If more people/companies challenged the 'fork and knife' patents, fewer companies would abuse them.
I believe you mean: An apparatus to divide food into portions of arbitrary size, by keeping the initial portion in place by holding the handle of the multi-pronged device, while simultaneously grasping the handle of the bladed device, and moving the thin or serated edge back and forth in a sawing motion against the food, and subsequently introducing those portions into an oral oriface using the multi-pronged device, or leaving them in their original position, or thereabouts, as desired, by firmly pressing one part of the bladed device against the portion to facilitate removal of the multi-pronged device from the aforementioned portion. Patent(s) pending.
Or maybe they're planning on adding it in MS Ethics 2.0.
You mean Ethics 2027, whose release is scheduled to coincide with Vista's. Bets are still open as to which will be released first, and by how long the other will lag.
On a somewhat unrelated point, it might be great for depression, but as someone who isn't depressed, I hated it. I took Wellbutrin (as Zyban) to stop smoking, and my experience was terrible. It made me feel callous (even more than normal), distant, and disconnected from events and people around me, and I felt like I never had the appropriate emotional response to circumstances. I felt indifferent about my friends, my girlfriend, etc. It also seemed to affect my focus and concentration, and I found myself having a lot of strange and/or violent thoughts. I also completely lost my sense of humor. The doc said it could take a while to adjust to it so I gave it some time, but decided to stop taking it after 3 weeks. It did decrease my desire to smoke and the "fix" one normally gets, but once I stopped taking it, I started smoking again. I eventually just went cold turkey instead, which actually wasn't that hard after I made it through the first couple of days.
Well that makes sense.. Happiness (the emotion, as opposed to the more esoteric version) in a healthy individual is just the brain responding to stimulus. You don't have to know what cold is to feel a burn.
Feeling happy about one's position, on the other hand, can sometimes require additional experiences to gain an appreciation for one's circumstances. This is readily apparent in children. If they're whining about something or other, and instead of placating them you make things worse, they're happy once you restore the status quo because they have gained perspective. Same thing with adults really. You may hate your job, but if you become involuntarily unemployed you'll probably gain a much greater appreciation and feel happy once you're working again, even if it's back at the same job.
Nonetheless, I still believe that one needn't experience depression in order to feel happy. One may gain a greater appreciation for their happiness after having been depressed, but lack of depression doesn't preclude being happy in the first place.
Show me a telephone number which you can dial and that, by the simple act of connection, results in the infiltration of your company's office such that your Intranet data (e.g., customer personal info, credit cards, etc) can be leaked out.
People can surf the web for hours and look like they are working....
However, if they're not doing their work, they won't last long, so it's still self-regulating. If there are no indicators such as lower productivity or poor quality of work, then it obviously doesn't matter. If the indicators are present but ignored, that's just poor management.
You missed the point entirely, which is that there are problems with any system. The more complicated the system, the more possible points of failure. That's not an argument for regression though, it's just a reason to expect initial problems until things get sorted out. There may be some truth to the idea that some of the elections were tampered with, but that's hardly new. You're also making the assumption that because you didn't hear about more problems and tampering with pencil-and-paper, that they didn't exist. (And really, if you're not aware of all the problems with other forms of voting, then you're probably being deliberately ignorant.)
I'm not sure, but I suspect diesel burns slower. Diesels are also more difficult to build because the compression is much higher, and the fuel is injected at the top of the stroke when the air is already compressed. I imagine both of these could cause problems creating high-RPMs, which is how most standard gasoline racing engines generate their enormous torque.
I'm not an engineer, but that's just my (un)educated guess.
According to TFA, they calculated the speed by using a high speed camera, and calculated that the ant closed its jaws on the bait in 130 microseconds. The record for opening a jaw though, at 110 microseconds after seeing the "bait," is still held by Paris Hilton.
Yeah, and while we're at it, let's get rid of this goshdarned webwork of compustations! I'm plum sick of seein' all these kids with their fancy iPods bee-bopin' down the street, and I know they can hear me when I tell them to get off my lawn!!! I ordered me a mosquito repellerant out of the Sears Catalog, and by golly, when it gets here those kids will flee like the pests they are.
Anyway, back when we used to use paper and pencil, it worked great until some crazy kids came up with something they called an e-rasor. That was before e-mail, and e-everything, and it didn't even run on e-lectricity, so I have no idea why they called it an e-rasor, but I'll be darned if it didn't change the marks!!! Anyway, we soon got smarter and started throwing out all the ballots with e-rasor marks on them. Course, it was hard to say which ones got throwed out, and then we got to arguin' and carryin' on about too many gettin' left in, and what an e-rasor mark even looked like.
So then we started using pens (which reminds me of my favorite site, PenIsland.com -- the only thing the webwork is good for), but then it turned out people would get stuffing and put it in the boxes. I have no idea why they'd put stuffing in a ballot box instead of a turkey, but it sure messed up things but good!
What was I saying? Oh yeah, we should vote by who can yell the loudest. That always worked at the pep rallies, back when the rallies actually had pep in them. Not like the rallies nowadays. Boy howdy, when you knew you were getting shipped off to the Over There as soon as you finished your 'rithmatic, you sure as heck had some pep about being in school. That's what we need nowadays is a good war to teach you kids some respect.
IANAL, but I highly doubt those would be real problems. The parents are the owners, not the kid. I believe it's technically illegal to sell living human biological material anyway, but regardless, by the time the person is 18, the potential patents have expired anyway. Trying to lay claim to something that was given away 18.75 years ago, just because it has the same DNA as you, seems like a long shot.
I never understood AU/UK's propensity to charge by the KB. Sure, they have to route their traffic through undersea cables, but so do Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, etc, and unlimited usage is common in those places, as far as I can tell. Just seems like the AU ISPs are price gouging, particularly in light of the strength of the AUD as of late, meaning they're effectively paying less for their leases (assuming the cables are owned by foreign entities).
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And arbitrary small objects to boot!
I don't think settlements are considered precident in case law. I don't think they can even be introduced as evidence at trial.
If more people/companies challenged the 'fork and knife' patents, fewer companies would abuse them.
I believe you mean: An apparatus to divide food into portions of arbitrary size, by keeping the initial portion in place by holding the handle of the multi-pronged device, while simultaneously grasping the handle of the bladed device, and moving the thin or serated edge back and forth in a sawing motion against the food, and subsequently introducing those portions into an oral oriface using the multi-pronged device, or leaving them in their original position, or thereabouts, as desired, by firmly pressing one part of the bladed device against the portion to facilitate removal of the multi-pronged device from the aforementioned portion. Patent(s) pending.
Airhole?
Consider how many people 100 million dollars could employ.
Just one, but I'll work O/T and weekends too!
Or maybe they're planning on adding it in MS Ethics 2.0.
You mean Ethics 2027, whose release is scheduled to coincide with Vista's. Bets are still open as to which will be released first, and by how long the other will lag.
Dude, those aren't prices..
They're dunes.
On a somewhat unrelated point, it might be great for depression, but as someone who isn't depressed, I hated it. I took Wellbutrin (as Zyban) to stop smoking, and my experience was terrible. It made me feel callous (even more than normal), distant, and disconnected from events and people around me, and I felt like I never had the appropriate emotional response to circumstances. I felt indifferent about my friends, my girlfriend, etc. It also seemed to affect my focus and concentration, and I found myself having a lot of strange and/or violent thoughts. I also completely lost my sense of humor. The doc said it could take a while to adjust to it so I gave it some time, but decided to stop taking it after 3 weeks. It did decrease my desire to smoke and the "fix" one normally gets, but once I stopped taking it, I started smoking again. I eventually just went cold turkey instead, which actually wasn't that hard after I made it through the first couple of days.
Well that makes sense.. Happiness (the emotion, as opposed to the more esoteric version) in a healthy individual is just the brain responding to stimulus. You don't have to know what cold is to feel a burn.
Feeling happy about one's position, on the other hand, can sometimes require additional experiences to gain an appreciation for one's circumstances. This is readily apparent in children. If they're whining about something or other, and instead of placating them you make things worse, they're happy once you restore the status quo because they have gained perspective. Same thing with adults really. You may hate your job, but if you become involuntarily unemployed you'll probably gain a much greater appreciation and feel happy once you're working again, even if it's back at the same job.
Nonetheless, I still believe that one needn't experience depression in order to feel happy. One may gain a greater appreciation for their happiness after having been depressed, but lack of depression doesn't preclude being happy in the first place.
FINALLY... I get to add some more filters to my Adblock plugin. Jesus.
Now with rumblepad... for the ladies.
Show me a telephone number which you can dial and that, by the simple act of connection, results in the infiltration of your company's office such that your Intranet data (e.g., customer personal info, credit cards, etc) can be leaked out.
HA, NICE TRY!
Damn social engineers...
People can surf the web for hours and look like they are working....
However, if they're not doing their work, they won't last long, so it's still self-regulating. If there are no indicators such as lower productivity or poor quality of work, then it obviously doesn't matter. If the indicators are present but ignored, that's just poor management.
You missed the point entirely, which is that there are problems with any system. The more complicated the system, the more possible points of failure. That's not an argument for regression though, it's just a reason to expect initial problems until things get sorted out. There may be some truth to the idea that some of the elections were tampered with, but that's hardly new. You're also making the assumption that because you didn't hear about more problems and tampering with pencil-and-paper, that they didn't exist. (And really, if you're not aware of all the problems with other forms of voting, then you're probably being deliberately ignorant.)
I'm not sure, but I suspect diesel burns slower. Diesels are also more difficult to build because the compression is much higher, and the fuel is injected at the top of the stroke when the air is already compressed. I imagine both of these could cause problems creating high-RPMs, which is how most standard gasoline racing engines generate their enormous torque.
I'm not an engineer, but that's just my (un)educated guess.
According to TFA, they calculated the speed by using a high speed camera, and calculated that the ant closed its jaws on the bait in 130 microseconds. The record for opening a jaw though, at 110 microseconds after seeing the "bait," is still held by Paris Hilton.
Yeah, and while we're at it, let's get rid of this goshdarned webwork of compustations! I'm plum sick of seein' all these kids with their fancy iPods bee-bopin' down the street, and I know they can hear me when I tell them to get off my lawn!!! I ordered me a mosquito repellerant out of the Sears Catalog, and by golly, when it gets here those kids will flee like the pests they are.
Anyway, back when we used to use paper and pencil, it worked great until some crazy kids came up with something they called an e-rasor. That was before e-mail, and e-everything, and it didn't even run on e-lectricity, so I have no idea why they called it an e-rasor, but I'll be darned if it didn't change the marks!!! Anyway, we soon got smarter and started throwing out all the ballots with e-rasor marks on them. Course, it was hard to say which ones got throwed out, and then we got to arguin' and carryin' on about too many gettin' left in, and what an e-rasor mark even looked like.
So then we started using pens (which reminds me of my favorite site, PenIsland.com -- the only thing the webwork is good for), but then it turned out people would get stuffing and put it in the boxes. I have no idea why they'd put stuffing in a ballot box instead of a turkey, but it sure messed up things but good!
What was I saying? Oh yeah, we should vote by who can yell the loudest. That always worked at the pep rallies, back when the rallies actually had pep in them. Not like the rallies nowadays. Boy howdy, when you knew you were getting shipped off to the Over There as soon as you finished your 'rithmatic, you sure as heck had some pep about being in school. That's what we need nowadays is a good war to teach you kids some respect.
Chess: It's not just for breakfast anymore.
What are you talking about?
I cannot talk about what.
What?!?
Does that question interest you?
Jesus...
Please, call me Chessmaster 3035.
IANAL, but I highly doubt those would be real problems. The parents are the owners, not the kid. I believe it's technically illegal to sell living human biological material anyway, but regardless, by the time the person is 18, the potential patents have expired anyway. Trying to lay claim to something that was given away 18.75 years ago, just because it has the same DNA as you, seems like a long shot.
I never understood AU/UK's propensity to charge by the KB. Sure, they have to route their traffic through undersea cables, but so do Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, etc, and unlimited usage is common in those places, as far as I can tell. Just seems like the AU ISPs are price gouging, particularly in light of the strength of the AUD as of late, meaning they're effectively paying less for their leases (assuming the cables are owned by foreign entities).
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 6000 of me. God help us all!
We should be okay as long as you guys don't find each other.
Oh.. we thought that was your name.
That's because Jesus isn't interested in fame or fortune.
Wait.. scratch that first part.
(I know, I know.. I shamelessly re-used my own joke in the very same discussion, but funny mods generate no karma anyway).
Duh.. Jesus doesn't need your silly money or prizes.
Or maybe fortunate that people with mental illness can still be brilliant.