Tell that to Congress indeed! Or more important, the CEOs that are running this country. The whole point of the western analytical approach to life is to basically Divide & Conquer. Break up everything, separate it into little tiny boxes and deal with them one at a time. And _separate yourself_ from the process as much as possible; this way your own empathy neuron/gene/whatever won't kick in. 1. Get some poor bastard in a call center to take all the shit, and 2. Make them powerless to help. 3. Profit!
Let's all celebrate the incredible great system we have. Natural selection weeds out the unfit, and we should all be damn grateful when it does. These horrible nerds really SHOULD NEVER HAVE SEX. I've seen the results when they do. You get more individuals like people describe below who are simply painful to be around, or worse.
>The point is that the market will not increase substantially to make up for a 94% price drop.
What market on earth wouldn't increase _exponentially_ if there wasn't a 94% price drop? I know I'd be on that nickel-a-song bandwagon in no time. There are literally TONS of people who currently don't buy online music because.99 is too much money to pay.
Your entire argument is predicated on the WRONG notion that entertainment is something people have to pay professionals for. People have lived together in communities for thousands of years and provided free entertainment to each other FREE OF CHARGE for that entire time. Professional entertainers aren't the norm for human society, and are one of the worst things to come out of technology. The technology of entertainment allows people to sit alone, separate from the communities they live in, quietly going mad. A friend of mine goes to west africa and lives in a desperately impoverished village for three months every year. The people there can't afford schools or medical/dental care, and getting a bad tooth can kill a person, when getting it pulled for $20 is far beyond the means of anyone in the village. But those people are constantly surrounded by beautiful music, for free, and they're loved and cherished by each other. None of them ever is dissatisfied with their life either. How many people in our society can even sign a song worth a shit? Or play a musical instrument? Songs people hear now are written by and for professionals with professional range and training. People used to sit around in groups drinking, socializing, and singing normal songs with accoustic instruments. Folk music, the music of the folks, regular people, is no longer seen as acceptable, so people have worked their way into a corner. The death of the music/entertainment industry would be a huge boon for society at large. I'd personally like to see a ban on electronic entertainment of any kind for two or three hours one night a week. No TV, close the movie theaters. Couldn't really stop people from watching their own movies in their houses, but if enough neighborhoods had obvious social gatherings, people would turn off their own movie players and go outside. Maybe even start dancing!
The new fascists know Arnold is their Best hope by far of getting the same kind of voter/market penetration they've got with W. The first step of putting him in the White House was to groom him for governorship of California, and as soon as he slapped that one down people were already talking about amending the constitution. He has said himself he thinks it should be amended so anyone who's been a citizen for 20 years (as he has) can run for president. He'll be on the ticket within 8 years, I promise you.
Those kick ass! Well, the second bunch. The work "smartfilter" firewalled me out of the first ones as pr0n, but the second bunch were so big on my work monitor I couldn't wall-eye them, but I managed to do it crossed for the first time! Yay! Thanks! Oh, and pretty streetlamps and potted plants....
No, we're talking about the farmer who did everything the way he always has, saving seed from one year to the next, rotating his crops through different fields, etc. Then one say he gets slapped with a lawsuit because one of Monsanto's ninjas slipped over the fence and took samples of his crops, which, when analyzed, showed the genetic nametags Monsanto had sewed onto the corn's waistband. And the farmer loses his crop or his entire farm. Monsanto should have to sue the wind and the King of the Insects, they're the ones who took the pollen from one field to another.
>If they don't like that agreement, then they don't have to buy the seeds!
Wrong. Monsanto and its cohorts has the market buttoned up. You should say if you don't like it, go get some other job. Organic farmers are pretty much the only farmers in industrialized countries that don't have to buy from Monsanto, since they can produce their own seeds.
On a side note, one of the threads in this discussion is about saving seed to replant next season. Monsanto is essentially doing everything it can to stop the entire world from doing this. Most of their hybrids won't produce viable seed, and now they have IP laws on their side that say if they can detect the DNA they devoloped in your crop, no matter how it got there, you're legally liable to pay them damages.
Here's how heat works: matter is made of molecules. Those molecules vibrate with a certain amount of vim & vigor. This energy is what we call heat. The more energetic the vibrating, the hotter something is. When temperature changes, it is because a vibrating molecule touches one that's vibrating less and passes some of that energy over, just like those toys where a series of balls on strings passes the energy of one ball 0-0-0-0-0 to the one on the far end. With heat though, they average out so they're all vibrating about the same. So when a hot thing touches the AIR, which is colder, the heat dissipates out, cooling the hot thing. Space is empty though, a vacuum. It's cold because there's no matter there to hold heat, and what matter there is doesn't vibrate very energetically. When a hot thing like a gun or a rocket engine or whatever is floating in space, it's not touching a colder thing to pass the heat off to. Maybe that's why they had to put Vera (Jane's favorite gun) in a space suit to shoot her.
The poor guy who played Jeff Sinclair just wasn't a very good actor. I keep wondering how he got the job. I, too, had given up on B5 in the first season and my friend Bryan pointed out how great the writing was, and I finally started noticing that and how genuinely great ALL the other actors were. And the rest is TV history.
Reading in car isn't bad once you're used to it. Not that people would, they'd watch the idiot box. I for one think that'd be bad, too much tv in people's heads now. Nobody knows what's going on around them since they're so seldom 'here' they're always off in tv or cellphone land. Or even books.
You're spouting opinions based on looking at the pictures? Sounds like our foreign policy. They wouldn't line up to disgorge passengers, they'd loop. Duh. And how long does it take to empty a car holding 3-4 people as opposed to a busful or traincar full? Way faster. So shut up, chicken little. These things are easy to fix. Add more parallel offload stations in downtown areas for example.
The car-mania of america is catching up with us. We'll HAVE to switch to a more european model before long, and then everybody but the very wealthy will ride public transport, and busses too, will use a grid system instead of "ride downtown and xfer". Then it's "take the nearest eastbound bus a mile, then northbound 'til you're there." The problem is one thing won't cause another. No city is going to triple the number of bus routes in order to encourage ridership and nobody will start riding 'til it's convenient and cheaper than driving. However, it WILL evolve as cars, congestion and gas prices keep going up, and the nation's current policies of moving the wealth from the poor and middle classes to the richest people makes driving/owning a car out of the question.
Come on, guys! Nerds duking it out with their slide rules and calculators? Who gives a shit!? The stations would be a -short- distance apart, lazy fat americans might have to actually walk a bit, and outdoors at that. Hell, hang ropes on each rail support and let people Tarzan their way for the difference. (How to you spell the Tarzan yell?)
Mr Incredible calls her the perfect woman for perfectly good reasons! She's probably the only woman he can do it with, according to the arguments posited in "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" and other thoughtful diatribes. I'd love to do it with Elastigirl; she could stretch out and wrap totally around you like a giant tongue. Or you could... oh, the geek reflex is still strong. Time to settle down..
I went sunday afternoon and half the theater was families, and the only brat squawking during the movie was some sort of babe-in-arms. And the reviewer was right, this movie is about US, not kids. Anyone who works in a cubicle will have a hard time not crying in abject misery or superlative joy at different points.
Temperature is most important. Turn on the water and adjust it to just lukewarm. Test it with the inside of your forearm or elbow. Just leave it on a trickle.
Place the cat in the bathtub or sink with it EMPTY. If you try to immerse them, they think they're going to be drowned and start fighting. Keep one hand on the cat at all times. Place a plastic cup under the trickle and fill it up most of the way, then pour it over the cat. Don't dump it, and keep the water out of his/her eyes. Shampoo with your pet shampoo, then rinse thoroughly. After the rinse, do a kind of a squeegee from head to tail, squeezing out as much water as possible.
Towel off as much as possible, but by that point the cat will probably run as soon as he/she feels your hand off. Let 'em lick dry otherwise. Oh, and don't forget to take funny pictures for family gatherings.
There are differences between different individuals' amount of perception to various phenomena. One reason lots of subtle phenomena don't recur in the lab is the brain structure of the experimenters; they're analytical, and their conscious mind is totally ignoring what their gut is telling them, even though they're consciously trying to get it, they don't have the structures in their brains/nervsous systems to do it, no matter how bad they might want to.
My actual (ex) father-in-law, Lowell, actually said, "Global warming is nothing but a conspiracy to raise my taxes." I laughed in his face, right in front of everyone in the restaurant. I am not making this up.
Sony makes crap. Most CDs I copy in my marantz burner as copies for my vehicle CD player won't work half the time. Same for ones I make in my computer. The Marantz and Imac play any CDs fine, but the Sony car cd player blows.
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Tell that to Congress indeed! Or more important, the CEOs that are running this country. The whole point of the western analytical approach to life is to basically Divide & Conquer. Break up everything, separate it into little tiny boxes and deal with them one at a time. And _separate yourself_ from the process as much as possible; this way your own empathy neuron/gene/whatever won't kick in.
1. Get some poor bastard in a call center to take all the shit, and
2. Make them powerless to help.
3. Profit!
Let's all celebrate the incredible great system we have. Natural selection weeds out the unfit, and we should all be damn grateful when it does. These horrible nerds really SHOULD NEVER HAVE SEX. I've seen the results when they do. You get more individuals like people describe below who are simply painful to be around, or worse.
BTW, you meant flipping them OFF, not of, right?
Here's MY bid for longest palindrome:
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
(Punciation added for clarity and drama. Your mileage may vary.)
>The point is that the market will not increase substantially to make up for a 94% price drop.
.99 is too much money to pay.
What market on earth wouldn't increase _exponentially_ if there wasn't a 94% price drop? I know I'd be on that nickel-a-song bandwagon in no time. There are literally TONS of people who currently don't buy online music because
Your entire argument is predicated on the WRONG notion that entertainment is something people have to pay professionals for. People have lived together in communities for thousands of years and provided free entertainment to each other FREE OF CHARGE for that entire time. Professional entertainers aren't the norm for human society, and are one of the worst things to come out of technology. The technology of entertainment allows people to sit alone, separate from the communities they live in, quietly going mad.
A friend of mine goes to west africa and lives in a desperately impoverished village for three months every year. The people there can't afford schools or medical/dental care, and getting a bad tooth can kill a person, when getting it pulled for $20 is far beyond the means of anyone in the village. But those people are constantly surrounded by beautiful music, for free, and they're loved and cherished by each other. None of them ever is dissatisfied with their life either.
How many people in our society can even sign a song worth a shit? Or play a musical instrument? Songs people hear now are written by and for professionals with professional range and training. People used to sit around in groups drinking, socializing, and singing normal songs with accoustic instruments. Folk music, the music of the folks, regular people, is no longer seen as acceptable, so people have worked their way into a corner. The death of the music/entertainment industry would be a huge boon for society at large. I'd personally like to see a ban on electronic entertainment of any kind for two or three hours one night a week. No TV, close the movie theaters. Couldn't really stop people from watching their own movies in their houses, but if enough neighborhoods had obvious social gatherings, people would turn off their own movie players and go outside. Maybe even start dancing!
Oh, and BTW, books are cheaper than CDs.
The new fascists know Arnold is their Best hope by far of getting the same kind of voter/market penetration they've got with W. The first step of putting him in the White House was to groom him for governorship of California, and as soon as he slapped that one down people were already talking about amending the constitution. He has said himself he thinks it should be amended so anyone who's been a citizen for 20 years (as he has) can run for president. He'll be on the ticket within 8 years, I promise you.
Those kick ass! Well, the second bunch. The work "smartfilter" firewalled me out of the first ones as pr0n, but the second bunch were so big on my work monitor I couldn't wall-eye them, but I managed to do it crossed for the first time! Yay! Thanks! Oh, and pretty streetlamps and potted plants....
The middle one looks a bit like a 3 fingered hand, just like most aliens have...
At least for me that's the way it is. I can't do crosseyed ones at all but I can do the walleyed ones quite easily.
No, we're talking about the farmer who did everything the way he always has, saving seed from one year to the next, rotating his crops through different fields, etc. Then one say he gets slapped with a lawsuit because one of Monsanto's ninjas slipped over the fence and took samples of his crops, which, when analyzed, showed the genetic nametags Monsanto had sewed onto the corn's waistband. And the farmer loses his crop or his entire farm. Monsanto should have to sue the wind and the King of the Insects, they're the ones who took the pollen from one field to another.
>If they don't like that agreement, then they don't have to buy the seeds!
Wrong. Monsanto and its cohorts has the market buttoned up. You should say if you don't like it, go get some other job. Organic farmers are pretty much the only farmers in industrialized countries that don't have to buy from Monsanto, since they can produce their own seeds.
On a side note, one of the threads in this discussion is about saving seed to replant next season. Monsanto is essentially doing everything it can to stop the entire world from doing this. Most of their hybrids won't produce viable seed, and now they have IP laws on their side that say if they can detect the DNA they devoloped in your crop, no matter how it got there, you're legally liable to pay them damages.
Here's how heat works: matter is made of molecules. Those molecules vibrate with a certain amount of vim & vigor. This energy is what we call heat. The more energetic the vibrating, the hotter something is. When temperature changes, it is because a vibrating molecule touches one that's vibrating less and passes some of that energy over, just like those toys where a series of balls on strings passes the energy of one ball 0-0-0-0-0 to the one on the far end. With heat though, they average out so they're all vibrating about the same. So when a hot thing touches the AIR, which is colder, the heat dissipates out, cooling the hot thing.
Space is empty though, a vacuum. It's cold because there's no matter there to hold heat, and what matter there is doesn't vibrate very energetically. When a hot thing like a gun or a rocket engine or whatever is floating in space, it's not touching a colder thing to pass the heat off to. Maybe that's why they had to put Vera (Jane's favorite gun) in a space suit to shoot her.
The poor guy who played Jeff Sinclair just wasn't a very good actor. I keep wondering how he got the job. I, too, had given up on B5 in the first season and my friend Bryan pointed out how great the writing was, and I finally started noticing that and how genuinely great ALL the other actors were.
And the rest is TV history.
"Hmmm... this is megamesh, very sturdy, a useful feature, but hopelessly out of date dahling, a hobosuit."
"But you designed it," says Mr Incredible.
"I never look back, dahling, it distracts from the Now."
Reading in car isn't bad once you're used to it. Not that people would, they'd watch the idiot box. I for one think that'd be bad, too much tv in people's heads now. Nobody knows what's going on around them since they're so seldom 'here' they're always off in tv or cellphone land. Or even books.
You're spouting opinions based on looking at the pictures? Sounds like our foreign policy. They wouldn't line up to disgorge passengers, they'd loop. Duh. And how long does it take to empty a car holding 3-4 people as opposed to a busful or traincar full? Way faster.
So shut up, chicken little. These things are easy to fix. Add more parallel offload stations in downtown areas for example.
The car-mania of america is catching up with us. We'll HAVE to switch to a more european model before long, and then everybody but the very wealthy will ride public transport, and busses too, will use a grid system instead of "ride downtown and xfer". Then it's "take the nearest eastbound bus a mile, then northbound 'til you're there."
The problem is one thing won't cause another. No city is going to triple the number of bus routes in order to encourage ridership and nobody will start riding 'til it's convenient and cheaper than driving. However, it WILL evolve as cars, congestion and gas prices keep going up, and the nation's current policies of moving the wealth from the poor and middle classes to the richest people makes driving/owning a car out of the question.
Come on, guys! Nerds duking it out with their slide rules and calculators? Who gives a shit!? The stations would be a -short- distance apart, lazy fat americans might have to actually walk a bit, and outdoors at that. Hell, hang ropes on each rail support and let people Tarzan their way for the difference. (How to you spell the Tarzan yell?)
Mr Incredible calls her the perfect woman for perfectly good reasons! She's probably the only woman he can do it with, according to the arguments posited in "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" and other thoughtful diatribes.
I'd love to do it with Elastigirl; she could stretch out and wrap totally around you like a giant tongue. Or you could... oh, the geek reflex is still strong. Time to settle down..
I went sunday afternoon and half the theater was families, and the only brat squawking during the movie was some sort of babe-in-arms.
And the reviewer was right, this movie is about US, not kids. Anyone who works in a cubicle will have a hard time not crying in abject misery or superlative joy at different points.
Ooh, maybe it's hot fudge or butterscotch.
Temperature is most important. Turn on the water and adjust it to just lukewarm. Test it with the inside of your forearm or elbow. Just leave it on a trickle.
Place the cat in the bathtub or sink with it EMPTY. If you try to immerse them, they think they're going to be drowned and start fighting. Keep one hand on the cat at all times.
Place a plastic cup under the trickle and fill it up most of the way, then pour it over the cat. Don't dump it, and keep the water out of his/her eyes.
Shampoo with your pet shampoo, then rinse thoroughly. After the rinse, do a kind of a squeegee from head to tail, squeezing out as much water as possible.
Towel off as much as possible, but by that point the cat will probably run as soon as he/she feels your hand off. Let 'em lick dry otherwise. Oh, and don't forget to take funny pictures for family gatherings.
There are differences between different individuals' amount of perception to various phenomena. One reason lots of subtle phenomena don't recur in the lab is the brain structure of the experimenters; they're analytical, and their conscious mind is totally ignoring what their gut is telling them, even though they're consciously trying to get it, they don't have the structures in their brains/nervsous systems to do it, no matter how bad they might want to.
My actual (ex) father-in-law, Lowell, actually said, "Global warming is nothing but a conspiracy to raise my taxes." I laughed in his face, right in front of everyone in the restaurant. I am not making this up.
Sony makes crap. Most CDs I copy in my marantz burner as copies for my vehicle CD player won't work half the time. Same for ones I make in my computer. The Marantz and Imac play any CDs fine, but the Sony car cd player blows.