your "free time" is, if you do nothing else, about 9 1/2 hours per day, of which, on average, you watch TV 4 1/2 hours. So the average adult uses more than half of their available time watching TV.
Well, people can do more than one thing at a time. For example, I may fix/eat dinner while "watching" (actually, listening to) MacNeil/Lehrer. Or I may pluck my nose/ear hairs while watching Robot Wars.
These are things that I would be doing anyway, so it's not like the time is wasted. I think that some of those 4.5 hours may be multi-tasked.
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if the distributor has included any sort of copy protection, it is illegal to bypass the protection scheme
I believe that the DMCA states that it is illegal to distribute methods (software, instructions, etc.) of bypassing protection schemes. If you devise your own method and don't distribute it, you're not breaking the law (at least, not the DMCA).
pdf is an waful format to make derivative works from.
The "Preview" button is your friend. The correct spelling/grammar is:
PDF is a waffle format from which to make derivative works.
My favorite waffle format is hexagonal, which looks better than the old, boring rectangular format, and holds more maple syrup. I'm not sure what the PDF waffle format looks like, but my understanding is that since PDF so ubiquitous, it probably means that you can use it in most waffle irons. Also, one of my favorite waffle derivative works involves blueberries and powdered sugar.
Moderators who have no sense of humor mod funny posts "troll" or "off-topic". They're just jealous because the only thing "funny" that they can think of is something lame like "In Soviet Russia, us belong to all your base" or something equally stupid. They take out their lack of talent on those of us who actually have talent. In that way, they are kind of like movie critics.
Note that the above description applies only to moderators who mod funny posts as "troll" or "off-topic". Those moderators who correctly moderate funny posts as "funny" are extremely intelligent and perceptive.
The reason for the "so many years after his lifetime" part of the law is to provide a monetary incentive to old people (or people who otherwise have reason to believe they are near death) to write creative works.
The other reason, of course, is to provide a disincentive to publishers from killing an author so that it could publish an otherwise unobtainable (or only expensively obtainable) work.
Did you know that Hadley, in the movie "Contact" was also Olivander from Harry Potter, and get this... he was Kane in Alien, the guy who had an alien jump out of his stomach.
No, really? Did you know that he also played Caligula in "I, Claudius", and get this... he played other roles in other movies, as well (like "Spaceballs"). Did you know that other actors in "Contact" played roles in other movies, plays, and get this... TV shows. Did you know that some nutcase wrote to Jodie Foster (the star of "Contact") and get this... he later shot a US president. Did you know that the movie "Contact" sucked compared to the book, and get this... in the book, several people rode the machine.
Did you know that people with names other than "Hadley" have been to space, and get this... they have also talked to people on the Earth.
Did you know that there was a TV show named "Mannix", and get this... Mannix's secretary was a former Miss America.
Did you know that some people post the most stupid things to Slashdot, and get this... other people post equally stupid responses.
Well, actually, everything from Prince Charles on was meant to be a joke. I don't think that Atkinson would be good as The Master because The Master is supposed to be "evil AH! AH!", not "evil HA! HA!", as Black Adder was.
I think that Geoffrey Palmer (from "Butterflies" and "As Time Goes By") would make a great BLS. Alternatively, Prince Charles.
And, of course, Rowan Atkinson (from "Black Adder"& "Mr. Bean") as The Master. Ooo! Ooo! And John Inman (from "Are You Being Served?") as K-9. ("Walkies!")
Rather than try to explain logically why your post is culturally biased, let's just modify it slightly:
This gets hashed out every time the proposal rears its head. From a constitutional point of view it is clueless, what does the.sex domain mean if not licensing the press?
Spreading kiddie-porn is a serious part of the work the Internet does. The best way to change the societies in the USA and Europe whose screwed up 'religious' bigottries lead to terrorism is with mountains of kiddie-porn.
Yep I am 100% serious here.
I believe in cultural relativism, "Sunday school religious propoganda" is barbaric relative to any acceptable moral standards. Children are treated at best as second class citizens and at worst as mere property.
It takes powerful forces to break down that type of prejudice. Child Pornography is a very powerful force. That is why the religious leaders and Christian right fear it so much.
The fundamentalist christianity that spawned John Ashcroft, the COPA enforcement squads, FBI are not too great either. The answer is more kiddie-porn.
Watching children having sex does not break down many social barriers, but the idea that religious authorities don't have to run a society does.
The problem with that is that I am not an immigrant at all; my ancestors were. Also, I believe that there were three waves of pre-Columbian immigrations, according to paleontologists (four if you include the Vikings). So you would have to use "Descendants of First, Second, or Third (and/or maybe Fourth) Wave of Immigrants" to be accurate.
That was supposed to be a joke, a take-off on "640K should be enough for anybody", attributed to Bill Gates (although he denies it). (For anyone who doesn't know, POSIX exit codes range from 0 to 255 (excluding termination by signal).)
In fact, the whole post was supposed to be mildly amusing. I don't see how 61000 messages (error or otherwise) could be reasonably documented, especially when i18n is considered. OTOH, I think that 61000 messages is a horribly large number of messages. 60000 would be my limit.
I prefer the term "Person of pre-Columbian American Ancestry".
So I am 100% Native American (I was born in New Jersey; you can't get more Native American than that), but only 1/64th Person of pre-Columbian American Ancestry.
Please check out the link that I provided. The Moon's primary orbit is no more around the Earth than the Sun's is, although it may look like it from here. (For example, we also say that the Sun "sets", even though it really doesn't.) The Earth and Moon do orbit each other, but the primary orbit of each is around the Sun.
It is a terminology issue in the same way that defining what a planet is is a terminology issue.
You could change the definition to say that the largest (or heaviest?) body in a group of star-orbiting objects is the planet, and that the others are moons. This would make the Earth a planet and the Moon a moon.
The earth has been hit with many asteroids. Never once has it destroyed all life.
How do you know? An asteroid large enough to destroy all life would probably be large enough to destroy the fossil record, as well. For example, there may have been life on the Earth before the collision between the Earth and the very large asteroid that resulted in the creation of our Moon.
Wanna know what will REALLY give the conspiracy theorists, New Age freaks, etc? "Sedna" is "Andes" spelled backwards! Everyone knows the advanced Inca civilization lived in the Andes mountains, and there are more than enough wacky theories about the Incas involving aliens and whatnot.
Yes, and Sedna is inhabited by a race of aliens called the "Acni" ("Inca" spelled backwards), who are easily distinguished by their pock-marked faces.
If a uniformly round object's primary orbit is an orbit of our sun and meets X size requirement, it is a planet. This excludes moons that way since its primary orbit is not around the sun.
Then our own moon (the Moon) would be considered a planet if it meets the size requirement, because its primary orbit is an orbit of our sun.
(Note: I am not defending either Clinton or Bush on their war records; I'm just saying that you shouldn't dump on one without dumping on the other. (My suggestion: Dump on both.))
Redundant? "The Only Druid"'s post has the same time as "TapTapTheChisler"'s, and the post number is only one higher; i.e., they were posted at nearly the same time. How could he/she have possibly known about the other post? Give the guy/gal a break. Metamods mod the "Redundant" mod unfair.
You will also need to keep the cover in place and it will require a lot of force. [...] 100 square meters worth of cover needs approximately 350tons of force to hold it in place. But since martian gravity is about 1/3 that of earth, we really need over a 1kiloton of force. So it isnt impossible, it's just difficult.
If the dome is sufficiently shallow, the force can be supplied simply by piling material onto the top of it.
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For example, I may fix/eat dinner while "watching" (actually, listening to) MacNeil/Lehrer.
Or I may pluck my nose/ear hairs while watching Robot Wars.
These are things that I would be doing anyway, so it's not like the time is wasted.
I think that some of those 4.5 hours may be multi-tasked.
If you devise your own method and don't distribute it, you're not breaking the law (at least, not the DMCA).
The correct spelling/grammar is:My favorite waffle format is hexagonal, which looks better than the old, boring rectangular format, and holds more maple syrup.
I'm not sure what the PDF waffle format looks like, but my understanding is that since PDF so ubiquitous, it probably means that you can use it in most waffle irons.
Also, one of my favorite waffle derivative works involves blueberries and powdered sugar.
Moderators who have no sense of humor mod funny posts "troll" or "off-topic".
They're just jealous because the only thing "funny" that they can think of is something lame like "In Soviet Russia, us belong to all your base" or something equally stupid.
They take out their lack of talent on those of us who actually have talent.
In that way, they are kind of like movie critics.
Note that the above description applies only to moderators who mod funny posts as "troll" or "off-topic".
Those moderators who correctly moderate funny posts as "funny" are extremely intelligent and perceptive.
Did you know that he also played Caligula in "I, Claudius", and get this... he played other roles in other movies, as well (like "Spaceballs").
Did you know that other actors in "Contact" played roles in other movies, plays, and get this... TV shows.
Did you know that some nutcase wrote to Jodie Foster (the star of "Contact") and get this... he later shot a US president.
Did you know that the movie "Contact" sucked compared to the book, and get this... in the book, several people rode the machine.
Did you know that people with names other than "Hadley" have been to space, and get this... they have also talked to people on the Earth.
Did you know that there was a TV show named "Mannix", and get this... Mannix's secretary was a former Miss America.
Did you know that some people post the most stupid things to Slashdot, and get this... other people post equally stupid responses.
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Oh, wait...
Well, actually, everything from Prince Charles on was meant to be a joke.
I don't think that Atkinson would be good as The Master because The Master is supposed to be "evil AH! AH!", not "evil HA! HA!", as Black Adder was.
I think that Geoffrey Palmer (from "Butterflies" and "As Time Goes By") would make a great BLS.
Alternatively, Prince Charles.
And, of course, Rowan Atkinson (from "Black Adder"& "Mr. Bean") as The Master.
Ooo! Ooo! And John Inman (from "Are You Being Served?") as K-9. ("Walkies!")
They're all getting kind of old, though.
Does this mean that they don't distribute Debian on floppies any more?
Thanks for the info.
Well, that's very different, then.
Never mind.
The problem with that is that I am not an immigrant at all; my ancestors were.
Also, I believe that there were three waves of pre-Columbian immigrations, according to paleontologists (four if you include the Vikings).
So you would have to use "Descendants of First, Second, or Third (and/or maybe Fourth) Wave of Immigrants" to be accurate.
That was supposed to be a joke, a take-off on "640K should be enough for anybody", attributed to Bill Gates (although he denies it).
(For anyone who doesn't know, POSIX exit codes range from 0 to 255 (excluding termination by signal).)
In fact, the whole post was supposed to be mildly amusing.
I don't see how 61000 messages (error or otherwise) could be reasonably documented, especially when i18n is considered.
OTOH, I think that 61000 messages is a horribly large number of messages.
60000 would be my limit.
If so, it must be humongous.
If not, it is incomplete.
Who needs all of these error messages, anyway?
An 8-bit exit code should be enough for anybody.
I prefer the term "Person of pre-Columbian American Ancestry".
So I am 100% Native American (I was born in New Jersey; you can't get more Native American than that), but only 1/64th Person of pre-Columbian American Ancestry.
Please check out the link that I provided.
The Moon's primary orbit is no more around the Earth than the Sun's is, although it may look like it from here.
(For example, we also say that the Sun "sets", even though it really doesn't.)
The Earth and Moon do orbit each other, but the primary orbit of each is around the Sun.
It is a terminology issue in the same way that defining what a planet is is a terminology issue.
You could change the definition to say that the largest (or heaviest?) body in a group of star-orbiting objects is the planet, and that the others are moons.
This would make the Earth a planet and the Moon a moon.
An asteroid large enough to destroy all life would probably be large enough to destroy the fossil record, as well.
For example, there may have been life on the Earth before the collision between the Earth and the very large asteroid that resulted in the creation of our Moon.
(Think "religious fanatic".
Think "suicide bomber".
Think "9/11".)The eventual heat-death of our universe.
(Note: I am not defending either Clinton or Bush on their war records; I'm just saying that you shouldn't dump on one without dumping on the other.
(My suggestion: Dump on both.))
Well, he could have meant "She gets paid more than she gets me ...", in which case "me" is correct.
(And, yes, I know that the comma is supposed to go inside the quote, but that just doesn't look right to me.)
Redundant?
"The Only Druid"'s post has the same time as "TapTapTheChisler"'s, and the post number is only one higher; i.e., they were posted at nearly the same time.
How could he/she have possibly known about the other post?
Give the guy/gal a break.
Metamods mod the "Redundant" mod unfair.