If you could somehow construct a conduit that the signal could use to travel from the mouse or keyboard to the box, perhaps a metal line with some sort of insulation to prevent signal bleed, and electric shocks. Of course these conduits would need to be long enough so that your mouse or keyboard could be operated at a comfortable distance from the machine...
Has anyone else been waiting for the Voyager episode when this swashbuckling pirate, this petty dictator, this puffed-shirt Captain of a intragalatic garbage scow gets sent to the hoosgow?
And whatever happened to the standards of Starfleet that they'd give Janeway a comission? E.g. Picard (due to the shenanigans of the Traveller) gets sent, crew and all, to another galaxy, and then to another universe entirely, and still makes it home in time for tea (Earl Grey Hot!)
Kirk (why do all the temporal anomalies always send us back to 20th century earth) would violate the prime directive at the drop of a bra, and still managed to steal (a) a Bird of Prey, (b) a pair of Humpback whales, (c) Chekov, and (d) the heart of Catherine Hicks.
Sisko, come on, Emissary of the Prophets, Captain of the most important piece of realestate in the Alpha quadrant, and single father.
My fantasy:
(Starfleet headquarters, New San Fran, Earth)
Admiral: We've been reviewing your logs Ensign Janeway.
Janeway: Err, that's Captain.
A: As, I was saying, Ensign...
Vulcan Admiral: Have you even heard of the Prime Directive? Jesus, I'm so pissed off.
A: Did you not realize that the Maquis were are terorist organization? You gave these people battlefield comissions? Ensign, the Delta Quadrant is not a warzone. Couldn't you have made them, Jezz I don't know, passengers?
"Just wait until the KKK can begin brewing their own perfect children."
Does anyone actually believe that a bunch of ignorant Pabst-Blue-Ribbon swilling morons have the money and means to produce human clones? Have you seen these people? They're hardly a menace to society.
Why not outlaw matter transference devices?
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Congress takes another bold step in outlawing human cloning. Isn't this similar to their law that SDI should be implemented as soon as technically feasible? Human cloning is not, despite the hype, in our near future. Currently science has cloned what, a couple of sheep? The success rate for cloning is less than 1%. Most "failed" clones cause the death of their hosts (mothers?). Where is the Commander, or Bill Gates for that matter, going to find 100 women to host their clones?
"Ladies, the job is as follows, we're going to harvest eggs from your ovaries, strip out all of the genetic material in these eggs, implant new genetic material, pump you full of immuno-suppressants, reimplant the eggs. 30 of you will die during the pregnancy, 30 more during child birth, 30 will miscarry and never be able to have kids again, 9 will give birth to ill formed short lived freaks, and perhaps one will give birth to a Private Taco, his navel will be the size of a grapefruit, and he will most likely hit puberty and old age at the same time."
Please Congress save us from this brave new world!!!
Until some one can grow mammals from zygote through infant without a living host, I wouldn't start shopping for matching outfits.
A free telephone directory service that has of late switched to a combination or free and fee services. I'm most upset about the reverse lookup. No longer can I enter random phone numbers just to see who owns them.
THE PEOPLE ARE SCRATCHING
(1963. words Ernie Marrs and Harold Martin, Music by Pete Seeger)
Come fill up your glasses and set yourself down,
I'll tell you a story of somebody's town.
It isn't too near and it's not far away.
It's not a place where I'd want to stay.
CH
The people are scratching all over the street,
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat.
Winter came in with a cold icy blast;
It killed off the flowers and killed off the grass.
Rabbits were starving because of the freeze;
They started to eat the bark on the trees.
CH
The farmers said, "This sort of thing won't do.
Our trees will be dead before the rabbits get through.
We'll have to poison those rabbits it's clear,
Or we'll have no crops to harvest next year.
CH
So they brought in the poison and they spread it around;
Soon dead rabbits began to be found.
Dogs ate the rabbits but the farmers just said,
"We'll poison those rabbits till the last dog is dead."
CH
Up in the sky there were meat-eating fowls;
The dead rabbits poisoned the hawks and the owls.
All the field mice the hawks used to chase
Started multiplying all over the place.
CH
The fields and the meadows were barren and brown;
The mice got hungry and moved into town.
City folks took the farmers' advice
And all of them started to poison the mice.
CH
There were dead mice in all the apartments and flats;
Cats ate the mice and the mice killed the cats.
The smell was awful and I'm sure glad to say
I wasn't the man hired to haul them away.
CH
All through the country and all through the town
There wasn't a dog or a cat to be found.
The fleas asked each other, "Now where can we stay?"
They've been on the people from then till this day.
CH
All you small creatures who live in this land
Stay clear of the man with the poisonous hand.
A few bales of hay might keep you alive,
But he'll pay more to kill you than to let you survive.
"d)"All the Islamists and terrorist groups are now using the Internet to spread their messages," says Reuven Paz, academic director of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, an independent Israeli think tank." This has absolutely nothing to do with encryption. Notice the equality achieved in the sentence between Islamist and terrorist. Rephrase to "All Southern Baptists and racists groups are now using the Internet". Think about it. "
Or replace "Islamists and terrorist groups" with Lawfirms and Colleges, or the IRS and Warner Brothers, or Museums and General Motors.
Or replace "the internet" with the Postal Service, or TV, or Sky Writers, or the Interstate Highway system, or Container Ships.
This sort of vauge propaganda bullshit is used by the powers that be to consolidate their power and increase fear and paranoia amoung the tempest tossed.
Bin Laden does actually exist, but he is not the Anti-American all powerful evil guy that the US government would like you to believe he is. Bin Laden doesn't hate the U.S., he hates the Saud Royal family. Can you blame him? The late King Saud was an Arab war lord that concurred most of the Arabian peninsula with the help of mercenaries and foreigners. His descendants have amassed great wealth from exploiting the country's natural resources. They do not allow political opposition of any sort. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship, not a democracy, ruled by a Royal family. The very name Saudi Arabia gives insight to how the royal family views the country and rights of its subjects. Imagine if G.W. changed the name of the U.S. to Bush's States of America, or if the U.K. became the Windsor Kingdom.
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If you could somehow construct a conduit that the signal could use to travel from the mouse or keyboard to the box, perhaps a metal line with some sort of insulation to prevent signal bleed, and electric shocks. Of course these conduits would need to be long enough so that your mouse or keyboard could be operated at a comfortable distance from the machine...
Brilliant!
Has anyone else been waiting for the Voyager episode when this swashbuckling pirate, this petty dictator, this puffed-shirt Captain of a intragalatic garbage scow gets sent to the hoosgow? And whatever happened to the standards of Starfleet that they'd give Janeway a comission? E.g. Picard (due to the shenanigans of the Traveller) gets sent, crew and all, to another galaxy, and then to another universe entirely, and still makes it home in time for tea (Earl Grey Hot!) Kirk (why do all the temporal anomalies always send us back to 20th century earth) would violate the prime directive at the drop of a bra, and still managed to steal (a) a Bird of Prey, (b) a pair of Humpback whales, (c) Chekov, and (d) the heart of Catherine Hicks. Sisko, come on, Emissary of the Prophets, Captain of the most important piece of realestate in the Alpha quadrant, and single father. My fantasy: (Starfleet headquarters, New San Fran, Earth) Admiral: We've been reviewing your logs Ensign Janeway. Janeway: Err, that's Captain. A: As, I was saying, Ensign... Vulcan Admiral: Have you even heard of the Prime Directive? Jesus, I'm so pissed off. A: Did you not realize that the Maquis were are terorist organization? You gave these people battlefield comissions? Ensign, the Delta Quadrant is not a warzone. Couldn't you have made them, Jezz I don't know, passengers?
It's not a scam see. What you do is, give them all of your credit card numbers, and they tell you if one is a winner.
"Just wait until the KKK can begin brewing their own perfect children." Does anyone actually believe that a bunch of ignorant Pabst-Blue-Ribbon swilling morons have the money and means to produce human clones? Have you seen these people? They're hardly a menace to society.
Congress takes another bold step in outlawing human cloning. Isn't this similar to their law that SDI should be implemented as soon as technically feasible? Human cloning is not, despite the hype, in our near future. Currently science has cloned what, a couple of sheep? The success rate for cloning is less than 1%. Most "failed" clones cause the death of their hosts (mothers?). Where is the Commander, or Bill Gates for that matter, going to find 100 women to host their clones? "Ladies, the job is as follows, we're going to harvest eggs from your ovaries, strip out all of the genetic material in these eggs, implant new genetic material, pump you full of immuno-suppressants, reimplant the eggs. 30 of you will die during the pregnancy, 30 more during child birth, 30 will miscarry and never be able to have kids again, 9 will give birth to ill formed short lived freaks, and perhaps one will give birth to a Private Taco, his navel will be the size of a grapefruit, and he will most likely hit puberty and old age at the same time." Please Congress save us from this brave new world!!! Until some one can grow mammals from zygote through infant without a living host, I wouldn't start shopping for matching outfits.
A free telephone directory service that has of late switched to a combination or free and fee services. I'm most upset about the reverse lookup. No longer can I enter random phone numbers just to see who owns them.
Since we all know hemp paper is more enviromentally sound than wood pulp paper, hemp phones can't be too far off.
THE PEOPLE ARE SCRATCHING
(1963. words Ernie Marrs and Harold Martin, Music by Pete Seeger)
Come fill up your glasses and set yourself down,
I'll tell you a story of somebody's town.
It isn't too near and it's not far away.
It's not a place where I'd want to stay.
CH
The people are scratching all over the street,
Because the rabbits had nothing to eat.
Winter came in with a cold icy blast;
It killed off the flowers and killed off the grass.
Rabbits were starving because of the freeze;
They started to eat the bark on the trees.
CH
The farmers said, "This sort of thing won't do.
Our trees will be dead before the rabbits get through.
We'll have to poison those rabbits it's clear,
Or we'll have no crops to harvest next year.
CH
So they brought in the poison and they spread it around;
Soon dead rabbits began to be found.
Dogs ate the rabbits but the farmers just said,
"We'll poison those rabbits till the last dog is dead."
CH
Up in the sky there were meat-eating fowls;
The dead rabbits poisoned the hawks and the owls.
All the field mice the hawks used to chase
Started multiplying all over the place.
CH
The fields and the meadows were barren and brown;
The mice got hungry and moved into town.
City folks took the farmers' advice
And all of them started to poison the mice.
CH
There were dead mice in all the apartments and flats;
Cats ate the mice and the mice killed the cats.
The smell was awful and I'm sure glad to say
I wasn't the man hired to haul them away.
CH
All through the country and all through the town
There wasn't a dog or a cat to be found.
The fleas asked each other, "Now where can we stay?"
They've been on the people from then till this day.
CH
All you small creatures who live in this land
Stay clear of the man with the poisonous hand.
A few bales of hay might keep you alive,
But he'll pay more to kill you than to let you survive.
CH ^^
"d)"All the Islamists and terrorist groups are now using the Internet to spread their messages," says Reuven Paz, academic director of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, an independent Israeli think tank." This has absolutely nothing to do with encryption. Notice the equality achieved in the sentence between Islamist and terrorist. Rephrase to "All Southern Baptists and racists groups are now using the Internet". Think about it. " Or replace "Islamists and terrorist groups" with Lawfirms and Colleges, or the IRS and Warner Brothers, or Museums and General Motors. Or replace "the internet" with the Postal Service, or TV, or Sky Writers, or the Interstate Highway system, or Container Ships. This sort of vauge propaganda bullshit is used by the powers that be to consolidate their power and increase fear and paranoia amoung the tempest tossed.
Bin Laden does actually exist, but he is not the Anti-American all powerful evil guy that the US government would like you to believe he is. Bin Laden doesn't hate the U.S., he hates the Saud Royal family. Can you blame him? The late King Saud was an Arab war lord that concurred most of the Arabian peninsula with the help of mercenaries and foreigners. His descendants have amassed great wealth from exploiting the country's natural resources. They do not allow political opposition of any sort. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship, not a democracy, ruled by a Royal family. The very name Saudi Arabia gives insight to how the royal family views the country and rights of its subjects. Imagine if G.W. changed the name of the U.S. to Bush's States of America, or if the U.K. became the Windsor Kingdom.