It doesn't look all that different from Bora Bora, except it's cheaper, cooler, there's no mosquitos, you don't have to tip, and did I mention the natives speak English?
No nosy neighbors, no traffic jams, no wasted time spent looking for a parking space, free fish, swimming in summer, and best of all, the natives speak English - what's not to like about Sealand?
In most of the world, there is no such thing as a doggie bag . - Prof. Kelly Brownell
If the UK has Infrared sensors at regular intervals tracking license plate numbers for traffic speed sensing, why don't they send you a ticket for every time you exceed the speed limit? Or just zap you with some kind of bolt to disable you then and there. I guess there are worse things than being stuck in a traffic jam.
If time travel is possible, why haven't we been overrun by toursits from the future? - Stephen Hawking
There's a review of The Day of the Triffids here. Another great vegetation-out-to-get-us movie from the same era is The Thing, a precursor to all the Alien movies.
Cool photo of a "Zetland" foal, the result of unsupervised interaction between a Shetland pony and a zebra. It's sooo cute! You can go see it for yourself at Eden Ostrich World.
The Hebrews-built-the-pyramids is not just an Israeli theory. I remember being taught this theory in Southern Baptist Sunday School in the U.S. I wonder how widespread this idea is taught and believed in the fundamentalist Protestant religions?
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I was going to send off for one of those mousepads from Museum of e-failure but I realized I could just use of my old ones from Nortel Networks and achieve the same effect.
In the amount of time it would take you to rent a car from Acme, read all the small print, sign the forms, take the shuttle to the lot to pick up your car, drape tinfoil over the GPS antenna, etc. etc., the baby would arrive in the parking lot. Better take a cab instead.
If you can't afford a car, what makes you think you can afford a baby?
Do you think the fact that Covad previously sued Verizon in an antitrust suit in 1999 could have something to do with this?
For the sake of balance, here's some excerpts from a SiliconValley.com article about the new Verizon lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Northern Califorinia.
Covad denied the allegations.
``We consider this suit a harassment suit that thinly veils the fact that Verizon has a very poor service record and is inventing complaints to cover up its own ineptitude,'' said Covad co-founder and general counsel Dhruv Khanna in a statement Tuesday.
Some industry observers were skeptical of Verizon's claims. Why would Covad need to make up false reports of trouble with Verizon's lines? ``It seems bizarre to have to invent more of them when there's so many floating around,'' said Justin Beech, editor of the industry newsletter DSL Reports.
Covad has argued in antitrust suits against Verizon and BellSouth that the Baby Bells are unfairly crimping competition by dragging their feet in order fulfillment and by installing phone lines that malfunction.
Idrive is shutting down its free service June 18 and licensing the software to telcos and ISPs so they can resell it. Or you can sign up for something called Xdrive for $4.95/mo.
Or you can just say the hell with all that crap I've got stored and let it go and be really free.
There is a sizable amount of empty cooled machine room space in there...
There seems to be a sizable amount of steaming hot space there as well.
Features you don't ordinarily expect to find in a bunker (well, maybe in Dr. Strangelove's bunker): Time honored services of soaking, scotch sprays and Swiss showers continue to be offered, and a wide selection of new treatments and programs now enhance every guest's desires. Quiet areas for use before and after services, and private, personal changing rooms, make the experience one to always remember... and return to again and again.
Allow Slashdot to tie into your system, and you instantly add hundreds of thousands of potential users... and hundreds of thousands of iterations of ASCII goatscx and all other kinds of proliferating crap.
If you're actually cool, you don't need an asterisk by your name, for cryin' out loud.
I'm just here for the free tiles. (Whatever happened to the free tiles?)
This guy actually wrote in to the New York Times "I keep getting an alert that says: 'Warning: Your Internet connection is not optimized. Download Internet Boost 2001 now!' I don't know what causes this message, but how I can keep it from appearing?" What do you suppose he will make of XP's squiggly purple lines?
I'd just as soon try to memorize the Charge of the Light Brigade as that bizarre poem. It ain't exactly "Thirty days hath September."
But I think I could manage to make four paper strips and fold them around a pencil, or build this cardboard contraption, or even try tattooing this stuff on various body parts like the guy in Memento.
I might try this interactive calendar to find the Doomsday to start the algorithm process, but then I wouldn't need to remember the algorithm, would I? I would be most likely to consult my desk copy of Farmer's Almanac, then the only thing I would have to remember is where I put it.
Resisting the urge to shout "How are you, gentlemen?" every time I pass the "gentlemen's room" at work.
Wish I had a fistful of Krispy Kreme instead of my worthless tech stocks. Ask yourself which people are going to be using more of, doughnuts or Mandrake, and invest accordingly.
Making business decisions with your heart can give you heart disease. -- Harvey Mackay
Fast food has supplanted the family meal more than the family restaurant. Most Moms hold jobs. How many women are going to stay home slaving over a hot stove for 0 wages, 0 benefits and 0 job security to fix a nutritious meals for picky kids who would rather eat hamburgers and french fries anyway? If people really wanted to eat vegetables and low-fat, healthy foods, McDonalds would crank it out.
Yeah, they sure treated all those South African women and children swell during the Boer War, where 27,000 civilian prisoners of war died in concentration camps. If this is how they treated their fellow white Protestant Christians, you can only imagine how they treated their "enemies" of other races and religions.
My favorite Canadian TV show is where they have this grizzled old dude who sits around in his bathrobe with a cup of coffee in the morning marking up the Globe & Mail with a yellow highlighter and giving his own sarcastic comments on the stories.
... on getting out of there alive. Now go forth and don't f*ck up the world. And keep a copy of your remarks to read when you become a parent, and again when you become the parent of a teenager.
This is a Bad Thing. Next your boss or government will be using this to keep tabs on YOU. It's 10 p.m. do you know where your employees are? Think how educational it would be if kids could check up on what their parents are doing all day! Boy, the adults would really be ducking those cameras. Electronic surveillance in daycare is bad, too. It may make some parents feel better, but it only works in one direction, and the babies are being deprived of the kind of interaction and sensory stimulation they would get if their parents were actually with them.
If I had that kind of money, I would quit my job and go to Barbados, swim in the blue waters and drink Mt. Gay Rum or off to the mountains of Colorado or somewhere else where I could get some fresh air and not be cramped up in a cubicle/space capsule all day.
Open Source has turned the idea of the Cathedral and the Bazaar on its head, so that the people who just want to use a computer to do their jobs or communicate or shop or whatever will just buy the most commonly distributed software on the open market, while the monks who want to write code that most people don't know how to use will continue to do so and label everyone else idiots.
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It doesn't look all that different from Bora Bora, except it's cheaper, cooler, there's no mosquitos, you don't have to tip, and did I mention the natives speak English?
No nosy neighbors, no traffic jams, no wasted time spent looking for a parking space, free fish, swimming in summer, and best of all, the natives speak English - what's not to like about Sealand?
In most of the world, there is no such thing as a doggie bag . - Prof. Kelly Brownell
If the UK has Infrared sensors at regular intervals tracking license plate numbers for traffic speed sensing, why don't they send you a ticket for every time you exceed the speed limit? Or just zap you with some kind of bolt to disable you then and there. I guess there are worse things than being stuck in a traffic jam.
If time travel is possible, why haven't we been overrun by toursits from the future? - Stephen Hawking
There's a review of The Day of the Triffids here. Another great vegetation-out-to-get-us movie from the same era is The Thing, a precursor to all the Alien movies.
Keep watching the skies!
Cool photo of a "Zetland" foal, the result of unsupervised interaction between a Shetland pony and a zebra. It's sooo cute! You can go see it for yourself at Eden Ostrich World.
Systems were made to be circumvented.
So what if it's off-topic, it's funny as hell!
The Hebrews-built-the-pyramids is not just an Israeli theory. I remember being taught this theory in Southern Baptist Sunday School in the U.S. I wonder how widespread this idea is taught and believed in the fundamentalist Protestant religions?
I was going to send off for one of those mousepads from Museum of e-failure but I realized I could just use of my old ones from Nortel Networks and achieve the same effect.
Systems were made to be circumvented.
In the amount of time it would take you to rent a car from Acme, read all the small print, sign the forms, take the shuttle to the lot to pick up your car, drape tinfoil over the GPS antenna, etc. etc., the baby would arrive in the parking lot. Better take a cab instead.
If you can't afford a car, what makes you think you can afford a baby?
Do you think the fact that Covad previously sued Verizon in an antitrust suit in 1999 could have something to do with this? For the sake of balance, here's some excerpts from a SiliconValley.com article about the new Verizon lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Northern Califorinia.
Covad denied the allegations.
``We consider this suit a harassment suit that thinly veils the fact that Verizon has a very poor service record and is inventing complaints to cover up its own ineptitude,'' said Covad co-founder and general counsel Dhruv Khanna in a statement Tuesday.
Some industry observers were skeptical of Verizon's claims. Why would Covad need to make up false reports of trouble with Verizon's lines? ``It seems bizarre to have to invent more of them when there's so many floating around,'' said Justin Beech, editor of the industry newsletter DSL Reports.
Covad has argued in antitrust suits against Verizon and BellSouth that the Baby Bells are unfairly crimping competition by dragging their feet in order fulfillment and by installing phone lines that malfunction.
Idrive is shutting down its free service June 18 and licensing the software to telcos and ISPs so they can resell it. Or you can sign up for something called Xdrive for $4.95/mo.
Or you can just say the hell with all that crap I've got stored and let it go and be really free.
There is a sizable amount of empty cooled machine room space in there... There seems to be a sizable amount of steaming hot space there as well.
Features you don't ordinarily expect to find in a bunker (well, maybe in Dr. Strangelove's bunker): Time honored services of soaking, scotch sprays and Swiss showers continue to be offered, and a wide selection of new treatments and programs now enhance every guest's desires. Quiet areas for use before and after services, and private, personal changing rooms, make the experience one to always remember... and return to again and again.
Allow Slashdot to tie into your system, and you instantly add hundreds of thousands of potential users ... and hundreds of thousands of iterations of ASCII goatscx and all other kinds of proliferating crap.
If you're actually cool, you don't need an asterisk by your name, for cryin' out loud.
I'm just here for the free tiles. (Whatever happened to the free tiles?)
This guy actually wrote in to the New York Times "I keep getting an alert that says: 'Warning: Your Internet connection is not optimized. Download Internet Boost 2001 now!' I don't know what causes this message, but how I can keep it from appearing?" What do you suppose he will make of XP's squiggly purple lines?
I'd just as soon try to memorize the Charge of the Light Brigade as that bizarre poem. It ain't exactly "Thirty days hath September."
But I think I could manage to make four paper strips and fold them around a pencil, or build this cardboard contraption, or even try tattooing this stuff on various body parts like the guy in Memento.
I might try this interactive calendar to find the Doomsday to start the algorithm process, but then I wouldn't need to remember the algorithm, would I? I would be most likely to consult my desk copy of Farmer's Almanac, then the only thing I would have to remember is where I put it.
Resisting the urge to shout "How are you, gentlemen?" every time I pass the "gentlemen's room" at work.
Wish I had a fistful of Krispy Kreme instead of my worthless tech stocks. Ask yourself which people are going to be using more of, doughnuts or Mandrake, and invest accordingly.
Making business decisions with your heart can give you heart disease. -- Harvey Mackay
Fast food has supplanted the family meal more than the family restaurant. Most Moms hold jobs. How many women are going to stay home slaving over a hot stove for 0 wages, 0 benefits and 0 job security to fix a nutritious meals for picky kids who would rather eat hamburgers and french fries anyway? If people really wanted to eat vegetables and low-fat, healthy foods, McDonalds would crank it out.
You want broccoli with that?
Yeah, they sure treated all those South African women and children swell during the Boer War, where 27,000 civilian prisoners of war died in concentration camps. If this is how they treated their fellow white Protestant Christians, you can only imagine how they treated their "enemies" of other races and religions.
What, did he retire or something? I haven't been to Toronto since I got RIF'd from Nortel. Can I have his job?
My favorite Canadian TV show is where they have this grizzled old dude who sits around in his bathrobe with a cup of coffee in the morning marking up the Globe & Mail with a yellow highlighter and giving his own sarcastic comments on the stories.
... on getting out of there alive. Now go forth and don't f*ck up the world. And keep a copy of your remarks to read when you become a parent, and again when you become the parent of a teenager.
This is a Bad Thing. Next your boss or government will be using this to keep tabs on YOU.
It's 10 p.m. do you know where your employees are?
Think how educational it would be if kids could check up on what their parents are doing all day! Boy, the adults would really be ducking those cameras.
Electronic surveillance in daycare is bad, too. It may make some parents feel better, but it only works in one direction, and the babies are being deprived of the kind of interaction and sensory stimulation they would get if their parents were actually with them.
If I had that kind of money, I would quit my job and go to Barbados, swim in the blue waters and drink Mt. Gay Rum or off to the mountains of Colorado or somewhere else where I could get some fresh air and not be cramped up in a cubicle/space capsule all day.
Open Source has turned the idea of the Cathedral and the Bazaar on its head, so that the people who just want to use a computer to do their jobs or communicate or shop or whatever will just buy the most commonly distributed software on the open market, while the monks who want to write code that most people don't know how to use will continue to do so and label everyone else idiots.
It only takes one idiot to raze a village.
What is this, a vast right-wing conspiracy? Without Al Gore, we'd still be sending faxes.