Of course, by the time your neighbour has GM grass and an agreement with monsanto, "copyright holders" (provided they're multinational companies) will probably have search-and-seizure powers. It's already getting dangerously close to that as it is.
Of course, they'd have to get some grass samples from my yard and that would almost be worth the license fee. The fence is pretty solid and the dogs would make getting clippings a death defying act.
No, they'd simply roll up with some police backup and your dogs would be destroyed if you didn't restrain them.
LISTER: Oh god, aliens? Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys - it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall - it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day - you thought that was aliens as well.
RIMMER: Well we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?
LISTER: Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?
RIMMER: Just 'cause they're aliens doesn't mean to say they don't have to visit the little boys' room. Only, they probably do something weird and alienesque like it comes out of the top of their heads or something.
LISTER: Well I wouldn't like to be stuck behind one in a cinema.
Why hasn't anybody ran for president on a platform of restoring privacy to the citizenry?
Because buying^W running for the presidency costs tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars, and anything that's good for the citizens is generally bad for big brother and big business, and big business is who pays for all that campaigning.
Are those bratz the "be a good little consumer" dolls they're selling these days that come with minature gucci handbags and such? If so I totally agree, they're the most blatant attrocity I've seen in a long time, it's the kind of things you'd see on the simpsons in the ad breaks of the "Mattel Choco-bot hour". Those kinda toys make it really clear why so many people don't want us infecting their culture and want us to stay the hell away from their countries.
Except for the fact that as a whole, americans do exactly that. They think "hey, dave john and phil all have playstations, I should get a playstation too" and "if xbox is number one, it should be the best, right?".
If that weren't so, then you wouldn't see the #1 in every market advertising that fact: "America's favourite game show", "Australia's best selling car" etc etc.
If fusion produces ultra-cheap-plentiful power, then power companies will simply make more profit per kilowatt-hour. The consumer won't win. The environment will be better off, but we'll still be paying the same. Or a little bit less to make us think we're getting a good deal.
They're exactly the same thing. Tobacco is bad for you, makes you feel good. Weed, not quite so bad for you (but still pretty bad, especially when smoked), and makes you feel a bit better.
You don't go to jail for smoking cigarettes- not because they're better for you, or you're more likely to commit crimes on weed, but because tobacco makes lousy rope. Of course this is irelevant now, but back in the days, it wasn't. It's just so ingrained into society that tobacco's ok (comparitively) and only criminals smoke weed.
Um, the same way they develop gamecube software. With a custom machine that's different to the one you buy in the shops, and comes with your $50k developer license.
Windows 95, like mac OS 9 does not do real multitasking. It's all cooperative, requiring programs to voluntarily give up a slice of time. This of course works equally well on any cpu that runs windows, but faster on a 386 than a 286 or an 88
Er, no. 60% (??) didn't bother voting at all, so they certainly aren't too anti-bush. Most anti-bush supporters are fairly rabid too, so I'd say a much higher percentage of the anti-bush voted than pro-bush, which would mean quite a bit of the population is pro bush or doesn't care in the slightest.
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7... mumble.... divided into 18, mumble... grumble.... carry the one... DAYUMN!
You're all fat!
Pppht! People can come up with statistics to prove anything. Forfty percent of people know that!
Of course, by the time your neighbour has GM grass and an agreement with monsanto, "copyright holders" (provided they're multinational companies) will probably have search-and-seizure powers. It's already getting dangerously close to that as it is.
He said beer, not guiness.... Why anybody would want to drink vegemite instead of just putting it on toast is still a mystery to me of course.
Plus everybody knows you should never grow weed from seeds, use cuttings! That way you know it's good shit, and female.
Howdy Doodley Do! I'm Talkie. Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name and toastin's the game.
Of course, they'd have to get some grass samples from my yard and that would almost be worth the license fee. The fence is pretty solid and the dogs would make getting clippings a death defying act.
No, they'd simply roll up with some police backup and your dogs would be destroyed if you didn't restrain them.
LISTER: Oh god, aliens? Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys - it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall - it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day - you thought that was aliens as well.
RIMMER: Well we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?
LISTER: Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?
RIMMER: Just 'cause they're aliens doesn't mean to say they don't have to visit the little boys' room. Only, they probably do something weird and alienesque like it comes out of the top of their heads or something.
LISTER: Well I wouldn't like to be stuck behind one in a cinema.
Ask the brits.
Me? lame? Nevar! Me? lame? Nevar! Me? lame? Nevar!
Why hasn't anybody ran for president on a platform of restoring privacy to the citizenry?
Because buying^W running for the presidency costs tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars, and anything that's good for the citizens is generally bad for big brother and big business, and big business is who pays for all that campaigning.
Hopefully he took out a loan in the name of the judge who decided he should be allowed out on the streets. Should educate the old feller.
There's no fat in beer. About a trillion calories, but no fat.
I just don't see any way of scaling it down. Which is why you don't work for Rockstar.
Are those bratz the "be a good little consumer" dolls they're selling these days that come with minature gucci handbags and such? If so I totally agree, they're the most blatant attrocity I've seen in a long time, it's the kind of things you'd see on the simpsons in the ad breaks of the "Mattel Choco-bot hour". Those kinda toys make it really clear why so many people don't want us infecting their culture and want us to stay the hell away from their countries.
Except for the fact that as a whole, americans do exactly that. They think "hey, dave john and phil all have playstations, I should get a playstation too" and "if xbox is number one, it should be the best, right?".
If that weren't so, then you wouldn't see the #1 in every market advertising that fact: "America's favourite game show", "Australia's best selling car" etc etc.
No no no. That's the first rule. Rule #1 is NO POOFTAS.
Only there's one thing you forgot. Only the winners can go back and set things up.
We set up the key, and we set up the gun.
I'm cured!
I mean, ow!
If fusion produces ultra-cheap-plentiful power, then power companies will simply make more profit per kilowatt-hour. The consumer won't win. The environment will be better off, but we'll still be paying the same. Or a little bit less to make us think we're getting a good deal.
They're exactly the same thing. Tobacco is bad for you, makes you feel good. Weed, not quite so bad for you (but still pretty bad, especially when smoked), and makes you feel a bit better.
You don't go to jail for smoking cigarettes- not because they're better for you, or you're more likely to commit crimes on weed, but because tobacco makes lousy rope. Of course this is irelevant now, but back in the days, it wasn't. It's just so ingrained into society that tobacco's ok (comparitively) and only criminals smoke weed.
Um, the same way they develop gamecube software. With a custom machine that's different to the one you buy in the shops, and comes with your $50k developer license.
Great meaning large or immense, we use it in the pejorative sense!
You'd still be far better off just reaching out and pressing a key.
Not if you're a quadraplegic. This research isn't for us (comparitively) able-bodied slashdot nerds.
Gah. How memories fade.
Windows 95, like mac OS 9 does not do real multitasking. It's all cooperative, requiring programs to voluntarily give up a slice of time. This of course works equally well on any cpu that runs windows, but faster on a 386 than a 286 or an 88
Er, no. 60% (??) didn't bother voting at all, so they certainly aren't too anti-bush. Most anti-bush supporters are fairly rabid too, so I'd say a much higher percentage of the anti-bush voted than pro-bush, which would mean quite a bit of the population is pro bush or doesn't care in the slightest.