Like how Congress removed SOPA from the table due to opposition, but then immediately proposed a new bill with a new name, but same effects.
And ACTA is still floating around. It's already signed by our lovely president Obama. All it needs now is ratification or rejection by the Senators, but the White House has tabled it. Maybe they plan to enforce it through executive order, instead of through legal means.
I've found that evil usually triumphs, unless good is very, very careful.
I don't know why they're looking at lasers, but the only idea I've heard, which sounds workable, is send up robotic rockets which attach, drive in a spike or something, and drive the thing to a new course.
Why lasers? Do you really trust them not to ever be directed earthbound, towards some guy who has a name which rhymes with Sim Pong Nun? So very tempting and all you need is a rationalizer-in-chief to make it so.
Oh, it's a moon alright, but it's rented. Payments are terrible, too. Don't think I can keep them up much longer. Gonna be a dark sky when it gets repo'd.
Forget ever being able to sleep on a plane again, with 200 cell phones ringing and people playing annoying games and 100 laptop screens lighting up the cabin, just like in a movie theater, too many people going to be selfish.
I SAID I CAN'T HEAR YOU! THE PLANE IS TAKING OFF RIGHT NOW! PLEASE SAY IT AGAIN LOUDER!
Yeah, almost as bad as the fuckwits in restaurants and theaters.
I have seen examples of both male and female boss fail... I don't see much difference, I think they are equal.
In my exprience it comes down to the individual - I've had good and bad of either gender. Reasons for being bad generall come down to - What are they here for? If they are planning to stick around they tend to be pretty good. If they are trying to claw their way up the ladder you better watch out.
Drilling domestically might not lower the price of gasoline, but perhaps it creates a buffer in case worldwide oil flows are disrupted. That is, if all oil is imported and there is a boycott against the U. S., we are back to 1973, waiting in gas lines. If a local industry had to begin from scratch, prices would presumably be high for quite a while.
Having at least the ability to drill locally should prevent huge price swings every time there is a panic. The price might rise for a while, but presumably the large oil producing companies would return to the market with slightly lower prices.
Problem here is, people keep forgetting petroleum is a commodity. It flows around the world like electricity flows over a grid, not necessarily going where you might expect, close to the source. Years ago I viewed a map showing the sales of petroluem, where it was pumped and where it typically went - much of Alaskan oil goes to Japan and the Far East.
"Drill baby, drill!" - A phrase I grew tired of, because the US has about 3% of the World Petroleum Reserves, even bumping that up a couple percent does little more than job creation in the country. Getting off the dependence of oil, not just foreign, but in general is a desirable goal. Drilling for more really isn't.
Pretty certain it had the same number of Gnomons (Gn) at both locations, but we'll have to wait for the reports to come in from GIT (Gnomic Institute of Technocracy)
... is demoted for rejecting the whole basis, or showing that he has a severely flawed understanding?
Who would have thought.
I expect there's more to it... like perhaps he couldn't stop engaging and distracting fellow employees to argue about personal beliefs. We don't know all the details.
if it was his cottage that the meteorite had crashed through.
Also, names in l33t sp34k are sooo 90s...
His thrill factor would be off the charts if it had. I'd welcome one to crash through my roof! What's with you? Afraid of a little meteor shower now and then?
So Metro and Desktop will be different. Well, gee. How did I see that coming? Already fighting with designing interfaces which work well for a tablet or mobile touch screen, also working with Desktop, so the application interface doesn't have to be written twice and confuse users with moving between unfamiliar means of viewing and manipulating data within the same application. Not very easy. I wish them a lot of luck, but that luck begins with the divisions within Microsoft working together, not fighting each other. Drop the ball here and Microsoft may never get back into the game.
Seems like a better name would be "SpaceWatch" or something. The word "Fence" implies it can block debris . When I think of tracking I typically don't think of fences.
Still, sounds like a neat project.
It's putting me in mine of Opus's Star Wars project, tying billions of dollars together in space to form a big net. Oliver Wendell Jones tries to sell congress on it, "Whaddya think? Too goofy?" -- Followed by newspaper headlines: THEY BOUGHT IT!
Did anyone else ever notice how much Ferengis look, sound and act like members of a certain real country on planet earth that is overflowing with and run by psychopaths?
Oy!
Yes, but stiff upper lip! Mustn't grumble! Cheers!
So if I drink alot of soda and smoke I can sue Coke or Pepsi should I get cancer instead of big tobacco. Seeing how this is a recent change, it won't make up for the 30+ years prior to this I've been drinking it.
You can always try, good luck enjoying anything you eventually win.
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Like how Congress removed SOPA from the table due to opposition, but then immediately proposed a new bill with a new name, but same effects.
And ACTA is still floating around. It's already signed by our lovely president Obama. All it needs now is ratification or rejection by the Senators, but the White House has tabled it. Maybe they plan to enforce it through executive order, instead of through legal means.
I've found that evil usually triumphs, unless good is very, very careful.
I don't know why they're looking at lasers, but the only idea I've heard, which sounds workable, is send up robotic rockets which attach, drive in a spike or something, and drive the thing to a new course.
Why lasers? Do you really trust them not to ever be directed earthbound, towards some guy who has a name which rhymes with Sim Pong Nun? So very tempting and all you need is a rationalizer-in-chief to make it so.
Which means more space junk. Whee!
Now the patent trolls can't sue me for violating a megacorps' 'patent' because I'm still breathing!
We are now free to mutate without fear of lawsuit. To the Transmogrifier!!!
That's no moon!
Oh, it's a moon alright, but it's rented. Payments are terrible, too. Don't think I can keep them up much longer. Gonna be a dark sky when it gets repo'd.
Forget ever being able to sleep on a plane again, with 200 cell phones ringing and people playing annoying games and 100 laptop screens lighting up the cabin, just like in a movie theater, too many people going to be selfish.
I SAID I CAN'T HEAR YOU! THE PLANE IS TAKING OFF RIGHT NOW! PLEASE SAY IT AGAIN LOUDER!
Yeah, almost as bad as the fuckwits in restaurants and theaters.
I have seen examples of both male and female boss fail... I don't see much difference, I think they are equal.
In my exprience it comes down to the individual - I've had good and bad of either gender. Reasons for being bad generall come down to - What are they here for? If they are planning to stick around they tend to be pretty good. If they are trying to claw their way up the ladder you better watch out.
Drilling domestically might not lower the price of gasoline, but perhaps it creates a buffer in case worldwide oil flows are disrupted. That is, if all oil is imported and there is a boycott against the U. S., we are back to 1973, waiting in gas lines. If a local industry had to begin from scratch, prices would presumably be high for quite a while.
Having at least the ability to drill locally should prevent huge price swings every time there is a panic. The price might rise for a while, but presumably the large oil producing companies would return to the market with slightly lower prices.
Problem here is, people keep forgetting petroleum is a commodity. It flows around the world like electricity flows over a grid, not necessarily going where you might expect, close to the source. Years ago I viewed a map showing the sales of petroluem, where it was pumped and where it typically went - much of Alaskan oil goes to Japan and the Far East.
"Drill baby, drill!" - A phrase I grew tired of, because the US has about 3% of the World Petroleum Reserves, even bumping that up a couple percent does little more than job creation in the country. Getting off the dependence of oil, not just foreign, but in general is a desirable goal. Drilling for more really isn't.
Garden Gnomes just showed themselves to be more important to science than Creationalists and global-warming deniers.
Hold your horses - Wait for them to run them through the particle accelerator and we'll just see about that.
how much was lost during transport?
Pretty certain it had the same number of Gnomons (Gn) at both locations, but we'll have to wait for the reports to come in from GIT (Gnomic Institute of Technocracy)
You are allowed one more chocolate chip cookie at the Equator than on the South Pole.
It's the day we're all comfortable with Sin(), further we're so accomodating we'll embrace Cos().
... is demoted for rejecting the whole basis, or showing that he has a severely flawed understanding?
Who would have thought.
I expect there's more to it ... like perhaps he couldn't stop engaging and distracting fellow employees to argue about personal beliefs. We don't know all the details.
if it was his cottage that the meteorite had crashed through.
Also, names in l33t sp34k are sooo 90s...
His thrill factor would be off the charts if it had. I'd welcome one to crash through my roof! What's with you? Afraid of a little meteor shower now and then?
Wait until they bring it all out in 3D!
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B-O
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So Metro and Desktop will be different. Well, gee. How did I see that coming? Already fighting with designing interfaces which work well for a tablet or mobile touch screen, also working with Desktop, so the application interface doesn't have to be written twice and confuse users with moving between unfamiliar means of viewing and manipulating data within the same application. Not very easy. I wish them a lot of luck, but that luck begins with the divisions within Microsoft working together, not fighting each other. Drop the ball here and Microsoft may never get back into the game.
Seems like a better name would be "SpaceWatch" or something. The word "Fence" implies it can block debris . When I think of tracking I typically don't think of fences.
Still, sounds like a neat project.
It's putting me in mine of Opus's Star Wars project, tying billions of dollars together in space to form a big net. Oliver Wendell Jones tries to sell congress on it, "Whaddya think? Too goofy?" -- Followed by newspaper headlines: THEY BOUGHT IT!
The Earth can yell "get off my lawn" and have it mean something.
Too late, 200,000 kids already on the lawn.
we're gonna need a bigger lawn
Is Megamaid
Is it bad of me that I didn't know the country HAD a CTO? Do we have a CEO, COO, and chairman of the board too?
I think we should work on a hostile take-over of Iraq... no wait, maybe we already did that.
First I've heard of it, too. What systems did they hack into to get these jobs?
...it's Crystal Pepsi!!
I think there are people who wash their crystals in Pepsi, because they think it gives the vibrations a new generation.
threatened.
Did anyone else ever notice how much Ferengis look, sound and act like members of a certain real country on planet earth that is overflowing with and run by psychopaths?
Oy!
Yes, but stiff upper lip! Mustn't grumble! Cheers!
So if I drink alot of soda and smoke I can sue Coke or Pepsi should I get cancer instead of big tobacco. Seeing how this is a recent change, it won't make up for the 30+ years prior to this I've been drinking it.
You can always try, good luck enjoying anything you eventually win.
Bacteria don't cause colds.
Right, virii do
zing!
Is there any chemical California has not added to their list of carcinogenic compounds?
Apparently Monosodium Glutamate, which you can have by the shovel-full from almost any Chinese restaurant, bagged snack goods or canned soups.