> The US Dollar, the Euro, and the Yen are 'real
> money'. Gold is just metal.
Yes, but metal that is valued by most people, and those who don't value it do recognize that most others do, hence they value it indirectly.
Gold, or other precious metals, are the original money, being one half of an exchange of goods for goods. No one wants a scrap of paper, they want stuff. In that sense, your "real money" is just garbage. (Note, though, that during war, the US "garbage" went up in buying power, while "real", gold-based Kuwait currency was worthless.)
Anyway, Julian Simon wins out in the end, even with gold, at least since Carter left office and the government stopped believing in Nobel-prizewinning (literally, not a sarcastic comment) economic theories about chronic inflation.
Nah, it's dead as a doornail when he dies. Oh, it'll survive for awhile, but it will wither away. Several OS gens down the road it'll swap with some other OS.
Pauly is supposed to be funny (I suppose, in some theoretical way) so his acting isn't supposed to be good.
Now Keenau Reeves, well, let's just say that if your acting is worse than Divine's fat little troll-ette friend in Polyester, you are in as deep shit as you can get.
> It is the "proper" pronounciation tought in
> public school to children. Until the late 80's
> the BBC would not let anyone on their news
> broadcasts who could not speak in this way.
It's similar over here. "News broadcaster-speak" is the same as a midwestern accent, but instead of "da", they properly pronounce "the".
I took a differential equations class one summer at Wayne State U in Detroit (as opposed to my normal school, the much better U-M, Ann Arbor, where I had the rest of the calculus classes.) Wayne State was loaded with students saying things like "e ta da tee", whereas U-M had a lot more out-of-state students, and much more intelligent in-state students. It was hillarious.
> I'd take a flat chested, big-assed girl anytime over Lara.
I, too, am a fan of Jennifer Lopez and Kate Winslet.
Do you want to know the funniest thing? A magazine asked men which women in Hollywood they most wanted, and Jennifer and Kate came out on top. Another mag asked women which Hollywood woman they would most want to have sex with, if they were to have sex with another woman, and Ms. Jolie won that contest.
So, feminists, you seek to know the evils of Hollywood with respect to starvation ideals? Look into thine own eye, not to the eyes of men.
I never went to see a video game movie, sorry. I went to one cartoon-turned-live-action movie, He-Man when I was a teenager, and almost puked. Then I watched the beginning of The Punisher movie (same guy, Dorf, sorry, Dolf) when it came on Cable and just couldn't believe how they did no character development. They just assumed you knew the character. I didn't see anything that pathetic for fifteen years until Monkey Bone (you're not gonna believe this, but get this, that's a euphamism for an erection!)
> I'd even forgive her the ridiculous lip-work she has had done.
Huge, well-textured lips like that are awesome! Those wrinkly lips soak up saliva like broccoli soaks up spicy sauce in a Thai dish.
I heard somewhere makeup books actually recommend heavy, waxy lipstick to smear away those glorious, sexy wrinkles! Wrinkles = good, wrinkles = sexy, all important skin on the body is heavily wrinkled.
Jennifer Lopez or Kate Winslet would be a little too filled out, not that I don't prefer looking at them.
I'm thinking, maybe Jennifer Aniston with darker hair and a few extra Big Macs in her thighs, like during the off-season of Friends prior to the big starvedown (which should be starting right about now.)
Alien finds DNA capsules and pipes them into their high-speed DNA simulation program.
"Hmmm,", it says as it looks at a mature sample that looks like Bill Gates. "Ugh."
"Hmmm,", looking at another that looks like some other hideous octogenarian billionaire. "What a screwed up species if these are their best-developed beings."
Anyway, I concurr. Being a long-lived sex slave in a super-advanced intragalactic civilization is probably about the best thing that can happen to you. Instantaneous "surgical" procedures to alter your body into any shape desired, drugs to make that other person's (or thing's) stinky pheromones be the most arousing thing you could possibly imagine, drugs to install love, lust, crush, lust-crush, and all brought up to levels far more powerful than anything that might happen naturally. Doesn't sound like it's suck to me...
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On the other hand, that is the one reasonable explanation besides the unlikely "we're the first" to resolve the Fermii Paradox.
Maybe physics should watch out for a horizon-effect danger.
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Seconds, if you were lucky. Planets are constantly bombarded by tiny meteorites (and if high-speed ions can ignite even one reaction, you're looking at nanoseconds.)
Of course, the argument it hasn't happened on Jupiter or whatever is that it can't because it already would have. This is the same argument used to defend new high-speed particle accelerators against claims they might create new, strange lower-energy states of matter that will cascade out of control until the entire Earth is consumed in minutes. There have been particles hitting all heavenly bodies at magnitudes higher speeds for billions of years and we don't see anything bizarre still in orbit around a still-existing sun.
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> The US Dollar, the Euro, and the Yen are 'real
> money'. Gold is just metal.
Yes, but metal that is valued by most people, and those who don't value it do recognize that most others do, hence they value it indirectly.
Gold, or other precious metals, are the original money, being one half of an exchange of goods for goods. No one wants a scrap of paper, they want stuff. In that sense, your "real money" is just garbage. (Note, though, that during war, the US "garbage" went up in buying power, while "real", gold-based Kuwait currency was worthless.)
Anyway, Julian Simon wins out in the end, even with gold, at least since Carter left office and the government stopped believing in Nobel-prizewinning (literally, not a sarcastic comment) economic theories about chronic inflation.
Pardon my manglation, but the jambon and gruyierre baguette sandwiches sold in open shops in little villages are quite nice.
Well, don't forget eXBox, XBoxVille, eXBoxVille, eXBoxContentVille, eXBoxContentVilleOnline, ...
That's a much better deal than the Love and Rockets comic book got...
Nah, it's dead as a doornail when he dies. Oh, it'll survive for awhile, but it will wither away. Several OS gens down the road it'll swap with some other OS.
You can thank Paul Hogan for the US' impression of Australian accents (when not confused with Austrian, of course.)
G'day, eh mate? Throw another prawn on the barbie and let's go walkabout. Did you see that dirty film where a shiela jumped a matilda?
Pauly is supposed to be funny (I suppose, in some theoretical way) so his acting isn't supposed to be good.
Now Keenau Reeves, well, let's just say that if your acting is worse than Divine's fat little troll-ette friend in Polyester, you are in as deep shit as you can get.
It's true, the Queen's English had been replaced in international importance by Da Language of Dose Dat Landed On Da Moon.
> It is the "proper" pronounciation tought in
> public school to children. Until the late 80's
> the BBC would not let anyone on their news
> broadcasts who could not speak in this way.
It's similar over here. "News broadcaster-speak" is the same as a midwestern accent, but instead of "da", they properly pronounce "the".
I took a differential equations class one summer at Wayne State U in Detroit (as opposed to my normal school, the much better U-M, Ann Arbor, where I had the rest of the calculus classes.) Wayne State was loaded with students saying things like "e ta da tee", whereas U-M had a lot more out-of-state students, and much more intelligent in-state students. It was hillarious.
> I'm sorry, but people from the US have an idea of what the British accent is.
Although the reverse, hearing Tracey Ullman do a fake US accent is hillarious. Of course, it's supposed to be funny...
> better than Lost in Space and better than X-Men
X-Men movie, Lost In Space movie, and now Tomb Raider movie. Ehh, Hollywood has your wallet pegged. They do it because peepe keep going to see it.
> I'd take a flat chested, big-assed girl anytime over Lara.
I, too, am a fan of Jennifer Lopez and Kate Winslet.
Do you want to know the funniest thing? A magazine asked men which women in Hollywood they most wanted, and Jennifer and Kate came out on top. Another mag asked women which Hollywood woman they would most want to have sex with, if they were to have sex with another woman, and Ms. Jolie won that contest.
So, feminists, you seek to know the evils of Hollywood with respect to starvation ideals? Look into thine own eye, not to the eyes of men.
I never went to see a video game movie, sorry. I went to one cartoon-turned-live-action movie, He-Man when I was a teenager, and almost puked. Then I watched the beginning of The Punisher movie (same guy, Dorf, sorry, Dolf) when it came on Cable and just couldn't believe how they did no character development. They just assumed you knew the character. I didn't see anything that pathetic for fifteen years until Monkey Bone (you're not gonna believe this, but get this, that's a euphamism for an erection!)
> I'd even forgive her the ridiculous lip-work she has had done.
Huge, well-textured lips like that are awesome! Those wrinkly lips soak up saliva like broccoli soaks up spicy sauce in a Thai dish.
I heard somewhere makeup books actually recommend heavy, waxy lipstick to smear away those glorious, sexy wrinkles! Wrinkles = good, wrinkles = sexy, all important skin on the body is heavily wrinkled.
Jennifer Lopez or Kate Winslet would be a little too filled out, not that I don't prefer looking at them.
I'm thinking, maybe Jennifer Aniston with darker hair and a few extra Big Macs in her thighs, like during the off-season of Friends prior to the big starvedown (which should be starting right about now.)
> Trouble was they were carnivores, but civilised.
> So, they grew a clone of you, and then... dinner
> time... everyone was happy. I think.
As long as the clone was grown acephalously, it would be no more immoral than us growing such clones for replacement parts. Everybody would be happy.
I know! I hate the sad ending of The Matrix.
> Just remember to use a condom so you don't catch
> any venereal disease
...and so that she won't, either. Remember, she's having sex with everyone you've ever had sex with, too.
Oh, wait a minute. Given the Slashdot population, she's most likely just having sex with one person.
Well, we now know the asteriod, if big enough, will probably kick viable DNA back out into space. Maybe they will survive after all.
Idiots! That was Willy Wonka.
Yes, but I earn a dollar for every 70 cents you earn.
...assuming, of course, there is no Intragalactic FDA.*
* "Protecting The People by causing many times more problems, suffering, injuries, and deaths than it has prevented for over 50 years."
Alien finds DNA capsules and pipes them into their high-speed DNA simulation program.
"Hmmm,", it says as it looks at a mature sample that looks like Bill Gates. "Ugh."
"Hmmm,", looking at another that looks like some other hideous octogenarian billionaire. "What a screwed up species if these are their best-developed beings."
Anyway, I concurr. Being a long-lived sex slave in a super-advanced intragalactic civilization is probably about the best thing that can happen to you. Instantaneous "surgical" procedures to alter your body into any shape desired, drugs to make that other person's (or thing's) stinky pheromones be the most arousing thing you could possibly imagine, drugs to install love, lust, crush, lust-crush, and all brought up to levels far more powerful than anything that might happen naturally. Doesn't sound like it's suck to me...
On the other hand, that is the one reasonable explanation besides the unlikely "we're the first" to resolve the Fermii Paradox.
Maybe physics should watch out for a horizon-effect danger.
Seconds, if you were lucky. Planets are constantly bombarded by tiny meteorites (and if high-speed ions can ignite even one reaction, you're looking at nanoseconds.)
Of course, the argument it hasn't happened on Jupiter or whatever is that it can't because it already would have. This is the same argument used to defend new high-speed particle accelerators against claims they might create new, strange lower-energy states of matter that will cascade out of control until the entire Earth is consumed in minutes. There have been particles hitting all heavenly bodies at magnitudes higher speeds for billions of years and we don't see anything bizarre still in orbit around a still-existing sun.