Not to be outdone, another international body of scientists declared in a press conference the findings of their own array of studies. Their suprising conclusion was that in certain quantities, everything is detrimental to your health and everyone should live the way they like and not care because everything has potential health consequences.
The results of the study have also raised disagreements amongst the community of scientists, but the consensus seems to be that all of our health- and nutrition-related problems are over. The boards of directors at Phillip Morris, PepsiCo, and McDonalds heralded the results as equally groundbreaking.
When interviewed after the press conference, one scientist revealed misgivings about such overtly pessimistic conclusions, but also stressed the benefits of letting people finally do whatever they want and slowly kill themselves in the process instead of endlessly bickering and whining about the health factor.
In other news, bloggers' plagiarism scientifically proven.
"Wired has up a story about HP, as part of a larger drive to figure out how ideas ideas 'infect' large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers."
I propose to honor the occasion by inviting the world's most prominent spammers to an honorary banquet. Awards offered in several categories, including Volume, Most Creative Filter Avoidance, and Clever misspellings of the word "penis". Large cash prizes, of course.
Actually, since the original Blinky had three eyes, and this frog has three heads, something referencing its three heads would be more appropriate. Something like Noddy. But that really wouldn't be very funny.
To the government MS is simply a healthy company bringing in a boatload of cash
This may not be your intended meaning, but Microsoft doesn't bring in a boatload of cash for the government. Microsoft doesn't pay any tax at all.
However, according to the (dubious) principle of supply-side economics, having a nice healthy company making all this money should theoretically benefit the rest of the economy.
I read a short story (I think it was called Snow) about a company that set up a service to record someone's life. The technology involved an insect-like flying camera that followed the subject her whole life and then when she died, family, friends, relatives, etc... could come to the company's facility and view short, random segements indefinitely.
Their storage and retrieval method was ostensibly based on some sort of Brownian motion, such that specific moments could not be chosen, they were simply shown at random (helped the company avoid legal issues in the case that a subject might commit a crime - law enforcement couldn't forcibly call up specific moments for review). However, the storage method also degraded over time, so that images started getting television broadcast-type interference (snow).
The story was written from the perspective of a widower who was getting addicted to viewing these short segments, spending more and more time in the viewing room. It was an interesting commentary the time we spend watching other people's lives (or living in the past) and not living our own.
On the one hand it's amazing how many modern technologies have been predicted by sci-fi writers. On the other hand, this might simply be due to modern engineers trying to bring their childhood fantasies to life.
Along the same lines, I just got around to reading a compilation of Asimov stories called Robot Visions and in his introduction he humbly accepts credit for inspiring the pioneers in the robot industry.
The definition of invent that I found simply says it means to come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, principle) after a mental effort. So I don't agree with you at all that Heinlein, Gibson, Asimov, et al. shouldn't get the credit. If anything, they should get all of the credit.
However, mad props to the "nobodies" and the entrepreneurs for taking the initiative to implement these inventions.
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Not to be outdone, another international body of scientists declared in a press conference the findings of their own array of studies. Their suprising conclusion was that in certain quantities, everything is detrimental to your health and everyone should live the way they like and not care because everything has potential health consequences.
The results of the study have also raised disagreements amongst the community of scientists, but the consensus seems to be that all of our health- and nutrition-related problems are over. The boards of directors at Phillip Morris, PepsiCo, and McDonalds heralded the results as equally groundbreaking.
When interviewed after the press conference, one scientist revealed misgivings about such overtly pessimistic conclusions, but also stressed the benefits of letting people finally do whatever they want and slowly kill themselves in the process instead of endlessly bickering and whining about the health factor.
The thing that makes Windows full system installs go so quickly is that we've practiced them so many times!
In other news, bloggers' plagiarism scientifically proven.
"Wired has up a story about HP, as part of a larger drive to figure out how ideas ideas 'infect' large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers."
...since README.org was already taken.
Is Ben Affleck starring in this one, too?
My shitty site gets in the order of 50-70k hits a month and I know its only my mom
What a coincidence, that's how many hits your mom gets a month, too!
"Dammit Jim, I'm a biologist, not a mathematician!"
Trillian has built-in SecureAIM capabilities, of course those only work if the person you're chatting with has Trillian.
While your solution is nice, not all of us have friends that are all capable of setting up and connecting to a system like this.
I suppose if you count the tens of thousands of dollars given by each idiot to Nigerian fraud scams, those numbers could work out.
I propose to honor the occasion by inviting the world's most prominent spammers to an honorary banquet. Awards offered in several categories, including Volume, Most Creative Filter Avoidance, and Clever misspellings of the word "penis". Large cash prizes, of course.
Then we carpet bomb the hell out of the place.
Actually, since the original Blinky had three eyes, and this frog has three heads, something referencing its three heads would be more appropriate. Something like Noddy. But that really wouldn't be very funny.
I got it! It means a slick/greasy hypocrite.
Sure makes it easier for them to slide their heads up their asses, too!
To the government MS is simply a healthy company bringing in a boatload of cash
This may not be your intended meaning, but Microsoft doesn't bring in a boatload of cash for the government. Microsoft doesn't pay any tax at all.
However, according to the (dubious) principle of supply-side economics, having a nice healthy company making all this money should theoretically benefit the rest of the economy.
First One Hour Photo , now this? Why is Robin Williams pigeonholing himself into these creepy roles?
I read a short story (I think it was called Snow) about a company that set up a service to record someone's life. The technology involved an insect-like flying camera that followed the subject her whole life and then when she died, family, friends, relatives, etc... could come to the company's facility and view short, random segements indefinitely.
Their storage and retrieval method was ostensibly based on some sort of Brownian motion, such that specific moments could not be chosen, they were simply shown at random (helped the company avoid legal issues in the case that a subject might commit a crime - law enforcement couldn't forcibly call up specific moments for review). However, the storage method also degraded over time, so that images started getting television broadcast-type interference (snow).
The story was written from the perspective of a widower who was getting addicted to viewing these short segments, spending more and more time in the viewing room. It was an interesting commentary the time we spend watching other people's lives (or living in the past) and not living our own.
On the one hand it's amazing how many modern technologies have been predicted by sci-fi writers. On the other hand, this might simply be due to modern engineers trying to bring their childhood fantasies to life.
Did they name it Blinky?
Why do I get the impression this wasn't a hypothetical situation?
Anyone else notice that the fortune displayed while reading this article is "You will engage in a profitable business opportunity"?
It's best played in a Florida jail with Disney and Norse gods.
- Lo ki-karaoke.
Movieoke-Okie-gnocchi-Okefenokee-pokey-Mononoke
*Whew*
At least the gorilla gave him 89 million dollars for his trouble.
You know you've been surfing /. too long when you see the word "losing" and think it's a typo.
Shirley, you can't be serious.
Al Qaeda would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!
So you're the one responding to those spams! I'll get you, AC, whoever you are!
Along the same lines, I just got around to reading a compilation of Asimov stories called Robot Visions and in his introduction he humbly accepts credit for inspiring the pioneers in the robot industry.
The definition of invent that I found simply says it means to come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, principle) after a mental effort. So I don't agree with you at all that Heinlein, Gibson, Asimov, et al. shouldn't get the credit. If anything, they should get all of the credit.
However, mad props to the "nobodies" and the entrepreneurs for taking the initiative to implement these inventions.