Even worse, remember that some joker was selling real estate on Mars a few years back. What happens if the purchasers decide NASA is infringing on their claim? Think about it. Todays jests are tomorrows lawsuits.
Trademarking words is BAD. That I agree with. Making shameful insult toys to exploit racial prejudice and false stereotypes (mammie dolls, nigga dolls, & lying Jew Nazi insults).
I give the concept back of "Action Jesus doll! With sword of truth & machine gun of justice!" silly yes? How about "Apostle John! With detachable head and his Dinosaur of salvation - Farty!"? Or "Pope Paul II - With his Jew-smasher tank of Rapture!"?
If the dolls aren't demeaning the culture or their faith, then there is no issue. That would be as insane as trademarking Jesus (which I called dibs on first, so go to Hell Microsoft!)
Aside from powering suicide booths (got to give nods to
FUTURAMA), why not nuclear batteries? Why does nuclear waste have to go to
waste? It's not for the home use, but heck it'd be one nifty power source
backup if one could secure it for commercial use. The downside is, any
place we'd bury it would have to be high security or some loon would dig it out
for a bomb.
http://www.ans.neep.wisc.edu/~ans/point_source/AEI/sep96/Apollo.html
SNAP-27 Characteristics
The SNAP-27 power supply weighed about 20 kilograms, was 46 cm long and 40.6
cm in diameter. It consisted of a central fuel capsule surrounded by concentric
rings of thermocouples. Outside of the thermocouples was a set of fins to
provide for heat rejection from the cold side of the thermocouple.
Each of the SNAP devices produced approximately 75 W of electrical power at
30 VDC. The energy source for each device was a rod of plutonium-238 weighing
approximately 2.5 kilograms and providing a thermal power of approximately 1250
W.
Plutonium-238 is a non-fissile isotope of plutonium that decays by alpha
particle emission with essentially zero associated gamma emissions. This
characteristic was very important for the ALSEP powering application, both
because the instruments would have been negatively affected by interference from
a gamma emitter and because the devices required close handling by lunar
astronauts.
Even though the only radiation from Pu-238 is alpha particles which require
little shielding, it is necessary to use thick gloves when handling a 2.5
kilogram rod of Pu-238. The surface temperature will reach about 500 degrees C
because of the energy being released by radioactive decay. After ten years of
continuous power output, a Pu-238 based RTG will still produce 92% of its
initial power.
One measure of performance that is often used for chemical storage batteries
is the amp-hour. A modern battery might have a capacity of 1.5 amp-hrs/kg. The
SNAP-27 power supplies demonstrated the ability to provide more than 4380
amp-hrs/kg during the four years that their performance was monitored. Similar
RTGs have produced 24,000 amp-hrs/kg during a 20 year operating life and are
still going strong.
The big problem is that corporations DO get away with murder regularly. If a mining corporation poisons the water table permanently and ends up killing an entire town it is a cheaper fine then what the survivors could sue for (if the Republicans hadn't corrupted the right for the injured citizens to file a class-action law suit).
If a corporation through careless action or by soulless disregard ruins the lives of its workers or townsfolk, they often face a small fine. If a CEO ordered the criminal action, that CEO will only suffer whatever fate his shareholders might deem or what his fellow executives decide. In corporations like the tobacco industry, the executives could care little if people die from the use of their product.
The only dawn I see on this nightmare of corporate-monarchy is that for now the common person can purchase stock and have a meager say in policy. Otherwise it looks very bleak as corporations gain exclusion from lawsuits, answering to the customers, or any checks & balances which make America worthwhile. The megacorps are immune from the regulations of any country and have bought the lawmakers to the dismay of their customers. They define the objectivity of news to promote their agenda and have inverted the concept of objectivity.
The corporations are now the monarchy. We are merely disposable commodities. Serfs to their whims. The news channels are their church and state. The law bends to their fancy. If we don't like it; it is a futile anger. We can rattle our prison bars in rage, but we have little hope of escape unless we all wake up.
HARK! WAIT! We are not yet completely submersed I think. We are only powerless if we remain silent and hopeless. The corporations are monoliths which we can scarcely dent. However, we still all remain mortal. We need not take up arms and slay the oppressors when we can disobey. To be enslaved is to agree to be enslaved. We still have many avenues to rebel within. That is America. If all checks and balances fail within the civil system we still have the primitive methods available. Do not allow the corporations to place their whores within the offices of our government. Do not allow apathy to ruin our nation. Refuse, Resist, & Do Not Allow Yourself to be Enslaved.
I agree. If the artist is making pennies per CD and not being fairly represented by the distributer, I'd say downloading the files from the artist's website and paying them a reasonable $5 to $8 per CD would be a windfall if running the site wasn't a large expense as well.
I wanted Janeway to die exactly 4 episodes into the Voyager series. What a pompous, bombastic, trite, and annoying character was she! I think she set the tenor for the irritating PMS edge every character of Voyager's crew had. When I think about their bitter, sharp, & naging conversations I just want to smack their faces raw. The painful death of Janeway by being sucked into cold space would be a just reward for enduring the years of nattering dialog by the Voyager crew. Bleh!
Take the physical copies of the series and toss them into a burning trashbarrel. Spare the TREK fandom of the future from enduring this crap in rerun.
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Yep, everyone forgot the transwarp drive after Seven of Nine was brought onto Voyager.
It was very forgotten for such a long time that the series was getting inane.
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Really? For what real-life situation? When will I ever need i gallons of gas, or have to pay $3i+2.95 for a magazine?
Most government budgets are purely drawn up with imaginary numbers i. How else can you explain CIA getting money without review and question?
Aflatoxin is found everywhere. Harvested peanuts are a common source, but it is also found on corn and cottonseed as well. It just needs the right conditions of humidity and organic matter.
It would be nice if this would work, but
UV destabilizes plastic molecules just like viral or fungal DNA. Place
some of that shiny neon-colored plastic outdoors this summer and you'll see it
fade to a lighter non-neon or clear color and crack. This is even easier
to see in video rental stores as all the older title boxes from the 80's are
faded to white (the neon-yellow fades to white).
I work in a injection molding plastic factory and we did
neon-orange flashlight cases for a while. The company put the reject cases
on the driveway guide posts and these would fade from neon-orange to orange to
yellowish to white over the course of a year (and these had a UV-stabilizing
compound added to prevent this). Of course, this is symptomatic of all
fluorescent materials.
The best method to de-germ hospital PCs would be to add a
spill-proof keyboard cover (less chance of hair & skin cells entering the
keyboard to grow mold and could be washed and replaced regularly). The
charcoal filter over the air exhaust is a good idea (though ozone does kill
germs and also chews up organic materials).
A quick Google search for "sterile computers" gets me an
industrial link
http://www.innoscan-isc.dk/company/profile.htmhttp://www.innoscan-isc.dk/products/pci6000level4. htm
(not exactly ergonomic, but dust-proof)
The main concern is "Is this too buggy to ship?" If Bill says no, the crap is flung out the door with a shovel into the prospective customer's lap.
After all these DECADES can Microsoft explain why it still has the weak NOTEPAD, WORDPAD, & PAINT in place of something really useful. One could argue that these programs are stable and do the job and Frontpage comes free and does the rest, but Notepad still has a 20K limit and PAINT cannot handle any graphics format over BMP. Once the program is surpassed by a sellable version, they just leave weak software for the Windows system.
And it also is the trademarked name of a toothpaste. One which AOL-holes should not be able to re-trademark while that product is sold. Obvious prior-art. Maybe more problems should be fixed with guns.
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It'd be nice to have a CD-R burner plug-in for the TIVO. CD-R's are lots easier to stack than videotapes.
What?!? And all this time I thought THE WEAKEST LINK was a dating service for the bisexual nymphomanic dominatrix hostess.
Hostess: "Can you explain why you couldn't answer the last question?!? You are THE WEAKEST LINK!"
And the losers are sent to the spanking box while the winners get a full night of bondage sex which will debut on the next episode of HBO - AFTER DARK's "REAL SEX".
Fine. Then I'm going to get a Trademark on Jesus. You Mormons think your Jesus is so much better than my Jesus? Then I'm going to sue! From now on all variations of Jesus are to cease-and-desist. I also claim that since I own all your Jesus, I lay claim to all funds raised by the illegal use of my Jesus.
Stop praying over there! I own you!
Is this silly and insulting enough to get Congress & the Senate off their worthless asses yet? I am sick of these fraud lawsuits.
It seems like M$ has been coming to terms with its inability to innovate
for awhile. I can remember seeing some interview with Bill Gates where he says
that M$ could go out of business in five years, this is how this industry works
(shocking the talk show host). Maybe he was serious, I mean, what more can be
done for office software? If they can't continue to sell upgrades because
significant improvements have been made, they'll just have to lock customers
into a pay me once, pay me twice, pay me three times model like this.
Microsoft is funny because they seem to think that if they are not
outright dominating everything about the computer, they are failing. I can't
imagine any "common sense" businessman is going to be interested in paying for
something more than once.
But look at all the new bloat Microsoft can
add! They can make Office actually save in universal documented free
formats!They can stop the stupid system from crashing over obvious
bugs which have been in place for years! They can make it more useful for
the average user!
But since that will never happen, expect all
sorts of crap to be added to "justify" every hick and his inbred cousin to use
the product. Or most likely, "New from Microsoft Innovation Labs - The 3D
DirectX Helpful Paperclip! Now with a more enthusiastic Gilbert Godfrey
voice! In fact, you'll have to use the Talking Paperclip to input each and
every letter and our helpful Paperclip will explain where each and every key on
your keyboard is along with our delightful pop-up full-motion 1280 x 1024
animation windows!"
Can we start an EBAY bounty for the head of
Bill Gates yet? It'd be like a raffle. Buy tickets, donate to the
bounty hunter fund, and decapitate Bill Gates. The bounty hunter that
brings back the head wins the money and the raffle winner gets the head of the
most unethical computer billionaire next to Steve
Jobs.
A more interesting artifact is if the images are off alignment slightly, you have the first full-color 3D anaglyph images. If the film was off by a tiny fraction in the cyan/magenta alignment of the seperation optics, you can look at this with the Red/Blue glasses and see depth.
Very interesting artifacts which also would have been a profitable side-effect.
I've got a cylindrical thing in my lap with a round handle-like thing on the end. Turning it doesn't seem to do much, but pushing and pulling it sure is fun.
Who needs to look for other people now? I can do this most anytime I'm alone and I don't have to entertain anybody else to do it. No chance of catching a disease from somebody else, no chance of someone stealing my stuff on a date, no chance of accidentally getting a woman pregnant, and best of all it's free. Of course I don't meet interesting people this way - I use the internet.
Seriously, there is something to be said for handling some problems on your own and there shouldn't be shame if I works out benefiting the rest of the world's gene-pool in the long run.
So instead of just walking down the street with an earbug
cellphone laughing and talking apparently to yourself as people are want to do
these days, you could be stumbling around making inane "Johnny Mnemonic"
gestures too? Tres, tres cool...
Hey, I've got an idea. Rewrite the basic gestures to be
Mime gestures. Then we can have people walking by and resizing an
invisible box or doing "touching the invisible wall" when moving windows.
You could have them pulling an invisible rope to scroll the windows and walking
against the wind to move deeper into directory areas and file folder
rooms.
Silly, but cheap fun for children. My perfect concept
for user accessories is a Hexadecimal (from Reboot) harlequin
mask. If you could attach a bronze cup to one of the interface gloves
there could be even a easy way to get free money.
The only problem is a frightening world of faceless mimes
walking around the city streets. That's plenty of nightmare fuel for
me.
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Even worse, remember that some joker was selling real estate on Mars a few years back. What happens if the purchasers decide NASA is infringing on their claim? Think about it. Todays jests are tomorrows lawsuits.
Trademarking words is BAD. That I agree with. Making shameful insult toys to exploit racial prejudice and false stereotypes (mammie dolls, nigga dolls, & lying Jew Nazi insults).
I give the concept back of "Action Jesus doll! With sword of truth & machine gun of justice!" silly yes? How about "Apostle John! With detachable head and his Dinosaur of salvation - Farty!"? Or "Pope Paul II - With his Jew-smasher tank of Rapture!"?
If the dolls aren't demeaning the culture or their faith, then there is no issue. That would be as insane as trademarking Jesus (which I called dibs on first, so go to Hell Microsoft!)
The SNAP-27 power supply weighed about 20 kilograms, was 46 cm long and 40.6 cm in diameter. It consisted of a central fuel capsule surrounded by concentric rings of thermocouples. Outside of the thermocouples was a set of fins to provide for heat rejection from the cold side of the thermocouple.
Each of the SNAP devices produced approximately 75 W of electrical power at 30 VDC. The energy source for each device was a rod of plutonium-238 weighing approximately 2.5 kilograms and providing a thermal power of approximately 1250 W.
Plutonium-238 is a non-fissile isotope of plutonium that decays by alpha particle emission with essentially zero associated gamma emissions. This characteristic was very important for the ALSEP powering application, both because the instruments would have been negatively affected by interference from a gamma emitter and because the devices required close handling by lunar astronauts.
Even though the only radiation from Pu-238 is alpha particles which require little shielding, it is necessary to use thick gloves when handling a 2.5 kilogram rod of Pu-238. The surface temperature will reach about 500 degrees C because of the energy being released by radioactive decay. After ten years of continuous power output, a Pu-238 based RTG will still produce 92% of its initial power.
One measure of performance that is often used for chemical storage batteries is the amp-hour. A modern battery might have a capacity of 1.5 amp-hrs/kg. The SNAP-27 power supplies demonstrated the ability to provide more than 4380 amp-hrs/kg during the four years that their performance was monitored. Similar RTGs have produced 24,000 amp-hrs/kg during a 20 year operating life and are still going strong.
The big problem is that corporations DO get away with murder regularly. If a mining corporation poisons the water table permanently and ends up killing an entire town it is a cheaper fine then what the survivors could sue for (if the Republicans hadn't corrupted the right for the injured citizens to file a class-action law suit).
If a corporation through careless action or by soulless disregard ruins the lives of its workers or townsfolk, they often face a small fine. If a CEO ordered the criminal action, that CEO will only suffer whatever fate his shareholders might deem or what his fellow executives decide. In corporations like the tobacco industry, the executives could care little if people die from the use of their product.
The only dawn I see on this nightmare of corporate-monarchy is that for now the common person can purchase stock and have a meager say in policy. Otherwise it looks very bleak as corporations gain exclusion from lawsuits, answering to the customers, or any checks & balances which make America worthwhile. The megacorps are immune from the regulations of any country and have bought the lawmakers to the dismay of their customers. They define the objectivity of news to promote their agenda and have inverted the concept of objectivity.
The corporations are now the monarchy. We are merely disposable commodities. Serfs to their whims. The news channels are their church and state. The law bends to their fancy. If we don't like it; it is a futile anger. We can rattle our prison bars in rage, but we have little hope of escape unless we all wake up.
HARK! WAIT! We are not yet completely submersed I think. We are only powerless if we remain silent and hopeless. The corporations are monoliths which we can scarcely dent. However, we still all remain mortal. We need not take up arms and slay the oppressors when we can disobey. To be enslaved is to agree to be enslaved. We still have many avenues to rebel within. That is America. If all checks and balances fail within the civil system we still have the primitive methods available. Do not allow the corporations to place their whores within the offices of our government. Do not allow apathy to ruin our nation. Refuse, Resist, & Do Not Allow Yourself to be Enslaved.
I agree. If the artist is making pennies per CD and not being fairly represented by the distributer, I'd say downloading the files from the artist's website and paying them a reasonable $5 to $8 per CD would be a windfall if running the site wasn't a large expense as well.
One more thing...
Lasers tend not to be much useful against objects colored the same as the beam. Red beam against red truck = near 100% reflection.
It's much more efficent to target the tires or flash-blind the driver with a laser then try to melt the engine block.
I wanted Janeway to die exactly 4 episodes into the Voyager series. What a pompous, bombastic, trite, and annoying character was she! I think she set the tenor for the irritating PMS edge every character of Voyager's crew had. When I think about their bitter, sharp, & naging conversations I just want to smack their faces raw. The painful death of Janeway by being sucked into cold space would be a just reward for enduring the years of nattering dialog by the Voyager crew. Bleh!
Take the physical copies of the series and toss them into a burning trashbarrel. Spare the TREK fandom of the future from enduring this crap in rerun.
Yep, everyone forgot the transwarp drive after Seven of Nine was brought onto Voyager.
It was very forgotten for such a long time that the series was getting inane.
Really? For what real-life situation? When will I ever need i gallons of gas, or have to pay $3i+2.95 for a magazine?
Most government budgets are purely drawn up with imaginary numbers i. How else can you explain CIA getting money without review and question?
Actually...
Aflatoxin is found everywhere. Harvested peanuts are a common source, but it is also found on corn and cottonseed as well. It just needs the right conditions of humidity and organic matter.
http://msucares.com/pubs/is1563.htm
It would be nice if this would work, but UV destabilizes plastic molecules just like viral or fungal DNA. Place some of that shiny neon-colored plastic outdoors this summer and you'll see it fade to a lighter non-neon or clear color and crack. This is even easier to see in video rental stores as all the older title boxes from the 80's are faded to white (the neon-yellow fades to white). I work in a injection molding plastic factory and we did neon-orange flashlight cases for a while. The company put the reject cases on the driveway guide posts and these would fade from neon-orange to orange to yellowish to white over the course of a year (and these had a UV-stabilizing compound added to prevent this). Of course, this is symptomatic of all fluorescent materials. The best method to de-germ hospital PCs would be to add a spill-proof keyboard cover (less chance of hair & skin cells entering the keyboard to grow mold and could be washed and replaced regularly). The charcoal filter over the air exhaust is a good idea (though ozone does kill germs and also chews up organic materials). A quick Google search for "sterile computers" gets me an industrial link http://www.innoscan-isc.dk/company/profile.htm http://www.innoscan-isc.dk/products/pci6000level4. htm
(not exactly ergonomic, but dust-proof)
All Microsoft products are Beta. Always Beta.
The main concern is "Is this too buggy to ship?" If Bill says no, the crap is flung out the door with a shovel into the prospective customer's lap.
After all these DECADES can Microsoft explain why it still has the weak NOTEPAD, WORDPAD, & PAINT in place of something really useful. One could argue that these programs are stable and do the job and Frontpage comes free and does the rest, but Notepad still has a 20K limit and PAINT cannot handle any graphics format over BMP. Once the program is surpassed by a sellable version, they just leave weak software for the Windows system.
I will never buy WINDOWS XP.
Half the country didn't vote at all.
Less than 25% voted for Bush (he lost the popular vote). That's what has Bush worried in his current assault on America.
More like: When you're a hammer salesman, everything looks like a nail...
(Starts drumroll) ...then a dildo salesmen see everyone as dicks?
(Ends drumroll)
And it also is the trademarked name of a toothpaste. One which AOL-holes should not be able to re-trademark while that product is sold. Obvious prior-art. Maybe more problems should be fixed with guns.
It'd be nice to have a CD-R burner plug-in for the TIVO. CD-R's are lots easier to stack than videotapes.
Bender: "I've had enough of comedy, there's a whole field of hilarious tragedy yet to be uncovered."
--- And one in funny misquotes as well.
MUST RESIST MASTURBATION JOKE... MUST RESIST...
What?!? And all this time I thought THE WEAKEST LINK was a dating service for the bisexual nymphomanic dominatrix hostess.
Hostess: "Can you explain why you couldn't answer the last question?!? You are THE WEAKEST LINK!"
And the losers are sent to the spanking box while the winners get a full night of bondage sex which will debut on the next episode of HBO - AFTER DARK's "REAL SEX".
--- What the heck have you been watching?
And soon Jack Chick will be burning in Hell. Douglas Adams need not worry, God has a divine sense of humor. Jack Chick - This is your death! http://198.182.127.234/~weirdcrap/chick/dtr/dtr.ht ml
As for God... well, this is how I view God.
http://198.182.127.234/~weirdcrap/chick/judge/judg e.html
Jack Chick Parody
http://lefty.simplenet.com/chick/
http://198.182.127.234/~weirdcrap/chick/
http://www.fecundity.com/darkdung/
http://www.e-sheep.com/Saturnalia/
Jack Chick Plot Generator
http://www.vodex.btinternet.co.uk/chick/
Commentary on Chick
http://www.morons.org/chick/gayblade.php3
What Jack Chick REALLY believes
http://www.interestingideas.com/ii/chick.htm
Jack's Biography (Nutty as Rev. Fred Phelps)
http://www.chick.com/information/authors/chick.asp
A more balanced biography
http://atheism.about.com/religion/atheism/library/ nosearch/printable/blp_aa100799.htm
Fine. Then I'm going to get a Trademark on Jesus. You Mormons think your Jesus is so much better than my Jesus? Then I'm going to sue! From now on all variations of Jesus are to cease-and-desist. I also claim that since I own all your Jesus, I lay claim to all funds raised by the illegal use of my Jesus.
Stop praying over there! I own you!
Is this silly and insulting enough to get Congress & the Senate off their worthless asses yet? I am sick of these fraud lawsuits.
It seems like M$ has been coming to terms with its inability to innovate for awhile. I can remember seeing some interview with Bill Gates where he says that M$ could go out of business in five years, this is how this industry works (shocking the talk show host). Maybe he was serious, I mean, what more can be done for office software? If they can't continue to sell upgrades because significant improvements have been made, they'll just have to lock customers into a pay me once, pay me twice, pay me three times model like this.
Microsoft is funny because they seem to think that if they are not outright dominating everything about the computer, they are failing. I can't imagine any "common sense" businessman is going to be interested in paying for something more than once.
But look at all the new bloat Microsoft can add! They can make Office actually save in universal documented free formats!They can stop the stupid system from crashing over obvious bugs which have been in place for years! They can make it more useful for the average user!
But since that will never happen, expect all sorts of crap to be added to "justify" every hick and his inbred cousin to use the product. Or most likely, "New from Microsoft Innovation Labs - The 3D DirectX Helpful Paperclip! Now with a more enthusiastic Gilbert Godfrey voice! In fact, you'll have to use the Talking Paperclip to input each and every letter and our helpful Paperclip will explain where each and every key on your keyboard is along with our delightful pop-up full-motion 1280 x 1024 animation windows!"
Can we start an EBAY bounty for the head of Bill Gates yet? It'd be like a raffle. Buy tickets, donate to the bounty hunter fund, and decapitate Bill Gates. The bounty hunter that brings back the head wins the money and the raffle winner gets the head of the most unethical computer billionaire next to Steve Jobs.
A more interesting artifact is if the images are off alignment slightly, you have the first full-color 3D anaglyph images. If the film was off by a tiny fraction in the cyan/magenta alignment of the seperation optics, you can look at this with the Red/Blue glasses and see depth.
Very interesting artifacts which also would have been a profitable side-effect.
I've got a cylindrical thing in my lap with a round handle-like thing on the end. Turning it doesn't seem to do much, but pushing and pulling it sure is fun.
Who needs to look for other people now? I can do this most anytime I'm alone and I don't have to entertain anybody else to do it. No chance of catching a disease from somebody else, no chance of someone stealing my stuff on a date, no chance of accidentally getting a woman pregnant, and best of all it's free. Of course I don't meet interesting people this way - I use the internet.
Seriously, there is something to be said for handling some problems on your own and there shouldn't be shame if I works out benefiting the rest of the world's gene-pool in the long run.
You'll forgive me for not shaking your hand.
So instead of just walking down the street with an earbug cellphone laughing and talking apparently to yourself as people are want to do these days, you could be stumbling around making inane "Johnny Mnemonic" gestures too? Tres, tres cool... Hey, I've got an idea. Rewrite the basic gestures to be Mime gestures. Then we can have people walking by and resizing an invisible box or doing "touching the invisible wall" when moving windows. You could have them pulling an invisible rope to scroll the windows and walking against the wind to move deeper into directory areas and file folder rooms. Silly, but cheap fun for children. My perfect concept for user accessories is a Hexadecimal (from Reboot) harlequin mask. If you could attach a bronze cup to one of the interface gloves there could be even a easy way to get free money. The only problem is a frightening world of faceless mimes walking around the city streets. That's plenty of nightmare fuel for me.