How does one reconcile this particle/curvature theory. Both seem almost mutualy exclusive, unless the particles cause the curvature?!?!?
Unless the 'curvature' turns out to be nothing more than a mathematical construct. No one has really proven that space actually curves, only that objects moving in a gravitational field move as if space were curved. Oh, and the curvature makes general relativity easier to grok, but the equations could all be perfectly valid even if space doesn't really curve.
how many of you sit there looking at your palm pilot while dialing your cell phone. i look someone up in my palm pilot, hit dial,
I have a Tungsten T and a Nokia 6310i. The pair cost about as much as a Treo 300. Thanks to Bluetooth, I can look up a phone number on the Palm and hit dial, and the phone dials the number. I can send or read SMS messages from the Palm. I can surf the web on the Palm. But if I want, I can leave the Palm at home, or leave the phone at home, or carry both. If something happens to one, I'm not without the other.
Also, I didn't have to make any sacrifices to combine the two - I have one of the best phones on the market as well as one of the best PDAs. Even the new Treo only has a 160x160 screen, I have 320x320. The difference is astonishing - I can actually read an ebook on my Palm without getting a headache. It's night-and-day better than my old Visor Prism.
I definitely wouldn't trade my pair of good devices for a mediocre combination like the Treo 600, even if Handspring offered it as a free swap!
So even the RIAA wants to make it clear that they don't actually endorse "destroying" people's computers. Hatch seems to be out on this limb by himself.
No, they want you to THINK they don't endorse it, so it's Hatch's ass that gets sacked over the ensuing debacle.
But don't fret, even the silliest of Mormon beliefs don't make Mormons strap on a bunch of explosives to shred the bodies of innocent people
Hey, that's real nice. Respond to a stereotypical representation of LDS based on a few nutcases - with a stereotypical representation of Islam based on a few nutcases. Sure, the Muslim nutcases did more damage, but if anything that makes stereotyping the rest of them MORE wrong.
My apologies if you were thinking of some other bunch of nutases with explosives, just s/Islam/whoever/ the above.
No, don't you understand? In order to use this law to protect your IP rights, you'll have to register your works for copyright, and you'll probably have a minimum "value" of works that must be pirated. And of course, the assessed value of a private website will be $0.0000001, whereas 10 seconds worth of a Celine Dion song will be valued at the complete recording and promotional budget for the album on which it appears.
Make no mistake, this law will not be designed to benefit you - unless you have a few grand to toss Orrin's way, maybe.
So Hatch's solution would be that the previous owner could remotely attack and destroy the new owner's TV. No point involving the law enforcement authorities, or the judicial system, whose job (paid by our tax dollars) it is to take care of such matters.
Not only the investors... the HealthSouth employees are all getting royally shafted, as well as construction workers who were building the new HealthSouth uber-hospital here in B'ham. Oh, they are still putting the glass up in the building, because Scrushy's brother-in-law was the contractor doing that. Everyone else involved in the construction is just SOL.
And the biggest worry in Scrushy's mind right now is whether he will be able to keep his yachts, mansions, helicopters, and jets. His ass needs to be in a prison, being anally raped by Martha Stewart with a strap-on.
Why protect a dead industry if the cost of protecting that industry is more than its worth?
More than its (sic) worth to who? Obviously, it's worth something to Hatch.
I'd like to complain about your misuse of "(sic)". The parent poster could have been implying that the cost of protecting that industry is more than the worth of that industry. If "its worth" was intended to mean "the worth of that industry", the possesive form "its" was appropriate.
Of course, in the same sentence, "it's" could also be appropriate, as "the cost... is more than it is worth" would have the same general meaning and still be grammatically correct.
That sentence makes me wish I were an English teacher. It would be great fun to ask students which form of its/it's is correct!
Oh, come on. Everyone knows that the hardest soil on earth is in your neighbor state to the west, Alabama. A tiller that can get through 8 inches of our clay and rocks is measured in tons! Actually I typically prefer to use dynamite when planting my garden.
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People who think cars should be made to crumple on impact are thinking backwards;(
Ever seen an Indy race car crash? The whole car disintegrates, and the driver often walks away. When the cars were built to survive impacts, the drivers did not. Engineers learned that what you want to do is have the car absorb the energy of the collision rather than the driver.
Unfortunately, this means that in minor accidents the car often costs more to repair. But the car can be repaired or replaced; a life cannot.
You are mistaken. According to the IRS (who should know), in 2001 individual income tax accounted for over $1 trillion in revenue. Corporate income taxes accounted for less than $200 billion.
The motherboard that my 750MHz Duron was on would support the AthlonXP with a BIOS upgrade, but I wound up getting a new motherboard so I could have DDR memory and more USB ports.
Actually thinking about it, every time I've upgraded CPUs, I've gotten a new motherboard - even though it wasn't really necessary every time. There's always either something else the new boards support that I "gotta have", or my mother's computer is getting old and she wants my old board.
By the time I start to feel like my XP1600 is slow, I won't want to just buy a 3000 and slap it on this board, even if I can. I'll want a new board with DDR2, Serial ATA, and FireWire. CPU upgradability is overrated, IMHO.
You seem to think that sweeping revisions and corrections that throw out the work of previous generations are justified, but really all they would do is anger users and create chaos.
Yep, I know so many Mac users that just hate the PowerPC and want to go back to the old 68k CPUs. And OS/X is a big failure for the same reason.
Hint: do it right, and 90% of the consumers won't even know about the sweeping revisions.
Hmm, that reminds me of the time Brain joined Megalomaniacs Anonymous, but later (after Pinky got beaten up) realized that he was obsessed with taking over the world not for his own ego, but to make it a better place.
"Well, maybe a little bit for my own ego. C'mon Pinky, we've got to get ready for tomorrow night!"
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How does one reconcile this particle/curvature theory. Both seem almost mutualy exclusive, unless the particles cause the curvature?!?!?
Unless the 'curvature' turns out to be nothing more than a mathematical construct. No one has really proven that space actually curves, only that objects moving in a gravitational field move as if space were curved. Oh, and the curvature makes general relativity easier to grok, but the equations could all be perfectly valid even if space doesn't really curve.
...kind of like a hernia in the fabric of space-time.
What happens when space-time collapses on the floor moaning in agony? That's not going to be a pretty sight.
And for Amstel, well that should be illegal. There's much better beer than that, both in The Netherlands and Belgium.
There's better beer than Amstel made in the USA even.
how many of you sit there looking at your palm pilot while dialing your cell phone. i look someone up in my palm pilot, hit dial,
I have a Tungsten T and a Nokia 6310i. The pair cost about as much as a Treo 300. Thanks to Bluetooth, I can look up a phone number on the Palm and hit dial, and the phone dials the number. I can send or read SMS messages from the Palm. I can surf the web on the Palm. But if I want, I can leave the Palm at home, or leave the phone at home, or carry both. If something happens to one, I'm not without the other.
Also, I didn't have to make any sacrifices to combine the two - I have one of the best phones on the market as well as one of the best PDAs. Even the new Treo only has a 160x160 screen, I have 320x320. The difference is astonishing - I can actually read an ebook on my Palm without getting a headache. It's night-and-day better than my old Visor Prism.
I definitely wouldn't trade my pair of good devices for a mediocre combination like the Treo 600, even if Handspring offered it as a free swap!
Hey, it's my old pal Stinky Wizzleteats! Thanks for teaching my grandmother to suck eggs!
As a matter of fact, I work less than a mile from the construction site of the new Death Star - I mean the new HealthSouth facility.
So even the RIAA wants to make it clear that they don't actually endorse "destroying" people's computers. Hatch seems to be out on this limb by himself.
No, they want you to THINK they don't endorse it, so it's Hatch's ass that gets sacked over the ensuing debacle.
But don't fret, even the silliest of Mormon beliefs don't make Mormons strap on a bunch of explosives to shred the bodies of innocent people
Hey, that's real nice. Respond to a stereotypical representation of LDS based on a few nutcases - with a stereotypical representation of Islam based on a few nutcases. Sure, the Muslim nutcases did more damage, but if anything that makes stereotyping the rest of them MORE wrong.
My apologies if you were thinking of some other bunch of nutases with explosives, just s/Islam/whoever/ the above.
No, don't you understand? In order to use this law to protect your IP rights, you'll have to register your works for copyright, and you'll probably have a minimum "value" of works that must be pirated. And of course, the assessed value of a private website will be $0.0000001, whereas 10 seconds worth of a Celine Dion song will be valued at the complete recording and promotional budget for the album on which it appears.
Make no mistake, this law will not be designed to benefit you - unless you have a few grand to toss Orrin's way, maybe.
So Hatch's solution would be that the previous owner could remotely attack and destroy the new owner's TV. No point involving the law enforcement authorities, or the judicial system, whose job (paid by our tax dollars) it is to take care of such matters.
Not only the investors... the HealthSouth employees are all getting royally shafted, as well as construction workers who were building the new HealthSouth uber-hospital here in B'ham. Oh, they are still putting the glass up in the building, because Scrushy's brother-in-law was the contractor doing that. Everyone else involved in the construction is just SOL.
And the biggest worry in Scrushy's mind right now is whether he will be able to keep his yachts, mansions, helicopters, and jets. His ass needs to be in a prison, being anally raped by Martha Stewart with a strap-on.
Why protect a dead industry if the cost of protecting that industry is more than its worth?
More than its (sic) worth to who? Obviously, it's worth something to Hatch.
I'd like to complain about your misuse of "(sic)". The parent poster could have been implying that the cost of protecting that industry is more than the worth of that industry. If "its worth" was intended to mean "the worth of that industry", the possesive form "its" was appropriate.
Of course, in the same sentence, "it's" could also be appropriate, as "the cost... is more than it is worth" would have the same general meaning and still be grammatically correct.
That sentence makes me wish I were an English teacher. It would be great fun to ask students which form of its/it's is correct!
Oh, come on. Everyone knows that the hardest soil on earth is in your neighbor state to the west, Alabama. A tiller that can get through 8 inches of our clay and rocks is measured in tons! Actually I typically prefer to use dynamite when planting my garden.
Perhaps he was dictating?
People who think cars should be made to crumple on impact are thinking backwards ;(
Ever seen an Indy race car crash? The whole car disintegrates, and the driver often walks away. When the cars were built to survive impacts, the drivers did not. Engineers learned that what you want to do is have the car absorb the energy of the collision rather than the driver.
Unfortunately, this means that in minor accidents the car often costs more to repair. But the car can be repaired or replaced; a life cannot.
Nope, only too slow if you want to be able to come back and tell people about it. Time dilation is your friend.
There'd be no +++ATH0 if you got booted off by call waiting (or other phone-line problems).
More firster? God, I thought the U.S. public schools were bad.
Yes, I am an ex-worm biologist (since moved on to humans). Such cute little things. And the tricks you can make them do...
Worms, or humans?
Egads! Where are mod points when I need them? Someone give this guy a Funny! Dear Lord, diet sodas really burn in the nostrils....
... is going to point out the obvious pun?
Anyways, we decided to return the cpu, covered in grease, back to the local fry's
So you got a greasy chip in your fries?
You are mistaken. According to the IRS (who should know), in 2001 individual income tax accounted for over $1 trillion in revenue. Corporate income taxes accounted for less than $200 billion.
I also noticed this gem:
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"Rampant piracy sure to follow fears Microsoft,
Piracy fears Microsoft?
The motherboard that my 750MHz Duron was on would support the AthlonXP with a BIOS upgrade, but I wound up getting a new motherboard so I could have DDR memory and more USB ports.
Actually thinking about it, every time I've upgraded CPUs, I've gotten a new motherboard - even though it wasn't really necessary every time. There's always either something else the new boards support that I "gotta have", or my mother's computer is getting old and she wants my old board.
By the time I start to feel like my XP1600 is slow, I won't want to just buy a 3000 and slap it on this board, even if I can. I'll want a new board with DDR2, Serial ATA, and FireWire. CPU upgradability is overrated, IMHO.
You seem to think that sweeping revisions and corrections that throw out the work of previous generations are justified, but really all they would do is anger users and create chaos.
Yep, I know so many Mac users that just hate the PowerPC and want to go back to the old 68k CPUs. And OS/X is a big failure for the same reason.
Hint: do it right, and 90% of the consumers won't even know about the sweeping revisions.
Hmm, that reminds me of the time Brain joined Megalomaniacs Anonymous, but later (after Pinky got beaten up) realized that he was obsessed with taking over the world not for his own ego, but to make it a better place.
"Well, maybe a little bit for my own ego. C'mon Pinky, we've got to get ready for tomorrow night!"
"What are we going to do then?"
etc.