salary for a teacher? For a high school kid, that is real good money.
Why would a lifeless planet matter to robots as long as they had a viable power source?
Yeah, a lot of people think they are aliens because they look at them and think of what we are led to believe are aliens. It's pretty obvious they are not sentient beings, as they are trying to get a grasp of what real life is like. Not necessarily human life, just real life. Thus, they are having a hard time finding any, and are very excited when they find the boy, who has memories of human life Of course, you would have to wonder why they would not have passed their knowledge onto each other as new robots were created. After all, if a robot created a new robot, shouldn't it start it with everything it already knows? Sort of like humans try to do. Anyway, I thought it was an appropriate ending. You could have ended it with him staring at the blue fairy for ever, or you could actually give the movie decent closure.
I am sure that any sensible director would avoid too many "My young apprentice" and "You should not - we must not" stuff.
Or people saying "Milady" 100 times. Argh!
I never understood why people were so obsessed with 'losing weight'. For all you know the weight you are losing is just higher density muscle tissue. Wouldn't that suck? Overall health is more important than weight. Some people that are 'skinny' aren't very healthy at all. They're malnourished or lacking vitamins they need. Anyway, same thing like you said "one size fits all" isn't the way to go. Some people have perfectly healthy hearts, bodies, and minds, and are what many of us would consider to be 'chubby' or 'fat'. We don't all have to be fit and trim muscle men/women to be healthy.
Yah, I never found it all that hard. Eat healthy food. Healthy not being in a box in a grocery store that says "99% fat free". Healthy food being everything in that colorful corner of the grocery store. Fruits, vegetables, and if you eat meat, eat it. I recommend fish, salmon, etc. if you're going to eat meat, but some people love their beef, so I guess eat it.
"Diets" don't work. By definition they are temporary and restrictive. Instead, just eat GOOD food. It's pretty simple what's GOOD food. That extra large pizza with extra cheese? Not good. That orange and apple over there? Good. Those vegetables? Good.
Don't eat too many potatoes or excessively high carb foods, but don't eat nothing but steak either. Thus, eat everything in moderation, mostly good food, but don't deny yourself bad food either. Besides, most 'healthy' food that isn't processed and stamped with the 99% fat free label, is pretty good tasting. You don't hear many people saying "Boy, that orange sure was disgusting," unless it was a rotten one.
And exercise too, but do something fun. I don't know how people can ride stationary bikes or run on treadmills for an hour every day. The boredom kills me. I play racquetball and other active sports.
In summary, it's pretty much the same stuff you've been hearing all along: eat good food, and exercise. What qualifies as 'good food' is pretty easy to figure out.
*ahem* BS. You can survive without any animal products. B12 exists in soil, and this is how many other herbivores get their B12, by eating plants directly out of the soil. It is entirely possible to sustain oneself without ill health effects without eating any animal products. (Except maybe a few microorganisms/small animals that may be in the soil).
Yeah, It is very easy to hit somebody's head when it is a large square pixel instead of a nice anti-aliased, rounded head, with facial features. I noticed a drop in my abilities at UT when I went from my 466 Celeron laptop + 8 meg video card to a 1333 athlon + 64 mb geforce 2.
Eating meat is not the cause of hunger worldwide, it is corrupt and incompetent leaders.
While it may not be "THE" cause of hunger worldwide, it is quite well known that meat-based diets sustain far less people than grain-based diets. Thus, if the entire population were to switch to a grain-based diet, the earth could likely support more people. If you want real population control, force everyone to eat meat, or even better, cannibalism. Get the least bang for your energy buck!
yeah, powwow ruled. Personally, I preferred to use the chat client on IDEAnet (Indiana Dept. of Education Access network or something). They disabled it after it became wildly popular and probably sucked up a lot of resources as far as modems, etc. It's still accessible via telnet and dial-up I believe. That was a great free 1-800 number BBS. Especially when you live in the middle of nowhere, it was my only toll-free line to a BBS. =]
Someone figured that out a long time ago actually. Thomas Malthus, back in the early 1800s said that basically the human population is increasing at the same that food supplies are, but at a much greater rate. Thus, there are three inevitable population checks. Famine, War, and Disease. These will take place when we run out of resources. They'll kill off enough people that we can survive just a bit longer to do it all over again, wheee.
If you could create something good enough and pass it off as a sequel to something on a grand scale, who would believe who or what?
It is tough to collect enough underpants with all those underpants gnomes running about. I'm up to about 500 pairs, how are you doing?