It is obviously a ploy to get alien women interested in cross-stitch so that we can take the alien men out to topless bars. It has got to be the ugliest pattern I have ever seen though.
The three companies are now developing the technique to introduce it into manufacturing at the earliest opportunity, and plan to increase related research and development efforts.
This sounds great, but what the hell is it made of? They call it a wine glass, is it fine leaded crystal? The base material in gas form is all they mention. Does that mean that they can use any material that can be vaporized? It seems that in order for this to be of use in manufacturing (manufacturing what?) they would have to be able to use a variety of materials to build with...
Just another example of the two-faced hypocrisy of a religion that advocates community property in its scriptures while simultaneously kneeling at the altar of the almighty dollar.
I feel compelled to respond to that statement. I suppose it would be easy to assume that anyone who sells a Bible is surely a represenatative example of Christianity, but that is not the case. Anywhere there is a dollar to be made, there is someone who is willing to make it. As the post before noted, there is no copyright on the KJV Bible, which means anyone with the resources can publish and sell a KJV. Some companies in the business of enlightening people with God's word do just that and sell the products at close to cost.
Now, while trying to avoid the which translation is better argument (which is so closely tied to the economics of the situation as to be almost impossible), it is easy to see that it would be difficult to make a wild fortune selling KJV bibles, barring special expensive leather bound 2000th anniversary editions. But as I said, if there is money to be made, there are people willing to do what they must to make it. By making a new translation and copyrighting it, they have cornered the market on the new and improved word of God. Then all they have to do is convince people that their version is the best, most up-to-date version available. If someone else comes up with a newer, better, more-up-to-date-er version, they just release the Revised Best Most etc...
All the different versions that are sold at such a premium are published by large corporations, and these corporations are every bit as greedy as the recording industry. In some cases they are the recording industry... They have to keep up appearances, because most Christians would not be comfortable giving their money directly to Satan, but don't look to them for an example of Christianity in action.
Perhaps we could make a few more fundamental changes to the way we elect our presidents. Getting rid of the electoral college is just the beginning. What next? Presidential Time Share, of course! Every candidate would receive an amount of time in office proportionate to his share of the popular vote. But wait, there's more! Yes, by voting for yourself, you get 2 minutes in the Oval Office complete with veto power and military command. Want to press the button? GO AHEAD!
Also, instead of appointing supreme court justices, all legislation will be subjected to the patented/. Moderation system to determine constitutionality.
I have problems with IE when I have mod points, mainly on larger discussions... The drop down boxes start dragging their asses all over the screen making it very hard to read anything. Very annoying.
On Napster there are plenty of perfect recordings, but there are also plenty of suck ass recordings. If BMG's entire catalog was made available at all times, with enough bandwidth to support all the users, I would be willing to pay. Not a whole lot, but it would be a good service. I dont want to have to worry about whether or not I'm getting the whole song, and I hate it when the only copy I can find of a song is on some guys 56K modem connection. Give me unlimited D/L of BMG's music catalog for around $10 a month, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
Yes for large emails. At 128 kbps a 5 MB email (including
attachment)
takes
~ 7 seconds, at 256 kbps is takes ~ 4 (3.5) seconds. Related to this
is
the
simultaneous uploading and downloading issue that is outlined above.
Where do they come up with this?? I think what they mean to say is that with 256k upstream, it only takes 4 seconds to realize the mail server is down and they probably lost your 5MB mail attachment as opposed to the 7 seconds it takes the rest of us to come to this conclusion...
if another company claims to have a patent that requires DC to pay them $100 million, what would that mean for any of the developers of free software for the Cue Cat that does something similar, such as looking up books from Amazon.com, etc...? Do patents apply in these situations?
Just think about it, this may seem really silly now, but the technology that is being developed here could be really useful. Someday, we will no longer have to worry about the idiots who talk on the phone while driving, because in the future we will steer our cars by clenching our butt cheeks left and right.
Everyone knows that radiation can cause rapid changes in organisms under the right circumstances. When a rocket ship on a mission into deep space was struck with heavy cosmic rays, scientist Reed Richards, his fiance Sue Storm, her brother Johnny Storm, and Reed's friend Ben Grimm absorbed massive radiation which mutated them into beings with incredible powers.
Reed Richards gained the ability to stretch his entire body into bizzare forms. Sue became able to turn invisible at will. Johnny was transformed into a flaming human torch. And Ben was transformed into a hulking, rock-covered beast. They returned to Earth as the Fantastic Four.
Who knows what may become of this seemingly harmless 'space mold'...
If the user is able to burn the music to an audio cd, then he is just as able to rip that audio CD to MP3s and put them up on Napster. So much for that idea.
maybe I'm the only one who got this out of the story, but it has nothing to do with an ID for the drive. It is MO disks with their own unique ID incorporated into it by the manufacturer. The drive reads the ID... not real sure how this would affect piracy, unless they plan to make MO disks the primary means of software distribution. I dont know anyone who uses them personally and few companies I've worked for have used them either, but primarily just for running small backups.
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It is obviously a ploy to get alien women interested in cross-stitch so that we can take the alien men out to topless bars. It has got to be the ugliest pattern I have ever seen though.
Thats why hotmail accounts are disposable
Mac users will accept anything Apple throws at them, you know that. Hell, it's got a big X in the name, how could they resist?
This sounds great, but what the hell is it made of? They call it a wine glass, is it fine leaded crystal? The base material in gas form is all they mention. Does that mean that they can use any material that can be vaporized? It seems that in order for this to be of use in manufacturing (manufacturing what?) they would have to be able to use a variety of materials to build with...
I had the same problem on SWBell, I think they sell them.
I think it's just something he misspelled. We may never know what a deltic is. Dyslexic is more likely.
I think it is... maybe?
Right over my head, thats for sure.
I have this picture in my head of Tom Cruise hanging from an air vent and installing BitchX on his laptop...
I would assume that unless the logs only had the IP's, that would be unacceptable.
or dial long distance?
It just doesn't work.
Yes, the mini-blind striping technique was stunning ;)
I feel compelled to respond to that statement. I suppose it would be easy to assume that anyone who sells a Bible is surely a represenatative example of Christianity, but that is not the case. Anywhere there is a dollar to be made, there is someone who is willing to make it. As the post before noted, there is no copyright on the KJV Bible, which means anyone with the resources can publish and sell a KJV. Some companies in the business of enlightening people with God's word do just that and sell the products at close to cost.
Now, while trying to avoid the which translation is better argument (which is so closely tied to the economics of the situation as to be almost impossible), it is easy to see that it would be difficult to make a wild fortune selling KJV bibles, barring special expensive leather bound 2000th anniversary editions. But as I said, if there is money to be made, there are people willing to do what they must to make it. By making a new translation and copyrighting it, they have cornered the market on the new and improved word of God. Then all they have to do is convince people that their version is the best, most up-to-date version available. If someone else comes up with a newer, better, more-up-to-date-er version, they just release the Revised Best Most etc...
All the different versions that are sold at such a premium are published by large corporations, and these corporations are every bit as greedy as the recording industry. In some cases they are the recording industry... They have to keep up appearances, because most Christians would not be comfortable giving their money directly to Satan, but don't look to them for an example of Christianity in action.
OK, I'm done.
Also, instead of appointing supreme court justices, all legislation will be subjected to the patented /. Moderation system to determine constitutionality.
I have problems with IE when I have mod points, mainly on larger discussions... The drop down boxes start dragging their asses all over the screen making it very hard to read anything. Very annoying.
On Napster there are plenty of perfect recordings, but there are also plenty of suck ass recordings. If BMG's entire catalog was made available at all times, with enough bandwidth to support all the users, I would be willing to pay. Not a whole lot, but it would be a good service. I dont want to have to worry about whether or not I'm getting the whole song, and I hate it when the only copy I can find of a song is on some guys 56K modem connection. Give me unlimited D/L of BMG's music catalog for around $10 a month, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
Where do they come up with this?? I think what they mean to say is that with 256k upstream, it only takes 4 seconds to realize the mail server is down and they probably lost your 5MB mail attachment as opposed to the 7 seconds it takes the rest of us to come to this conclusion...
if another company claims to have a patent that requires DC to pay them $100 million, what would that mean for any of the developers of free software for the Cue Cat that does something similar, such as looking up books from Amazon.com, etc...? Do patents apply in these situations?
Muahahaahahaaaaa
I did embroidery for a while, and believe me, nothing sews worse than a t-shirt. You want heat transfers.
Just think about it, this may seem really silly now, but the technology that is being developed here could be really useful. Someday, we will no longer have to worry about the idiots who talk on the phone while driving, because in the future we will steer our cars by clenching our butt cheeks left and right.
Reed Richards gained the ability to stretch his entire body into bizzare forms. Sue became able to turn invisible at will. Johnny was transformed into a flaming human torch. And Ben was transformed into a hulking, rock-covered beast. They returned to Earth as the Fantastic Four.
Who knows what may become of this seemingly harmless 'space mold'...
now if this isn't off topic, I dont know what is...
If the user is able to burn the music to an audio cd, then he is just as able to rip that audio CD to MP3s and put them up on Napster. So much for that idea.
maybe I'm the only one who got this out of the story, but it has nothing to do with an ID for the drive. It is MO disks with their own unique ID incorporated into it by the manufacturer. The drive reads the ID... not real sure how this would affect piracy, unless they plan to make MO disks the primary means of software distribution. I dont know anyone who uses them personally and few companies I've worked for have used them either, but primarily just for running small backups.