To go with the super-remote system (which includes a video monitor so you don't even have to look over your shoulder to see who is nagging you to get up out of the chair for once), and the Wireless Beer Glass, we'll have the Electronic Depends diapers so you can stay in that barcalounger for days at a time. Each with its own TCP/IP address, the diaper will send an alarm to the Internet when it is too wet and needs to be changed.
"You may be tired, but it is theft, and you are a criminal"
Just because it is illegal does not mean it is "theft". "Theft" has a certain meaning, and acts of copyright infringement, rape, pulling tags off mattresses, and other crimes do not meet it.
Due to my ongoing boycott of France (have not touched a french fry in months, and a certain style of kissing has been out too. No "Third Rock" reruns either!), I will not accept any such grants from the French government. However, call it a "freedom grant", and I will cash in.
Send me an e-mail....oops, that 18 letter french word for e-mail.... and let me know.
I hope this is not off-topic, but I've wondered for some time if there is a repository for images which are not copyrighted or otherwise IP-controlled: material made available for sharing. This would include artwork, photos, and scanned historic documents and images.
Is this a Japanese term? Is it one of those made up words that looks cool in Japanese?
I'm glad they changed it for the American market: it sounds like the name of a pregnancy test kit.
Space danger vs launch/atmosphere danger
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Do you know how many craft are lost on launch, reentry, or planetfall compared to craft that are lost just moving through space?
I do not know for sure, but I suspect that the latter total is lower. Certainly it is true for the shuttles. If this is true for spacecraft in general, then the parent was not "quite wrong": space is indeed less of a danger for spacecraft than other environments.
Yeah... and you can have little plastic pinhead figures to go into the cars. This fits in with online Sims, where there are a lot of pinheads playing.
Space is the least of NASA's worries
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"I never cease to be amazed by all that NASA is capable. Time and time again they have had (understandable) glitches occur, because space is the most hostile environment."
When you get right down to it, space is not the problem. It is getting there, or getting back that is the problem (especially atmospheres). Once you get out into the void, things seem to work pretty well (at least until you leave space and try to enter another atmosphere, such as Mars)
Voyager II was still transmitting data recently, and it's out of the solar system! How many other systems built three decades ago are still functioning? And do they have to contend with the harshest environment known to man?"
Again, this is not near as harsh on NASA's equipment as our own atmosphere is. Once the stuff gets into space safe and clear, it seems to run pretty well precisely because space is pretty safe when it comes to danger to the craft.
Oh my god, it's full of 404 !
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They've finally done it. They've slashdotted space itself.
No wonder there are so many responses that are joking about the NBC television network. What does NBC mean here? I thought I knew acronyms, but not this one.
While NBC is in the title, it is not in the story description, nor is it in the actual article. I'm guessing it is Nuclear something, but I do not know.
"Putting some junk in the subject telling me it is spam doesn't make it go away. Yes, I can auto-delete it, but I've still got to download it."
Not necessarily. If this approach worked (not sure that it will), you might end up being able to choose from your ISP e-mail in which "ADV" spam is filtered (by the ISP) before it ever gets sent to you. Or imagine relays that filter out "ADV"s automatically. Then you would not have to download it.
The first question that comes to mind is how this affects the operations of Michigan-based super-spammer Al Ralsky. Does anyone know? I think this is a good way to figure out whether or not this law helps solved the problem.
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10. ""Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the IP."
Ambrose Bierce
9. ""The report of BSD's death was an exaggeration." ~
Mark Twain
8. "My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping." Rita Rudner
7. "Ours is not to wonder why, ours is just to compile or die"
6. "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an SCO attorney? ~ Woody Allen
5. "They say such nice things about OS's at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days." ~ Garrison Kiellor
4. "Either BSD's dead or my watch has stopped." ~ Groucho Marx
3. "*BSD rode in on a pale horse"
2. "I did not come to bury BSD, but to praise it"
1. "Please don't bury me. I'm not compiled yet"
" Horror/Sci Fi writer Bob Hope was found dead in his Maine home this morning"
How sad. I recall enjoying great works of his such as "Thanks for the Misery" and "Bob Hope's Shining Celebrity Roque Classic"
To go with the super-remote system (which includes a video monitor so you don't even have to look over your shoulder to see who is nagging you to get up out of the chair for once), and the Wireless Beer Glass, we'll have the Electronic Depends diapers so you can stay in that barcalounger for days at a time. Each with its own TCP/IP address, the diaper will send an alarm to the Internet when it is too wet and needs to be changed.
"You may be tired, but it is theft, and you are a criminal"
Just because it is illegal does not mean it is "theft". "Theft" has a certain meaning, and acts of copyright infringement, rape, pulling tags off mattresses, and other crimes do not meet it.
robandfab@millivanilli.com (Getting material for that new album)
captainjack@caribbean.pirates.org (If yer gonna be a pirate, expect to show up on such lists)
hrosen@riaa.org (oops!)
uday@saddam.iq, qusai@saddam.iq (now we know why they had to bomb that house!)
senatorhatch@senate.gov
I read this one and at first thought it was about Yoda in the workplace.
Begin, this reading comprehension failure has.
"Maybe this whole "comedy" thing just isn't your forte?"
ya. I'm in line way behind Yakov Smirnoff.
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If there ever was a group of people that should be sent to the Gulag, it's spammers.
Due to my ongoing boycott of France (have not touched a french fry in months, and a certain style of kissing has been out too. No "Third Rock" reruns either!), I will not accept any such grants from the French government. However, call it a "freedom grant", and I will cash in.
Send me an e-mail....oops, that 18 letter french word for e-mail.... and let me know.
I hope this is not off-topic, but I've wondered for some time if there is a repository for images which are not copyrighted or otherwise IP-controlled: material made available for sharing. This would include artwork, photos, and scanned historic documents and images.
Does such a thing exist?
Thanks! Would have never known that "Atari HQ" (the link you gave) would have contained valuable Nintendo history information.
Is this a Japanese term? Is it one of those made up words that looks cool in Japanese?
I'm glad they changed it for the American market: it sounds like the name of a pregnancy test kit.
Do you know how many craft are lost on launch, reentry, or planetfall compared to craft that are lost just moving through space?
I do not know for sure, but I suspect that the latter total is lower. Certainly it is true for the shuttles. If this is true for spacecraft in general, then the parent was not "quite wrong": space is indeed less of a danger for spacecraft than other environments.
Yeah... and you can have little plastic pinhead figures to go into the cars. This fits in with online Sims, where there are a lot of pinheads playing.
"I never cease to be amazed by all that NASA is capable. Time and time again they have had (understandable) glitches occur, because space is the most hostile environment."
When you get right down to it, space is not the problem. It is getting there, or getting back that is the problem (especially atmospheres). Once you get out into the void, things seem to work pretty well (at least until you leave space and try to enter another atmosphere, such as Mars)
Voyager II was still transmitting data recently, and it's out of the solar system! How many other systems built three decades ago are still functioning? And do they have to contend with the harshest environment known to man?"
Again, this is not near as harsh on NASA's equipment as our own atmosphere is. Once the stuff gets into space safe and clear, it seems to run pretty well precisely because space is pretty safe when it comes to danger to the craft.
They've finally done it. They've slashdotted space itself.
"as a new boardgame title, which OgreCave reveal as being "Gothica: Dracula's Revenge,"
Watch this to collide with the forthcoming Halle Barry movie, also called "Gothika".
This looks suspiciously boxy. For all we know, they have launched one of those shoeboxes that can be used to observe the Sun safely during an eclipse.
" Sure, create a lot of warning systems and defence systems. Everyone feels safe."
There are no defence systems in this country, except for de fence who tries to sell you de stolen goods.
No wonder there are so many responses that are joking about the NBC television network. What does NBC mean here? I thought I knew acronyms, but not this one.
While NBC is in the title, it is not in the story description, nor is it in the actual article. I'm guessing it is Nuclear something, but I do not know.
"Putting some junk in the subject telling me it is spam doesn't make it go away. Yes, I can auto-delete it, but I've still got to download it."
Not necessarily. If this approach worked (not sure that it will), you might end up being able to choose from your ISP e-mail in which "ADV" spam is filtered (by the ISP) before it ever gets sent to you. Or imagine relays that filter out "ADV"s automatically. Then you would not have to download it.
The first question that comes to mind is how this affects the operations of Michigan-based super-spammer Al Ralsky. Does anyone know? I think this is a good way to figure out whether or not this law helps solved the problem.
" and for my salvo in this war, though I can not comment of the syntax of the referring article, paws in chess can move in a "L" pattern"
You got me there! Please see this link for more "paws in chess". The move (more of an up-one over-one than a "L") is called "en passant" by the way.
I should have referred to castling bishops instead.
It was in 1988, shortly after an event involving a certain famous hockey player switching teams.
The guy who had Western US and Alberta moved one army down from Alberta into Western US as a troop transfer.
Someone commented "There goes Wayne Gretsky".