You know why it was so tough to get an EV-1? 'Cause each one GM rented cost them a mint. I suspect that at a cost of three or four times as much, which is what GM would actually need to charge to cover their costs, it wouldn't be nearly as popular.
> The Corbin Sparrows was a 1-person freeway capable vehicle that had a 1-year backlog of > orders until reliability problems caught up with it.
"It sold great until people figured out it didn't work." Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
> An artist puts something of himself or herself into the work. It conveys emotions and ideas. There > may be science in music, but there's no science behind what makes a song good or enjoyable.
That's very true. But what does this have to do with pop music?
> Your brain takes what it needs, which is a fixed amount
No, it isn't. The harder you think, the more energy your brain needs to suck up. One way scientists study which parts of the brain do which jobs is to record how much glucose takeup there is in the various parts of the brain during various different mental activities. And see the other reply to this about "bonk". Why do you think you can't think when you're truly exhausted?
> Thanks for the stats, but have noticed how turnout seems to ocillate between low and high ? turnout each year, seperated by a margin of about 20%? Something to do with incumbancy, perhaps?
Something to do with presidential elections: if you'll look again at your figures, you'll notice that the high turnouts are all presidential election years. People who can't be bothered to go vote for their congressman will turn out to vote for President.
> Look, we learned what we learned in high school > from those textbooks because most historians and > educators agreed upon those facts.
No, you learned that because that was the toned-down drivel that the textbook publisher could sell to the largest number of school boards. And as Mark Twain said, "First God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he created school boards."
> I'm betting the goal is more like a computerized IV pump sort of thing that administers some kind of > drug to calm them down and make them more efficient killers.
> I think the "we had to drop the A-bomb becauase the invasion would have been worse" story is a > remarkably well done piece of propaganda which has endured to the point of becoming accepted fact.
But it is fact. We *did* have to drop the A-bomb; to blame the US for not knowing about secret Japanese deliberations is essentially to blame them for not being psychic.
> I decided not to buy ES2 when I fired up the Elder Scrolls II demo, and immediately fell > through the floor into a dark place where I could not move.
Geez, the worst thing that ever happened to me was my computer crashing.
> The Canadians are gonna invade with there army of clones. Let's nuke'm
Jeez, don't you know *anything* about military stuff? When your going to get invaded by an army of clones, you send out your Jedi. *Everybody* knows that...
Well...they do, actually. I have stretches of time (particularly early weekday mornings) when slashdot pretty much shuts down on me. Other times when it breaks--doesn't remember my user ID, won't let me sign on, won't let me display the stories and comments in anything but default mode.
I can see you flunked civics. There is a National Governors Association, but that is simply an unofficial talk shop for governors to get together to chew the fat and organize to lobby the feds for more goodies for the states. It has no legal existance as a part of government, and the state governors certainly have no right to overrule federal law, either individually or collectively. You may be badly misremembering the process of amending the Constitution, in which after an amendment is approved by two-thirds of both houses of Congress (or two-thirds of a constitutional convention), it must be ratified by three-fourths of the state *legislatures* (or state conventions), not governors.
> Their work was based on Lilienthal's work. Including the methology. > Lilienthal reduced some problems into small self-contained experiments to devise several > formulas for aerodynamics and published them. And he build small models and real glider out of this > data and documented that, too.
> In other words, he did scientific work on aerodynamics.
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> Really? What? I've read all the plays, and all the poetry (including the obscure stuff like > Pericles and Titus Andronicus),
TA gets my vote: ol' Bill doesn't seem to be interested in anything in Titus beyond piling up the body count as fast and as gruesomely as possible. It's like watching the Elizabethan equivalent of a Jason movie.
Hint--if the film makes money, the people who run the studios don't care if it was so bad that it caused uncontrollable projectile vomiting in the audience. As far as they're concerned, the formula worked, and they'll keep using it.
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You know why it was so tough to get an EV-1? 'Cause each one GM rented cost them a mint. I suspect that at a cost of three or four times as much, which is what GM would actually need to charge to cover their costs, it wouldn't be nearly as popular.
> The Corbin Sparrows was a 1-person freeway capable vehicle that had a 1-year backlog of
> orders until reliability problems caught up with it.
"It sold great until people figured out it didn't work." Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
Chris Mattern
> An artist puts something of himself or herself into the work. It conveys emotions and ideas. There
> may be science in music, but there's no science behind what makes a song good or enjoyable.
That's very true. But what does this have to do with pop music?
Chris Mattern
> Your brain takes what it needs, which is a fixed amount
No, it isn't. The harder you think, the more energy your brain needs to suck up. One way scientists study which parts of the brain do which jobs is to record how much glucose takeup there is in the various parts of the brain during various different mental activities. And see the other reply to this about "bonk". Why do you think you can't think when you're truly exhausted?
Chris Mattern
> You couldn't be more wrong. In fact, thou beest the most wrongful thou could be. Or is that beeth?
"Thou art the most wrongful thou couldst be." would be the idiom you're looking for, I think.
Chris Mattern
"Rumble. Rumble. Rumble. Copyright. Copyright. Copyright."
Chris Mattern
And this is because the stupid lameness filter is being difficult.
"Yeah, I remember John. Poor guy. Died on the operating table when they had a paper jam."
Chris Mattern
> Thanks for the stats, but have noticed how turnout seems to ocillate between low and high
? turnout each year, seperated by a margin of about 20%? Something to do with incumbancy, perhaps?
Something to do with presidential elections: if you'll look again at your figures, you'll notice that the high turnouts are all presidential election years. People who can't be bothered to go vote for their congressman will turn out to vote for President.
Chris Mattern
> Look, we learned what we learned in high school
> from those textbooks because most historians and
> educators agreed upon those facts.
No, you learned that because that was the toned-down drivel that the textbook publisher could sell to the largest number of school boards. And as Mark Twain said, "First God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he created school boards."
Chris Mattern
Most likely, it was named after this Exeter. Here's an account of how the Japanese sunk her in WWII.
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Soldier: Go north
ICPR: You cheer north on.
Chris Mattern
> I'm betting the goal is more like a computerized IV pump sort of thing that administers some kind of
> drug to calm them down and make them more efficient killers.
"Ah, yeah, that's the stuff."
Chris Mattern
> If you are so worried about people knowing your entertainment habits, then maybe you are watching
> some stuff that you shouldn't be watching...
"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear." Right?
Chris Mattern
> They propose a system that records all pages visited.
"Good lord, man, you've invented the history list!"
Chris Mattern
> I think the "we had to drop the A-bomb becauase the invasion would have been worse" story is a
> remarkably well done piece of propaganda which has endured to the point of becoming accepted fact.
But it is fact. We *did* have to drop the A-bomb; to blame the US for not knowing about secret Japanese deliberations is essentially to blame them for not being psychic.
Chris Mattern
> I decided not to buy ES2 when I fired up the Elder Scrolls II demo, and immediately fell
> through the floor into a dark place where I could not move.
Geez, the worst thing that ever happened to me was my computer crashing.
Chris Mattern
> Slashdotters who are peeved about spam can register here.
For which they want your email address--and add that it shouldn't be too heavily shielded against spam. Hmmm....
Chris Mattern
> The Canadians are gonna invade with there army of clones. Let's nuke'm
Jeez, don't you know *anything* about military stuff? When your going to get invaded by an army of clones, you send out your Jedi. *Everybody* knows that...
Chris Mattern
> to verify it's correct.
After all, you don't want your spam going to the wrong address, do you?
Chris Mattern
> why doesn't slashdot ever get slashdotted?
Well...they do, actually. I have stretches of time (particularly early weekday mornings) when slashdot pretty much shuts down on me. Other times when it breaks--doesn't remember my user ID, won't let me sign on, won't let me display the stories and comments in anything but default mode.
Chris Mattern
I can see you flunked civics. There is a National Governors Association, but that is simply an unofficial talk shop for governors to get together to chew the fat and organize to lobby the feds for more goodies for the states. It has no legal existance as a part of government, and the state governors certainly have no right to overrule federal law, either individually or collectively. You may be badly misremembering the process of amending the Constitution, in which after an amendment is approved by two-thirds of both houses of Congress (or two-thirds of a constitutional convention), it must be ratified by three-fourths of the state *legislatures* (or state conventions), not governors.
Chris Mattern
> What did you get from your Company for Christmas?
Nothing. But it's OK; I didn't get them anything either.
Chris Mattern
> Their work was based on Lilienthal's work. Including the methology.
.
> Lilienthal reduced some problems into small self-contained experiments to devise several
> formulas for aerodynamics and published them. And he build small models and real glider out of this
> data and documented that, too.
> In other words, he did scientific work on aerodynamics.
Not only that, he made a kickass supervillain
Chris Mattern
> Really? What? I've read all the plays, and all the poetry (including the obscure stuff like
> Pericles and Titus Andronicus),
TA gets my vote: ol' Bill doesn't seem to be interested in anything in Titus beyond piling up the body count as fast and as gruesomely as possible. It's like watching the Elizabethan equivalent of a Jason movie.
Chris Mattern
> 3 years!?! That script must be so polished you have to shield your eyes from it.
"Don't look at the script, Marion!"
Chris Mattern
Hint--if the film makes money, the people who run the studios don't care if it was so bad that it caused uncontrollable projectile vomiting in the audience. As far as they're concerned, the formula worked, and they'll keep using it.
Chris Mattern