"In the end, it seems the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment"
And that isn't enough?
Well, that depends on what you mean by enough.
It's clearly not enough to make people buy hybrids of their own volition, unless they have a few thousand dollars to spare that they'd rather spend on a warm fuzzy feeling than their family.
But it might be enough to convince people beneath a certain ceiling of critical thinking ability that OTHERS should buy hybrids, much like "if it saves just one cute little puppy, it must be worth the billions of dollars" usually sways a good portion of the population in any given context.
Which means it might be enough to convince "the collective ends justify the tyrannical means" types that the government should goose-step in and force people to buy hybrids, and/or prohibit companies from selling other cars that people might otherwise choose, if given the freedom of choice.
The SRBs fall into the Atlantic and get hauled back to shore. The external tank falls from a great height, breaks up in the atmosphere, and sinks to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
do you think this might be because the new search engine has been crawling the web for a fraction of the length of time Yahoo and Google have been crawling the web?
But it's only catalogued three domains. What, is it searching depth-first?
You silly... Everybody knows a third party candidate wins whenever the Washington Generals beat the Globetrotters.
Actually, the Globetrotters now play most of their games against a team called the New York Nationals. So the Washington Generals are never going to...
I can't wait to begin the endlessly repetitive sludge of killing and resting and repeating... in the Star Trek universe! It'll be like nothing you've ever seen!
Like how a Hello Kitty toothbrush is a hundred times more exciting than a regular one, or how a hamburger at the Hard Rock Cafe blows themeless burgers out of the water, I'm sure the Star Trek MMORPG will be far and away the best ever! I'll NEVER get tired of playing!
Soon after the dubiously abrupt collapse of the Empire, the Galaxy finds itself confronting a new threat. Emboldened by their decisive victory at the Battle of Endor, militant EWOKS are wreaking terror on several helpless star systems, whose colossal battleships and armored troops are of no more avail against the Ewoks' invincible logs and pointy sticks than the Empire's Walkers and Stormtroopers proved to be.
To resist the Ewok juggernaut, General HAN SOLO has volunteered to lead the armies of the Foboombah system, but his leadership has not proven valuable, since the Ewoks don't use blasters and he inexplicably refuses to fire the first shot. Nor can LUKE SKYWALKER be of assistance. Not only is he forbidden to instruct a new generation of Jedi, on account of his master's deathbed edict that "the last of the Jedi will [he] be," but he is also battling depression and hallucinations of ghosts who tell him profound-sounding things that usually turn out to be total bull a few years later.
Meanwhile, Princess LEIA SKYWALKER-SOLO-CALRISSIAN is leading a diplomatic mission to Naboo, to ask for assistance from the only race with a military track record that matches that of the undefeated Ewoks; only the GUNGAN arsenal of slingshots and superballs is sufficiently primitive to stand a chance against the Ewoks' own weaponry. And Captain WEDGE ANTILLES prepares to attack the Ewoks on the Forest Moon itself, accompanied by two Jawas and a malfunctioning R2 unit, on the principle that the victory always, without fail, goes to the smallest party involved....
I'll bet you a million dollars that there's at least one company, or even more likely a government agency, that still uses VisiCalc because they never had the motivation to update all their data.
Once the third movie comes out, the number of crappy Star Wars movies will equal the number of those generally regarded as good. Rather than being blights on a franchise that is generally good, we must face the notion that perhaps the bad movies are the norm and that the "good" movies are, in the end, nothing more than pleasant surprises in a generally crappy franchise. After all, our positive impressions of the first three movies are artificially induced to some extent by nostalgia. You don't want to admit it, but deep down, in your heart of hearts, you know that if Return Of The Jedi came out today instead of when you were a kid, you would think it was no better than the last two crappy movies.
The URL and accompanying article look authentic, but the article makes no mention of a 1 GB allowance. Looks like this year the editors are trying out an innovative tactic of augmenting real stories with April Fools embellishments.
In the UN's hands, what could possibly go wrong?
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Just another example of how technology occasionally renders business models obsolete. No sense in crying about it. That's just the way the cookie crumbles...
...unless you're the RIAA, in which case you should lobby (read as: bribe) Congress to protect your anachronistic business model and defy the march of progress with the stroke of a rights-annulling pen.
I know, I'm preaching to the choir. But maybe you can use this example when you try to explain the outrage to your friends. Your Congressman may have been "swayed" by the RIAA, but the people that elect him haven't.
Actually, an ellipsis usually has three periods. An ellipse is usually a conic section whose plane is not parallel to the axis, base, or generatrix of the intersected cone.
An ellipse can be parallel to the base of the cone. A circle is an ellipse.
There's an even easier way to see the twin towers hidden in U.S. currency. Take two $20 bills. Hold one in each hand so the long sides are oriented vertically. Bring your hands together. Notice that the bills look like two identical skyscrapers right next to each other!!! Clearly this proves the US government had prior knowledge. Why, I'll bet it was actually Dick Cheney at the controls of both airplanes. He wanted Halliburton to seize the Iraqi oil fields.
What's the matter? That's a hell of a lot better than the Slashdot story that actually got accepted!
I can't believe this story got accepted. Since when are easily disproven kook conspiracy theories legitimate news? Or have the editors simply been had? What will the next Slashdot story be? Some Geocities page explianing how Larry Ellison, Halliburton and the Trilateral Commission are peddling global mind control masquerading as a polio vaccine?
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Worst. Story. Ever.
Hmm - port knocking is all well and good, until someone finds out about the secret knock through some means (e.g. "hello, I work with the security department and we need your password and secret knock").
So, we'll need to change the knock every so often, and we'll have to securely communicate what the new knock is to everyone who needs to know it.
So we'll use encryption so we can securely communicate the port-knocking key so we can securely communicate.
Hey, I have an idea: let's just use encryption in the first place and not even bother with port knocking.
What next. I should get my wife cubic zirconium because it looks the same as a diamond but is much cheaper because it was made with "technology".
No, you should get your wife another kind of gem, one whose price and supply aren't controlled by the same international monopoly that has brainwashed her into desiring a diamond an order of magnitude over other stones that you can buy without being gouged as much.
Isn't that something? The country can just close up shop. They just give two weeks' notice to the UN and start planning the retirement party. Will attending nations please contribute five dollars for drinks and a small gift.
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"In the end, it seems the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment"
And that isn't enough?
Well, that depends on what you mean by enough.
It's clearly not enough to make people buy hybrids of their own volition, unless they have a few thousand dollars to spare that they'd rather spend on a warm fuzzy feeling than their family.
But it might be enough to convince people beneath a certain ceiling of critical thinking ability that OTHERS should buy hybrids, much like "if it saves just one cute little puppy, it must be worth the billions of dollars" usually sways a good portion of the population in any given context.
Which means it might be enough to convince "the collective ends justify the tyrannical means" types that the government should goose-step in and force people to buy hybrids, and/or prohibit companies from selling other cars that people might otherwise choose, if given the freedom of choice.
The SRBs fall into the Atlantic and get hauled back to shore. The external tank falls from a great height, breaks up in the atmosphere, and sinks to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
do you think this might be because the new search engine has been crawling the web for a fraction of the length of time Yahoo and Google have been crawling the web?
But it's only catalogued three domains. What, is it searching depth-first?
314-159-2653
I like pie.
314-159-2654 is actually closer to your true phone number, which of course has an infinite number of digits and can never be dialed exactly.
So they put a $200 anti-theft gizmo on to protect a $100 cart. This makes sense.
Sure it does. If you triple the price but reduce the theft rate below one third, it pays for itself.
You silly... Everybody knows a third party candidate wins whenever the Washington Generals beat the Globetrotters.
Actually, the Globetrotters now play most of their games against a team called the New York Nationals. So the Washington Generals are never going to...
Oh.
I see what you're saying.
There was 1 girl who was 16 who 69'ed with 3 different guys, because she was really really...
11669 * 3 =
Let's see if they go for the record and post this story a third time before the first one goes off the front page.
Somewhere out there, an extraterrestrial equivalent of George Clooney and Marky Mark are trapped on a capsized starship.
I can't wait to begin the endlessly repetitive sludge of killing and resting and repeating... in the Star Trek universe! It'll be like nothing you've ever seen!
Like how a Hello Kitty toothbrush is a hundred times more exciting than a regular one, or how a hamburger at the Hard Rock Cafe blows themeless burgers out of the water, I'm sure the Star Trek MMORPG will be far and away the best ever! I'll NEVER get tired of playing!
EPISODE VII
A CURIOUS MALADY
Soon after the dubiously abrupt collapse of the Empire, the Galaxy finds itself confronting a new threat. Emboldened by their decisive victory at the Battle of Endor, militant EWOKS are wreaking terror on several helpless star systems, whose colossal battleships and armored troops are of no more avail against the Ewoks' invincible logs and pointy sticks than the Empire's Walkers and Stormtroopers proved to be.
To resist the Ewok juggernaut, General HAN SOLO has volunteered to lead the armies of the Foboombah system, but his leadership has not proven valuable, since the Ewoks don't use blasters and he inexplicably refuses to fire the first shot. Nor can LUKE SKYWALKER be of assistance. Not only is he forbidden to instruct a new generation of Jedi, on account of his master's deathbed edict that "the last of the Jedi will [he] be," but he is also battling depression and hallucinations of ghosts who tell him profound-sounding things that usually turn out to be total bull a few years later.
Meanwhile, Princess LEIA SKYWALKER-SOLO-CALRISSIAN is leading a diplomatic mission to Naboo, to ask for assistance from the only race with a military track record that matches that of the undefeated Ewoks; only the GUNGAN arsenal of slingshots and superballs is sufficiently primitive to stand a chance against the Ewoks' own weaponry. And Captain WEDGE ANTILLES prepares to attack the Ewoks on the Forest Moon itself, accompanied by two Jawas and a malfunctioning R2 unit, on the principle that the victory always, without fail, goes to the smallest party involved....
I'll bet you a million dollars that there's at least one company, or even more likely a government agency, that still uses VisiCalc because they never had the motivation to update all their data.
...for nested quotation marks. I count three sets in that story.
I'm half Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli!
I'm a kung-fu hippie from Gangster City!
I'm a rapping surfer - you're the fool I pity!
Whoa, Anakin is one outrageous dude! He's totally in my face!
Once the third movie comes out, the number of crappy Star Wars movies will equal the number of those generally regarded as good. Rather than being blights on a franchise that is generally good, we must face the notion that perhaps the bad movies are the norm and that the "good" movies are, in the end, nothing more than pleasant surprises in a generally crappy franchise. After all, our positive impressions of the first three movies are artificially induced to some extent by nostalgia. You don't want to admit it, but deep down, in your heart of hearts, you know that if Return Of The Jedi came out today instead of when you were a kid, you would think it was no better than the last two crappy movies.
The URL and accompanying article look authentic, but the article makes no mention of a 1 GB allowance. Looks like this year the editors are trying out an innovative tactic of augmenting real stories with April Fools embellishments.
I'm sure the UN will handle domain names as skillfully and impartially as they handled the Iraqi oil-for-food program.
Just another example of how technology occasionally renders business models obsolete. No sense in crying about it. That's just the way the cookie crumbles...
...unless you're the RIAA, in which case you should lobby (read as: bribe) Congress to protect your anachronistic business model and defy the march of progress with the stroke of a rights-annulling pen.
I know, I'm preaching to the choir. But maybe you can use this example when you try to explain the outrage to your friends. Your Congressman may have been "swayed" by the RIAA, but the people that elect him haven't.
Actually, an ellipsis usually has three periods. An ellipse is usually a conic section whose plane is not parallel to the axis, base, or generatrix of the intersected cone.
An ellipse can be parallel to the base of the cone. A circle is an ellipse.
There's an even easier way to see the twin towers hidden in U.S. currency. Take two $20 bills. Hold one in each hand so the long sides are oriented vertically. Bring your hands together. Notice that the bills look like two identical skyscrapers right next to each other!!! Clearly this proves the US government had prior knowledge. Why, I'll bet it was actually Dick Cheney at the controls of both airplanes. He wanted Halliburton to seize the Iraqi oil fields.
What's the matter? That's a hell of a lot better than the Slashdot story that actually got accepted!
I can't believe this story got accepted. Since when are easily disproven kook conspiracy theories legitimate news? Or have the editors simply been had? What will the next Slashdot story be? Some Geocities page explianing how Larry Ellison, Halliburton and the Trilateral Commission are peddling global mind control masquerading as a polio vaccine?
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Worst. Story. Ever.
Hmm - port knocking is all well and good, until someone finds out about the secret knock through some means (e.g. "hello, I work with the security department and we need your password and secret knock").
So, we'll need to change the knock every so often, and we'll have to securely communicate what the new knock is to everyone who needs to know it.
So we'll use encryption so we can securely communicate the port-knocking key so we can securely communicate.
Hey, I have an idea: let's just use encryption in the first place and not even bother with port knocking.
What next. I should get my wife cubic zirconium because it looks the same as a diamond but is much cheaper because it was made with "technology".
No, you should get your wife another kind of gem, one whose price and supply aren't controlled by the same international monopoly that has brainwashed her into desiring a diamond an order of magnitude over other stones that you can buy without being gouged as much.
Isn't that something? The country can just close up shop. They just give two weeks' notice to the UN and start planning the retirement party. Will attending nations please contribute five dollars for drinks and a small gift.
Just because something cost $0, doesn't mean you have the right to the recipe.
./my_slashdot_comment_reading_script.pl?
Why would I care whether something cost
(worst joke ever. sorry.)