Different thing. I was referring to the fact that there was a big ol' balloon full of explosives. The gas pumped into the hindenburg was intended to make it float. The fuel in a 747 is intended to explode (albiet within the confines of a jet engine)
What about pretty much anything involving Israel (i'm sure politics had something to do with it, but you stick a bunch of Jews in the midst of a bunch of Islams and you're bound to get trouble). -Andy Martin
I dunno....i'd call filling something designed to carry people around with a highly flammable/explosive gas a screwup and not an accident, wouldn't you? -Andy Martin
The fifth or sixth person is usually the first one to say anything with even a tiny little itty bitty teensy nugget of bearing on the conversation instead of "FIRST BEOTCH". I was staring at a screen full of first posters... -Andy Martin
You're onto their secret plot! Get out while you can, man! The black helicopters will be there soon! Run! Run! I'll do what i can, but i can't hold off Branch L forever! You have maybe 36 hours to leave the country and change your name! -Andy Martin
It looked to me like they were counting the broken sites on the list of screwed up transactions. Personally, i only count it as fucked if they bill me too much, or too little, or send me the wrong item, or no item at all...that sort of thing.
Just my take.
Damn first posters. read the freakin' article. *sigh* -Andy Martin
Is it just my imagination, or should this story have been a (Score:5, Interesting)?
Parents and religion can be the 2 most destructive forces on a child's upbringing. What if your local pack of Southern Day Baptventists (not a real religion) or whatever decide to start monitoring their youth groups to make sure they don't do anything unsavory?
I can see a lot of good that could come out of these chips, but the possibility of abuse on this one is just too great. I hope I don't see it in my lifetime. -Andy Martin
Did you assign a disk quota for the Queen (and the rest of the royal family), or do you just let them fill your drives with crap (heh....Her Majesty with a 20 gig drive full of MP3s...hee hee!) -Andy Martin
So it's really really cool. I'll grant that. However, I saw pics of people using them in wave pools at water parks and stuff....wouldn't it be relatively easy for water to shlop down into the entrance hole and drown someone? what if the damn thing popped? You'd NEVER get out.
Not to say that the prospect frightens me. I still want one, I'm just pointing out some stuff that occurred to me.
You know that sweatband Hendrix seemed to be perpetually wearing? Soaked in LSD....listen to the recording of his 'Star Spangled Banner' from Woodstock. You can tell when it starts to hit his system.;)
We've all seen The Matrix, 2001, Terminator, etc, and all have to do with machines becoming sentient and destroying their operators when they threaten to pull the plug. It's a natural aspect built into our personality - logically a machine with a human brain would inherit that characteristic as well.
ummmm....2001 was about the evolution of man. it just so happened to have HAL in it. HAL's downfall was NOT that he was AI as you would have us believe, but that he was given 2 sets of conflicting orders. Human error. remember the video clip Dave stumbled across while shutting HAL down?
Actually, antimatter has been made in EXCEEDINGLY small amounts in labs. It's just an atom where the protons have been given a (-) charge and the electrons have been given a (+) charge. Deceptively simple, no?
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Y'all think that people who refer to themselves in the third person are silly. Y'all much prefers to refer to y'allself in second person plural.
-Andy Martin
Would you feel better if you died in a plane crash as opposed to a Hindenburg crash knowing that the burning fuel was there for a 'better' reason?
;)
damn straight i would, but that's just the way i'm wired.
-Andy Martin
right. hi. me again.
Wings. Not. Balloons.
they are NOT there to serve as bladders to put things into that will make the plane lighter than air.
-Andy Martin
Different thing. I was referring to the fact that there was a big ol' balloon full of explosives. The gas pumped into the hindenburg was intended to make it float. The fuel in a 747 is intended to explode (albiet within the confines of a jet engine)
-Andy Martin
What about pretty much anything involving Israel (i'm sure politics had something to do with it, but you stick a bunch of Jews in the midst of a bunch of Islams and you're bound to get trouble).
-Andy Martin
I dunno....i'd call filling something designed to carry people around with a highly flammable/explosive gas a screwup and not an accident, wouldn't you?
-Andy Martin
Jesus H. Christ. Just get a fuckin' user account so you can be a real moderator, just like mommy and daddy.
-Andy Martin
Did anyone else notice, or did Rob just refer to us as family. *sniff*
I love you guys.....
-Andy Martin
The fifth or sixth person is usually the first one to say anything with even a tiny little itty bitty teensy nugget of bearing on the conversation instead of "FIRST BEOTCH". I was staring at a screen full of first posters...
-Andy Martin
You're onto their secret plot! Get out while you can, man! The black helicopters will be there soon! Run! Run! I'll do what i can, but i can't hold off Branch L forever! You have maybe 36 hours to leave the country and change your name!
-Andy Martin
It looked to me like they were counting the broken sites on the list of screwed up transactions. Personally, i only count it as fucked if they bill me too much, or too little, or send me the wrong item, or no item at all...that sort of thing.
Just my take.
Damn first posters. read the freakin' article. *sigh*
-Andy Martin
Facts of life. Mothers tend to smother their children more then fathers do, at least in my experiance.
-Andy Martin
Is it just my imagination, or should this story have been a (Score:5, Interesting)?
Parents and religion can be the 2 most destructive forces on a child's upbringing. What if your local pack of Southern Day Baptventists (not a real religion) or whatever decide to start monitoring their youth groups to make sure they don't do anything unsavory?
I can see a lot of good that could come out of these chips, but the possibility of abuse on this one is just too great. I hope I don't see it in my lifetime.
-Andy Martin
mmmmmmm...grits.
-Andy Martin
I thought that my testicles made me a real man. Damn. And all these years i'd been thinking i was male.
*sigh* Great. NOW what am i gonna do with all this body hair?
-Andy Martin
Did you assign a disk quota for the Queen (and the rest of the royal family), or do you just let them fill your drives with crap (heh....Her Majesty with a 20 gig drive full of MP3s...hee hee!)
-Andy Martin
Wenger uses a cheaper grade of steel, it seems to me. It might not really be cheaper, but i don't like it as much as the stuff victorinox uses.
I like knives a little too much, you see....
-Andy Martin
So it's really really cool. I'll grant that. However, I saw pics of people using them in wave pools at water parks and stuff....wouldn't it be relatively easy for water to shlop down into the entrance hole and drown someone? what if the damn thing popped? You'd NEVER get out.
Not to say that the prospect frightens me. I still want one, I'm just pointing out some stuff that occurred to me.
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-Andy Martin
I got the big fat hardback version of ALL five books + Young Zaphod Plays It Safe in the bargain section of Barnes and Noble for 5 bucks once.
Best five bucks I ever spent....
-Andy Martin
it's just that simple. i want free shit.
btw, first post
-Andy Martin
You know that sweatband Hendrix seemed to be perpetually wearing? Soaked in LSD....listen to the recording of his 'Star Spangled Banner' from Woodstock. You can tell when it starts to hit his system. ;)
-Andy Martin
While we're modifying the body....
i want 2 more arms and opposable big toes and adamantium retractable claws and a prehensile tail!
-Andy Martin
We've all seen The Matrix, 2001, Terminator, etc, and all have to do with machines becoming sentient and destroying their operators when they threaten to pull the plug. It's a natural aspect built into our personality - logically a machine with a human brain would inherit that characteristic as well.
ummmm....2001 was about the evolution of man. it just so happened to have HAL in it. HAL's downfall was NOT that he was AI as you would have us believe, but that he was given 2 sets of conflicting orders. Human error. remember the video clip Dave stumbled across while shutting HAL down?
-Andy Martin
sorry.....i'm about to be moderated down quite rapidly i think. anywhose, my thimbleful of school spirit requires that i do this:
A HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA ENGINEER!
ok. good enough. where's my coffee?
-Andy Martin
Actually, antimatter has been made in EXCEEDINGLY small amounts in labs. It's just an atom where the protons have been given a (-) charge and the electrons have been given a (+) charge. Deceptively simple, no?
-Andy Martin