Tell that to the security guard who saved all those people at the atlanta olympics. His thanks? All of america hearing about his house full of pornography, every day, for weeks, and for the rest of his life in the occasional SNL rerun. I suppose there might be greater humiliation available, but one might have to actively pursue it.
'They' were approached by boeing. The response was not interested. They want lighter more economical plains. But I repeat my redundancy.
The concord actually fills a very small specialized niche. Relatively short trans-oceanic (powerful sonic booms piss people off) flights at a massively inflated price. Which appearently isn't even inflated enough to cover the bottom line.
It's death was a long time comming. It's not like anyone was buying more of them as they march towards the end of their service life.
A lot of people seem dead set on comparing an entry level printer of 100 buck or less to what used to be a 1k+ printer. Hp's at the grand level, still pretty sweet. And they've learned new tricks.
Don't want something that will only last a year. Here's an idea, don't buy something that's only ment to last a year. Buy something from the business line.
As an aside. From my experience with Brother equipment. They're always a pain in the ass until you learn the secret trick. Every machine they make seems to have a special lever that has to be jiggled just so, or a spot that needs to be jabbed just right. After that, they tend more towards the simply annoying.
But hey, you get what you pay for. Don't expect the rolex you bought off the guy dealing three card monte to be suitable for circumnavigating the globe either. It's just one of those things.
Karma whoring is now insightful. Reposting venerable Simpson's quotes for the multi-hundredth time is funny. And sarcastic presentation of the facts is flamebaiting.
Landmark theaters suck. I hate them, I hate their owner and I hate his stripper wife. It's not at all uncommon for them to get the more esoteric films and lock them into exclusive engagements with the Landmark shitty theater chain. All the Landmark theaters are overpriced and crappy, some smell weird, some have poorly maintained screens, and one has wooden seats that may give you a splinter. None have decent parking, and few are near anything else of interest. A couple are so bad that I won't go near them no matter how bad I want to see a particular movie, and considering I drove from Seattle to Portland to see eXistenZ, that can be pretty bad.
Where I live I'm practically drowning in screens looking for movies, but the shitty and evil Landmark chain does everything they can to make sure I'm as dissatisfied as possible, even when I'm not seeing a movie at one of their theaters.
If anyone should be urinated on it's Landmark's owner and his stripper wife, I bet they'd pay extra.
Hey, now that Katz isn't around anymore the rest of them have to pick up the slack. Today, Taco's name came outta the hat. But I think we should cut 'em a little slack. The joke isn't any *more* beat to death than a "you like-a the juice-a" sketch in the last half hour of SNL.... Yet.
I'd say go for an eclectic selection. I was a very very bad reader in school, perhaps by shear luck I happened upon a couple of books that pretty much opened the door for me. A pattern that in many ways continue(d/s).
My first exposure to Hemmingway was through something of a personal challenge from a teacher I liked in high school. He understood something of the fact I wasn't a great reader, and thought I could benefit from The Old Man and the Sea. Well I didn't and still don't much care for that book. But later on, experpts from another Hemmingway story resonated strongly. That lead me to A Farewell To Arms, and most importantly For Whom The Bell Tolls. Which I can say without reservation, is the best book I've ever read. One of a few debts I owe to Mr. Dillon. Many of my other teachers were quite forgetable. But I don't think anyone ever forgets the person who introduces them to something they love.
In contrast to the poster I'm responding to, I would make a concerted effort to emphisise readability as well. Your time is limited, kids have enough busy work, and you can't teach them everything in a semester. Maybe a solid overview would sever kids better by providing not only broad perspective, but also the best chance of finding something that resonates with as many of them as possible through the shear volume of opportunities.
To that end, I'd recommend emphisining short stories, excerpts from more difficult but generally considered important works and maybe a selection shorter novels. Possibly with a few movies thrown in.
Philip K. Dick is an obvious choice for short stories, or even Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep. Others have already mentioned Gibson. I don't think I've seen mention of Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron might make for nice movie, Cat's Cradle is a pretty good book.
You ment it was Unbelievable, and fake in so far as it was so crontrived it rang false? As I said, that's a matter of opinion, and who can argue with that?
But now that we've established you're the axuilliary supporting head of the redundancy department of redundancy, repetition, and confusion, I think we've got it all squared away:).
They're probably supportive of the US to the point that they sent a made in the USA aegis cruiser because that comment about "Check book diplomacy" stung.
There are some types of political currency that money can't buy. And Japan has many concerns which could benefit from such capital, not the least of which would be their increased ability to shape US policy in asia.
The Japanese have by far the best toys. The bastards! I never knew how much my childhood sucked until I grew up enough to find out what I missed out on.
A shit load of coal and iron for two. China is huge the size of the united states, but comparatively little of it arable land. Chances are if it can be dug out of the ground they've got their share of it.
Wait till the Chinese really kick their industry into high gear, that will be pretty crazy.
Pretty much anything goes. As long as peta isn't required to be there an no one dies, the party light is lit and the disco ball is locked and in the get down position.
"Does AJ show pics and video of Iraqi troops hiding among civilians and using them as shields? No"
Has this been independantly corroborated? No.
"Does AJ show report on the Iraqi troops using a hospital for a weapons cache? No"
Has this been independantly corroborated? No.
Yes they have. The British, and the US Marines and 3rd Infantry have experienced this. The video from inside of the hospital filled with atropine, chemical suits stacked up, and boxes of AK's would really be enough for most people. But the coalition also found a school which had classrooms filled with weapons and ammunition.
I knew a guy with eight. I was very tired just watching a few of this very patient man's children bounce off everything they saw. I would imagine the worst thirty seconds of his week would be a very effective birth control advertisement.
The tungsten filiment, or whatever, in the sem supposedly couldn't be replaced for less than 4 grand, but he used it for home entertainment.
But really, I'm writing this to inquire about the chinese mall. Never been, you got a couple of cross streets? If they have a japanese snack shack with cool, random, and sometimes impossibly nasty japanese candy, I think I need to pay a visit.
Testify my brother. The biggest problem with boeing surplus might be thinking of a cool enough project to do it justice.
Dell keyboards like 4 for a buck, seat appolstery, all kinds of drill bits and everything.
A lesser known surplus thing that happens infrequently used to go on at the University of Washinton in seattle. Years back I heard a story about a guy from their materials engineering program that bought a scanning electron microscope for 250 bucks and set it up in his living room.
I think it's more like: "See we swiss are tough on terroism, please pay no attention to our permissive banking practices and that beared man wearing a turban smelling of cordite behind the curtain."
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Tell that to the security guard who saved all those people at the atlanta olympics. His thanks? All of america hearing about his house full of pornography, every day, for weeks, and for the rest of his life in the occasional SNL rerun. I suppose there might be greater humiliation available, but one might have to actively pursue it.
If anyone wants to start a second American Revolution to take the country back from the lawyers, I'm game :-).
Count me in. I'd love to see Eugene Levy's foreign policy in action.
Naw. I'd vote for "News for Sammy Jenkins. Stuff that shouldn't be tatooed."
'They' were approached by boeing. The response was not interested. They want lighter more economical plains. But I repeat my redundancy.
The concord actually fills a very small specialized niche. Relatively short trans-oceanic (powerful sonic booms piss people off) flights at a massively inflated price. Which appearently isn't even inflated enough to cover the bottom line.
It's death was a long time comming. It's not like anyone was buying more of them as they march towards the end of their service life.
Why Tim Eyman I didn't know you read slashdot! Here's to voting you a horse's ass come november.
A lot of people seem dead set on comparing an entry level printer of 100 buck or less to what used to be a 1k+ printer. Hp's at the grand level, still pretty sweet. And they've learned new tricks.
Don't want something that will only last a year. Here's an idea, don't buy something that's only ment to last a year. Buy something from the business line.
As an aside. From my experience with Brother equipment. They're always a pain in the ass until you learn the secret trick. Every machine they make seems to have a special lever that has to be jiggled just so, or a spot that needs to be jabbed just right. After that, they tend more towards the simply annoying.
But hey, you get what you pay for. Don't expect the rolex you bought off the guy dealing three card monte to be suitable for circumnavigating the globe either. It's just one of those things.
Karma whoring is now insightful.
Reposting venerable Simpson's quotes for the multi-hundredth time is funny.
And sarcastic presentation of the facts is flamebaiting.
His theaters suck and keep movies I want to see out of theaters that don't suck (as much). His stripper wife is Danni Ashe.
Landmark theaters suck. I hate them, I hate their owner and I hate his stripper wife. It's not at all uncommon for them to get the more esoteric films and lock them into exclusive engagements with the Landmark shitty theater chain. All the Landmark theaters are overpriced and crappy, some smell weird, some have poorly maintained screens, and one has wooden seats that may give you a splinter. None have decent parking, and few are near anything else of interest. A couple are so bad that I won't go near them no matter how bad I want to see a particular movie, and considering I drove from Seattle to Portland to see eXistenZ, that can be pretty bad.
Where I live I'm practically drowning in screens looking for movies, but the shitty and evil Landmark chain does everything they can to make sure I'm as dissatisfied as possible, even when I'm not seeing a movie at one of their theaters.
If anyone should be urinated on it's Landmark's owner and his stripper wife, I bet they'd pay extra.
Hey, now that Katz isn't around anymore the rest of them have to pick up the slack. Today, Taco's name came outta the hat. But I think we should cut 'em a little slack. The joke isn't any *more* beat to death than a "you like-a the juice-a" sketch in the last half hour of SNL. ... Yet.
I'd say go for an eclectic selection. I was a very very bad reader in school, perhaps by shear luck I happened upon a couple of books that pretty much opened the door for me. A pattern that in many ways continue(d/s).
My first exposure to Hemmingway was through something of a personal challenge from a teacher I liked in high school. He understood something of the fact I wasn't a great reader, and thought I could benefit from The Old Man and the Sea. Well I didn't and still don't much care for that book. But later on, experpts from another Hemmingway story resonated strongly. That lead me to A Farewell To Arms, and most importantly For Whom The Bell Tolls. Which I can say without reservation, is the best book I've ever read. One of a few debts I owe to Mr. Dillon. Many of my other teachers were quite forgetable. But I don't think anyone ever forgets the person who introduces them to something they love.
In contrast to the poster I'm responding to, I would make a concerted effort to emphisise readability as well. Your time is limited, kids have enough busy work, and you can't teach them everything in a semester. Maybe a solid overview would sever kids better by providing not only broad perspective, but also the best chance of finding something that resonates with as many of them as possible through the shear volume of opportunities.
To that end, I'd recommend emphisining short stories, excerpts from more difficult but generally considered important works and maybe a selection shorter novels. Possibly with a few movies thrown in.
Philip K. Dick is an obvious choice for short stories, or even Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep. Others have already mentioned Gibson. I don't think I've seen mention of Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron might make for nice movie, Cat's Cradle is a pretty good book.
Ok. Lemme see if I've got this.
:).
You ment it was Unbelievable, and fake in so far as it was so crontrived it rang false? As I said, that's a matter of opinion, and who can argue with that?
But now that we've established you're the axuilliary supporting head of the redundancy department of redundancy, repetition, and confusion, I think we've got it all squared away
They're probably supportive of the US to the point that they sent a made in the USA aegis cruiser because that comment about "Check book diplomacy" stung.
There are some types of political currency that money can't buy. And Japan has many concerns which could benefit from such capital, not the least of which would be their increased ability to shape US policy in asia.
The Japanese have by far the best toys. The bastards! I never knew how much my childhood sucked until I grew up enough to find out what I missed out on.
A shit load of coal and iron for two. China is huge the size of the united states, but comparatively little of it arable land. Chances are if it can be dug out of the ground they've got their share of it.
Wait till the Chinese really kick their industry into high gear, that will be pretty crazy.
(I'm 100% monolingual white american btw)
Pretty much anything goes. As long as peta isn't required to be there an no one dies, the party light is lit and the disco ball is locked and in the get down position.
There really should be some sort of bachlor ramen chef show on TV.
Contrived? That's a matter of opinion.
Fake and unbelievable on the other hand....
You went to see a scifi CG cartoon and decided not to suspend your disbelief. That was a choice, not an opinion.
"Does AJ show pics and video of Iraqi troops hiding among civilians and using them as shields? No"
Has this been independantly corroborated? No.
"Does AJ show report on the Iraqi troops using a hospital for a weapons cache? No"
Has this been independantly corroborated? No.
Yes they have. The British, and the US Marines and 3rd Infantry have experienced this. The video from inside of the hospital filled with atropine, chemical suits stacked up, and boxes of AK's would really be enough for most people. But the coalition also found a school which had classrooms filled with weapons and ammunition.
My College buddies didn't heat ramen. One in particular, would eat it dry, or occasionally dip it in ragu spagetti sauce for formal dining.
I knew a guy with eight. I was very tired just watching a few of this very patient man's children bounce off everything they saw. I would imagine the worst thirty seconds of his week would be a very effective birth control advertisement.
The tungsten filiment, or whatever, in the sem supposedly couldn't be replaced for less than 4 grand, but he used it for home entertainment.
But really, I'm writing this to inquire about the chinese mall. Never been, you got a couple of cross streets? If they have a japanese snack shack with cool, random, and sometimes impossibly nasty japanese candy, I think I need to pay a visit.
Testify my brother. The biggest problem with boeing surplus might be thinking of a cool enough project to do it justice.
Dell keyboards like 4 for a buck, seat appolstery, all kinds of drill bits and everything.
A lesser known surplus thing that happens infrequently used to go on at the University of Washinton in seattle. Years back I heard a story about a guy from their materials engineering program that bought a scanning electron microscope for 250 bucks and set it up in his living room.
I think it's more like: "See we swiss are tough on terroism, please pay no attention to our permissive banking practices and that beared man wearing a turban smelling of cordite behind the curtain."
And they would need to be very sick lawyers anyway.
You mean like personal injury attorneys?
You may be the fabled "lost brother" we have been searching for. There are others. You are not alone.