I dunno about that analogy, I haven't ever had any problems with appendicitis. However, I've noticed that in the past, I had inflammation with my tonsils, but afterwards, they would put out bacteria laden plaque whenever I had dental conditions (such as cavities, abscesses, etc).
Now, if one was to follow the logic, it could be the same deal with appendicitis. We basically have these "primitive" organs to keep us alive. Who (except perhaps a surgeon looking to pay off his BMW), could be driven to think otherwise?
And STOP putting helmets and pads on them for everything they do! I didn't have any, and it didn't hurt my brainbrainbrain brainbrainmbainbranbanbin at all!!11!
(in all seriousness, however, there was a sci-fi novel I read that was relevent, about a kid who was raised in a sterile technological environment, who freaked out, for example, in being faced with the prospect of eating a mere orange, but then ask anyone today where their food comes from, and about 4/5ths of the time they'll say "From the store". Go figure)
Considering how many bacteriological critters we have living in our guts, and how many of them (much like the appendix) can actually kill us if any of them go extremely off balance. Appendicitis can be considered as a microcosmic effect on the same scale. So perhaps at worst, what it really amounts to, is an appendix blockage? Therefore, the probabke way to cure appendicitis is perhaps similar to an angioplasty? Hell, an angioplasty balloon being fed up one's ass in a general anaethetically numbed non surgical procedure is probably preferable to many, if not all surgery fearing people.
The day Demonoid went down, I was browsing the site for Beavis and Butthead collections. About three pages into the search, I was redirected to their default "We are currently performing maintenance, please try again in a few minutes" page. For the remainder of the day, up until the site went 404, I was still being redirected to the maintenance page.
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster." "Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky." "A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."
For example, if you manage (somehow) to have an unsecured wireless router setup, and someone downloads questionable material while wardriving, does that make YOU responsible because you didn't memorize the manual or keep up to date on/.?
Most people buy cel phones predominately for the purpose of placing phone calls, then the stoopid ring tones, then the stoopid wallpaper, then the stoopid camera, then the stoopid games, and then the stoopid e-mail and stoooooooopid web browsing capacity. Oh, and the ePenis overcompensation factor.
The above features reign far and above cracking the 100+ page instruction manual included with today's cellular phones.
Considering that for the last 30 some odd years, that the movie industry's goal after TV started stealing viewership, and that their solution was to ensure that they charge people multiple times to watch the same movies over and over again? I think you already know what their plan is.
You know, all he has to do is point out that Microsoft Flight Simulator used to allow you to crash into the World Trade Center. However, that would result in a positive good plus a negative bad and result in a positive goodnotgood for him (and us, I think).
Psychosis has been suggested in the past, but unfortunately those who examined him claim to have found nothing wrong, and sent him packing with a large "SANE" rubber stamp in red ink on the back of his hand. I guess that means they'll never be able to make it stick.
Whoever modded this down is a moron. The stores are perfectly within their rights because they are either renting or owners of their property. If someone breaks into your home and you challenge them on it, does it mean they can have you arrested or even sue you for questioning their right to be on your property? I'm pretty sure you'll say no.
And that's also the case with these stores, they own the right to use their property as they deem fit. Unless you think that peoples' propety falls under the control of the state, or the federal government, then, technically, you believe in manifest destiny and government control over ALL property, either privately rented or owned. Fucking Q, fucking E, fucking D.
>>All retail stores have to have some measure of theft prevention in place.
>They are allowed to have whatever measure they need -- as long as they stop short of abridging someone's rights.
Whether they rent or own their spot on the property, doesn't it make that their property, and therefore their right due to it taking place on their property?
>>Those guys at the doors asking to see a receipt aren't the frigging new world order
>So please list the rights that you give up on that basis. List them all, and tell us why your assertion justifies each one.
I hate to say it, but the guy in the article was being a royal dick. There, I said it. Label it as flamebait or whatever.
All retail stores have to have some measure of theft prevention in place. Whether it be sensor stickers, CCTV or people at the doors checking for receipts. It's called loss control.
Take the recent story about the guy who scraped a $29.99 label off of an appliance and pasted it onto a flatscreen HDTV set at Wal-Mart. Now lets say he did it, lost his nerve, and ran rather than buy the TV, and you scooped it up instead. Would you rather raise a stink over the obvious price error, and be blamed for it, or use the (presumably) privacy infringing CCTV footage of the guy who changed the price in order to clear yourself?
And you know what? Those guys at the doors asking to see a receipt aren't the frigging new world order, the cops, or the trilateral commission seeking your DNA for a massive databank of people to implant chips into, they're just average guys who're working 9-5 to pay the rent. Their job asks them, in their lethargic climb to an eventual managerial profession, to look at a piece of paper a cashier just handed you a few minutes earlier. In which case you do, if you go to a fast food restaurant, why not expect the guy frying your burger to have attended a Cordon Bleu cooking school, and start protesting Wendy's?
You have to deal with receipt checkers everywhere, from Wal-Mart through Loews and Home Depot, and a great deal more stores than that. There is no law stating they have ANY right to inspect you, even in the occasion you actually DO steal from them. This is for the most part true. The guy in question, however, blew the whole situation out of proportion.
In summary, from personal experience, you simply don't want to volunteer yourself to the radar. If you do, don't bitch and whine about getting attention because you did so. It's like shooting yourself with a gun, then becoming a gun control nut.
Why didn't they take dust into account when building the things, and why couldn't they just incorporate a simple brush into the robot arm to clear dust from the solar panels? Doesn't really take a rocket scientist to comprehend the value of a good set of windshield wipers.
Good points. Ahwell, it's still a damned good laptop for the price. Just enough oomph to play Entropia Universe and a few other games, enough storage space to serve my needs, a $50 refund doesn't make much of a dent in the value.
It's a L35-S2316, likely it's just been discontinued (it appears manufacturers regularly discontinue laptops on a yearly basis), 80GB, 512 DDR-2 RAM, Radeon 200M graphics, 15" widescreen TFT, DVD-ROM/CD-R/W, built in 801.11 (or however that's written) G wifi, 2 USB 2.0 ports, and a 1.87 Ghz Celeron M.
If anyone's curious, and lucky, they may be able to find one at Office Depot for the same price.
Just bought a Toshiba laptop that was new, on clearance, for $359 this month. Of course, it came with Vista, Home Basic. First thing I did was research replacement drivers for the audio/network/video chipsets, blanked the HD, then installed a slipstreamed Windows XP Pro. So now I have a perfectly legit license for a POS OS I never wanted (took me a day just to verify for myself why everyone hates Vista). The laptop, for the record, runs at almost 1/3 to 1/2 faster than it did under Vista.
Anyhoo, my question is, does Microsoft offer license exchanges or refunds? Before you laugh, I recall sometime or another, that a PC manufacturer offered refunds on PCs shipped with XP, when the end user wanted to build a Linux box, or an XP box with a preexisting license. Hopefully I can at least try this with Toshiba, I could use the beer money.
Just a thought, even if you take gravity out of the equation, bullets are subject to drag.
So as an analogy, in the relative vacuum of space, the former is true, and gravity can provide some measure of drag, even on a passing star. Assuming that those rules apply, could this star be decellarated, perhaps by gravitational pulls from neighboring stars, and/or dark matter? Another possibility is that the star also has a slower than normal rotation, so as it pokes along at a slower speed, it occasionally outgasses en route.
If you think about it, 1 first world kid building a laptop for 1 third world kid, in a way, is delicious, poetic, and ironic justice. At least the first world kids have their Wiis, their full powered PCs, their Playstation 2s 3s, and Xboxes. But they could learn about the kids who they're building OLPCs for, their countries, et al.
It'd be just like the stoopid UNICEF collections we used to do as kids, except we'd actually be doing something directly applicable, and learning something in the process, not just rattling a can full of pocket change.
For me, when I first saw it during my early teens, it was the crappy voice acting (the same voice actor for Pidge being used for the Princess' maidens in waiting, with obvious pitch shifting used, resulting in most of them sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks), rewrites (kill all you want, they're just robots after all!), and resulting plot manglings due to said rewrites.
Then there was the crappy sound effects (nothing could beat the transformer sound effect), and the spectacular soundtrack (oooh, Casiotone!). Transformers had an actual band playing.
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"I watched action movies a lot and I was fascinated by the way choppers fly. I decided it would be easier to build one than to build a car,"
It's easier to crash one too.
I don't recall Google Groups offering binaries.
They came from... Behind! *BOOM*
I dunno about that analogy, I haven't ever had any problems with appendicitis. However, I've noticed that in the past, I had inflammation with my tonsils, but afterwards, they would put out bacteria laden plaque whenever I had dental conditions (such as cavities, abscesses, etc).
Now, if one was to follow the logic, it could be the same deal with appendicitis. We basically have these "primitive" organs to keep us alive. Who (except perhaps a surgeon looking to pay off his BMW), could be driven to think otherwise?
And STOP putting helmets and pads on them for everything they do! I didn't have any, and it didn't hurt my brainbrainbrain brainbrainmbainbranbanbin at all!!11!
(in all seriousness, however, there was a sci-fi novel I read that was relevent, about a kid who was raised in a sterile technological environment, who freaked out, for example, in being faced with the prospect of eating a mere orange, but then ask anyone today where their food comes from, and about 4/5ths of the time they'll say "From the store". Go figure)
Considering how many bacteriological critters we have living in our guts, and how many of them (much like the appendix) can actually kill us if any of them go extremely off balance. Appendicitis can be considered as a microcosmic effect on the same scale. So perhaps at worst, what it really amounts to, is an appendix blockage? Therefore, the probabke way to cure appendicitis is perhaps similar to an angioplasty? Hell, an angioplasty balloon being fed up one's ass in a general anaethetically numbed non surgical procedure is probably preferable to many, if not all surgery fearing people.
The day Demonoid went down, I was browsing the site for Beavis and Butthead collections. About three pages into the search, I was redirected to their default "We are currently performing maintenance, please try again in a few minutes" page. For the remainder of the day, up until the site went 404, I was still being redirected to the maintenance page.
Or for that matter, from Koyaanisqatsi:
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
"Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."
For example, if you manage (somehow) to have an unsecured wireless router setup, and someone downloads questionable material while wardriving, does that make YOU responsible because you didn't memorize the manual or keep up to date on /.?
Most people buy cel phones predominately for the purpose of placing phone calls, then the stoopid ring tones, then the stoopid wallpaper, then the stoopid camera, then the stoopid games, and then the stoopid e-mail and stoooooooopid web browsing capacity. Oh, and the ePenis overcompensation factor.
The above features reign far and above cracking the 100+ page instruction manual included with today's cellular phones.
Considering that for the last 30 some odd years, that the movie industry's goal after TV started stealing viewership, and that their solution was to ensure that they charge people multiple times to watch the same movies over and over again? I think you already know what their plan is.
You know, all he has to do is point out that Microsoft Flight Simulator used to allow you to crash into the World Trade Center. However, that would result in a positive good plus a negative bad and result in a positive goodnotgood for him (and us, I think).
Psychosis has been suggested in the past, but unfortunately those who examined him claim to have found nothing wrong, and sent him packing with a large "SANE" rubber stamp in red ink on the back of his hand. I guess that means they'll never be able to make it stick.
No... No... No...
The article said Diesel.
Not Vin Diesel.
Then every day is like being in Japan, and all your old porn will be new again!
Whoever modded this down is a moron. The stores are perfectly within their rights because they are either renting or owners of their property. If someone breaks into your home and you challenge them on it, does it mean they can have you arrested or even sue you for questioning their right to be on your property? I'm pretty sure you'll say no.
And that's also the case with these stores, they own the right to use their property as they deem fit. Unless you think that peoples' propety falls under the control of the state, or the federal government, then, technically, you believe in manifest destiny and government control over ALL property, either privately rented or owned. Fucking Q, fucking E, fucking D.
>>All retail stores have to have some measure of theft prevention in place.
>They are allowed to have whatever measure they need -- as long as they stop short of abridging someone's rights.
Whether they rent or own their spot on the property, doesn't it make that their property, and therefore their right due to it taking place on their property?
>>Those guys at the doors asking to see a receipt aren't the frigging new world order
>So please list the rights that you give up on that basis. List them all, and tell us why your assertion justifies each one.
See the above.
I hate to say it, but the guy in the article was being a royal dick. There, I said it. Label it as flamebait or whatever.
All retail stores have to have some measure of theft prevention in place. Whether it be sensor stickers, CCTV or people at the doors checking for receipts. It's called loss control.
Take the recent story about the guy who scraped a $29.99 label off of an appliance and pasted it onto a flatscreen HDTV set at Wal-Mart. Now lets say he did it, lost his nerve, and ran rather than buy the TV, and you scooped it up instead. Would you rather raise a stink over the obvious price error, and be blamed for it, or use the (presumably) privacy infringing CCTV footage of the guy who changed the price in order to clear yourself?
And you know what? Those guys at the doors asking to see a receipt aren't the frigging new world order, the cops, or the trilateral commission seeking your DNA for a massive databank of people to implant chips into, they're just average guys who're working 9-5 to pay the rent. Their job asks them, in their lethargic climb to an eventual managerial profession, to look at a piece of paper a cashier just handed you a few minutes earlier. In which case you do, if you go to a fast food restaurant, why not expect the guy frying your burger to have attended a Cordon Bleu cooking school, and start protesting Wendy's?
You have to deal with receipt checkers everywhere, from Wal-Mart through Loews and Home Depot, and a great deal more stores than that. There is no law stating they have ANY right to inspect you, even in the occasion you actually DO steal from them. This is for the most part true. The guy in question, however, blew the whole situation out of proportion.
In summary, from personal experience, you simply don't want to volunteer yourself to the radar. If you do, don't bitch and whine about getting attention because you did so. It's like shooting yourself with a gun, then becoming a gun control nut.
Why didn't they take dust into account when building the things, and why couldn't they just incorporate a simple brush into the robot arm to clear dust from the solar panels? Doesn't really take a rocket scientist to comprehend the value of a good set of windshield wipers.
Asimo wants to try it in sushi.
Good points. Ahwell, it's still a damned good laptop for the price. Just enough oomph to play Entropia Universe and a few other games, enough storage space to serve my needs, a $50 refund doesn't make much of a dent in the value.
It's a L35-S2316, likely it's just been discontinued (it appears manufacturers regularly discontinue laptops on a yearly basis), 80GB, 512 DDR-2 RAM, Radeon 200M graphics, 15" widescreen TFT, DVD-ROM/CD-R/W, built in 801.11 (or however that's written) G wifi, 2 USB 2.0 ports, and a 1.87 Ghz Celeron M.
If anyone's curious, and lucky, they may be able to find one at Office Depot for the same price.
Just bought a Toshiba laptop that was new, on clearance, for $359 this month. Of course, it came with Vista, Home Basic. First thing I did was research replacement drivers for the audio/network/video chipsets, blanked the HD, then installed a slipstreamed Windows XP Pro. So now I have a perfectly legit license for a POS OS I never wanted (took me a day just to verify for myself why everyone hates Vista). The laptop, for the record, runs at almost 1/3 to 1/2 faster than it did under Vista.
Anyhoo, my question is, does Microsoft offer license exchanges or refunds? Before you laugh, I recall sometime or another, that a PC manufacturer offered refunds on PCs shipped with XP, when the end user wanted to build a Linux box, or an XP box with a preexisting license. Hopefully I can at least try this with Toshiba, I could use the beer money.
Why split hairs? Send ALL the Bruces! http://members.lycos.nl/wal001/brucesketch.html
Just a thought, even if you take gravity out of the equation, bullets are subject to drag.
So as an analogy, in the relative vacuum of space, the former is true, and gravity can provide some measure of drag, even on a passing star. Assuming that those rules apply, could this star be decellarated, perhaps by gravitational pulls from neighboring stars, and/or dark matter? Another possibility is that the star also has a slower than normal rotation, so as it pokes along at a slower speed, it occasionally outgasses en route.
I'm no astrophysicist, just pondering.
If you think about it, 1 first world kid building a laptop for 1 third world kid, in a way, is delicious, poetic, and ironic justice. At least the first world kids have their Wiis, their full powered PCs, their Playstation 2s 3s, and Xboxes. But they could learn about the kids who they're building OLPCs for, their countries, et al.
It'd be just like the stoopid UNICEF collections we used to do as kids, except we'd actually be doing something directly applicable, and learning something in the process, not just rattling a can full of pocket change.
For me, when I first saw it during my early teens, it was the crappy voice acting (the same voice actor for Pidge being used for the Princess' maidens in waiting, with obvious pitch shifting used, resulting in most of them sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks), rewrites (kill all you want, they're just robots after all!), and resulting plot manglings due to said rewrites.
Then there was the crappy sound effects (nothing could beat the transformer sound effect), and the spectacular soundtrack (oooh, Casiotone!). Transformers had an actual band playing.