How many of you have gone to the gas station only to have someone come up to you with a gasoline can asking for some gas? It's annoying, they make it out like they are just trying to get from place to place. Then you see them later doing the same thing with someone else. At first you felt charitable and then you realized they are just a con and they are stealing from you.
Most of the time they ARE trying to get from place to place... how far do you think the gallon you just gave them will go? They certainly aren't turning around and selling the gas for drug money, they are putting it the tank of their own vehicle for the express purpose of transportation.
Notice I said 'most'. While I can't speak for everyone, I can make these claims with some authority, as in my younger days I once drove a Toyota pickup across the country and back by just this method. I never misled anyone as to my purposes and am still grateful to all the folks that decided to chip in a splash of gas to my post-adolescent wanderings.
Yeah, you can. Makes no sense, but it's true. The evidence for my claim is anecdotal, granted, but people are arrested for resisting arrest (and nothing else) regularly.
Android on mobile phones (mandatory cellular data plan)
Not quite... I had a G1 with a deactivated SIM card in it that I used for games, WiFi access, and the ability to sync my Google Calendar with my pocket. I don't know if I'd call it a 'handheld gaming platform', but there were tower defense games aplenty, and I remember a few FPS's and strategy/RPG games that weren't too bad, either.
(I used a TracFone to actually make and receive calls and texts.)
I'm active on the Freenet IRC channel (#freenet on freenode irc) and we've been discussing for a few days how much this a perfect opportunity to really demonstrate what Freenet is capable of.
Over the next month or so we will be implementing some network level changes as we roll out v0.8. There is an actively updated WikiLeaks mirror available over Freenet, which you can find on the index pages.
For those who don't know, Freenet is an anonymous, distributed file-sharing network. Many plugins are available for encrypted communication with trusted peers over this network, including Freemail, FMS (Freenet Message System), Frost/Thaw, jSite, and flip.
This technology could change the lives of patients with retinitis pigmentosa - a degenerative eye disease affecting approximately 200,000 individuals globally.
And you know so many are only against Monsanto because they do genetic engineering, and, at this point in time, anti-GMO is just another form of baseless pseudoscientific crank denialism woowoo. "I saw Splice once, so I know more about genetic engineering than geneticists!"
Quotes taken out of context are great, aren't they?
Then people like me, who do understand the science behind GMOs, the science behind what Monsanto does, are left in the awkward position of defending Monsanto for the sake of accuracy. By all means, keep an eye on them, they are not to be trusted
All of you showing concern over this event should have a gander at orbit@home, a distributed computing approach to monitoring near-Earth asteroid activity.
I posit that if gold or precious gems were found on the Moon, the relative cost of those materials back on Earth would plummet. Scarcity is what gives such things value. (Remember the third book in the 2001 series, where they found the giant diamond on one of Jupiter's moons?)
Now, if the Moon was covered in fuel, that might be a different story...
But they just got $5 from me. I wouldn't have paid $20 for it. I also just bought Osmos, which I had been meaning to do since I played their free demo last month.
Huh? Now I'm not saying that I work for R.J. Reynolds or anything, but I've grown a crop or two of Burley tobacco in my backyard, along with assorted other crops, and I don't see any reason to include Po, or any other radioactive element in a fertilizer. To be honest, it sounds like a 'factoid' that originated in an anti-smoking PR department, but please feel free to prove me wrong.
I basically like "comments," though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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How many of you have gone to the gas station only to have someone come up to you with a gasoline can asking for some gas? It's annoying, they make it out like they are just trying to get from place to place. Then you see them later doing the same thing with someone else. At first you felt charitable and then you realized they are just a con and they are stealing from you.
Most of the time they ARE trying to get from place to place... how far do you think the gallon you just gave them will go? They certainly aren't turning around and selling the gas for drug money, they are putting it the tank of their own vehicle for the express purpose of transportation.
Notice I said 'most'. While I can't speak for everyone, I can make these claims with some authority, as in my younger days I once drove a Toyota pickup across the country and back by just this method. I never misled anyone as to my purposes and am still grateful to all the folks that decided to chip in a splash of gas to my post-adolescent wanderings.
Yeah, you can. Makes no sense, but it's true. The evidence for my claim is anecdotal, granted, but people are arrested for resisting arrest (and nothing else) regularly.
Android on mobile phones (mandatory cellular data plan)
Not quite... I had a G1 with a deactivated SIM card in it that I used for games, WiFi access, and the ability to sync my Google Calendar with my pocket. I don't know if I'd call it a 'handheld gaming platform', but there were tower defense games aplenty, and I remember a few FPS's and strategy/RPG games that weren't too bad, either.
(I used a TracFone to actually make and receive calls and texts.)
*begins slow clap*
Over the next month or so we will be implementing some network level changes as we roll out v0.8. There is an actively updated WikiLeaks mirror available over Freenet, which you can find on the index pages.
For those who don't know, Freenet is an anonymous, distributed file-sharing network. Many plugins are available for encrypted communication with trusted peers over this network, including Freemail, FMS (Freenet Message System), Frost/Thaw, jSite, and flip.
This technology could change the lives of patients with retinitis pigmentosa - a degenerative eye disease affecting approximately 200,000 individuals globally.
Not quite as earth-shattering as it appeared.
And you know so many are only against Monsanto because they do genetic engineering, and, at this point in time, anti-GMO is just another form of baseless pseudoscientific crank denialism woowoo. "I saw Splice once, so I know more about genetic engineering than geneticists!"
Quotes taken out of context are great, aren't they?
Then people like me, who do understand the science behind GMOs, the science behind what Monsanto does, are left in the awkward position of defending Monsanto for the sake of accuracy. By all means, keep an eye on them, they are not to be trusted
Seems like he's paying attention to me.
Do you have any idea how long six million bucks takes to pay back on a government salary?!
Cory Doctorow is one of my favorite modern sci-fi authors, and I would have never heard of him if he hadn't put his work on Feedbooks for free.
Score:-1, Too Soon
I enjoy your Highwayman reference and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
All of you showing concern over this event should have a gander at orbit@home, a distributed computing approach to monitoring near-Earth asteroid activity.
How is it that your accountant never took high school algebra? The distributive property of multiplication isn't exactly obscure.
Moderated +1 Bill Hicks Reference, 3 points left.
Moderated -1 Twilight Reference, 4 points left.
I posit that if gold or precious gems were found on the Moon, the relative cost of those materials back on Earth would plummet. Scarcity is what gives such things value. (Remember the third book in the 2001 series, where they found the giant diamond on one of Jupiter's moons?)
Now, if the Moon was covered in fuel, that might be a different story...
But they just got $5 from me. I wouldn't have paid $20 for it. I also just bought Osmos, which I had been meaning to do since I played their free demo last month.
Huh? Now I'm not saying that I work for R.J. Reynolds or anything, but I've grown a crop or two of Burley tobacco in my backyard, along with assorted other crops, and I don't see any reason to include Po, or any other radioactive element in a fertilizer. To be honest, it sounds like a 'factoid' that originated in an anti-smoking PR department, but please feel free to prove me wrong.
I like my bourbon like I like my women, twelve years old and mixed up with coke.
Again, I could be confusing your Constitution with the Amendments of your Bill of Rights, but as I said, I'm not from the US.
Minor nitpick - the Bill of Rights encompasses the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. Other than that, your post is spot on.
That's funny. English is usually an American's first language.
*Note: Claiming a blue-shift turned the red light into yellow or green will only result in larger fines.
Ah, the Doppler defense.
Can you spell the words; Prototype, Low-Maintances and Zero Emissions?
Well, I can, but...
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I basically like "comments," though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
Sussex County, NJ is actually quite scenic... :x