There is an important difference between the "documentary" Sinclair intends to broadcast and F9/11 and the concerts you cite. People actively chose to attend those concerts; they were not broadcast on TV. People paid money to go see F9/11. The concert halls and movie theaters are private property. By contrast, the airwaves are public property, and broadcasters are granted the privelege of using assigned frequencies with the understanding that they will not abuse that privelege. That is why, for example, the FCC levies fines for indecency. It would NOT be OK for a network syndicate to order its stations to broadcast F9/11 uninterrupted before the election, just as Sinclair's plans are not in the public interest.
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Seriously, check it out. I haven't found this particular flavor of sublime satirical commentary anywhere else.
Seriously. Get an old mechanical typewriter. They have relatively small ones that come in their own briefcase-like case. I'm sure you can pick one up dirt-cheap at a thrift shop or antique store.
You'll feel really hip and literary typing up your travel notes on an actual typewriter. Then when you get back home, scan your typewritten pages into your computer with through an OCR program, clean it up a bit, and you're good to go.
I concur. This is what worked for me. Switch to Dvorak, but do NOT relabel your keys or get a special keyboard. This will force you to become a touch typist. Looking at the keyboard will not do you any good, since the letters on the keys will not be the letters that appear on screen when you hit them, so you will actually have a good incentive NOT to look at the keyboard. Just keep your eyes on the screen, and you'll be a touch typist within a month.
Jaco Pastorius was not in the Yellow Jackets. He was in Weather Report, but only on a few albums. "Heavy Weather" is the high point of the Jaco era of weather report.
The bassist for the Yellow Jackets is Jimmy Haslip, also a fine bassist (from what I hear; I haven't heard them myself.)
Does Buddhism make people happy, or do people who are already happy become Buddhists?
Here's an anecdotal, unscientific answer for you. In the nine years since I became a practicing Buddhist, I have become happier and happier, and I am definitely happier than I was before I became a Buddhist. I know many other Buddhists who could tell you the same thing about their own experience.
I'm also not sure how "calm" got transformed into "happy" in the article. My personal definition of "happy" doesn't really have much to do with "hard to scare".
Though I might quibble with the particular wording, here is an example of what is meant.
When you encounter an obstacle in your life, do you freak out and ask "WHY ME?", or do you face it calmly and rationally, with the confidence that you are up to the challenge. Since I have become a Buddhist, I increasingly find myself taking the latter approach.
Less time spent freaking out = more time spent being happy.
Take a look at the website of the SGI-USA if you are interested in learning more.
You're In Control questions a basic social code of privacy by assuming that (even simulated) public urination is acceptable if the participant is playing a computer game.
Does that mean they are thinking of putting these things in arcades? Talk about stage fright . . .
not really an objective review
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· Score: 5, Insightful
It doesn't bother me that "the base assumption of this book seems to be not whether there are aliens, but what they are like," but it does bother me that the reviewer's base assumption seems to be not whether the information in this book is even vaguely factual, but how detailed and interesting the information is.
The quote "Something had to have happened in these places and many others throughout the globe to engender such speculation and argument" is a perfect example of the logical fallacy at work here. This is what is meant by "begging the question."
This review could have been made much shorter by just quoting a book review that has been (perhaps apocryphally) said to have been written by Abraham Lincoln: "For people who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing that they like."
Check out The Open Photo Library. This site, which is hosted by ibiblio, bills itself as "a collection of copyrighted photographs (approx 20,000) released under a user-friendly license." Definitely worth checking out.
And check out ibiblio while you're at it. If you don't recognize the name, you may have known them as Sunsite or Metalab.
Apple hosts a mailing list for MkLinux. This will be your most useful source of information if you pursue the MkLinux route, as much of the information on the MkLinux website is out of date. The people on the list are very friendly and helpful with even the most absolute-newbie questions (and if your Linux experience is limited to the PC realm, you will have some newbie questions relating to Linux on Macs). There are searchable archives of the list as well.
Good luck with your quest.
Why can't the astronauts just wind a string around the pole in the middle of the gyroscope and pull on it really fast? That always did the trick when my gyroscope stopped working when I was a kid.
Seriously, how expensive is it to manufacture this stuff? If it were relatively inexpensive (or if it would be if produced in sufficiently large quantities) I could think of thousands of uses for it. Or rather, I could do thousands of useless things with it. At the very least, it would be neat to build a PC case out of it.
This may be a minor point, but Red Hat deserves credit for calling this release "7.3" instead of "8.0". Especially when their pattern for years now has been x.0, x.1, x.2, x+1.0..., it shows admirable restraint for them to break the pattern and resist the temptation to call this a major-version release, when it is in fact an update release. Let's hear it for truth in advertising!
No wonder those cars were so hard to keep running. All the parts were secret.
This begs for someone to make a joke connecting this and the oft-repeated analogy about proprietary software being like a car with the hood welded shut, but it's too early on a Monday morning for me to do it justice. Any takers?
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Who ordered that?
Nothing is being actually "launched" here, right? Nothing is being sent into orbit. They're just going to start using the thing.
What I want to know is, does this bring us one step closer to dilithium crystals? Could they be made of "superatoms" of lithium?
There is an important difference between the "documentary" Sinclair intends to broadcast and F9/11 and the concerts you cite. People actively chose to attend those concerts; they were not broadcast on TV. People paid money to go see F9/11. The concert halls and movie theaters are private property. By contrast, the airwaves are public property, and broadcasters are granted the privelege of using assigned frequencies with the understanding that they will not abuse that privelege. That is why, for example, the FCC levies fines for indecency. It would NOT be OK for a network syndicate to order its stations to broadcast F9/11 uninterrupted before the election, just as Sinclair's plans are not in the public interest.
Seriously, check it out. I haven't found this particular flavor of sublime satirical commentary anywhere else.
Typewriter.
Seriously. Get an old mechanical typewriter. They have relatively small ones that come in their own briefcase-like case. I'm sure you can pick one up dirt-cheap at a thrift shop or antique store.
You'll feel really hip and literary typing up your travel notes on an actual typewriter. Then when you get back home, scan your typewritten pages into your computer with through an OCR program, clean it up a bit, and you're good to go.
Oh, jawbone, when did you first go wrong?
Oh, jawbone, where is it you belong?
</the Band>
[What good is Karma if you can't burn some of it up once in a while?]
I concur. This is what worked for me. Switch to Dvorak, but do NOT relabel your keys or get a special keyboard. This will force you to become a touch typist. Looking at the keyboard will not do you any good, since the letters on the keys will not be the letters that appear on screen when you hit them, so you will actually have a good incentive NOT to look at the keyboard. Just keep your eyes on the screen, and you'll be a touch typist within a month.
Making a S-Wing is easy . . . and FUN! Just follow these simple instructions.
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First, make an "S". Then add a more different "S". Then add some consummate "V"s. And . .
You're right. "S" is for "Sucks". Better start over . .
</tribute to the Bros. Chaps>
Jaco Pastorius was not in the Yellow Jackets. He was in Weather Report, but only on a few albums. "Heavy Weather" is the high point of the Jaco era of weather report.
The bassist for the Yellow Jackets is Jimmy Haslip, also a fine bassist (from what I hear; I haven't heard them myself.)
Here's an anecdotal, unscientific answer for you. In the nine years since I became a practicing Buddhist, I have become happier and happier, and I am definitely happier than I was before I became a Buddhist. I know many other Buddhists who could tell you the same thing about their own experience.
I'm also not sure how "calm" got transformed into "happy" in the article. My personal definition of "happy" doesn't really have much to do with "hard to scare".
Though I might quibble with the particular wording, here is an example of what is meant.
When you encounter an obstacle in your life, do you freak out and ask "WHY ME?", or do you face it calmly and rationally, with the confidence that you are up to the challenge. Since I have become a Buddhist, I increasingly find myself taking the latter approach.
Less time spent freaking out = more time spent being happy.
Take a look at the website of the SGI-USA if you are interested in learning more.
You're In Control questions a basic social code of privacy by assuming that (even simulated) public urination is acceptable if the participant is playing a computer game.
Does that mean they are thinking of putting these things in arcades? Talk about stage fright . . .
Did you hear about the guy who invented a formula that would grow hair on a billiard ball?
He died penniless, because no one wanted a hairy billiard ball.
. . . you will get laid eventually.
The quote "Something had to have happened in these places and many others throughout the globe to engender such speculation and argument" is a perfect example of the logical fallacy at work here. This is what is meant by "begging the question."
This review could have been made much shorter by just quoting a book review that has been (perhaps apocryphally) said to have been written by Abraham Lincoln: "For people who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing that they like."
And check out ibiblio while you're at it. If you don't recognize the name, you may have known them as Sunsite or Metalab.
Because it can.
Apple hosts a mailing list for MkLinux. This will be your most useful source of information if you pursue the MkLinux route, as much of the information on the MkLinux website is out of date. The people on the list are very friendly and helpful with even the most absolute-newbie questions (and if your Linux experience is limited to the PC realm, you will have some newbie questions relating to Linux on Macs). There are searchable archives of the list as well. Good luck with your quest.
Is it "Transparent Databases" or "Translucent Databases"??
Why can't the astronauts just wind a string around the pole in the middle of the gyroscope and pull on it really fast? That always did the trick when my gyroscope stopped working when I was a kid.
Supernova May Wipe Out Earth... Someday
And it could take our planet with it.
Err... am I missing some key distinction here? Last I checked, "Earth" and "our planet" were one and the same.
Where can I get my hands on some of this stuff?
Seriously, how expensive is it to manufacture this stuff? If it were relatively inexpensive (or if it would be if produced in sufficiently large quantities) I could think of thousands of uses for it. Or rather, I could do thousands of useless things with it. At the very least, it would be neat to build a PC case out of it.
Anybody know?
This may be a minor point, but Red Hat deserves credit for calling this release "7.3" instead of "8.0". Especially when their pattern for years now has been x.0, x.1, x.2, x+1.0..., it shows admirable restraint for them to break the pattern and resist the temptation to call this a major-version release, when it is in fact an update release. Let's hear it for truth in advertising!
No wonder those cars were so hard to keep running. All the parts were secret.
This begs for someone to make a joke connecting this and the oft-repeated analogy about proprietary software being like a car with the hood welded shut, but it's too early on a Monday morning for me to do it justice. Any takers?
Okay, repeat this three times:
Free Ximian Red Carpet updates will still be available.
The subscription fee is only for the new premium service, Red Carpet Express.
Nothing to see here. Move on.