What about using comic book sound effects, like "Schreeoownk" or "Ptoioioinnngg", kind of like the sounds Don Martin made up for his Mad magazine strips? Run them through a "l33t" translator, or just stick an "@" or "+" where you feel like it, and surely you'd have something that took a while to crack.
If nothing else, it'd make logging in a bit more fun...
You can go to your local drugstore and after filling out a (very short) form get the free vaccine that protects you from that strain and anything that comes off that strain. If you got infected and were sick as a dog for a week, I bet you that you would go out and take the vaccine so you didn't get it again. If your next door neighbor got it and you didn't, I bet you'd go out and take the vaccine - just due to proximity.
As a result New England, Iceland and most of Wester Europe freeze as the temperature drops down by up to 9C. After all, London is at the lattitude of Alaska and the only thing keeping it warm is the Stream.
But, we're told constantly that it's warming up in Alaska and Canada so much that the permafrost is melting and glaciers are retreating due to melt. So, given that it's getting so warm at those latitudes that ice is not being retained year to year, how is it that Europe would suddenly start retaining ice? Sounds like you all would have a rough winter or two, but then you catch up with the rest of the "disappearing" Arctic climate in N.A. and you're back to status quo ante.
And 4000 years ago there were what, a hundred million people on the whole planet? Try moving 50 or 60 times that many people, and squeezing them into the "comfortable" places. Not to mention having to decide on who has to stay on the fringe areas that aren't so nice.
lol, chop sticks are more versitile then forks. You can do eevry thign you do with a fork, but also some things you can't, like picking up a tiny grain of rice.
Dude, they can't always come up with new super heroes... Eventually they'll run out of cool super powers
If they did that we'd be watching Spatula Man and Cat-5 Girl by now...
Oh, grow the hell up. I lived during the Cold War 2 freaking miles from the Pentagon. Nothing like having a couple dozen multimegaton thermonukes aimed in the general vicinity of your apartment.
Geeze, kids today just don't have what it takes, anymore!
The only way to maintain the same growth rates is to target new marktes like consoles, cars and handhelds.
The other way would be to somehow make the installed versions unusable, like by remotely disabling them if the owners don't pay for a new license each year.
Am I the only one who thinks this "crater" looks like a giant antlion trap? Especially with the loose "sand" looking stuff in the bottom center... I could totally see a gigantic martian antlion reaching out of that thing and rending poor opportunity into bits. Let's hope they didn't neglect to include phasers when designing these rovers =)
I'd rather they used my own stem cells instead of stem cells from some other source, so that there would be no rejection. Tissue rejection is an ugly thing, and I don't want to be on immunosuppressive drugs just to have new teeth.
If no one stands up and protests what they think is wrong, how do things get better?
This is one of the saddest, foullest legacies of the 1960's. The illusion that mere protest on the part of some noisy people will actuially bring about change.
You are not powerful enough to change the world, the nation, or even your town. What you can do is work to make your own life better. If you have a family, you can work to make their lives better, with their help.
It isn't easy, and you won't be able to change things just by complaining and chanting slogans, or even by voting. You have to take the crap jobs, you have to do the unpleasant tasks, you have to work instead of play, but you can make your own life and the lives of your family better. Don't rely on some faceless bureaucratic government or corporation or political party to make your life better, because that's a sucker's game.
You have to realize that they just don't know or care about you. And nothing you say or do will change that, no matter how many decibels you and your friends yell.
Nope. We point out, correctly, that despite our best efforts to become productive members of society, others make it impossible to do so, and now have a financial incentive to continue.
I call bullshit on this. No one is holding a gun to your head. You can find opportunities everywhere, if you're smart enough and have the cojones to work at it. Maybe it's not what you went to school for, maybe it starts out crap work, maybe it's something you think is beneath you, but the opportunities are there.
Oh, darn, you don't want to be a manager? You don't want to fix people's computers? You don't want to do something that no one else is doing? You don't want to move 1500 miles from your parents to find a programming job? You don't want to work for less than $75,000 a year to start? Too damn bad!
It's one thing to expect to lose a job when a company goes out of business. It's entirely another to lay off people by the thousands to increase quarterly profits, only to hire them back at dramatically reduced wages the following week.
I call bullshit on this one, too. Even if a company acts like this, it still doesn't mean it 's the only company in the entire US that's hiring people. Move away, go work for a different company, or start one of your own, or do something different. Staying there to be treated like that is no one's fault but the ones who stand for it. And don't tell me "it's too hard" to move, or "too hard" to start a company, or "too hard" to do something you've never done before. Your grandparents and great-grandparents would laugh in your face to hear that. They certainly would be ashamed of you for the attitude.
At what stage in US history was it ever the case that anyone had a guarantee of a good job???
Geeze, we Americans have gotten as bad a Europeans, we demand that someone has to take care of us, or else we whine about how unfair everything is!
Hellfire, if my parents had had that attitude during the Depression, they wouldn't have ever married and raised a family, since there definitely were no "guaranteed jobs!" My Dad was a coal miner, but when the mines shut down, he packed everyone up and headed to Detroit to find work, and if he couldn't work at a car plant, he worked odd jobs, worked at tool and die plants, worked wherever he could. Mom would work checkouts, or wherever she could, even if it was shit work (washing the diapers for kids she babysat surely counts).
There are times I really despair about the future of the US, if the generations to come are expecting endless "guarantees" and special treatment. What the hell will happen when we do have another Great Depression? From the attitudes being shown by the current crop of whiners, I predict mass suicide by people too shocked to cope.
They can always bundle Office and their development environment with Windows. Of course, the Justice Department might whimper about that a little, but that's not a big problem.
Television programs existed before televised soap operas. Read some of the hype about television from the 1939 World's Fair and other venues of the time. Then you could go further back and read the same hype about radio. The intent of the creators is always the noblest, but the uses to which their creations are put are eventually the basest.
Okay, the impending Ice Age caused by global warming will create huge glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere, mostly Europe, but global warming is causing all the glaciers currently in Europe to melt.
So, are we both saved and doomed, by the huge glaciers being formed as they simultaneously melt?
Boy, this global warming is tricky stuff!
There weren't potential problems back in the 1400's due to the mideval warming period, because there were less people in total, and less people along the coasts.
Except for the people in the Mediterranean coastal cities, like Venice. And it should be trivial to show where the old coastlines were if the ocean levels were higher when it was warmer than it is now. Unless it's only modern warming that's causing sea level increases.
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What about using comic book sound effects, like "Schreeoownk" or "Ptoioioinnngg", kind of like the sounds Don Martin made up for his Mad magazine strips? Run them through a "l33t" translator, or just stick an "@" or "+" where you feel like it, and surely you'd have something that took a while to crack.
If nothing else, it'd make logging in a bit more fun...
Doesn't seem to work that way for flu shots.
I think you mean hysteria.
But, we're told constantly that it's warming up in Alaska and Canada so much that the permafrost is melting and glaciers are retreating due to melt. So, given that it's getting so warm at those latitudes that ice is not being retained year to year, how is it that Europe would suddenly start retaining ice? Sounds like you all would have a rough winter or two, but then you catch up with the rest of the "disappearing" Arctic climate in N.A. and you're back to status quo ante.
But what do I know, I just repeat what I've read.
Sort of like the way Apple makes technology, with lots of thinking and research, as opposed to making Yet Another Cheap Beige Box.
And 4000 years ago there were what, a hundred million people on the whole planet? Try moving 50 or 60 times that many people, and squeezing them into the "comfortable" places. Not to mention having to decide on who has to stay on the fringe areas that aren't so nice.
Actually it should say "I wanted to go to Mars, but all they gave me was this stupid insignia."
If they can put a ham radio into space, maybe someone will build an amateur Mars probe. We definely need someone to investigate this new face on Mars.
Is Opportunty watching Late Night when NASA isn't watching?
That's why they invented sporks...
Hey, man, Cat-5 Girl is hot...
Oh, grow the hell up. I lived during the Cold War 2 freaking miles from the Pentagon. Nothing like having a couple dozen multimegaton thermonukes aimed in the general vicinity of your apartment.
Geeze, kids today just don't have what it takes, anymore!
The only way to maintain the same growth rates is to target new marktes like consoles, cars and handhelds.
The other way would be to somehow make the installed versions unusable, like by remotely disabling them if the owners don't pay for a new license each year.
Hm, that sounds familiar...
From the looks of things, Mars is full of them.
I'd rather they used my own stem cells instead of stem cells from some other source, so that there would be no rejection. Tissue rejection is an ugly thing, and I don't want to be on immunosuppressive drugs just to have new teeth.
This is one of the saddest, foullest legacies of the 1960's. The illusion that mere protest on the part of some noisy people will actuially bring about change.
You are not powerful enough to change the world, the nation, or even your town. What you can do is work to make your own life better. If you have a family, you can work to make their lives better, with their help.
It isn't easy, and you won't be able to change things just by complaining and chanting slogans, or even by voting. You have to take the crap jobs, you have to do the unpleasant tasks, you have to work instead of play, but you can make your own life and the lives of your family better. Don't rely on some faceless bureaucratic government or corporation or political party to make your life better, because that's a sucker's game.
You have to realize that they just don't know or care about you. And nothing you say or do will change that, no matter how many decibels you and your friends yell.
Every time I hear about how "unique" the Java VM is, I can't help but think about the old ucsd Pascal and it's "p-code" interpreter.
It almost feels like being one of the old monks in the dark ages, keeping alive the memory of how things used to be...
I call bullshit on this. No one is holding a gun to your head. You can find opportunities everywhere, if you're smart enough and have the cojones to work at it. Maybe it's not what you went to school for, maybe it starts out crap work, maybe it's something you think is beneath you, but the opportunities are there.
Oh, darn, you don't want to be a manager? You don't want to fix people's computers? You don't want to do something that no one else is doing? You don't want to move 1500 miles from your parents to find a programming job? You don't want to work for less than $75,000 a year to start? Too damn bad!
I call bullshit on this one, too. Even if a company acts like this, it still doesn't mean it 's the only company in the entire US that's hiring people. Move away, go work for a different company, or start one of your own, or do something different. Staying there to be treated like that is no one's fault but the ones who stand for it. And don't tell me "it's too hard" to move, or "too hard" to start a company, or "too hard" to do something you've never done before. Your grandparents and great-grandparents would laugh in your face to hear that. They certainly would be ashamed of you for the attitude.
At what stage in US history was it ever the case that anyone had a guarantee of a good job???
Geeze, we Americans have gotten as bad a Europeans, we demand that someone has to take care of us, or else we whine about how unfair everything is!
Hellfire, if my parents had had that attitude during the Depression, they wouldn't have ever married and raised a family, since there definitely were no "guaranteed jobs!" My Dad was a coal miner, but when the mines shut down, he packed everyone up and headed to Detroit to find work, and if he couldn't work at a car plant, he worked odd jobs, worked at tool and die plants, worked wherever he could. Mom would work checkouts, or wherever she could, even if it was shit work (washing the diapers for kids she babysat surely counts).
There are times I really despair about the future of the US, if the generations to come are expecting endless "guarantees" and special treatment. What the hell will happen when we do have another Great Depression? From the attitudes being shown by the current crop of whiners, I predict mass suicide by people too shocked to cope.
They can always bundle Office and their development environment with Windows. Of course, the Justice Department might whimper about that a little, but that's not a big problem.
Television programs existed before televised soap operas. Read some of the hype about television from the 1939 World's Fair and other venues of the time. Then you could go further back and read the same hype about radio. The intent of the creators is always the noblest, but the uses to which their creations are put are eventually the basest.
Sucks to be human.
Blocking Internet spam is like blocking Internet porn. The only really effective way is to disconnect from the Internet altogether.
Okay, the impending Ice Age caused by global warming will create huge glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere, mostly Europe, but global warming is causing all the glaciers currently in Europe to melt.
So, are we both saved and doomed, by the huge glaciers being formed as they simultaneously melt?
Boy, this global warming is tricky stuff!
Except for the people in the Mediterranean coastal cities, like Venice. And it should be trivial to show where the old coastlines were if the ocean levels were higher when it was warmer than it is now. Unless it's only modern warming that's causing sea level increases.
Which is why we want the same government to be in charge of figuring out who gets health care and who doesn't?