IIRC, there was a group of doctors some years ago who created an organization to record and refuse to treat lawyers who make a living with malpractice lawsuits, and their families.
Never heard about it after that, I wonder how it turned out?
> They are looking to mimic humans, but I doubt > human form is the most efficient and adaptable.
Ok, Doc Octopus. Yes, we know a multi-tenticaled thing similar to a cross between the squiddies of The Matrix and the multi-use, multi-arme-sized Engineer of the Moties of the Mote in God's Eye, but the size of the spider from Wild Wild West would be the most vile and destructive thing in the universe, and would make a cross between Hulk, Superman, and the Shrike, with Honor Harrington's brain, look like a 40 year old Raggedy Ann on eBay.
I heard there were over 73 million more ET cartridges made than consoles even existed.
Most were buried in a huge hole in the desert the size of Michigan stadium, then covered over. It's the same geologically stable area where the long term nuclear dump is being holed out.
Although the Hulk is nerdy, the Hulk himself is exactly the opposite of a nerd, and he wouldn't let a little old thing like a minor precident setting on a nerd bbs stop him, now would he?
Reminds me of the Star Wars online fighter game X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. After fighting with the online registration system for hours, I finally figured out that it required IE to just register the game to actually play it.
I closed Netscape, opened IE, and bingo, flew thru the registration in a few minutes.
That's bad enough, but the unconscionable part is that this was when Netscape still held the lion's share, and there was no indication any place that you needed IE.
And instead of one, huge, honkin', all the eggs in one basket mission, they should send advanced, unmanned missions to set up small buildings, and lots of cargo, especially food and oxygen.
And only once that's all in place, only then do you send the mission with the people in it. (Of course, you'll have to send a ton of food and oxygen with them just in case, but at least you'll most likely have lots extra, plus all the stuff is there and working before they get there.)
> Its uses go far beyond just consumption, and > even beyond ethanol - for example, corn syrup > provides a sweetener, while corn starch > provides a flour. Also, if you've ever grown > corn before, it's a very easy plant to deal with.
Sadly, looking at Human History, I do believe the first use for corn on Mars will be corncobs up the ass.:(
No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty first century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences lesser than Martians' and yet as mortal as their own...
> Why do most humans have 2 arms? Have you ever > seen pictures of people who have part of an > undeveloped "twin" attached to their body?
I saw a picture of a guy whose twin's shoulders and head were inside his chest, and the lower torso and legs hung out. If I had such a twin, and she were properly placed, well, you know (nudge nudge, wink wink.)
> OK, why don't we have 3 arms. That would be must more helpful.
Then we'd have to re-write all our internet jokes about typing with one hand.
Well, it would stop the first guy to set foot there and planting a flag from claiming the entire planet. Although if they set up a permanent base, they could declare some reasonable immediate area the 51st state, I suppose.
UN Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies seems to stop it pretty good.
It's to stop some nation from claiming the entire moon. It's not to stop bases and permanent civilization from forming, be it government or private organizations.
1. The moon and its natural resources are the common heritage of mankind,
No disagreement with use by individual governments or private concerns so far.
Unless you're suggesting some kind of socialist redistribution of wealth nonsense, where someone who mines the moon must give a cut to every human on Earth.
. The moon is not subject to national appropriation by any claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
The moon, not parts of it. And if it means parts of it, that's a complete laugh. Those who can get there and build permanent bases aren't gonna not build them because of this.
> we can choose whether we recognize those claims.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. "In the name of the Earth we declare Mars a haven" sounds good when pontificated by dirt-grubbing politicians to other dirt-grubbing voters, but it's not historically accurate.
Should some arrogant politician try to stop them? Why? People go to the frontier to get away from the asshole politicians ruling over them. Or to get land that's laying there for the taking and put it to use.
It's sad enough we've run out of room for immediat expansion. Now some suggest the claw of government extend it's reach to Mars? Zer vill be no escape for you!
Going back to N64 and as far back as the 16-bit generation - there were cartridge based games, some with battery back up that routinely cost $59.
Long before this, the Colecovision had a marginally decent port of Zaxxon, and it cost $50. This was a time when I was earning about $14/week from my paper route, and "regular" games were $19-$29.
As far as loading crap into the cartridge, I believe some of the later Atari 2600 cartridges had their own processors in them, and used the base console as little more than a display terminal. This is why they can't be ROM'd on a standard Atari emulator.
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Next time the buffoon tells this joke, please use the term "vital statistics" rather than "dimensions".
> i wrote an internal forum for my school (mysql/php) and licensed it gpl.
I hope you weren't being paid by the school at the time.
If so, a good lawyer will crack that GPL in less time than it takes to say "Lindsay Lohan looked a hell of a lot better as a redhead and with a little more womanly fat on her body."
All you'd need to do is tax the big data pipes. That's it. That'd raise the cost of access to the Internet infrastructure, and those costs will get passed up the chain, eventually back to the consumer.
And how do we decide Britney gets $10 million per year, and Squee Dunk Artist Band gets $100k? And what about Guy Cranking Out Crap Songs By The Dozen Who Wants A Free Ride? What about that "band"?
And, sigh, all because people want to steal songs instead of pay for them. Maybe the real solution is a large increase in the quality of character of the average citizen. No, this isn't a troll. Read my.sig.
It's just like how tollways and turnpikes ultimately raise the price of milk and veggies.
No, it'll be more like people creating farms so they can get paid by the government to not grow things.
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IIRC, there was a group of doctors some years ago who created an organization to record and refuse to treat lawyers who make a living with malpractice lawsuits, and their families.
Never heard about it after that, I wonder how it turned out?
> Hayabusa arrived [at asteroid] Itokawa
Go USA!
- The scientific observation will be conducted for about two months including sampling and topographic measurement.
- It will orbit the asteroid, land on it, and bring back a sample from its surface.
- HAYABUSA employs a new technology - the ion engine
- Autonomous Navigation System, which enables the probe to approach a far-away asteroid without human guidance.
- It will also employ a hopping robot, which can move around on the asteroid's surface.
USA! USA! USA! Our technological superiority is the envy of the world!
> HAYABUSA is traveling through space using an ion engine.
Well f*** me! I thought that kind of sh** was still on the drawing board!
When can I go rent a sleeping pod in a space station?
Sh**, I can do that too, now? $20 million and dropping?
Ok, next question. Where's the sexbot?
> They are looking to mimic humans, but I doubt
> human form is the most efficient and adaptable.
Ok, Doc Octopus. Yes, we know a multi-tenticaled thing similar to a cross between the squiddies of The Matrix and the multi-use, multi-arme-sized Engineer of the Moties of the Mote in God's Eye, but the size of the spider from Wild Wild West would be the most vile and destructive thing in the universe, and would make a cross between Hulk, Superman, and the Shrike, with Honor Harrington's brain, look like a 40 year old Raggedy Ann on eBay.
I heard there were over 73 million more ET cartridges made than consoles even existed.
Most were buried in a huge hole in the desert the size of Michigan stadium, then covered over. It's the same geologically stable area where the long term nuclear dump is being holed out.
Although the Hulk is nerdy, the Hulk himself is exactly the opposite of a nerd, and he wouldn't let a little old thing like a minor precident setting on a nerd bbs stop him, now would he?
> Bush controls this aspect of the FEMA website?
> Now that's something I didn't know...
George Bush doesn't care about Netscape users!
I always wondered, was Heinlein's mother really a hot babe with waist length red hair?
Reminds me of the Star Wars online fighter game X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. After fighting with the online registration system for hours, I finally figured out that it required IE to just register the game to actually play it.
I closed Netscape, opened IE, and bingo, flew thru the registration in a few minutes.
That's bad enough, but the unconscionable part is that this was when Netscape still held the lion's share, and there was no indication any place that you needed IE.
Shame on George Lucas.
Don't be mad that your environmental and socialist economic laws have pimped you out to horny states eager to use you.
Uhh, well, ok. Who created God?
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God of God." Infinipsalm Aleph-7:Aleph-2 New Transfinite Version
Or maybe a JLo movie with the sound turned down, back when she was a little more assy.
And instead of one, huge, honkin', all the eggs in one basket mission, they should send advanced, unmanned missions to set up small buildings, and lots of cargo, especially food and oxygen.
And only once that's all in place, only then do you send the mission with the people in it. (Of course, you'll have to send a ton of food and oxygen with them just in case, but at least you'll most likely have lots extra, plus all the stuff is there and working before they get there.)
> Its uses go far beyond just consumption, and
:(
> even beyond ethanol - for example, corn syrup
> provides a sweetener, while corn starch
> provides a flour. Also, if you've ever grown
> corn before, it's a very easy plant to deal with.
Sadly, looking at Human History, I do believe the first use for corn on Mars will be corncobs up the ass.
No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty first
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences lesser than Martians' and yet as mortal as their own...
> Why do most humans have 2 arms? Have you ever
> seen pictures of people who have part of an
> undeveloped "twin" attached to their body?
I saw a picture of a guy whose twin's shoulders and head were inside his chest, and the lower torso and legs hung out. If I had such a twin, and she were properly placed, well, you know (nudge nudge, wink wink.)
> OK, why don't we have 3 arms. That would be must more helpful.
Then we'd have to re-write all our internet jokes about typing with one hand.
Constructing a futuristic mega-corporation out of a Western and a Japanese name is so 1988.
Now Weyland-Huifang, that's a little more like it.
For now, anyway.
Well, it would stop the first guy to set foot there and planting a flag from claiming the entire planet. Although if they set up a permanent base, they could declare some reasonable immediate area the 51st state, I suppose.
It's to stop some nation from claiming the entire moon. It's not to stop bases and permanent civilization from forming, be it government or private organizations.
No disagreement with use by individual governments or private concerns so far.
Unless you're suggesting some kind of socialist redistribution of wealth nonsense, where someone who mines the moon must give a cut to every human on Earth.
The moon, not parts of it. And if it means parts of it, that's a complete laugh. Those who can get there and build permanent bases aren't gonna not build them because of this.
Mars is the high ground, both with respect to energy needed to lift to orbit, and it's pretty much a free ride all the way down to Earth.
> we can choose whether we recognize those claims.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. "In the name of the Earth we declare Mars a haven" sounds good when pontificated by dirt-grubbing politicians to other dirt-grubbing voters, but it's not historically accurate.
Should some arrogant politician try to stop them? Why? People go to the frontier to get away from the asshole politicians ruling over them. Or to get land that's laying there for the taking and put it to use.
It's sad enough we've run out of room for immediat expansion. Now some suggest the claw of government extend it's reach to Mars? Zer vill be no escape for you!
Long before this, the Colecovision had a marginally decent port of Zaxxon, and it cost $50. This was a time when I was earning about $14/week from my paper route, and "regular" games were $19-$29.
As far as loading crap into the cartridge, I believe some of the later Atari 2600 cartridges had their own processors in them, and used the base console as little more than a display terminal. This is why they can't be ROM'd on a standard Atari emulator.
Next time the buffoon tells this joke, please use the term "vital statistics" rather than "dimensions".
> i wrote an internal forum for my school (mysql/php) and licensed it gpl.
I hope you weren't being paid by the school at the time.
If so, a good lawyer will crack that GPL in less time than it takes to say "Lindsay Lohan looked a hell of a lot better as a redhead and with a little more womanly fat on her body."
And how do we decide Britney gets $10 million per year, and Squee Dunk Artist Band gets $100k? And what about Guy Cranking Out Crap Songs By The Dozen Who Wants A Free Ride? What about that "band"?
And, sigh, all because people want to steal songs instead of pay for them. Maybe the real solution is a large increase in the quality of character of the average citizen. No, this isn't a troll. Read my
No, it'll be more like people creating farms so they can get paid by the government to not grow things.