Hans Brix the former U.N. Weapons Inspector making threats: "Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are."
About 35 years ago over beers some of us in Military "A" school conjectured it would be really funny to sneak in the middle of one of those radio-telescopes under cover of darkness with a walkie-talkie and start spouting gibberish. Good times.
Today the drill press function is just another operation on a tri-axial CNC drilling/milling machine.
However such machines DO use operators. If at least to collect the finished product out of the bin and rack-em and stack-em. And check the coolant fluid periodically.
This is now no point to this process. Automated conversions are now done at the back end of systems and applications anyway, so a metric standard is no longer necessary. So what if you buy a liter of gas in France or a gallon in the U.S.? The value of the unit of measure is still charged to your credit card either way. Other units of measure such as distance for example, can be measured in Klingon kellicams for all it matters, and there is an app for that also.
I found after 15 years, Slashdot is a day late and a dollar short. (Literally on the first, metaphorically on the latter.)
Back in the good ol' days the Slashdot newsletter came just after midnight. It used to be plain text, which made it useful for cutting and pasting and forwarding to friends.
Now it comes at Noon a half a day late with old Stories. If I want fresh stories I have to be mindful to go to the web site, which I rarely do anymore. The newsletter is now html which is not as convenient as it once was.
I keep $5 or $10 in coins in a small pull string bag in my car.
Whenever I pass one of my favorite beggars* I toss it out the passenger side window at slow speed. Or if lucky to be at a red light I'll chat with one.
* I have two where I live, one that plays music on a corner and another Desert Storm veteran with mental illness. A grocery store clerk in the area once told me he's a math whiz.
Obviously, they have never heard that "Out of Africa" was coined by Scipio Africanus. Fortunately for the author his estate cannot collect damages. (Or was it a Trademark?)
Of all the 364 comments loaded so far*, I am very surprised no one noticed this is a perfectly within religious bounds car for the Amish. Shunning electricity and internal combustion, they DO subscribe to compressed air appliances. Also shunning the internet, someone near their community should "walk" up and tell them.
Also considering their locality names like "Bird in Hand" and "Intercourse" in Pennsylvania, a company name like Tata's should fit right in!
* (Did a control-find for the word "Amish" so far.)
Excerpt 2nd paragraph: "Think back to the original novel. Comic books are the only books shallow enough to go unburned, the only ones people are still allowed to read. "
I remember a science fiction short story about a person that was a throwback to normal humans. I think the story was called "Kindness". As the one of the last "normal" humans, he was so far behind intellectuall, they put him in a sort of leper colony with others like him. I don't remember however if the "others" like him were in fact really just like him, or just actors making him feel at home.
I also forget who the sci-fi author was, but I think it was one of the famous ones from the 1950s.
Slashdot Mirror
... send more employees....
What's going to happen is some Internet Hitler is going to demand "Cyberraum" and take it from others. "Today, the Internet, Tomorrow the Cloud!"
From Team America World Police:
Hans Brix the former U.N. Weapons Inspector making threats: "Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are."
The youtube Marketing Dept. can simply give the Egyptian court what they want, a fully moderated version.
Call it "Fatwahtube" or something similar, there are Piasters to be made.
About 35 years ago over beers some of us in Military "A" school conjectured it would be really funny to sneak in the middle of one of those radio-telescopes under cover of darkness with a walkie-talkie and start spouting gibberish. Good times.
Seems I've heard this kind of story before: Automated weapons systems versus automated weapons systems.
See:
THE FEELING OF POWER
by Isaac Asimov
Worlds of Science Fiction, February 1958
Copyright 1957 by Quinn Publishing Co., Inc.
http://www.themathlab.com/writings/short%20stories/feeling.htm
In related news, he vehemently criticized the President's kill-list:
http://www.infowars.com/obamas-kill-list-critic-found-dead-in-new-york-city/
Do not criticize the kill-list, ever.
Yeah, they do it with two tongues. Old joke from DLI.
I think the Professor of Phonetics Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's opening scene of Pygmalion (or My Fair Lady) could have told you this!
When I saw "CA" in the text, I knew there must be some shenanigans.
Isn't this the same kind of stuff that got Sanjay Kumar of CA in prison?
Well they can't blame this one on him. He may soon have some new cellmates to talk old times.
I knew the story was laughable when I read "Belize" and "Elite" in the same title.
I may be the only one that got your joke.
INT QRK
That job went by the way of the dodo by 1984.
Today the drill press function is just another operation on a tri-axial CNC drilling/milling machine.
However such machines DO use operators. If at least to collect the finished product out of the bin and rack-em and stack-em. And check the coolant fluid periodically.
If someone could mention what the letters SDK stand for, I might understand better.
(Otherwise I'll be forced to look it up.)
This is now no point to this process. Automated conversions are now done at the back end of systems and applications anyway, so a metric standard is no longer necessary. So what if you buy a liter of gas in France or a gallon in the U.S.? The value of the unit of measure is still charged to your credit card either way. Other units of measure such as distance for example, can be measured in Klingon kellicams for all it matters, and there is an app for that also.
I found after 15 years, Slashdot is a day late and a dollar short. (Literally on the first, metaphorically on the latter.)
Back in the good ol' days the Slashdot newsletter came just after midnight. It used to be plain text, which made it useful for cutting and pasting and forwarding to friends.
Now it comes at Noon a half a day late with old Stories. If I want fresh stories I have to be mindful to go to the web site, which I rarely do anymore. The newsletter is now html which is not as convenient as it once was.
I keep $5 or $10 in coins in a small pull string bag in my car.
Whenever I pass one of my favorite beggars* I toss it out the passenger side window at slow speed. Or if lucky to be at a red light I'll chat with one.
* I have two where I live, one that plays music on a corner and another Desert Storm veteran with mental illness. A grocery store clerk in the area once told me he's a math whiz.
Correction:
- Scipio Africanus, the Younger.
Obviously, they have never heard that "Out of Africa" was coined by Scipio Africanus. Fortunately for the author his estate cannot collect damages. (Or was it a Trademark?)
Of all the 364 comments loaded so far*, I am very surprised no one noticed this is a perfectly within religious bounds car for the Amish. Shunning electricity and internal combustion, they DO subscribe to compressed air appliances. Also shunning the internet, someone near their community should "walk" up and tell them.
Also considering their locality names like "Bird in Hand" and "Intercourse" in Pennsylvania, a company name like Tata's should fit right in!
* (Did a control-find for the word "Amish" so far.)
3 Years ago...
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2009/08/is_it_time_to_burn_this_book.html
Excerpt 2nd paragraph: "Think back to the original novel. Comic books are the only books shallow enough to go unburned, the only ones people are still allowed to read. "
He should have disclaimed his posts as fiction to begin with would have never had this problem.
Some phrases from Alice's Restaurant should apply. "I wanna see etc., etc,. in my teeth!"
I remember a science fiction short story about a person that was a throwback to normal humans. I think the story was called "Kindness". As the one of the last "normal" humans, he was so far behind intellectuall, they put him in a sort of leper colony with others like him. I don't remember however if the "others" like him were in fact really just like him, or just actors making him feel at home.
I also forget who the sci-fi author was, but I think it was one of the famous ones from the 1950s.
Accidents would be less frequent, but more spectacular.
Now I want to rent the movie "Brazil". Does everyone have their form 27B-6 ready?