Time of the Twins / War of the Twins / Test of the Twins would have been a better choice than these Chronicles books. It has a more manageable cast that reduces to the members of a love triangle, with everyone else as extras. It has betrayal, scheming, action, and lurking evil. Much more compelling and easier to write a screenplay about.
Bonus: The Twins is very doable in live action (in the post-Peter Jackson LotR era).
Repetitions of the terms "shield" and "bubble" in the article: 7. Mentions of the fact that this system consists of firing weapons at incoming ordinance to cause it to explode: 0.
Star Trek geek god skewers article summary with knowledge of arcane trivia, earns +5 informative moderation. Impressive, even by/. standards. To bad he posted AC.
Krisy Kreme . . . donuts have the highest fat concentration, and . . . [were] found to be using the lower grade of chocolate, etc.
Is that why they taste so good!
Around here, we have KK, Dunkin', and Tim's in reasonable profusion. For my money, KK has the best basic glazed donuts by a wide margin. Of course, none of them can match our local bakery for high quality of chocolate or creme.
If the license were a readily transferrable, physical object (like paper currency), an enormous market in resale of unused licenses would spring up overnight. There would be auctions. There would be brokers. It would be glorious.
Seller: "Would you like your license for Windows new for $199 or used for $9?"
Buyer: "Uh... Let me think about that."
Of course, _all_ new licenses would shortly include a "nontransferable" clause, and the market would fall off as the old transferrably licensed software became obsolete.
Those who have been saying for years that AOL content adds no value to what can be had in the wilds of the internet now have proof: Time-Warner will stop charging for AOL content.
What a long, embarrassing fall for the online company whose stock was once so valuable that it could buy a major cable company!
You're missing the point..."in the public" does NOT mean "under surveilance."
Quite right. It used to be that the world was divided into (~95%) places where you knew whether anyone was watching you and (~5%) places that were being watched. It was relatively easy to "keep a low profile." People relied on that anonymity, though they did not realize it.
Now, that ratio is shifting. More and more places are being watched constantly by machines of one sort or another. How will we feel when the only place we can feel reasonably confident that we're not being watched is in our basements?
Up until the modern era, it wasn't that you had privacy, it was that it was prohibitively expensive/difficult for police to piece together your every move, as they can now at trivial cost.
That captures the important point exactly, namely "why privacy is so important all of a sudden".
Another example. In connection with the NSA call records story, the government claims that they have been monitoring call data, but not call content. If this is true, there is exactly one reason why: it's not cheap enough to for them to monitor all that content. Yet.
[Nielson's] research system is not perfect, but it's close enough to give advertisers a picture of who's watching what. If it wasn't, Nielson wouldn't be in the TV ratings system for long.
It appears that the precise duration of "long" will be known shortly.
From the article: There Harper was directed into the belly of a General Electric EntryScan puffer machine that shot bits of air at his suit in order to see if he had been handling explosives.
TSA employees wearing baby blue surgical gloves then swiped his Sidekick and his laptop for traces of explosives and searched through his carry-on, while a supervisor took his ticket, conferred with other employees and made a phone call.
I wonder how many people it would take to DOS that procedure?
Given these densities, could you build one suitable for a house? What would that cost? It seems ideal to be recharged by intermittant power sources such as wind and solar.
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There have always been shut-ins. The net just . . . lets us them interact with us!
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Time of the Twins / War of the Twins / Test of the Twins would have been a better choice than these Chronicles books. It has a more manageable cast that reduces to the members of a love triangle, with everyone else as extras. It has betrayal, scheming, action, and lurking evil. Much more compelling and easier to write a screenplay about.
Bonus: The Twins is very doable in live action (in the post-Peter Jackson LotR era).
Repetitions of the terms "shield" and "bubble" in the article: 7.
Mentions of the fact that this system consists of firing weapons at incoming ordinance to cause it to explode: 0.
Either that, or the crabs are growing.
." (March, 2004)
"[T]he crabs can grow to 22 pounds (10 kilograms) and measure 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) across . .
But does it work? No. . . . Nothing seems to work at the national level . . .
Let's not forget that no plan/ law/ system is perfect. At this level, something "works" if it is better than the next-best alternative.
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled debate of what it means to be "better than", already in progress.
See, the car companies are right: people don't want smaller, more efficient vehicles.
Star Trek geek god skewers article summary with knowledge of arcane trivia, earns +5 informative moderation. Impressive, even by /. standards. To bad he posted AC.
Krisy Kreme . . . donuts have the highest fat concentration, and . . . [were] found to be using the lower grade of chocolate, etc.
Is that why they taste so good!
Around here, we have KK, Dunkin', and Tim's in reasonable profusion. For my money, KK has the best basic glazed donuts by a wide margin. Of course, none of them can match our local bakery for high quality of chocolate or creme.
Lower your firewalls and prepare to be boarded.
You have 5 seconds to comply.
What is the point of AOL?
Those who have been saying for years that AOL content adds no value to what can be had in the wilds of the internet now have proof: Time-Warner will stop charging for AOL content.
What a long, embarrassing fall for the online company whose stock was once so valuable that it could buy a major cable company!
You are in *public*. If you want privacy, go indoors.
And where, praytell, should we go if we want freedom?
You're missing the point..."in the public" does NOT mean "under surveilance."
Quite right. It used to be that the world was divided into (~95%) places where you knew whether anyone was watching you and (~5%) places that were being watched. It was relatively easy to "keep a low profile." People relied on that anonymity, though they did not realize it.
Now, that ratio is shifting. More and more places are being watched constantly by machines of one sort or another. How will we feel when the only place we can feel reasonably confident that we're not being watched is in our basements?
Up until the modern era, it wasn't that you had privacy, it was that it was prohibitively expensive/difficult for police to piece together your every move, as they can now at trivial cost.
That captures the important point exactly, namely "why privacy is so important all of a sudden".
Another example. In connection with the NSA call records story, the government claims that they have been monitoring call data, but not call content. If this is true, there is exactly one reason why: it's not cheap enough to for them to monitor all that content. Yet.
[Nielson's] research system is not perfect, but it's close enough to give advertisers a picture of who's watching what. If it wasn't, Nielson wouldn't be in the TV ratings system for long.
It appears that the precise duration of "long" will be known shortly.
Now if only they could teach this to my dogs.
Cobalt-60 is very unique, . . .
For the good of the order, I am compelled to point out that nothing is very unique.
Otherwise, good post!
I like big guns and I cannot lie
You other gamers can't deny
That when a target walks in with those big and pointy teeths
You need a BFG at the least.
What shooter, first-person or otherwise, doesn't fall into one of those categories? Duck Hunt?
From the article: There Harper was directed into the belly of a General Electric EntryScan puffer machine that shot bits of air at his suit in order to see if he had been handling explosives.
TSA employees wearing baby blue surgical gloves then swiped his Sidekick and his laptop for traces of explosives and searched through his carry-on, while a supervisor took his ticket, conferred with other employees and made a phone call.
I wonder how many people it would take to DOS that procedure?
Given these densities, could you build one suitable for a house? What would that cost? It seems ideal to be recharged by intermittant power sources such as wind and solar.
. . . the Powers That Be have absolutely no qualms about sidestepping any troublesome rules and regulations that stand between them and their agenda.
The govt claims they have been monitoring call data, but not call content. If true, there is exactly one reason why: it's not cheap enough to do. Yet.