"do what my wife does: open a new free yahoo mail account for each trip and don't do anything confidential (ie. stick with trip updates and pics)"
I can just see you on vacation, pacing back and forth in the cyber cafe, waiting for your wife to finish sending her 6,000 "W1MDOWS XP SOFTWARE $14" and "MULTI-ORGA5M" and "COLLEGE DIGRE3" email messages.
Man, do I hate those terminals. So many of them are like they are designed to avoid use. Many of them have the trackball on the right side (instead of the middle), which is a way of telling left-handed users to buzz off. I've even seen them with space bars only as wide as the enter key. Yes, I typed a message on one once, but there were no spaces in it.
"I know this may break your heart or blow your mind, but some people have trouble saving money. Getting a tax refund is a nice way of forcing yourself to do so if you have problems doing it voluntarily....In libertarianland people are perfectly rational actors and no one has any trouble making the best decisions"
I looked at this a little more closely. Can you find one economist or personal finance guru who thinks it is a good idea to save money in an investment vehicle like this one (tax withholding) which offers absolutely no return! How is it "help" to force someone to do this when it takes away the option of investing it or putting it in a savings bank so they can get interest?
"I know this may break your heart or blow your mind, but some people have trouble saving money. Getting a tax refund is a nice way of forcing yourself to do so if you have problems doing it voluntarily."
That's a pretty good example of a "nanny state" enforcing morality and running our personal lives.
"In libertarianland people are perfectly rational actors and no one has any trouble making the best decisions. In the real world, sometimes people need help."
In fascistland, someone thinks that what in their opinion is a rational action should be forced on everyone else, even if it is not a rational action for the others. Also, in fascistland, it is called "help" when someone takes a large part of your money "for your own good" and never even gives you an investment return on it.
I double checked, and found that I accidentally typed dominatrix.com instead of dominos.com. I was wondering why I never got any pizzas, but this weird lady kept knocking at my door.
This is another common one in the feedback: "Aliens insisted on giving me anal probe". About half of these feedback listings are negative, and half are positive.
"[cheap intercontinental ballistic missiles] Carrying people and cargo instead of nuclear weapons. Quite an improvement I'd say."
You are going to have to have an awfully slick sales pitch to get over the fact that the flights always end with 600 mp/h impact at former Soviet Union strategic targets. Other than that, it's a great flight, man!
"Cue the "clueless tourists think that 3% of the energy required to reach orbit is somehow 'spaceflight'" fanboys."
Better yet, charge the rubes $3000. Then ship them down to Disneyworld on $179 "Jet Blue" flights. Tell them they are really in Cape Kennedy, and to ignore the perv in the Tigger costume. Have them ride "Space Mountain" a few times while telling them they are really in orbit. Then send 'em home.
"Cue the unmanned-spaceflight-is-the-only-way-to-go zealots..."
I suggest a compromise with these "unmanned spaceflght zealots". We send each of them up in a manned spaceflight. At some pre-determined point, the spacecraft is programmed to become unmanned due to explosive decompression of the passenger compartment. Then, the flight continues on, unmanned. Everybody's happy.
"Blue Origin's Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) will carry three or more passengers"
As long as the passengers after the flight are reusable too, it should be a workable, safe plan. However, could we claim spaceflights under the "Amazon Prime Plan", which claims "Unlimited shipping privileges cost just $79 per year"? After all, it all boils down to being shipped by Amazon.
' Hell, find a BBS owner that upgraded to 33.6k when it was cutting edge and "very fast" as opposed to just "medium" speed like the 14.4k or 28.8k modems. '
You mean they have modems THAT FAST now? I still run my C-Net BBS on a 14.4k modem. Maybe that is why no-one has visited it for 13 years: they think it too slow. If only I had known!!!
That'll teach me to keep rereading the 1981 series of "Compute!" magazine year after year instead of renewing. I bet "Compute!" is even better these days. What's Commodore done these days? Do they now have some sort of 10-bit "Commodore 192" that is still kicking TI-994's ass?
"In 60 seconds" ? You'll be lucky if the "live CD" completely boots on a Windows PC in that time. Not to mention the additional time to download the ISO file to burn to the CD or the days to wait while the live CD is mailed...
I understand your message. The Xbox 360 will be so rare that I have no hope of getting one. Might as well forget about it, and get a "Revolution" instead.
"Oh, and it's only in the US, not world-wide. Read the article carefully"
The article said that they surveyed North America. North Americaa includes three large populous nations and several smaller ones. Only one of these is the US. North America is not world-wide, of course, but it certainly is not just the US.
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In order to meet the requirements (payment by April 15), you don't "need" to have any of it withheld in advance.
Getting read for Step 2, illustrated:
I can just see you on vacation, pacing back and forth in the cyber cafe, waiting for your wife to finish sending her 6,000 "W1MDOWS XP SOFTWARE $14" and "MULTI-ORGA5M" and "COLLEGE DIGRE3" email messages.
Man, do I hate those terminals. So many of them are like they are designed to avoid use. Many of them have the trackball on the right side (instead of the middle), which is a way of telling left-handed users to buzz off. I've even seen them with space bars only as wide as the enter key. Yes, I typed a message on one once, but there were no spaces in it.
I looked at this a little more closely. Can you find one economist or personal finance guru who thinks it is a good idea to save money in an investment vehicle like this one (tax withholding) which offers absolutely no return! How is it "help" to force someone to do this when it takes away the option of investing it or putting it in a savings bank so they can get interest?
That's a pretty good example of a "nanny state" enforcing morality and running our personal lives.
"In libertarianland people are perfectly rational actors and no one has any trouble making the best decisions. In the real world, sometimes people need help."
In fascistland, someone thinks that what in their opinion is a rational action should be forced on everyone else, even if it is not a rational action for the others. Also, in fascistland, it is called "help" when someone takes a large part of your money "for your own good" and never even gives you an investment return on it.
I double checked, and found that I accidentally typed dominatrix.com instead of dominos.com. I was wondering why I never got any pizzas, but this weird lady kept knocking at my door.
This is another common one in the feedback: "Aliens insisted on giving me anal probe". About half of these feedback listings are negative, and half are positive.
2. Order Domino's pizza online at their web site.
3. Drive home and wait for pizza.
You are so right. It is a very bad example, like "ape going ugly".
For maximum efficiency and use of packaging space, the boarding procedure includes an 18 minute wait in an airlock heated to 1540 degrees F.
Greetings, Professor Falken. Want to play a game?
Crash? We prefer to refer to it as a high-velocity landing with 100% collateral damage to passenger, crew, and craft.
You are going to have to have an awfully slick sales pitch to get over the fact that the flights always end with 600 mp/h impact at former Soviet Union strategic targets. Other than that, it's a great flight, man!
Better yet, charge the rubes $3000. Then ship them down to Disneyworld on $179 "Jet Blue" flights. Tell them they are really in Cape Kennedy, and to ignore the perv in the Tigger costume. Have them ride "Space Mountain" a few times while telling them they are really in orbit. Then send 'em home.
"The TANG was stale"
"Space captain farted in airlock and refused to provide refund"
"Unsecured lunch lockers: tribbles ate my sandwich"
"I am a smoker, and was told that smokers had to step outside during spaceflight. Do NOT buy!"
I suggest a compromise with these "unmanned spaceflght zealots". We send each of them up in a manned spaceflight. At some pre-determined point, the spacecraft is programmed to become unmanned due to explosive decompression of the passenger compartment. Then, the flight continues on, unmanned. Everybody's happy.
As long as the passengers after the flight are reusable too, it should be a workable, safe plan. However, could we claim spaceflights under the "Amazon Prime Plan", which claims "Unlimited shipping privileges cost just $79 per year"? After all, it all boils down to being shipped by Amazon.
You mean they have modems THAT FAST now? I still run my C-Net BBS on a 14.4k modem. Maybe that is why no-one has visited it for 13 years: they think it too slow. If only I had known!!!
That'll teach me to keep rereading the 1981 series of "Compute!" magazine year after year instead of renewing. I bet "Compute!" is even better these days. What's Commodore done these days? Do they now have some sort of 10-bit "Commodore 192" that is still kicking TI-994's ass?
Oh. So that's how you get a wind tunnel effect when you get a row of blondes standing next to each other.
The patent appears to be so vague that it could apply to the teletype. Or perhaps even the telegraph.
Here is an artist rendering of a nanobrush in action. See them working so hard, so you don't have tooooo...!
"In 60 seconds" ? You'll be lucky if the "live CD" completely boots on a Windows PC in that time. Not to mention the additional time to download the ISO file to burn to the CD or the days to wait while the live CD is mailed...
Is that your intent? Thought so.
The article said that they surveyed North America. North Americaa includes three large populous nations and several smaller ones. Only one of these is the US. North America is not world-wide, of course, but it certainly is not just the US.