While it may depend on the shoe - for example, Earth Shoes - in fact, sandals appear to be the best footwear for practical use.
But, if you insist on wearing western-style shoes, the practice of taking them off on entering a home not only will help your feet, it will reduce the amount of dirt, microbes, and dust mites that enter your domicile.
Also, since most American women's shoe sizes are two sizes too small for their actual feet, this can have a major impact just in reducing cramping into too small spaces.
Haven't they been selling these for a while? Maybe not Apple themselves, but I'm sure I saw something like this last time I was in the Apple store in NYC.
Well, as you may have guessed, the iSock is available only in limited locations in North America, primarily in stores in NYC and San Francisco, although it's in wide release in Japan, where it's all the rage.
So, to you it may be old hat [old sock?], but to the rest of the US and much of the world, it's GNU.
Simple take the hoodie (only $29.95) off your iPod - sadly, mostly available in Japan and some select stores in NYC and San Francisco - and it works quite well as a girl's sock.
Of course, you need two to do this, so buying the iSock is a better bargain, and a bit warmer.
I really fucking hate this. This is the typical newspeak propaganda used by companies terrified of losing their stranglehold on consumers by loudly bleating "Communist" into the air in order to get support from the more paranoid fringes of society, such as politicians who get kick backs from such companies.
You bring up a good point. Open Source is really Capitalism at its ideal - closed monopolies are actually anti-Capitalist by definition, since they discourage (actively) competition, depend upon all players in the market not having equal and free access to information, and don't price to equilibrium but distort the market.
Sigh. Why do people believe the lies of the red commie Bushies so much...
you're right... I agree they attack Firefox while ignoring IE issues that were never addressed. So, in case anyone hasn't heard this: I just wanted to say IE sucks really bad, especially if you're on a Mac and they won't do anything useful.
I said it back in 2000, but you all said that Net firms would rule, would spend too much money, would be so successful that politicians could not oppose them.
It's not 2000 anymore - it's 2002. Net firms are weak, state budgets are in crisis, politicians can't let up to one-sixth of commerce go untaxed anymore, not when they're bleeding red ink all over.
You can fight them on fairness, but Net transactions will be taxed. Choose your battles - and remember that you have few allies left, and your forces are decimated and in disarray as you take on the bricks and mortar firms with blood in their eyes, as they eye the Net firms weak and wounded before them.
Wolfe said: "Basically, they want the show to be more action driven, more Dylan-centric, and more episodic. They also want more aliens, more space battles, and less internal conflict among the principal characters. Also, they want a lot less continuity so as not to confuse the casual or new viewer with too much backstory."
I tried to watch Andromeda, and occasionally will manage to get thru an episode, but I really like Enterprise much better.
I don't think it's the internal conflict among the major characters. It's not the action or lack thereof. I wouldn't mind more space battles and aliens.
But I'm not going to suddenly start watching it more. It's probably too little, too late.
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Exactly. What most people are unaware of is that corporations used to be chartered.
Originally, if a corporation did not act for the greater good of humanity, they could be dechartered, dissolved, and sold off in parts.
When these laws were dismantled mid-20th century, a great disconnect occurred. This mostly took until the last quarter of the century to become apparent.
Additionally, the actions which granted corporations greater legal rights, as if they were persons and not merely the pooling of people's assets without risk of loss behind those assets pooled, added to these problems.
This is what writers such as William Gibson and others warn us of, in their works about the possible futures we face.
Media distortion of anti-globalization protesters
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Yes, this is quite true. They are distorting it. One of the problems is that the elite, the fat cats like Bush et al are presenting their opponents as if they were the same as the al-Queda group.
They're not. A lot of people protesting against the WTO are people who have quite a few assets. Like me. We own stocks, we invest. But we see the dangers of the so-called "Free Trade" groups, and the implications of the laws to promulgate them.
Sure, we want fair trade, equivalent transaction costs. But we don't think that we should be promoting lower labor standards or environmental standards on other countries. Because that is what is implied by groups such as the WTO.
One good source for information on the objections to this "Globalization" would be ATTAC, an organization which crunches the numbers and has a number of much more informative publications on this subject. I've read some of their works when I picked them up in the original French on visits to Paris, but they have English and other language publications as well.
When we here at the Front de Liberation des Naifs de Jardin heard that GNOME was no longer included in Sun machines, it really made our day.
We have long espoused freedom for gnomes, especially those which live in gardens, and feel that any act of liberation for them is a good thing.
While we are aware that GNOME is quite different, and not a GUI in the same way that a Gnome is not a Dwarf, the happy news that someone supports liberation for GNOME is quite marvelous.
Vive les nains de jardin libre! Et les genies des ordinateurs aussi!
Thanks for blowing his cover
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Yes, now you've all blown Bert's cover. We in the CIA had infiltrated him into the top levels of the Taliban, and that's how we've been able to target some of the leaders.
But now we'll have to extract him before they torture him. He may be a Muppet, but he's an American Muppet, and a brave one at that.
Sincerely, Foggy Bottom
P.S.: hope we get him back, we had to put Cheney's heart in him so they couldn't tell he was a Muppet.
Something we should see soon
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Now that they have Bert on posters, we can soon expect to see an AP or Reuters picture of an Air Force member writing "This one's for Bert" on one of the bombs they're using.
Check out Yahoo Pictures (World) and look through the pics and you'll see some of the things they've been writing on them so far.
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First they came for the Muppets
But I did nothing, as I was not a muppet.
Then they came for the Clowns
But I did nothing, as I was not a clown
Unless you talked to my girlfriend
Then they came for me
And it was too late
Now I have to wear floppy bunny ears
Colorado announced it had noticed a ten-fold increase in hackers selling fake licenses with digitally altered faces and then using them to ransack the true owners' accounts and credit histories.
President Bush, on learning that both of his daughters had Colorado licenses said: Well, it's great to see that some states understand the need to get fake IDs.
In a related event, it was also noted that Mickey Mouse is now a citizen of the state of Colorado, and is wanted for assault and battery on at least five charges at this time.
Yeah, having name recognition is crucial in the DB mindspace. But don't think that Oracle or DB2 will give up the Linux side, especially the latter. With Bill G still the richest man and Oracle's head honcho down to fourth, there's still vengeance to be wrecked upon MSFT.
I've got two dual-CPU Pentium II 450MHz with 80GB dual HDs and 128MB of RAM. And this clunker I'm typing on.
And it just doesn't matter.
Look, if I want supercool boxen all I need to do is drop a few bucks into more RAM. And maybe upgrade my Net access by shelling out for 1440K instead of 256K. But the true difference between my current system and some new Pentium 4 chips is... maybe about 10 percent. And since I'm not that keen on video, effectively zilch.
If I wanted a better system I'd get some good AMD chips, they actually have some guts, but my limiters are HD access, Net speed, and maybe RAM. The rest is all a bunch of hooey.
The west coast as a LOT more asian influence than the east, and that probably accounts for the different language course offerings.
Most of the population of the US lives West of the Mississippi. About 30 per cent of the entire US lives in California, Oregon, and Washington. So when I say rarely can one find a school that doesn't offer Japanese or another Asian language, I am talking about the parts of the US which are growing. The rest of the areas which are growing are learning Spanish.
Hence, Japanese is a fact of life, and a Japanese language game would have a wider market than you imagine and the humor is more translatable than those from the ossifying east may think.
We (as the Census will tell you) are the future. Ignore us at your own risk.
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because you'll find the game itself will suddenly cause ten martial artists to appear and attack you.
... but if you have a good ability, it can save you a lot of money over time.
on the other hand, if you defeat them, they leave a fortune cookie worth $10 off your next order of food while playing the game.
my guess is someone thought it was funny
While it may depend on the shoe - for example, Earth Shoes - in fact, sandals appear to be the best footwear for practical use.
But, if you insist on wearing western-style shoes, the practice of taking them off on entering a home not only will help your feet, it will reduce the amount of dirt, microbes, and dust mites that enter your domicile.
Also, since most American women's shoe sizes are two sizes too small for their actual feet, this can have a major impact just in reducing cramping into too small spaces.
Haven't they been selling these for a while? Maybe not Apple themselves, but I'm sure I saw something like this last time I was in the Apple store in NYC.
Well, as you may have guessed, the iSock is available only in limited locations in North America, primarily in stores in NYC and San Francisco, although it's in wide release in Japan, where it's all the rage.
So, to you it may be old hat [old sock?], but to the rest of the US and much of the world, it's GNU.
Simple take the hoodie (only $29.95) off your iPod - sadly, mostly available in Japan and some select stores in NYC and San Francisco - and it works quite well as a girl's sock.
Of course, you need two to do this, so buying the iSock is a better bargain, and a bit warmer.
April Fools Day is also curable with sufficient b33r.
Nope, it has to be cider. Hard apple cider. The good stuff.
Unless it's fr33 bh33r.
I really fucking hate this. This is the typical newspeak propaganda used by companies terrified of losing their stranglehold on consumers by loudly bleating "Communist" into the air in order to get support from the more paranoid fringes of society, such as politicians who get kick backs from such companies.
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You bring up a good point. Open Source is really Capitalism at its ideal - closed monopolies are actually anti-Capitalist by definition, since they discourage (actively) competition, depend upon all players in the market not having equal and free access to information, and don't price to equilibrium but distort the market.
Sigh. Why do people believe the lies of the red commie Bushies so much
you're right ... I agree they attack Firefox while ignoring IE issues that were never addressed. So, in case anyone hasn't heard this: I just wanted to say IE sucks really bad, especially if you're on a Mac and they won't do anything useful.
one in which revenue = profit.
however, in practice, if the cost of revenue is the same percentage for both Linux and Windows, then the answer will be the same.
That pick up another spectrum of light.
So, if you could only see, say Blue, and were invisible to Blue, you could wear Red shades and defeat the invisibility cloak.
In the future all the 133t 4ax0r5 will wear cool shades and cloaks.
come to think of it.
Anyone can make AOL disks into frisbees, but to send a message you need to add information.
I said it back in 2000, but you all said that Net firms would rule, would spend too much money, would be so successful that politicians could not oppose them.
It's not 2000 anymore - it's 2002. Net firms are weak, state budgets are in crisis, politicians can't let up to one-sixth of commerce go untaxed anymore, not when they're bleeding red ink all over.
You can fight them on fairness, but Net transactions will be taxed. Choose your battles - and remember that you have few allies left, and your forces are decimated and in disarray as you take on the bricks and mortar firms with blood in their eyes, as they eye the Net firms weak and wounded before them.
when I drop by those dudes on Monday. It's only two blocks from where I work.
The funny thing is that I'll probably get into an earlier screening than they will.
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Wolfe said: "Basically, they want the show to be more action driven, more Dylan-centric, and more episodic. They also want more aliens, more space battles, and less internal conflict among the principal characters. Also, they want a lot less continuity so as not to confuse the casual or new viewer with too much backstory."
I tried to watch Andromeda, and occasionally will manage to get thru an episode, but I really like Enterprise much better.
I don't think it's the internal conflict among the major characters. It's not the action or lack thereof. I wouldn't mind more space battles and aliens.
But I'm not going to suddenly start watching it more. It's probably too little, too late.
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Exactly. What most people are unaware of is that corporations used to be chartered.
Originally, if a corporation did not act for the greater good of humanity, they could be dechartered, dissolved, and sold off in parts.
When these laws were dismantled mid-20th century, a great disconnect occurred. This mostly took until the last quarter of the century to become apparent.
Additionally, the actions which granted corporations greater legal rights, as if they were persons and not merely the pooling of people's assets without risk of loss behind those assets pooled, added to these problems.
This is what writers such as William Gibson and others warn us of, in their works about the possible futures we face.
Yes, this is quite true. They are distorting it. One of the problems is that the elite, the fat cats like Bush et al are presenting their opponents as if they were the same as the al-Queda group.
They're not. A lot of people protesting against the WTO are people who have quite a few assets. Like me. We own stocks, we invest. But we see the dangers of the so-called "Free Trade" groups, and the implications of the laws to promulgate them.
Sure, we want fair trade, equivalent transaction costs. But we don't think that we should be promoting lower labor standards or environmental standards on other countries. Because that is what is implied by groups such as the WTO.
One good source for information on the objections to this "Globalization" would be ATTAC, an organization which crunches the numbers and has a number of much more informative publications on this subject. I've read some of their works when I picked them up in the original French on visits to Paris, but they have English and other language publications as well.
When we here at the Front de Liberation des Naifs de Jardin heard that GNOME was no longer included in Sun machines, it really made our day.
We have long espoused freedom for gnomes, especially those which live in gardens, and feel that any act of liberation for them is a good thing.
While we are aware that GNOME is quite different, and not a GUI in the same way that a Gnome is not a Dwarf, the happy news that someone supports liberation for GNOME is quite marvelous.
Vive les nains de jardin libre! Et les genies des ordinateurs aussi!
Yes, now you've all blown Bert's cover. We in the CIA had infiltrated him into the top levels of the Taliban, and that's how we've been able to target some of the leaders.
But now we'll have to extract him before they torture him. He may be a Muppet, but he's an American Muppet, and a brave one at that.
Sincerely, Foggy Bottom
P.S.: hope we get him back, we had to put Cheney's heart in him so they couldn't tell he was a Muppet.
Now that they have Bert on posters, we can soon expect to see an AP or Reuters picture of an Air Force member writing "This one's for Bert" on one of the bombs they're using.
Check out Yahoo Pictures (World) and look through the pics and you'll see some of the things they've been writing on them so far.
Cool!
First they came for the Muppets
But I did nothing, as I was not a muppet.
Then they came for the Clowns
But I did nothing, as I was not a clown
Unless you talked to my girlfriend
Then they came for me
And it was too late
Now I have to wear floppy bunny ears
Since Cray has just as much claim to being a Seattle company as Microsoft does, why not just dump your Win box and get a Cray?
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Now that will stick it to Bill G and help the local economy at the same time
Colorado announced it had noticed a ten-fold increase in hackers selling fake licenses with digitally altered faces and then using them to ransack the true owners' accounts and credit histories.
President Bush, on learning that both of his daughters had Colorado licenses said: Well, it's great to see that some states understand the need to get fake IDs.
In a related event, it was also noted that Mickey Mouse is now a citizen of the state of Colorado, and is wanted for assault and battery on at least five charges at this time.
Yeah, having name recognition is crucial in the DB mindspace. But don't think that Oracle or DB2 will give up the Linux side, especially the latter. With Bill G still the richest man and Oracle's head honcho down to fourth, there's still vengeance to be wrecked upon MSFT.
...
Guess I'll have to learn Postgres now
Well, the Space Needle uses a far slower system with a lot less RAM, but then it's an older Oracle system.
Now, the disk access and storage requirements are critical, however. That, plus the ability to withstand constant lightning strikes.
OK, let's go through the numbers.
... maybe about 10 percent. And since I'm not that keen on video, effectively zilch.
I've got two dual-CPU Pentium II 450MHz with 80GB dual HDs and 128MB of RAM. And this clunker I'm typing on.
And it just doesn't matter.
Look, if I want supercool boxen all I need to do is drop a few bucks into more RAM. And maybe upgrade my Net access by shelling out for 1440K instead of 256K. But the true difference between my current system and some new Pentium 4 chips is
If I wanted a better system I'd get some good AMD chips, they actually have some guts, but my limiters are HD access, Net speed, and maybe RAM. The rest is all a bunch of hooey.
The west coast as a LOT more asian influence than the east, and that probably accounts for the different language course offerings.
Most of the population of the US lives West of the Mississippi. About 30 per cent of the entire US lives in California, Oregon, and Washington. So when I say rarely can one find a school that doesn't offer Japanese or another Asian language, I am talking about the parts of the US which are growing. The rest of the areas which are growing are learning Spanish.
Hence, Japanese is a fact of life, and a Japanese language game would have a wider market than you imagine and the humor is more translatable than those from the ossifying east may think.
We (as the Census will tell you) are the future. Ignore us at your own risk.