Well now there's a goddamn black hole where I used to drink beer!
My graduate studies were in nuclear physics, and I spent several summers back during the 80's at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Back then, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider didn't exist yet. All there was at the site were some enormous empty tunnels, dug for a different accelerator project that never got off the ground. The tunnels stood as a monument to fiscal and bureaucratic incompetence and government boondoggles... but they looked really cool and spooky at night.
In short, it was the big make-out spot in those days. Or a place for drinking beer, if you were a physics geek with no girlfriend. I have many fond memories of hanging out by those huge empty holes on a summer night with my friends, watching the deer watching us, curiously from the tree line, and getting quietly drunk.
Then again, for the first time, I feel motivated to buy a non-Intel chip for my next machine(s). Maybe this is what it takes to break the Intel monopoly.
Let me ask you, why did Firefox suddenly start gaining market share? Because it's a superior browser to IE? No, although I believe it is. It's because so many people got so goddamn sick of getting adware and spyware viruses that were so pernicious they had to reformat their HD to get rid of them.
Being free isn't enough for you? I'm afraid if you want a license to print money, you'll have to get a job either at the Treasury or at Microsoft. Sorry.
The problem is that I've worked hard over the past 4 years to decrease my coffe intake from two pots a day to one cup a day. So much wasted effort! Ah well, it's never too late to salvage an addiction.
When Hillary Clinton asked Strom Thurmond his secret to staying fit, he replied that he never ate anything larger than an egg. I guess it worked for him.
Weird Al always sought permission as a courtesy.
But don't you remember when Coolio refused permission for him to release "Amish Paradise",
but he did anyway?
Everyone now seems to be coming to the realization
that banner ads simply don't work. Well, that's
probably true. From personal experience I know I
never click on them. Nor, however, to I pay any
attention to ads on the sides of buses, the roofs
of taxicabs, or on the sides of buildings here in
New York City.
Do these banner ads _really_ have smaller return
on investment than many forms of "conventional"
advertising, or is it simply that their ROI is
easier to measure in the internet world?
Okay, don't get me wrong; I believe in evolution.
But did anyone else notice that this MSNBC story
contains no actual scientific facts to back up
his argument? This article is bereft of content,
and contains nothing but the same chest-thumping
the author despises from the creation crowd.
(or something)
Has it ever mattered less, in the history of our republic, who ultimately wins this race? In either case, the president will have no popular mandate, and be facing a Congress that has been divided down the middle with an Exact-o knife. It will be all but impossible for either candidate to push through any legislation that is the least bit controversial. And as for the much-ballyhooed Supreme Court appointments, expect bland, inoffensive nominees of the Souder/Breyer variety.
With all this in mind, does anybody besides Barbra Streisand really care about the ultimate outcome?
Someone unbiased and objective, I'm sure. Kinda ironic this followed right on the heels of Katz's
article on the tainting of academia from outside influences.
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Well now there's a goddamn black hole where I used to drink beer!
My graduate studies were in nuclear physics, and I spent several summers back during the 80's at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Back then, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider didn't exist yet. All there was at the site were some enormous empty tunnels, dug for a different accelerator project that never got off the ground. The tunnels stood as a monument to fiscal and bureaucratic incompetence and government boondoggles... but they looked really cool and spooky at night.
In short, it was the big make-out spot in those days. Or a place for drinking beer, if you were a physics geek with no girlfriend. I have many fond memories of hanging out by those huge empty holes on a summer night with my friends, watching the deer watching us, curiously from the tree line, and getting quietly drunk.
A Mark Morford piece I actually agree with. Well, if this can happen, anything can. Maybe Bill Gates will fix Windows.
Then again, for the first time, I feel motivated to buy a non-Intel chip for my next machine(s). Maybe this is what it takes to break the Intel monopoly.
Let me ask you, why did Firefox suddenly start gaining market share? Because it's a superior browser to IE? No, although I believe it is. It's because so many people got so goddamn sick of getting adware and spyware viruses that were so pernicious they had to reformat their HD to get rid of them.
In the long run, they could be doing us a favor.
Lacked the genius of "This Land," but this whole election cycle has become so divided and embittered, it felt good to laugh at it once again.
How soon will we be allowed to short it?
Being free isn't enough for you? I'm afraid if you want a license to print money, you'll have to get a job either at the Treasury or at Microsoft. Sorry.
The problem is that I've worked hard over the past 4 years to decrease my coffe intake from two pots a day to one cup a day. So much wasted effort! Ah well, it's never too late to salvage an addiction.
I can ditch my cheap-ass knock-off and get the real thing!
Here ya go.
I used to work for a tobacco company.
When Hillary Clinton asked Strom Thurmond his secret to staying fit, he replied that he never ate anything larger than an egg. I guess it worked for him.
http://www.cynicalnation.com
Stop this madness! Become a cynocrat tody!
Yeah, but the point is he's not legally obliged to.
Weird Al always sought permission as a courtesy.
But don't you remember when Coolio refused permission for him to release "Amish Paradise",
but he did anyway?
Do these banner ads _really_ have smaller return on investment than many forms of "conventional" advertising, or is it simply that their ROI is easier to measure in the internet world?
Okay, don't get me wrong; I believe in evolution. But did anyone else notice that this MSNBC story contains no actual scientific facts to back up his argument? This article is bereft of content, and contains nothing but the same chest-thumping the author despises from the creation crowd. (or something)
I hope they leave in Farmer Maggot!
They didn't really overturn it; they sent it back to the Florida state Supreme Court to reconsider.
Has it ever mattered less, in the history of our republic, who ultimately wins this race? In either case, the president will have no popular mandate, and be facing a Congress that has been divided down the middle with an Exact-o knife. It will be all but impossible for either candidate to push through any legislation that is the least bit controversial. And as for the much-ballyhooed Supreme Court appointments, expect bland, inoffensive nominees of the Souder/Breyer variety. With all this in mind, does anybody besides Barbra Streisand really care about the ultimate outcome?
You can have my estate when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!!!
uh... wait...
Mine is there too, but anybody who pays 60 bucks for it is a sucker! ;-)
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Bob Jones seems an obvious choice.
Someone unbiased and objective, I'm sure. Kinda ironic this followed right on the heels of Katz's article on the tainting of academia from outside influences.