It amazes me that the Department of Homeland Security is now the third largest cabinet department with 170,000 employees but can't handle even the most basic security issues. We have spent fuel rods sitting behind chain link fences, keeping them away from any terrorists that can't afford bolt cutters.
Tom Ridge's only qualification for the job of Homeland Security Director is that he's a good friend of the Bush family. It seems that the only thing he's worried about is the appearance of security, like meaningless color coded alerts. When it comes to actual, vital issues of security, nobody seems to be at the wheel.
The disabled have TONS of economic power. Before Dean Kamen invented the Segway, he made his fortune designing things for disabled people. He built a wheelchair that climbs stairs and used some of the stabilization technology in the Seqway. Helping the disabled is a niche market but lucrative because lots of people NEED these devices. You can also garantee repeat customers. Basically, anything remotely involving health care is looking like a good bet for the next 20 years. I plan on wringing every dollar I can out of aging Baby Boomers.
No, the Utah Jazz had a stupid name long before Baseketball (which is an awesome movie). It's common sense, when you move the New Orleans Jazz to Utah, change the damn team name.
SCO was getting destroyed in the competetive marketplace so they have to go to plan B. Unfortunately, the US legal system has been twisted so badly that there exists a perfectly viable business plan of just suing everyone you don't like (Rambus stock price: 25). They probably crossed a line with today's actions. I think Linus and the FSF and going to cooperate with IBM and crush SCO. The problem is that it may take 2-4 years of legal wrangling.
When did Blue Gene change to a nuclear simulation computer? Last I heard it was for protien folding and DNA research, which is why it's called Blue GENE. This way it's like the Utah Jazz.
It's not just dirty little web sites that make money off of shipping. Any TV commercial that uses the phrase "and if you act right now we'll include **** absolutely free" is making money off of shipping and handling.
Don't be too quick with the "science fiction". I can't find the story right now, but a year or two ago the Chinese Women's Swim Team fielded a team of complete unknowns at some big meet. Six or eight of them put up near world record times. Maybe they found a half dozen phenoms. Maybe they used old fashion chemical doping. But considering the state of Chinese genetic engineering, I would put it within the realm of possibility that those girls were genetically enhanced.
BMG should not have handed over a seven figure check for a technology that can be trivially defeated. They have to employ some tech people who could have checked this out. Let the buyer beware.
"like when a big ship landed, the entire theater rumbled"
Hollywood has discovered recently that if it can't be good, it can at least be loud and people will think that's cool. Why spend millions on good writers and actors when a guy can just turn the volume knob up to 11.
A good friend of mine showed Clerks to two people who hadn't seen it, a guy and a girl. They get to that scene and my friend and the guy crack up. The girl sits there for a second and says seriously, "why is that funny?" The guys explain that it's just funny and she responds, "That was my job last summer when I worked for the vet." Turns out that she spent a whole summer jerking off dogs and just didn't see the humor in it. A pig farmer friend of mine (cute girl) spent her entire childhood jerking off pigs.
The worst science job I know of was my friend who worked in the lab of his father, a world famous research scientist. His job entailed picking white mice out of one bucket, snapping thier necks with a stick, and putting them in another bucket. Hours on end of executing mice.
Clerks trivia- The above line is spoken by Kevin Smith's sister.
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Most sports don't make money. Basketball almost always does (at least in the Midwest). Football usually does, but it costs a lot to equip a big football team. My high school was a tennis and soccer powerhouse, but barely broke even on those programs. We probably had a dozen other men's sports that lost money and every women's sport did. I read an article in the paper today that some high schools are now charging between 10 and 100 bucks to participate in any extracurricular activity because there's no budget for them. In related news, the reconstruction of Iraq will cost between 70 and 150 billion dollars.
Not true. I fucked up and brought several major university's mail servers to a crawl in 1997, just using Linux. I actually knew how to use Windows. Me being a Linux newbie (and doing something retarded) was the problem.
I looked into buying a UPS truck and you can't do it. When the trucks get a certain age (25 I think) they're disassembled and the usable parts and made into a new truck. Pretty efficient system.
I couldn't figure out what Captain Picard was doing to his uniform until I saw the movie Friday. Ice Cube does the same shirt smoothing move, but afterwards says "Do I still look high?".
Here on Slashdot there are many things that divide us, emacs vs. vi, SuSE vs. Debian, the best Dr. Who, all sorts of geeky crap. There is one thing that unites us all- our love of pornography.
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"Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?"
No, of course not.
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Fat girls need love too.
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It amazes me that the Department of Homeland Security is now the third largest cabinet department with 170,000 employees but can't handle even the most basic security issues. We have spent fuel rods sitting behind chain link fences, keeping them away from any terrorists that can't afford bolt cutters.
Tom Ridge's only qualification for the job of Homeland Security Director is that he's a good friend of the Bush family. It seems that the only thing he's worried about is the appearance of security, like meaningless color coded alerts. When it comes to actual, vital issues of security, nobody seems to be at the wheel.
-B
Apparently Neo only rescues hot slutty freaky chicks from the matrix. Good call.
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The disabled have TONS of economic power. Before Dean Kamen invented the Segway, he made his fortune designing things for disabled people. He built a wheelchair that climbs stairs and used some of the stabilization technology in the Seqway.
Helping the disabled is a niche market but lucrative because lots of people NEED these devices. You can also garantee repeat customers. Basically, anything remotely involving health care is looking like a good bet for the next 20 years. I plan on wringing every dollar I can out of aging Baby Boomers.
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It's easy to tell them apart:
Catholic clergy fondle little boys.
Born Again clergy talk old ladies into mailing in thier life savings.
You're giving them too much credit. This appears to be simple incompetence. I'm suprised this kind of stuff doesn't happen more often.
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No, the Utah Jazz had a stupid name long before Baseketball (which is an awesome movie). It's common sense, when you move the New Orleans Jazz to Utah, change the damn team name.
-B
Why?
SCO was getting destroyed in the competetive marketplace so they have to go to plan B. Unfortunately, the US legal system has been twisted so badly that there exists a perfectly viable business plan of just suing everyone you don't like (Rambus stock price: 25). They probably crossed a line with today's actions. I think Linus and the FSF and going to cooperate with IBM and crush SCO. The problem is that it may take 2-4 years of legal wrangling.
-B
When did Blue Gene change to a nuclear simulation computer? Last I heard it was for protien folding and DNA research, which is why it's called Blue GENE. This way it's like the Utah Jazz.
-B
It's not just dirty little web sites that make money off of shipping. Any TV commercial that uses the phrase "and if you act right now we'll include **** absolutely free" is making money off of shipping and handling.
-B
Fighting Streets (The home version of Street Fighter 1) was the first data CD I had ever seen.
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Because video games aren't REAL sports like Ballroom Dancing and Synchronized Swimming.
-Barry
A while ago, HBO made a movie about Gerald Bull called Doomsday Gun. The man was just obsessed with giant guns and didn't care who hired him.
Don't be too quick with the "science fiction". I can't find the story right now, but a year or two ago the Chinese Women's Swim Team fielded a team of complete unknowns at some big meet. Six or eight of them put up near world record times. Maybe they found a half dozen phenoms. Maybe they used old fashion chemical doping. But considering the state of Chinese genetic engineering, I would put it within the realm of possibility that those girls were genetically enhanced.
-B
BMG should not have handed over a seven figure check for a technology that can be trivially defeated. They have to employ some tech people who could have checked this out. Let the buyer beware.
-B
"like when a big ship landed, the entire theater rumbled"
Hollywood has discovered recently that if it can't be good, it can at least be loud and people will think that's cool. Why spend millions on good writers and actors when a guy can just turn the volume knob up to 11.
-B
A good friend of mine showed Clerks to two people who hadn't seen it, a guy and a girl. They get to that scene and my friend and the guy crack up. The girl sits there for a second and says seriously, "why is that funny?" The guys explain that it's just funny and she responds, "That was my job last summer when I worked for the vet." Turns out that she spent a whole summer jerking off dogs and just didn't see the humor in it. A pig farmer friend of mine (cute girl) spent her entire childhood jerking off pigs.
The worst science job I know of was my friend who worked in the lab of his father, a world famous research scientist. His job entailed picking white mice out of one bucket, snapping thier necks with a stick, and putting them in another bucket. Hours on end of executing mice.
Clerks trivia- The above line is spoken by Kevin Smith's sister.
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Worst...invention...ever.
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Most sports don't make money. Basketball almost always does (at least in the Midwest). Football usually does, but it costs a lot to equip a big football team. My high school was a tennis and soccer powerhouse, but barely broke even on those programs. We probably had a dozen other men's sports that lost money and every women's sport did. I read an article in the paper today that some high schools are now charging between 10 and 100 bucks to participate in any extracurricular activity because there's no budget for them. In related news, the reconstruction of Iraq will cost between 70 and 150 billion dollars.
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Not true. I fucked up and brought several major university's mail servers to a crawl in 1997, just using Linux. I actually knew how to use Windows. Me being a Linux newbie (and doing something retarded) was the problem.
-B
I use Office bacause all of my clients use Office and they want the files they get to be created in Office.
It's the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules.
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I looked into buying a UPS truck and you can't do it. When the trucks get a certain age (25 I think) they're disassembled and the usable parts and made into a new truck. Pretty efficient system.
-B
I couldn't figure out what Captain Picard was doing to his uniform until I saw the movie Friday. Ice Cube does the same shirt smoothing move, but afterwards says "Do I still look high?".
-B
Here on Slashdot there are many things that divide us, emacs vs. vi, SuSE vs. Debian, the best Dr. Who, all sorts of geeky crap. There is one thing that unites us all- our love of pornography.
-Barry