This is the page that he is referring to. Admittedly, the last two were rather small, but they did have cows, and it was pretty plain to me after looking at just the first two pictures that the theme was cows.
the point of the article (I know, weird, actually reading the article) is that this is a trend, with A grades that used to be given out rarely becoming more and more common. So, did there used to be "right" answers on English tests, but now there's not?
Back a few years ago while I was in college, a friend and I ran a little humor club of sorts... Our "publications" were few, but we thought they were pretty quality...
"And a solution hasn't yet been invented for the biggest obstacle he's encountered so far: the weather. It has been a frosty winter. The battery expires too quickly when the temperature drops to 40 or so."
thank you. that makes a lot more sense now. I have actually used such systems before, but I never made the connection. It is all clear to me now, though. Thank you much.
Please can someone tell me what in the heck is with the "^H^H^H" stuff that shows up sometimes in stories or comments? I have seen it on other sites, and I can't seem to find any information on what causes it.
"The Federal Trade Commission is planning on creating a new "national do-not-call" list which could greatly diminish the number of potential call recipients. Should the federal government be in the business of tearing down this industry? Make your voices heard."
"tearing down this industry" I love it. When the "industry" is calling people in their homes and annoying them with your "amazing new offer," then I say yes! This summer, at my job, Verizon actually called us 3 times in the same day! Seriously. I liked my boss' approach. As soon as they started talking: "I can tell already that I don't want to talk to you." *click"
I think my favorite though is my friend who, when called by some bank being offered a credit card responded with something along the lines of: "That's great! This is just what I need right now. All 6 of my other cards are maxed out, and I had to take out a second mortgage on my house. I was really wondering what I was goign to do!" I think that they actually hung up on her.
Okay, they listed a Sega Saturn game... as long as we're listing games for systems that flopped big time, what about Insmouse for Virtual Boy, or some of the other ultra-rare Japan-only released VB titles?
(I have all the US released titles, but I'm obviously not a real collector, because I just can't bring myself to shell out $500 for one of these.)
Well, this isn't off-topic, but it's not an answer to this fantasy either. Basically I want to take this opportunity to insert a shameless plug for one of my favorite local bands in Seattle.
Yeah. like anybody's going to see this link. I doubt I'll get modded up... Oh well, it's worth a try. Anything to help out my friends in their worthy attempt at making it on the non-RIAA music scene.
That probe, dubbed Trailblazer, will orbit the moon for 90 days...The last part of Trailblazer's mission will be to crash land on the lunar surface...But there's no doubt, he said, that it is intended as a step in the direction of putting people back on the moon.
This mission isn't manned, nor will it be landing on the moon and returning to earth. It's pretty much just a survey probe. Pretty boring actually, if you ask me.
I have cell service with SprintPCS, and God forbid that they put even so much as an email address on their account management website. When you try to find a help page, all you can locate is this stupid-@$# "Claire" which is nothing more than a seriously crippled FAQ with a stupid CGI face at the top of the page. There actually is a form that will send an email to a real person, but the link to it is buried in one of the sub-pages.
If they even had a phone number somewhere I would be happy. Just to get that, I had to fill out their form, to which the reply was... uhh... I dunno, call this number. Sheesh.
All I know is that as soon as my 1 year contract is up, I'm dumping Sprint. The service itself has been decent, but when a company avoids giving actual personal help like they do, I won't do business with them.
If you could go ahead and give me a good way to contact you, I would love to get in touch with you in 50 years to show you how wrong you are. As a matter of fact, we are quite comfortable with talking openly about sex together, and we both know that it won't be perfect on the first night, nor for a while. What I am doing is the same thing that my parents, and their parents before them did, and it has led all of them down a road of amazing happiness and joy. I am truly sorry that you actually believe all of those horrible things, and think that the only way to be happy is to treat sex like candy, and avoid commitment like the plague.
Yeah, living a promiscuous life has consequences. Fancy that. You know, there are some people, myself included, who are virgins and are proud of it. I'm getting married next month, and when my wife and I make love on our wedding night, it will be the first time for both of us. And for the rest of our lives, we will never sleep with anyone but each other. I don't for one minute regret my decision to remain pure. Sex is not a game, and it should not be taken lightly. Sleep around (as in with more than one person, period) and suffer consequences. That's the way the world works.
right... so anyway, since when do internal codenames have to be original, having anything to do with the product, or even clever? Give it a rest, people...
Okay, yes this is somewhat offtopic, but am I the only one who is seeing this story text render all screwy with Mozilla (the words "demonstrating a prototype" are all mashed over the top of each other), but appear just fine in IE? I would think that if any site were to be sure to render properly in Mozilla, it would be/. Or maybe it's just my comp. I did find it amusing, though.
Will humanity (the poor of the world, their strenght being the numbers) rebel against the cyborgs (the bionic we) someday?
For some insight into that question, may I recommend you view Episode 6 of Sealab 2021--I, Robot. An insightful debate on the issue is contained within.;^)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology /t-ray_camera_020613.html
This is the page that he is referring to. Admittedly, the last two were rather small, but they did have cows, and it was pretty plain to me after looking at just the first two pictures that the theme was cows.
the point of the article (I know, weird, actually reading the article) is that this is a trend, with A grades that used to be given out rarely becoming more and more common. So, did there used to be "right" answers on English tests, but now there's not?
US this, US that... There are other countries in the world, you know.
</stupid humor>
Back a few years ago while I was in college, a friend and I ran a little humor club of sorts... Our "publications" were few, but we thought they were pretty quality...
Anyway, in the parody that we made of our school's website, we encouraged people to use Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator to generate letters to submit to our school paper as letters to the editor. As it turns out, I was reading said paper a few months later, and came across a very familiar writing style... We got quite a kick out of it.
ahh... memories.
"And a solution hasn't yet been invented for the biggest obstacle he's encountered so far: the weather. It has been a frosty winter. The battery expires too quickly when the temperature drops to 40 or so."
Way down at the bottom of this article.
thank you. that makes a lot more sense now. I have actually used such systems before, but I never made the connection. It is all clear to me now, though. Thank you much.
Please can someone tell me what in the heck is with the "^H^H^H" stuff that shows up sometimes in stories or comments? I have seen it on other sites, and I can't seem to find any information on what causes it.
anyone?
From the site itself...
by Joshua Schachter, joshua-geourl@burri.to.
inspired by Dan Egnor's Geocoder.
as in "Daniel Egnor - Project title: Geographic Search" from the link you provided to Google...
"The Federal Trade Commission is planning on creating a new "national do-not-call" list which could greatly diminish the number of potential call recipients. Should the federal government be in the business of tearing down this industry? Make your voices heard."
"tearing down this industry" I love it. When the "industry" is calling people in their homes and annoying them with your "amazing new offer," then I say yes! This summer, at my job, Verizon actually called us 3 times in the same day! Seriously. I liked my boss' approach. As soon as they started talking: "I can tell already that I don't want to talk to you." *click"
I think my favorite though is my friend who, when called by some bank being offered a credit card responded with something along the lines of: "That's great! This is just what I need right now. All 6 of my other cards are maxed out, and I had to take out a second mortgage on my house. I was really wondering what I was goign to do!" I think that they actually hung up on her.
Okay, they listed a Sega Saturn game... as long as we're listing games for systems that flopped big time, what about Insmouse for Virtual Boy, or some of the other ultra-rare Japan-only released VB titles? (I have all the US released titles, but I'm obviously not a real collector, because I just can't bring myself to shell out $500 for one of these.)
You mean, they haven't been able to do this since the 1940's? I thought for sure I had heard of this somewhere, though...
p.s.(no, this is not a lame face-off joke, but I doubt many people here have ever heard of "the man who looks like Boris Karloff." Oh well.)
I have a better name for it though... how about Titan After Earth? Yeah, that would be a cool name. Wait...
The unit is scheduled to hit stores worldwide in early-to-mid 2003 and is currently scheduled to sell for around 5000 yen, or approximately $41.34.
Hmm... I think someone isn't quite clear on the use of the word approximately.
Google.
Whew. That was hard.
Another story (three or four links deep from the above links) here, and the Google cache here.
Well, this isn't off-topic, but it's not an answer to this fantasy either. Basically I want to take this opportunity to insert a shameless plug for one of my favorite local bands in Seattle.
The Dandelion Method has some pretty good stuff. You should check them out.
Yeah. like anybody's going to see this link. I doubt I'll get modded up... Oh well, it's worth a try. Anything to help out my friends in their worthy attempt at making it on the non-RIAA music scene.
That probe, dubbed Trailblazer, will orbit the moon for 90 days...The last part of Trailblazer's mission will be to crash land on the lunar surface...But there's no doubt, he said, that it is intended as a step in the direction of putting people back on the moon.
This mission isn't manned, nor will it be landing on the moon and returning to earth. It's pretty much just a survey probe. Pretty boring actually, if you ask me.
I have cell service with SprintPCS, and God forbid that they put even so much as an email address on their account management website. When you try to find a help page, all you can locate is this stupid-@$# "Claire" which is nothing more than a seriously crippled FAQ with a stupid CGI face at the top of the page. There actually is a form that will send an email to a real person, but the link to it is buried in one of the sub-pages.
If they even had a phone number somewhere I would be happy. Just to get that, I had to fill out their form, to which the reply was... uhh... I dunno, call this number. Sheesh.
All I know is that as soon as my 1 year contract is up, I'm dumping Sprint. The service itself has been decent, but when a company avoids giving actual personal help like they do, I won't do business with them.
If you could go ahead and give me a good way to contact you, I would love to get in touch with you in 50 years to show you how wrong you are. As a matter of fact, we are quite comfortable with talking openly about sex together, and we both know that it won't be perfect on the first night, nor for a while. What I am doing is the same thing that my parents, and their parents before them did, and it has led all of them down a road of amazing happiness and joy. I am truly sorry that you actually believe all of those horrible things, and think that the only way to be happy is to treat sex like candy, and avoid commitment like the plague.
Yeah, living a promiscuous life has consequences. Fancy that. You know, there are some people, myself included, who are virgins and are proud of it. I'm getting married next month, and when my wife and I make love on our wedding night, it will be the first time for both of us. And for the rest of our lives, we will never sleep with anyone but each other. I don't for one minute regret my decision to remain pure. Sex is not a game, and it should not be taken lightly. Sleep around (as in with more than one person, period) and suffer consequences. That's the way the world works.
right... so anyway, since when do internal codenames have to be original, having anything to do with the product, or even clever? Give it a rest, people...
Okay, yes this is somewhat offtopic, but am I the only one who is seeing this story text render all screwy with Mozilla (the words "demonstrating a prototype" are all mashed over the top of each other), but appear just fine in IE? I would think that if any site were to be sure to render properly in Mozilla, it would be /. Or maybe it's just my comp. I did find it amusing, though.
Will humanity (the poor of the world, their strenght being the numbers) rebel against the cyborgs (the bionic we) someday?
;^)
For some insight into that question, may I recommend you view Episode 6 of Sealab 2021--I, Robot. An insightful debate on the issue is contained within.
If you read through to the end of the article (a rare thing around here, I know) you will find this:
Quantum Nucleonics
The big idea: A portable, safe, nonpolluting source of nuclear power
As long as we're being fanciful, why not use these amazing portable nuclear devices to power our whiz-bang portable devices?