"Time was, 6% was considered full employment." - George Will
He was referring to pre-Reagan days. Now Democrats themselves get bent out of shape over 6% unemployment as everybody "knows" it should be sub-4%. Guess why? It wasn't just because Reagan "meant well, at least".
> Please don't start with the socialist thing. Americans do not know what "socialism" > is and they've co-opted the word to use as an insult.
Stripped of True Believerhood:
Socialism: noun Political philosophy where charismatic leaders convince masses who barely know they're alive of the wisdom of why that particular charismatic leader should have massive power over everybody's life.
Or do I exaggerate? Before modding me down, please explain where the above is wrong.
I'm willing to bet "agree to all future changes without notifying me" won't hold up in court.
I'm a bit puzzled though how you can patent notifying someone that, if you don't agree to a legal change, you lose your service, is somehow something novel?
Isn't just computerizing a long-existing, non-computer process not patentable in and of itself?
For the plane issue, they do work on that. Remember this isn't something they discover until after the fact of a plane crash. And in this case, I don't think they ever pinned it down exactly; phone interference was only a theory.
So, too, for medical equipment. Anyone remember when pacemakers couldn't handle the person walking through the thief detection poles at store exits? They didn't know that at first. Then they put up warning signs. Meanwhile the pacemaker guys hardened their products. Now you don't see those signs anymore.
So the plane guys and medical equipment guys are working on it, I'm sure. Until then, "please turn off your stuff" is quite a reasonable request. Phones are less important than safe planes or safe medical heart monitors.
Apparently W.O.P.R. can now whip your ass at chess, too, so that's pointless as well. Checkers? Don't bother. As of last month computers can now play the perfect game of checkers.
I, for one, am preparing to welcome our new machine overlords...
> Everything I Needed to Know About Game Writing I Learned From Star Trek
Specifically, most FPS online multiplayer shooters and MMORPG-with-PvP duplicate that episode with the ghost creature thingie that "fed on emotions of anger!"
The crew and some Klingons were trapped on the Enterprise, killing each other over and over again, only to be revived and restored to go back into it again.
Oh, and Kirk's solution doesn't work. Tried it numerous times in Quake CTF way back when. Nobody listens. They just keep fighting.
The party's point was to get George Bush, Sr., un-elected in 1992.
Two weeks before the Democratic convention, it was hopeless for the Democrats. Comedians were even making jokes about it. One joked that a worker assembling the convention stage said, "Ahhh, what's the point?"
Then, the day Clinton will speak, Perot pulls out. The eyes of the nation turn to see what Clinton will say. The rest is history.
Perot did a masterful job -- mission accomplished!
Given him and Bush, Sr., were bigshots in the Republican party going back to Nixon, one wonders what bad blood is floating around between them.
But the party was not about anything else. It was deliberately set up to be a nebulous thing True Believers could project their desires onto.
> In New York if I remember correctly, [at least in the county I was a store manager in (not a Circuit City)], > we can detain you, and even request to see your receipts or request you let us inspect your bag(s),
Free people can request free people to do anything they want.
> but cannot forcibly do so... if you refuse, which is your right, then we can detain you until the police > arrive who then can search your bag if we sufficiently prove to them/convince them a crime (shoplifting) has occurred.
So you're saying nothing different than anyone else is. They can ask you to show stuff, you can refuse, and they can only stop you if they have legitimate beliefs you have stolen something, of which a mere refusal to be searched or to produce a receipt is not sufficient.
My stepson got hit by a car in a McDonald's parking lot. Not seriously injured, the police said there was nothing they could do about it, even though they successfully tracked down the guy. Not because it was an "accident", but because it was on private property.
I find that hard to believe. I suspect it was more because my wife was a poor, single mom working her way through college, and thus couldn't raise a stink about it.
Nobody upgrades their Windows OS. They only "upgrade" when they buy a new computer, and it comes pre-installed.
What is Microsoft thinking?
People will program for Vista, with optional extra Vista features, when it gets greater market share. They won't program for Vista-only until XP & friends drop to a certain low percentage, like Win98, ME, 95, 3.11, etc. before it.
More powerful 3D cards and processors drive upgrades. Operating Systems do not.
If someone puts a copyrighted book on a copier and says, hey, here's a copier, if you want, you can come push the button and take home a copy without paying the copyright owner!, should that be illegal?
I suppose it really depends on how you see the company in all this.
It's like giving a kid a baseball bat, but instead of hitting baseballs, they go and hit someone and take their wallet.
Do you view the company as like an evil, little Damien, just waiting for the opportunity? Or are they more like an innocent, who only thought of it after they were given the bat?
One thing's for certain, with thousands of baseball bat instances over the last century, we know it's wrong to give them a bat.
Allowed, perhaps. Accurate lifts, no way. The very difference of 300 lbs. between the two shows just how much the tight shirt lifts, as opposed to the actual arm muscles.
You are redefining best, and thus moving the goalposts.
For a given level of fitness, there's a well-defined bell curve of longevity vs. weight.
That was part of the shocking studies last year, that showed the longest life was by people in the "overweight" class (overweight by medical standards.) (This was further complicated by the obese thinking they didn't have to lose weight. No. The truly obese lived the shortest lives of all.)
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"Time was, 6% was considered full employment." - George Will
He was referring to pre-Reagan days. Now Democrats themselves get bent out of shape over 6% unemployment as everybody "knows" it should be sub-4%. Guess why? It wasn't just because Reagan "meant well, at least".
> Please don't start with the socialist thing. Americans do not know what "socialism"
> is and they've co-opted the word to use as an insult.
Stripped of True Believerhood:
Socialism: noun Political philosophy where charismatic leaders convince masses who barely know they're alive of the wisdom of why that particular charismatic leader should have massive power over everybody's life.
Or do I exaggerate? Before modding me down, please explain where the above is wrong.
I'm willing to bet "agree to all future changes without notifying me" won't hold up in court.
I'm a bit puzzled though how you can patent notifying someone that, if you don't agree to a legal change, you lose your service, is somehow something novel?
Isn't just computerizing a long-existing, non-computer process not patentable in and of itself?
The Making of Dungeon Siege
Interviewer: So, how did you guys go about making Dungeon Siege?
Dungeon Siege Developer: Copied Diablo and slapped it in a true 3D engine.
Interviewer: Thanks! Next up on our show, how Morgan Webb, tall and dark, can be so hot face-on, but have such a damned scary profile.
For the plane issue, they do work on that. Remember this isn't something they discover until after the fact of a plane crash. And in this case, I don't think they ever pinned it down exactly; phone interference was only a theory.
So, too, for medical equipment. Anyone remember when pacemakers couldn't handle the person walking through the thief detection poles at store exits? They didn't know that at first. Then they put up warning signs. Meanwhile the pacemaker guys hardened their products. Now you don't see those signs anymore.
So the plane guys and medical equipment guys are working on it, I'm sure. Until then, "please turn off your stuff" is quite a reasonable request. Phones are less important than safe planes or safe medical heart monitors.
Apparently W.O.P.R. can now whip your ass at chess, too, so that's pointless as well. Checkers? Don't bother. As of last month computers can now play the perfect game of checkers.
I, for one, am preparing to welcome our new machine overlords...
Let's hope he never meets his "wife" in real life.
Austin Powers: That's a man, baby!
No way, man. Those bird thingies actually killed those guys!
> Everything I Needed to Know About Game Writing I Learned From Star Trek
Specifically, most FPS online multiplayer shooters and MMORPG-with-PvP duplicate that episode with the ghost creature thingie that "fed on emotions of anger!"
The crew and some Klingons were trapped on the Enterprise, killing each other over and over again, only to be revived and restored to go back into it again.
Oh, and Kirk's solution doesn't work. Tried it numerous times in Quake CTF way back when. Nobody listens. They just keep fighting.
The party's point was to get George Bush, Sr., un-elected in 1992.
Two weeks before the Democratic convention, it was hopeless for the Democrats. Comedians were even making jokes about it. One joked that a worker assembling the convention stage said, "Ahhh, what's the point?"
Then, the day Clinton will speak, Perot pulls out. The eyes of the nation turn to see what Clinton will say. The rest is history.
Perot did a masterful job -- mission accomplished!
Given him and Bush, Sr., were bigshots in the Republican party going back to Nixon, one wonders what bad blood is floating around between them.
But the party was not about anything else. It was deliberately set up to be a nebulous thing True Believers could project their desires onto.
> Most [New Yorkers] believe the slower southern draw implies a very low I.Q. No joke.
As opposed to High-Q evidenced the mangled Italian quasi-Boston honkin' of New Yorkers, I suppose...
> In New York if I remember correctly, [at least in the county I was a store manager in (not a Circuit City)],
> we can detain you, and even request to see your receipts or request you let us inspect your bag(s),
Free people can request free people to do anything they want.
> but cannot forcibly do so... if you refuse, which is your right, then we can detain you until the police
> arrive who then can search your bag if we sufficiently prove to them/convince them a crime (shoplifting) has occurred.
So you're saying nothing different than anyone else is. They can ask you to show stuff, you can refuse, and they can only stop you if they have legitimate beliefs you have stolen something, of which a mere refusal to be searched or to produce a receipt is not sufficient.
My stepson got hit by a car in a McDonald's parking lot. Not seriously injured, the police said there was nothing they could do about it, even though they successfully tracked down the guy. Not because it was an "accident", but because it was on private property.
I find that hard to believe. I suspect it was more because my wife was a poor, single mom working her way through college, and thus couldn't raise a stink about it.
That DNA is in there because God put it there . It's supposed to be there. It's just coincidental that it resembles bacterial DNA.
See? It's science!
Nobody upgrades their Windows OS. They only "upgrade" when they buy a new computer, and it comes pre-installed.
What is Microsoft thinking?
People will program for Vista, with optional extra Vista features, when it gets greater market share. They won't program for Vista-only until XP & friends drop to a certain low percentage, like Win98, ME, 95, 3.11, etc. before it.
More powerful 3D cards and processors drive upgrades. Operating Systems do not.
> units included two pumpers, a ladder truck, a bamalance, the HAZMAT unit, and a battalion chief
Sounds like Paris Hilton's last Saturday night...
If someone puts a copyrighted book on a copier and says, hey, here's a copier, if you want, you can come push the button and take home a copy without paying the copyright owner!, should that be illegal?
> NASA will launch Luke Skywalker's original Jedi lightsaber into space
Note to Simpsons writers. Your sarcastic joke was not stupid enough:
Buzz, on board the Space Shuttle, checking cargo: Children's letters to God, check!
I suppose it really depends on how you see the company in all this.
It's like giving a kid a baseball bat, but instead of hitting baseballs, they go and hit someone and take their wallet.
Do you view the company as like an evil, little Damien, just waiting for the opportunity? Or are they more like an innocent, who only thought of it after they were given the bat?
One thing's for certain, with thousands of baseball bat instances over the last century, we know it's wrong to give them a bat.
It went out the window with the socialist nonsense of granting exclusive, coercive monopolies "for the greater good".
Allowed, perhaps. Accurate lifts, no way. The very difference of 300 lbs. between the two shows just how much the tight shirt lifts, as opposed to the actual arm muscles.
+1,000 Fwoooooooooosh!
I heard that while he was being passed through, Chuck Norris got beat up by a peanut in Bill Brasky's turd.
You are redefining best, and thus moving the goalposts.
For a given level of fitness, there's a well-defined bell curve of longevity vs. weight.
That was part of the shocking studies last year, that showed the longest life was by people in the "overweight" class (overweight by medical standards.) (This was further complicated by the obese thinking they didn't have to lose weight. No. The truly obese lived the shortest lives of all.)
In a raw fight though, quite possibly not.