All right, though I should know better by now not to get into replying to ac's. I used 9/11 as a reference point in history because it seems to me before then there was a different, more innocent, public mindset, more hopeful. 9/11 was like America's collective concious getting it's virginity taken, we all were permanently changed. And perhaps it is just my perspective, I'm pushing mid 50's now, so I figure maybe I'll get to see how the nexr 30 years unfold, God willing. I'll always be hopeful for the human race, it's just that I've seen a lot of freedoms that I guess we took for granted seem to just disappear from view over the last decade. This story is another quirky side-effect of that. Really, this might be your kids future being determined by these times, and their kids, etc. Someone here posted a reminder about "forgetting history". And those who forget history ARE doomed to repeat it. And it doesn't have to be that way.
..., this and other things like this, is why us "neckbeards" will sometimes wax nostalgic about the early days of the internet, before it started to get/become "locked down". As an interested, but not too deeply involved or invested in hi-tech, observer, I see this 'mistake' as just another kind of sad and comical example of the slow but sure changing of the internet. But back in the early days, pre 9/11 days, when I was typing to people using 300 baud modems, this internet was such a brave new world! And now we're seeing more of these type of stories occurring. It's just nteresting to me, and it makes me wonder what this world wide web will be like in the years to come. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
You're being too nice. Isn't it time to shut down this bitcoin experiment already? Call it all off, make a memorial/historical bitcoin page on Wikipedia, and everyone who used it can just say, "Yeah, we were dumb then."
Isaac should make landfall (at most) as a Category 2 hurricaine, according to info as of Monday 5 pm Eastern. 7 years ago Irene was a Category 5 before making landfall, and was downgraded to a Category 3 by the time it made land.
Mod up. Innocence lost. The start of the internet, like the hippie days, was full of promise. Then they commercialized it, and that was the end of the 'free' internet, now everywhere you click you need a credit card number. Now you have to be suspicious of every email you recieve, malware may be lurking in a pixel, for chrissakes! "Free" games require "In App Purchases". Look out for fake reviews, trolls on slashdot! I'm going back to sleep, somebody wake me when it's 1985 again...
For some time Armstrong claimed that he indeed did include the "a, and that a transmission glitch must have caused it not to have been sent. After much scrutiny of the tapes NASA concluded that the word "a" was not said at all. It was important to the astronauts that they got their recorded words right for historical purposes. And in all honesty, Mr. Armstrong kinda' blew it by not reciting his prepared speech exactly right, and it must have bothered him enough that he attempted to hide his mistake. These guys took pride in everything they did, and didn't ever want to be seen as "wrong" in the public's eye, NASA's pride and future was always on the line. He had practiced that little speech over and over. Shit happens. As has been noted, the man truly had "balls of steel". It's kind of funny to learn that this is what made him sweat a little bit.
This would greatly help out the enviornment worldwide by making waste treatment profitable, while also removing the tax burden. Here in Nassau County, N.Y., the waste treatment plants have been mis-managed for seemingly forever. The plants break down regularly causing untreated waste to be released into the already fragile eco-system. The once thriving clamming industry has been reduced to.near non-existant here on Long Island. The blame lies squarely on the untreated sewage released into the bays.
Here's an easter egg just for/.'ers. Or is it malware from a black-hatter? Oooh, living life on the edge, what will you do? Clicking on this link may supply you with a happy reward! Or, will it launch an unstoppable game of Thermonucleur War? Decisions, decisions..... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KcuDdPo0WZk
Romney just doesn't do well with off the cuff remarks, at all' His latest gaffe, his birther remark, shows once again what a loose cannon he is. I don't think he means to sound malicious and mean, he just can't help himself. Someone glue a teleprompter to him 24/7.
Which, if you're a maniac with an ace of 72 virgins in heaven up your sleeve, means that you still win.
I heard that they've learned the original translation of the Koran was flawed, and it's not 72 virgins, but 72 "raisens" suicide bombers get. If true, must really seem like a 'bad carreer choice' now.
So, all these different national courts all decide differently on patent issues. Maybe we need a one-world court to finally figure these issues out once and for all. Hmmm...., then of course we will need another, higher court for the inevitable appeal...
Yeah, some of the strip clubs might have to shut down, then what would they do?
It's gonna be raining Republicans' money down on all those women! **** Re:your sig, Proverbs 21:19...You been married, huh? Me, I had a great ex-girlfriend, it was her sisters! Oy!
...just have another civil war and get it over with already? Please?
Oh, you'ld. like that, wouldn't you? Actually there is some chatter in the news today that there'll be another civil war if Obama wins again (yawn). As for the hurricane, also in the news are stories aboit strppers and hookers descending on Tampa. They know that these God fearing, family oriented, moral Republicans are going to be raining lots of money on them!
People will believe anything you tell them if you put it in a magazine article or preface it with "Studies show" because they are ignorant and stupid creatures.
Hey, wait just one sec there cowboy. Aren't you a people?
All right, Curiosity IS getting itself ready to roll, cool! Looks like everything (except the windspeed instrument detector) works as designed, so now it's gonna be at least 2 years of steady data and discovery constantly streaming into scientific centers AND homes all over the world! In so many ways, the human race is at such an important time in it's history. It certainly qualifies as "a time of great learning". I can't wait to see and learn what happens next!
A great deal of experimentation involves failure. Learning through trial and error what "doesn't" work until what "does" work is finally learned. An actual working lightbulb filament is a classic example of failure after failure, until...
Just one problem that I can see. It'd turn into some neglected eyesore after many years, requiring more money to either refurbish or tear down again.. What about using hologram tech to re-create the tower, or is something like that too intricate and complicated to do?
The brain can multi-task 4 things at one time, driving a vehicle uses most of them. Add one or two distractions...BOOM!...accident. I've seen people using hands-free devices almost have an accident because the CONVERSATION was what was distracting them. They were taking their eyes off the road to stare at the phone while they were making their point. Lastly, insurance companies have found that, on average, an accident happens within 2 seconds of looking away from the road (fumbling for a dropped CD was the number one reason.).
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All right, though I should know better by now not to get into replying to ac's. I used 9/11 as a reference point in history because it seems to me before then there was a different, more innocent, public mindset, more hopeful. 9/11 was like America's collective concious getting it's virginity taken, we all were permanently changed. And perhaps it is just my perspective, I'm pushing mid 50's now, so I figure maybe I'll get to see how the nexr 30 years unfold, God willing. I'll always be hopeful for the human race, it's just that I've seen a lot of freedoms that I guess we took for granted seem to just disappear from view over the last decade. This story is another quirky side-effect of that. Really, this might be your kids future being determined by these times, and their kids, etc. Someone here posted a reminder about "forgetting history". And those who forget history ARE doomed to repeat it. And it doesn't have to be that way.
..., this and other things like this, is why us "neckbeards" will sometimes wax nostalgic about the early days of the internet, before it started to get/become "locked down". As an interested, but not too deeply involved or invested in hi-tech, observer, I see this 'mistake' as just another kind of sad and comical example of the slow but sure changing of the internet. But back in the early days, pre 9/11 days, when I was typing to people using 300 baud modems, this internet was such a brave new world! And now we're seeing more of these type of stories occurring. It's just nteresting to me, and it makes me wonder what this world wide web will be like in the years to come. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
... you can only rent it!
You're being too nice. Isn't it time to shut down this bitcoin experiment already? Call it all off, make a memorial/historical bitcoin page on Wikipedia, and everyone who used it can just say, "Yeah, we were dumb then."
Right you are sir. Ike landed near Galveston as a Cat 2, Irene hit North Carolina as a Cat 1.
I never expected Google to be a company that cheaply jumps on the latest fad that blows by.
We need them to work on the technology of controling the weather ... push it to the east a hundred miles would be a good start.
A "self-driving" google hurricaine?
Isaac should make landfall (at most) as a Category 2 hurricaine, according to info as of Monday 5 pm Eastern. 7 years ago Irene was a Category 5 before making landfall, and was downgraded to a Category 3 by the time it made land.
Mod up. Innocence lost. The start of the internet, like the hippie days, was full of promise. Then they commercialized it, and that was the end of the 'free' internet, now everywhere you click you need a credit card number. Now you have to be suspicious of every email you recieve, malware may be lurking in a pixel, for chrissakes! "Free" games require "In App Purchases". Look out for fake reviews, trolls on slashdot! I'm going back to sleep, somebody wake me when it's 1985 again...
For some time Armstrong claimed that he indeed did include the "a, and that a transmission glitch must have caused it not to have been sent. After much scrutiny of the tapes NASA concluded that the word "a" was not said at all. It was important to the astronauts that they got their recorded words right for historical purposes. And in all honesty, Mr. Armstrong kinda' blew it by not reciting his prepared speech exactly right, and it must have bothered him enough that he attempted to hide his mistake. These guys took pride in everything they did, and didn't ever want to be seen as "wrong" in the public's eye, NASA's pride and future was always on the line. He had practiced that little speech over and over. Shit happens. As has been noted, the man truly had "balls of steel". It's kind of funny to learn that this is what made him sweat a little bit.
This would greatly help out the enviornment worldwide by making waste treatment profitable, while also removing the tax burden. Here in Nassau County, N.Y., the waste treatment plants have been mis-managed for seemingly forever. The plants break down regularly causing untreated waste to be released into the already fragile eco-system. The once thriving clamming industry has been reduced to.near non-existant here on Long Island. The blame lies squarely on the untreated sewage released into the bays.
Here's an easter egg just for /.'ers. Or is it malware from a black-hatter? Oooh, living life on the edge, what will you do? Clicking on this link may supply you with a happy reward! Or, will it launch an unstoppable game of Thermonucleur War? Decisions, decisions..... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KcuDdPo0WZk
Unless you're from an electoral college state, you are throwing your vote away. You might as well vote for Kodos, I for one, would welcome.....
Romney just doesn't do well with off the cuff remarks, at all' His latest gaffe, his birther remark, shows once again what a loose cannon he is. I don't think he means to sound malicious and mean, he just can't help himself. Someone glue a teleprompter to him 24/7.
Which, if you're a maniac with an ace of 72 virgins in heaven up your sleeve, means that you still win.
I heard that they've learned the original translation of the Koran was flawed, and it's not 72 virgins, but 72 "raisens" suicide bombers get. If true, must really seem like a 'bad carreer choice' now.
So, all these different national courts all decide differently on patent issues. Maybe we need a one-world court to finally figure these issues out once and for all. Hmmm...., then of course we will need another, higher court for the inevitable appeal...
Sexually speaking, guys peak at age 17, producing the most sperm. Women peak at 37.
Man I wish I had a dollar for every mp3 I illegally downloaded. Oh,wait...
Yeah, some of the strip clubs might have to shut down, then what would they do?
It's gonna be raining Republicans' money down on all those women! **** Re:your sig, Proverbs 21:19 ...You been married, huh? Me, I had a great ex-girlfriend, it was her sisters! Oy!
...just have another civil war and get it over with already? Please?
Oh, you'ld. like that, wouldn't you? Actually there is some chatter in the news today that there'll be another civil war if Obama wins again (yawn). As for the hurricane, also in the news are stories aboit strppers and hookers descending on Tampa. They know that these God fearing, family oriented, moral Republicans are going to be raining lots of money on them!
People will believe anything you tell them if you put it in a magazine article or preface it with "Studies show" because they are ignorant and stupid creatures.
Hey, wait just one sec there cowboy. Aren't you a people?
We're exploring Mars, and to think it all started with a ride on a bi-plane... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KcuDdPo0WZk
All right, Curiosity IS getting itself ready to roll, cool! Looks like everything (except the windspeed instrument detector) works as designed, so now it's gonna be at least 2 years of steady data and discovery constantly streaming into scientific centers AND homes all over the world! In so many ways, the human race is at such an important time in it's history. It certainly qualifies as "a time of great learning". I can't wait to see and learn what happens next!
A great deal of experimentation involves failure. Learning through trial and error what "doesn't" work until what "does" work is finally learned. An actual working lightbulb filament is a classic example of failure after failure, until...
Just one problem that I can see. It'd turn into some neglected eyesore after many years, requiring more money to either refurbish or tear down again.. What about using hologram tech to re-create the tower, or is something like that too intricate and complicated to do?
The brain can multi-task 4 things at one time, driving a vehicle uses most of them. Add one or two distractions...BOOM!...accident. I've seen people using hands-free devices almost have an accident because the CONVERSATION was what was distracting them. They were taking their eyes off the road to stare at the phone while they were making their point. Lastly, insurance companies have found that, on average, an accident happens within 2 seconds of looking away from the road (fumbling for a dropped CD was the number one reason.).