Digital cable is most assuredly not broadcast-based. You're correct about over the air, public access or satellite signals. Digital cable boxes report back to home base, however.
The creators of Battlestar are urging people not to torrent the show, because if nobody's watching it on the actual television, it'll get cancelled even if half the world is torrenting the episodes. If you like Battlestar, do yourselves and the rest of us the favor of tuning in. It really is rather unfortunate, if you think about it, that the audience most likely to love this show matches up so well with the audience most likely to download it rather than watch it on TV.
Chernobyl was largely due to human fault
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As I understand it, Chernobyl wasn't and entirely random freak meltdown. The plant technicians were running a rather 'spur of the moment' test that hadn't been discussed with many other collegues, in which they wanted to determine whether the plant would shut itself off if they turned off the emergency cooling system and shut down all external power to the reactor.
Chernobyl did have systems that were pretty much accident-proof. Only problem is that somebody thought it'd be cool to deliberately turn them off.
The problem is that the word "irregardless" breaks all rules about word construction in the English language. The root word is "regard". "regardless" means to have no regard, as per standard English suffixing rules. "irregardless" represents the negation of the word "regardless", as per standard English prefixing rules. So, it must mean to not not have regard for. IOW, it's a double negative, all in one word. It's like someone saying "unthaw" when they really mean "thaw"... it's just - plain - wrong!
Well, I guess we're all going to grammarian hell then, because it turns out that unthaw is _actually_ a word. Well, according to those Princeton sorts. Unthaw.
If any of you are scratching your heads, trying to figure out where this text is from, it's from Summoner Geeks. Figured I'd could save someone the trouble I just went through trying to figure it out...
The sketch in question was originally done by a comedy group called the Dead Alewives, an improv troup based out of Milwaukee whose webpage now seems to be defunct. The Summoner Geeks clip as linked above was actually a hidden feature in the computer/PS2 game Summoner, which could be accessed by pressing ESC (X) during the credits. The original Dead Alewives version had a very amusing intro, which was cut in the Summoner Geeks flick.
The audio is, however, preserved in its entirety in a flash animation called 8bitDandD.
I've quit both smoking and caffeine, each of which I started intetionally, for the effects of the drugs (hey, I'm a student, and they've got measurable benefits on my grades!), and my experience has been this:
If you want to break an addiction, do it multiple times. This will kill you at first if you've been addicted for years, but after a couple of cycles you'll be able to drink coffee whenever you want the caffeine, with no worries about a relapse. What do you is take up your addiction, then stop for a couple of weeks, until you're functional. Then start drinking it again if you want it, but be sure to quit after a week or so and stop for a couple of weeks. After awhile of this, you get pretty good at breaking addictions, and it becomes no trick at all not to get addicted when you _do_ want coffee or a cigarette because you need to be extra-sharp.
The problem with water filters is that, while they do filter out anything which might taste a bit odd to you, they actually remove a number of helpful things from the water, which are added by your local water department (e.g. vitamin B, and fluorine, the dental benefits of which are substantial and documented), and some things which aren't (the amount of iron accumulated in processing and pipes is well within the range of useful to your body). Other sediment picked up along the way isn't particularly harmful either, although it does nothing for you.
So really, if you drank nothing but fresh and clean, pure water from day one, you'd have awful and horrible teeth. Ask your local dentist about the benefits of fluoridized water if you don't believe me.
how many of those 2 million jobs that they claim will be MIA are located in the US?
...All of them. I mean, geez, do you think telemarketing companies with a 5 or 6 in 1000 success rate (most of them) would waste even more money by calling from out of the country? International calls are expensive, and telemarketing companies are shrewd businesses.
Specifically you only get one chance? You know this how? Lots of religions belive in re-encarnation, which many embody the meaning of more chances. A lot of religions believe not only in re-encarnation but rather as a means to have a second chance at life, to do what you are suppose to do. If you succeed in doing what you are suppose to do, then you go to your religions "heaven".
There are a number of ways to look at the issue of re-incarnation, but I'd have to agree with the original poster that we do indeed only get one chance. Think of the issue like this: Even assuming you do get re-incarnated, and some spark of your essence lives on in your new body, you still die. Your memories, thoughts, feelings and dreams all blink out like a candle. So even if part of your soul gets a continue, you're still very much out of credits. Personally, I could care less if my soul lives on, if my conciousness has to die anyways. I mean, what good will it do me for my soul to be re-incarnated as the next president, or even a Buddha, if I'm not around to see it? If you think about it, re-incarnation is as much a crutch for people to lean on as the idea of a heaven.
I was born and raised in Virginia, and cursive was taught to me from an early age. And, do you know what? it's a lot faster. People complain about how slow cursive is, because many students never take the time to actually get good at it. I mean, listen to how many people on here say that they never used it except when they had to, and stopped immediately after 3rd or 4th grade. Small wonder they never got to any reasonable speed with it! That's like expecting somebody who hates computers, and never uses them except when forced by their work, to type at a faster speed than they can write. Cursive was made to look decent, sure, but its primary intended goal was speed, plain and simple. And while there are some unneccesary things, cursive is faster by virtue of the fact that there are substantially less strokes of the pen involved; you can write entire words without lifting it once. You can write the word 'write', for example with one stroke plus one more for the dot and line, instead of the 6 it woujld otherwise take. When your pen never leaves the word, you can continue writing without looking at the paper since you don't have to re-orient the tip.
And on top of all that, being able to write decently in cursive has many analogs in other applications. Take drawing, for example. Do you think so many people would complain about being unable to draw if they'd spend all of their grade school and middle school years forced to write in neat loops of an identical height? Or soldering. My ability to hold an iron steady, and do fine manipulations, would be way worse if I hadn't had all that practice in precision with a pen (or pencil, crayon, what have you).
It really bothers me when people slam cursive just because they never motivated their lazy asses to use it beyond when they were forced to, and compare their lack of proficiency in one to something they've been using their whole lives instead.
Presumably many libraries will be for domains that don't even exist yet. If SETI@home works, for example, we'll need libraries for communicating with aliens. Unless of course they are sufficiently advanced that they already communicate in XML.
Let's hope it's not Microsoft's XML, because that could cause a problem with communication:they might say "We come in peace" and start shooting at us with lasers and everything!
Well, just as long as we make sure the evil bit isn't set, we should be fine, right?
The damn thing about it is that it is illegal based on the fifth amendment. Unfortunately there are some judges out there incapable of comprehending plain english. "No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
I haven't had the time or excuse to investigate how judges became confused on this issue but the material witness statute plainly and obviously violates the fifth amendment and must be overturned.
This could be my potential inexperience speaking, but I don't know who you would bring to trial, and who the defendant would be. How can Hawash testify, co-ordinate with a laywer, or submit writs when he's being held in undisclosed solitary? And I don't know if one can hold a trial against something as broad as the FBI, either.
This is what MS refers to as "innovation." It's not creating new products, and therefore new markets. It's identifying an existing market and taking it over. Kinda like when MacDonalds sees a successful mom and pop burger joint, and then decides to open a new franchise right across the street.
That just happened in my neighborhood. The mom and pop joint has far better burgers, and real milkshakes, but when the zombie masses see the golden arches they act as if their decision has been made for them and go for the Big Macs.
Result: Mom and Pop are now losing money and will soon close their burger joint, one that's been there for almost 30 years. So Sad.
Seriously, I hate it when that happens. It's even worse afterwards, once you find out that 'Mom' is a 6'4" black transvestite, who has radar sex with 'Pop', who is actually a giant killer robot in disguise. Stupid McDonalds!
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Digital cable is most assuredly not broadcast-based. You're correct about over the air, public access or satellite signals. Digital cable boxes report back to home base, however.
The creators of Battlestar are urging people not to torrent the show, because if nobody's watching it on the actual television, it'll get cancelled even if half the world is torrenting the episodes. If you like Battlestar, do yourselves and the rest of us the favor of tuning in. It really is rather unfortunate, if you think about it, that the audience most likely to love this show matches up so well with the audience most likely to download it rather than watch it on TV.
As I understand it, Chernobyl wasn't and entirely random freak meltdown. The plant technicians were running a rather 'spur of the moment' test that hadn't been discussed with many other collegues, in which they wanted to determine whether the plant would shut itself off if they turned off the emergency cooling system and shut down all external power to the reactor.
Chernobyl did have systems that were pretty much accident-proof. Only problem is that somebody thought it'd be cool to deliberately turn them off.
the correct thing to say would be:
:)
"I'd hit it!"
(Here lies SkOink killed by mods)
Nothing sucks like an Electrolux. :)
The problem is that the word "irregardless" breaks all rules about word construction in the English language. The root word is "regard". "regardless" means to have no regard, as per standard English suffixing rules. "irregardless" represents the negation of the word "regardless", as per standard English prefixing rules. So, it must mean to not not have regard for. IOW, it's a double negative, all in one word. It's like someone saying "unthaw" when they really mean "thaw"... it's just - plain - wrong!
Well, I guess we're all going to grammarian hell then, because it turns out that unthaw is _actually_ a word. Well, according to those Princeton sorts.
Unthaw.
> > Unfortunately, black holes are sparse in this neck of the woods
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> _UN_fortunately?
Well, in most necks of the woods they're actually rather dense.
HOO-ha!
If any of you are scratching your heads, trying to figure out where this text is from, it's from Summoner Geeks.
Figured I'd could save someone the trouble I just went through trying to figure it out...
The sketch in question was originally done by a comedy group called the Dead Alewives, an improv troup based out of Milwaukee whose webpage now seems to be defunct. The Summoner Geeks clip as linked above was actually a hidden feature in the computer/PS2 game Summoner, which could be accessed by pressing ESC (X) during the credits. The original Dead Alewives version had a very amusing intro, which was cut in the Summoner Geeks flick.
The audio is, however, preserved in its entirety in a flash animation called 8bitDandD.
I'll testify against that guy any day! My penis grew to 7 feet, just as promised! You should see the look on those animal's faces. :P
Kirby is sucking up all the bandwidth.
Maybe it just needs a big mushroom.
Ah, the Aquabats. :)
But so what? As long as it cools down your processor, does it much matter if it's made from silver or the bones on zombies?
I've quit both smoking and caffeine, each of which I started intetionally, for the effects of the drugs (hey, I'm a student, and they've got measurable benefits on my grades!), and my experience has been this:
If you want to break an addiction, do it multiple times. This will kill you at first if you've been addicted for years, but after a couple of cycles you'll be able to drink coffee whenever you want the caffeine, with no worries about a relapse. What do you is take up your addiction, then stop for a couple of weeks, until you're functional. Then start drinking it again if you want it, but be sure to quit after a week or so and stop for a couple of weeks. After awhile of this, you get pretty good at breaking addictions, and it becomes no trick at all not to get addicted when you _do_ want coffee or a cigarette because you need to be extra-sharp.
The problem with water filters is that, while they do filter out anything which might taste a bit odd to you, they actually remove a number of helpful things from the water, which are added by your local water department (e.g. vitamin B, and fluorine, the dental benefits of which are substantial and documented), and some things which aren't (the amount of iron accumulated in processing and pipes is well within the range of useful to your body). Other sediment picked up along the way isn't particularly harmful either, although it does nothing for you.
So really, if you drank nothing but fresh and clean, pure water from day one, you'd have awful and horrible teeth. Ask your local dentist about the benefits of fluoridized water if you don't believe me.
What the submitter meant to say way:
:)
President Bush to call for return to moonshine!
He is a Texan, after all
I mean, those guys a must be pretty deep in the hole after trying to market that cell-phone for the deaf... ::ducks::
I guess Jack Valenti just rolled a natural 1! Time for the dragon roll!
It should read:
f00: 3y3 0W|\|x0r j00r kr3d17 K4rD w17 m4h 1337 5kr1p7 K1dd13 P0\/\/4h!!!111111~
I mean, the least you editors can do is quote accurately.
I was born and raised in Virginia, and cursive was taught to me from an early age. And, do you know what? it's a lot faster. People complain about how slow cursive is, because many students never take the time to actually get good at it. I mean, listen to how many people on here say that they never used it except when they had to, and stopped immediately after 3rd or 4th grade. Small wonder they never got to any reasonable speed with it! That's like expecting somebody who hates computers, and never uses them except when forced by their work, to type at a faster speed than they can write. Cursive was made to look decent, sure, but its primary intended goal was speed, plain and simple. And while there are some unneccesary things, cursive is faster by virtue of the fact that there are substantially less strokes of the pen involved; you can write entire words without lifting it once. You can write the word 'write', for example with one stroke plus one more for the dot and line, instead of the 6 it woujld otherwise take. When your pen never leaves the word, you can continue writing without looking at the paper since you don't have to re-orient the tip.
And on top of all that, being able to write decently in cursive has many analogs in other applications. Take drawing, for example. Do you think so many people would complain about being unable to draw if they'd spend all of their grade school and middle school years forced to write in neat loops of an identical height? Or soldering. My ability to hold an iron steady, and do fine manipulations, would be way worse if I hadn't had all that practice in precision with a pen (or pencil, crayon, what have you).
It really bothers me when people slam cursive just because they never motivated their lazy asses to use it beyond when they were forced to, and compare their lack of proficiency in one to something they've been using their whole lives instead.
Well, just as long as we make sure the evil bit isn't set, we should be fine, right?
The damn thing about it is that it is illegal based on the fifth amendment. Unfortunately there are some judges out there incapable of comprehending plain english. "No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
I haven't had the time or excuse to investigate how judges became confused on this issue but the material witness statute plainly and obviously violates the fifth amendment and must be overturned.
This could be my potential inexperience speaking, but I don't know who you would bring to trial, and who the defendant would be. How can Hawash testify, co-ordinate with a laywer, or submit writs when he's being held in undisclosed solitary? And I don't know if one can hold a trial against something as broad as the FBI, either.
This is what MS refers to as "innovation." It's not creating new products, and therefore new markets. It's identifying an existing market and taking it over. Kinda like when MacDonalds sees a successful mom and pop burger joint, and then decides to open a new franchise right across the street.
That just happened in my neighborhood. The mom and pop joint has far better burgers, and real milkshakes, but when the zombie masses see the golden arches they act as if their decision has been made for them and go for the Big Macs.
Result: Mom and Pop are now losing money and will soon close their burger joint, one that's been there for almost 30 years. So Sad.
Seriously, I hate it when that happens. It's even worse afterwards, once you find out that 'Mom' is a 6'4" black transvestite, who has radar sex with 'Pop', who is actually a giant killer robot in disguise. Stupid McDonalds!
and my keyboard will be outputting a crummy rendition of Tchaikovsky. I can't wait.
:)
Only if you play it badly