Those scammers are branching out. There was one disguised as a Nigeria job offer on monster.ca a few days ago. I'm sure they'll keep working on new ways to reach us with the same old scam. (Fortune cookie spam?)
Caller id has never been foolproof. It depends on the originating switch to be truthful. As soon as companies got their own digital switches, spoofing was possible. Now that capability is now moving down to the level of individuals.
Best Novella - "A Case of Concsience" by James Blish
Best Novelette - "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish
Best Short Story - "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke
Best Related Book - Conquest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun, Fred L. Whipple & Willy Ley
Best Professional Editor - John W. Campbell, Jr.
Best Professional Artist - Chesley Bonestell
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - The War of the Worlds
Best Fanzine - Slant, Walter Willis, ed.; James White, art editor
Best Fan Writer - Bob Tucker
Certainly an impressive line-up.
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Hey, without your post, I wouldn't have known that even a TV adaptation couldn't resist bending the story. What hope is there that Whollyweird won't muck it up?
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It doesn't take that long to read the original story, and it's the first link at the top. There's no Nazi Germany involved.
For the want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost;
For the want of a horseshoe a horse was lost;
For the want of a horse, the rider was lost;
For the want of a rider, the message was lost;
For the want of a message, the battle was lost;
For the want of a battle, the war was lost;
For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost;
And all for the want of a horseshoe's nail.
Author unknown, but it probably dates back further than the chopped version Ben Franklin quotes.
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The movies Planet of the Apes and Rollerball were better than the stories they were semi-based on. (The orignal movies. I haven't seen the remakes.)
Wait until the pr0n-makers make a knock-off. I'm sure that there must be a "Jurassic Pork" flick out there. Gack, why did I bother even searching? Some other weird stuff too.
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Combine I usually see about 10% are fakes and And before anybody asks, I used to count close to $100,000 a night X 5 days..
So you were counting $10,000 a night X 5 days of counterfeit? Zowie!
From Graphic Resources he bought 24-pound Mohawk Super Fine 102M eggshell-finish soft-white paper with a brightness value of 88 (he can recite its specifications from memory). In London, Ont., at Loomis and Toles, an art-supply store, he bought masking film, airbrush extenders, tinting paint and various other supplies. Posing as a representative of a graphic arts firm, he procured expensive, specialized raw pigments from Golden Artist Colors Inc. in New York. Soon, he was making stencils to replicate the OSD.
I wonder if they've seen increased sales since this article came out? And are requests for those exact items boobytrapped? ("Hello, Sgt Thursday? We've got a live one.") I hope they check the payment on those purchases carefully!
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Cute kittens and sweet young things generate an IQ suck-field. It's like placing a shop-vac up against the pre-frontal lobes.
Enjoy Since these clowns seem to be going by file name only, I wonder if a little turn-about poisoning would be in order? A zillion files names which all point to a file with someone screaming "What the hell do you MPAA/RIAA-hireling dumb-fscks think you're doing?" That should make entertaining evidence to play for some court.
Which groups are using Metric and which are using Imperial units? You'd want a group that does nothing but test compatability.
It's a shame that the tanks are splashed. Most of the energy to get them to orbit has been invested by the time they're released. As well as all the hardware and mass, there's a lot of volatiles left. If we had an orbital tug system, it would be nice to snag them and park them somewhere for later use. If.
Imagine someone running for high political office, and suddenly a snippet of that person scratching his crotch from a number of years ago appears on the Internet in a hilarious video from sources unknown. In unrelated news, an anonymous civil servant's "retirement plan" pays off.
Yes, keeping all the footage for a number of years and searching it for the person you want would be difficult.. at the moment.
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Sure, all the Fortune 500 would have scrapped their Windows machines years ago if they hadn't needed them for games.
I kind of liked WinG before it turned into DirectX. I always pronounced it whinge. WinCE was pretty good in that respect too.
"Sorry officer, but I was trying out this new super bubble-gum and I was standing a bit too close..."
Those scammers are branching out. There was one disguised as a Nigeria job offer on monster.ca a few days ago. I'm sure they'll keep working on new ways to reach us with the same old scam. (Fortune cookie spam?)
Regardless of Aral, Mad Miles has a family now and can't go blasting off quite so randomly.
Doing it without a helicopter?
I'd give you Genesis but the RIAA might object.
I dunno. It hasn't worked for Darl yet.
Caller id has never been foolproof. It depends on the originating switch to be truthful. As soon as companies got their own digital switches, spoofing was possible. Now that capability is now moving down to the level of individuals.
Hey, without your post, I wouldn't have known that even a TV adaptation couldn't resist bending the story. What hope is there that Whollyweird won't muck it up?
It doesn't take that long to read the original story, and it's the first link at the top. There's no Nazi Germany involved.
For the want of a horseshoe a horse was lost;
For the want of a horse, the rider was lost;
For the want of a rider, the message was lost;
For the want of a message, the battle was lost;
For the want of a battle, the war was lost;
For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost;
And all for the want of a horseshoe's nail.
Author unknown, but it probably dates back further than the chopped version Ben Franklin quotes.
The movies Planet of the Apes and Rollerball were better than the stories they were semi-based on. (The orignal movies. I haven't seen the remakes.)
Wait until the pr0n-makers make a knock-off. I'm sure that there must be a "Jurassic Pork" flick out there. Gack, why did I bother even searching? Some other weird stuff too.
So you were counting $10,000 a night X 5 days of counterfeit? Zowie!
Cute kittens and sweet young things generate an IQ suck-field. It's like placing a shop-vac up against the pre-frontal lobes.
Later the SETI people released a report that while the joke on the wrapper was weird, it wasn't of alien origin. Nothing to see, move along.
No. I'm in favour of forcing hireling idiots making false accusations of copyright violation without due diligence to smarten up.
Enjoy Since these clowns seem to be going by file name only, I wonder if a little turn-about poisoning would be in order? A zillion files names which all point to a file with someone screaming "What the hell do you MPAA/RIAA-hireling dumb-fscks think you're doing?" That should make entertaining evidence to play for some court.
Too long and not misleading enough for headlines. "Earthship Blows Up!"
How about inflatable women spaceships? Shades of John-Boy Walton in space!
It's a shame that the tanks are splashed. Most of the energy to get them to orbit has been invested by the time they're released. As well as all the hardware and mass, there's a lot of volatiles left. If we had an orbital tug system, it would be nice to snag them and park them somewhere for later use. If.
Yes, keeping all the footage for a number of years and searching it for the person you want would be difficult .. at the moment.