The WTC was usually referred to as the "twin towers" not the "two towers".
If Peter Jackson changes the name of the movie for that feeble reason then you'd better find a replacement for him because a brilliant man has obviously had a major stroke.
Yeah, but at least it doesn't taste like "Tasty Wheat".
I figure one day there will be a big market for vat-grown filet mignon at one-third the price of the real thing. Of course, it will probably be cost-prohibitive for many years.
Forget Soylent Green, just reach into the vat and scoop out a couple of pounds of boneless filets, grill and eat. I'm sure the animal rights fanatics would like that.
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Whoops... I meant "gross weight".
Now I think I need to create a market for individually packaged grains of rice.
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...but it never fails to amaze me how industry continues to come up with new ways to increase packaging and reduce product. Now I comepletely understand the utility of this product, although selling it in direct proximal competition with regular coffee stores seems stupid.
However, I have to wonder about the increased waste involved when about half of the net weight is packaging and heating chemicals. I assume the reaction involved would be environmentally benign, but it still seems to add to the waste.
It's kind of like an ad I saw the other day for "Gogurt" or one of those silly products, that from the look of it, seems to be about 4 ounces of product in a long thin container (maximizing surface area). You can walk through a grocery store and notice that many boxes of dry foods are often half empty ("This product is cold by weight, but marketed by perceived volume"), or the fact that cleaning products have been grotesquely over-diluted (a trend which, fortunately seems to be reversing).
Anyhow, as a niche product for those situations when a hot drink would otherwise be difficult or impossible to obtain, it does seem like a good idea. But the idea of something like this becoming common seems to be a bad idea.
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For what product, your new patented strap-on urinal?
My goodness, you are just visiting a public accomodation. By that logic, I would think officials at a bus station or a public library or a park or the mall would have the right to walk up and detain you without reason until they are confident you are not a danger to those around you.
I get the impression we don't really have all the facts here, but I feel sorry that Dr. Mann was injured or his equipment damaged in any way.
Kinda reminds me of General Joe Foss, and 86-year-old (or so) WWII war hero who was not allowed to take his Congressional Medal of Honor on a plane. That combined with airport security's tendency to assume every person is equally likely to be a terrorist, which is ludicrous, just so they don't offend some crybabies who think that it's racist to consider that a young Arab man is more likely to be a killer than my 84-year-old diabetic Gramma. Last I checked there were very few 86-year-old WWII ace pilots hijacking airplanes. You have to reach a point where you realize a trained person could be perfectly deadly without so much as a penknife, so confiscating fingernail clippers seems just kinda stupid and vindictive to the millions of people who just want to get the hell on the plane and go home.
I kinda figured that (being a typical ignorant American (_U.S._ American), I didn't know that and being a lazy American I didn't pull out a map), but if someone is literally dismantling me and trashing my stuff, I think I would stop them and say, "That's OK. I'll take a boat."
If I were Dr Mann and anyone was insisting that they do to him or start to do duch a thing, I would simply have left the airport and found another way home. I mean that sounds Orwellian; was he being detained? Could he have simply left, especially when they were starting to literally injure him? Is Newfoundland surrounded by a security force field that only airplanes can get through?
Yeah. well dont be surprised if Disney pulls Tron in a few months and refuses to sell it for several years, just 'cause they're jerks. They do it all the time with their kids' movies for no reason other than to create artificial demand and screw the customers. Or maybe they'll buy another Congress and force a pay-per-view system into every DVD player. Who knows?
I think one person in a hundred liking your music is hopelessly optimistic, seeing as how you are into polyrhythms, microtones, and who knows what else. However, from what I've heard so far I am one of them. I'm looking forward to hearing the rest. So far, I've tried several of the dragon tunes... a little trancy for my taste, but there's a lot of interesting stuff going on.
I'm looking forward to hearing the rest.
It's obvious you do it for the love of doing it, which is the best reason.
They already have your third option. It's called "Boomerang", however, it's not on the second tier of DirecTV so I haven't seen it.
I agree about "Cartoon Cartoon", it seems like when Dexter and Johnny Bravo, etc, were new, most of the "Cartoon Cartoon"'s were pretty good, but nowadays they've gotten annoying. Even JB isn't as good as it used to be.
Well, we can thank the late Sonny Bono for that one, although I understand the Supreme Court may consider the possible unconstitutionality of that copyright extension law. If it is overturned that may mean that copyrighted material from the 1920's will go into the public domain 30 years after we die instead of 50. woo hoo.
I hope some of the Congressmen realize the difference between "Rip, Mix, Burn" and...
Congressmen will realize what Disney pays them to realize. Now you'd better turn yourself in for pirating music by humming "Whistle While You Work", because you are illegally copying Disney's Intellectual Property with your mind. Federal agents are closing on your location as we speak.
I think MM is responding to customer (i.e., web developers') demand. When Flash was first around, it was used just as you described. However, as MM added more and more capapbilities to it, people found it could take on more and more of their Web site. Is MM at fault for adding features to their product?
I think it's reasonable for MM to let Flash do what people are willing to pay for it to do, and that's what's happening. If enough people with accessibility problems (handicapped users, hand-held users, the incredibly powerful Lynx users coalition) complain enough, MM will be sure to respond even if the people using the tools don't.
Flash was a complete hassle when it first came out (I refused to even install it for a long time), but now it has become completely transparent (at least to a MSIE-zombie like me), and it hardly even bugs me anymore. Of course, like everything else in the hideous chimera that is WWW technology, it has caused people to erode any UI standards that still remained (even MS is throwing their own standards out the Window, look at the installer for Visual Studio.NET, I could write a book on the horrible UI in that program alone).
The Internet (the WWW, specifically) brought software development to the masses in a way that even VB or POwerBuilder could not, and we often gain as much pain as we do freedom, power and innovation because of it. If MM weren't around, someone else would take its place.
It was re-released a few years ago, with a new cover. I wouldn't be surprised it were released again, what with all the hype about LOTR these days.
I discovered it in a used bookstore almost 25 years ago and often pull it out when I am depressed. It never fails to cheer me up. Of course, so does the original, but in a much bigger way.
I don't have a problem with Real as long as I can download the videos over the fat pipe at work and view them at home. I don't think my boss would appreciate me spending 90 minutes watching these things and I don't think my kids would appreciate me staying at work past their bedtimes...
Unfortunately, people who use Real often only offer their content as streaming.
Yeah, and some of those warnings out there are downright silly. But I guess sometimes we need a warning or two to point out things we might otherwise have just not even considered, even though it should be obvious. The only problem is, how many people actually READ the cup? Oh well.
Well, actually the warnings are only there to help the corporation from being sued. Nobody anywhere reads those warnings or assumes that anyone else reads them. A coworker of mine was putting together a large metal media cart today, which of course is emblazoned with warning labels in that silly pictogram language that we are increasingly inflicted with, when I suggested that the government should approve and issue a standard disclaimer sticker that reads:
Warning! The government has determined that if you do something stupid, you might be injured or killed.
Then we wouldn't have to have companies vandalizing all of our products with multiple labels, some of which, like the anooying and distracting airbag warnings on my car's sun visor, are designed to be not removeable.
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The WTC was usually referred to as the "twin towers" not the "two towers".
If Peter Jackson changes the name of the movie for that feeble reason then you'd better find a replacement for him because a brilliant man has obviously had a major stroke.
The article clearly says "physical mutation" and in no way implies anything genetic going on.
Nothing wrong with that use of the word.
Yeah, but at least it doesn't taste like "Tasty Wheat".
I figure one day there will be a big market for vat-grown filet mignon at one-third the price of the real thing. Of course, it will probably be cost-prohibitive for many years.
Forget Soylent Green, just reach into the vat and scoop out a couple of pounds of boneless filets, grill and eat. I'm sure the animal rights fanatics would like that.
Whoops... I meant "gross weight".
Now I think I need to create a market for individually packaged grains of rice.
...but it never fails to amaze me how industry continues to come up with new ways to increase packaging and reduce product. Now I comepletely understand the utility of this product, although selling it in direct proximal competition with regular coffee stores seems stupid.
However, I have to wonder about the increased waste involved when about half of the net weight is packaging and heating chemicals. I assume the reaction involved would be environmentally benign, but it still seems to add to the waste.
It's kind of like an ad I saw the other day for "Gogurt" or one of those silly products, that from the look of it, seems to be about 4 ounces of product in a long thin container (maximizing surface area). You can walk through a grocery store and notice that many boxes of dry foods are often half empty ("This product is cold by weight, but marketed by perceived volume"), or the fact that cleaning products have been grotesquely over-diluted (a trend which, fortunately seems to be reversing).
Anyhow, as a niche product for those situations when a hot drink would otherwise be difficult or impossible to obtain, it does seem like a good idea. But the idea of something like this becoming common seems to be a bad idea.
For what product, your new patented strap-on urinal?
Then have them escort you out of the facility.
My goodness, you are just visiting a public accomodation. By that logic, I would think officials at a bus station or a public library or a park or the mall would have the right to walk up and detain you without reason until they are confident you are not a danger to those around you.
I get the impression we don't really have all the facts here, but I feel sorry that Dr. Mann was injured or his equipment damaged in any way.
Kinda reminds me of General Joe Foss, and 86-year-old (or so) WWII war hero who was not allowed to take his Congressional Medal of Honor on a plane. That combined with airport security's tendency to assume every person is equally likely to be a terrorist, which is ludicrous, just so they don't offend some crybabies who think that it's racist to consider that a young Arab man is more likely to be a killer than my 84-year-old diabetic Gramma. Last I checked there were very few 86-year-old WWII ace pilots hijacking airplanes. You have to reach a point where you realize a trained person could be perfectly deadly without so much as a penknife, so confiscating fingernail clippers seems just kinda stupid and vindictive to the millions of people who just want to get the hell on the plane and go home.
I kinda figured that (being a typical ignorant American (_U.S._ American), I didn't know that and being a lazy American I didn't pull out a map), but if someone is literally dismantling me and trashing my stuff, I think I would stop them and say, "That's OK. I'll take a boat."
If I were Dr Mann and anyone was insisting that they do to him or start to do duch a thing, I would simply have left the airport and found another way home. I mean that sounds Orwellian; was he being detained? Could he have simply left, especially when they were starting to literally injure him? Is Newfoundland surrounded by a security force field that only airplanes can get through?
What am I missing here?
Chainmail actually predates both WoTC and D&D and was in many ways an ancestor. If they re-released it, that's cool.
Oh, Jar-jar. Everybody hates you but me! *smooch*
Wasn't that the ad line for MS-DOS 5.0?
Yeah. well dont be surprised if Disney pulls Tron in a few months and refuses to sell it for several years, just 'cause they're jerks. They do it all the time with their kids' movies for no reason other than to create artificial demand and screw the customers. Or maybe they'll buy another Congress and force a pay-per-view system into every DVD player. Who knows?
Chris:
I think one person in a hundred liking your music is hopelessly optimistic, seeing as how you are into polyrhythms, microtones, and who knows what else. However, from what I've heard so far I am one of them. I'm looking forward to hearing the rest. So far, I've tried several of the dragon tunes... a little trancy for my taste, but there's a lot of interesting stuff going on.
I'm looking forward to hearing the rest.
It's obvious you do it for the love of doing it, which is the best reason.
Rick
They already have your third option. It's called "Boomerang", however, it's not on the second tier of DirecTV so I haven't seen it.
I agree about "Cartoon Cartoon", it seems like when Dexter and Johnny Bravo, etc, were new, most of the "Cartoon Cartoon"'s were pretty good, but nowadays they've gotten annoying. Even JB isn't as good as it used to be.
Well, we can thank the late Sonny Bono for that one, although I understand the Supreme Court may consider the possible unconstitutionality of that copyright extension law. If it is overturned that may mean that copyrighted material from the 1920's will go into the public domain 30 years after we die instead of 50. woo hoo.
I hope some of the Congressmen realize the difference between "Rip, Mix, Burn" and...
Congressmen will realize what Disney pays them to realize. Now you'd better turn yourself in for pirating music by humming "Whistle While You Work", because you are illegally copying Disney's Intellectual Property with your mind. Federal agents are closing on your location as we speak.
I think MM is responding to customer (i.e., web developers') demand. When Flash was first around, it was used just as you described. However, as MM added more and more capapbilities to it, people found it could take on more and more of their Web site. Is MM at fault for adding features to their product?
.NET, I could write a book on the horrible UI in that program alone).
I think it's reasonable for MM to let Flash do what people are willing to pay for it to do, and that's what's happening. If enough people with accessibility problems (handicapped users, hand-held users, the incredibly powerful Lynx users coalition) complain enough, MM will be sure to respond even if the people using the tools don't.
Flash was a complete hassle when it first came out (I refused to even install it for a long time), but now it has become completely transparent (at least to a MSIE-zombie like me), and it hardly even bugs me anymore. Of course, like everything else in the hideous chimera that is WWW technology, it has caused people to erode any UI standards that still remained (even MS is throwing their own standards out the Window, look at the installer for Visual Studio
The Internet (the WWW, specifically) brought software development to the masses in a way that even VB or POwerBuilder could not, and we often gain as much pain as we do freedom, power and innovation because of it. If MM weren't around, someone else would take its place.
Actually, I always suspected 90% of /. readers were below average, sort of an anti-Lake Webegone.
;)
It was re-released a few years ago, with a new cover. I wouldn't be surprised it were released again, what with all the hype about LOTR these days.
I discovered it in a used bookstore almost 25 years ago and often pull it out when I am depressed. It never fails to cheer me up. Of course, so does the original, but in a much bigger way.
Why would I want to kill myself when there are so many other people that deserve it so much more?
I don't have a problem with Real as long as I can download the videos over the fat pipe at work and view them at home. I don't think my boss would appreciate me spending 90 minutes watching these things and I don't think my kids would appreciate me staying at work past their bedtimes...
Unfortunately, people who use Real often only offer their content as streaming.
yeah, and they cancelled MST3K, those philistines!
...and what about scarecrow's brain?!
...and license it to everyone in the world for nothing, except BT which would have to pay $1 billion.
Yeah, and some of those warnings out there are downright silly. But I guess sometimes we need a warning or two to point out things we might otherwise have just not even considered, even though it should be obvious. The only problem is, how many people actually READ the cup? Oh well.
Well, actually the warnings are only there to help the corporation from being sued. Nobody anywhere reads those warnings or assumes that anyone else reads them. A coworker of mine was putting together a large metal media cart today, which of course is emblazoned with warning labels in that silly pictogram language that we are increasingly inflicted with, when I suggested that the government should approve and issue a standard disclaimer sticker that reads:
Warning! The government has determined that if you do something stupid, you might be injured or killed.
Then we wouldn't have to have companies vandalizing all of our products with multiple labels, some of which, like the anooying and distracting airbag warnings on my car's sun visor, are designed to be not removeable.
Yeesh!