I already have a sensible commuter car. It's a 1995 Ford Ranger that gets 16-17 "MPG"... did I forget to mention that it runs on Compressed Natural Gas that I fill up for $0.638 per gas gallon equivalent? Whoa, Hank Hill posts of Slashdot!
It's the best kind of advertising they could buy. It'd be better if, say, Justin Timberlake would die a horrible, high-speed death in one fo their cars.
What, like being dumb enough to let a drunk driver hit you? Or silly enough to allow your brakes to fail? Ooh, or being too stupid to notice that deer! In case of break failure: Pull on the hand brake, jam it in reverse, and steer into something harmless, don't just sit there and panic to death.
And there was a gorram sign warning you about deers! Slow down already!
Again, intelligent people can argue about the government's role in regulating safety, but don't try to disguise the issue by pretending only idiots are in car accidents. Everybody should have to retake the driving test every 4 years. That would solve two problems: Heavy traffic and regular accidents.
The aircraft has a transponder, the airport has a beacon.
Offtopic a little, but I live near a small airport. Whenever a plane lands my cell phone drops a call. I'll have full bars then it will suddenly go to none. This always coincides with a plane landing. Late at night when there are no planes landing I seem to be fine. I guess that's what they mean by "This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation".
the Supreme Court has the nexus to declare what might be ex post facto, or un-equal protection under the law That would be the same court staffed by people who think that torture is not punishment?
STAHL: If someone's in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and they are brutalized, by a law enforcement person -- if you listen to the expression "cruel and unusual punishment," doesn't that apply?
SCALIA: No. To the contrary. You think -- Has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don't think so.
STAHL: Well I think if you're in custody, and you have a policeman who's taken you into custody-
SCALIA: And you say he's punishing you? What's he punishing you for?... When he's hurting you in order to get information from you, you wouldn't say he's punishing you. What is he punishing you for?
Oh, that's great, you have dishonest monsters deciding what is equal protection and what isn't! Fantastic!
The transponders are in the airplanes, not on the airports. I'm pretty sure they both have one. You're full of it. Transponders in airports make no sense. What mode does it operate in, mode U for Useless? The aircraft has a transponder, the airport has a beacon.
Maybe you should switch away from the Asshole mode you're on.
The spice expands consciousness!:D The geriatric spice extends life, and in large doses, expands consciousness. It is needed for space travel. The spice is the most precious substance in the universe, and it is only found on one planet.
What I never understood, is how they ever got to Arrakis in the first place, if you can't get there without the use of a substance only found there:-S
I felt the whole spice deal weakened the hard sci-fi goodness of what otherwise would have been a less fantastical book. You need unobtanium to go faster than light. And you need to go faster than light to reach another planet while you're still young.
But I agree in part. If you search for the term 'Coke' and 'Pepsi' comes in second in the advertiser list, what does that mean? That means Pepsi sucks!:)
it's hard to imagine how Google could be sued. Google has a lot of money. Someone is paying a lawyer to find some way, any way, to funnel that money to them.
Insider reports suggest that the production is done with amateurish cameras and gerry-rigged equipment.
The pay is also rumored to be quite low, as a sound technician has been seen improvising a trap to catch small game in order to feed himself, using nothing more than a piece of wire from his equipment and a twig.
Couldn't NYCL have gotten a sock puppet to post this to soothe my feelings You skip self-submissions, but encourage people to act in dishonest ways to obfuscate their self-submissions.
I would (without any legal training) guess that you don't necessarily have to transfer the entirety of song to infringe on its copyright. So the RIAA is going to start suing iTunes for its 30 seconds extract? Hint: No, you're just wrong.
I'm not so sure. Given that judges have made so many mind-boggling judgments regarding copyrights and patents Not just regarding copyrights and patents. Supreme court justice Alito argued that torture is not punishment, therefore not covered under the "no unusual punishment" umbrella.
That man is a monster, and he gets to decide what is just!
Oh sure, that works for you people on the coast but what about the rest of us? I have for you a modest proposal about using land-cows for their oil to fuel your energy needs. You may recognize them by their whale tails and muffin tops...
Off the top of my head, a $100 fan center could shut the power connection when the feed from the power company goes down. Attach a 24V AC transformer to the power company line and wire it to the fan center's controller. Power goes down, circuit opens.
I can probably fabricate a circuit with an oscillator that syncs up to the 60Hz of power. After that, it's a matter of how to convert from DC to AC. It doesn't seem hard to me. Your kung fu is better than my kung fu. If you do fabricate this interesting little setup of which you speak, please document your efforts and publish it on this web, on instructables or something. Open-sourced, near-free energy reduction projects is something this world needs.
No, seriously. She's a huge douchebag, a total control freak when it comes to Harry Potter. For example, I've heard she specifically won't allow a Harry Potter RPG to be made, because she wouldn't be able to control the sorts of stories run in it. Yes, what a bitch, why won't she let the furries get freaky in her little world, just like in second life?
THAT'S what her children story needs, MORE controversy! Because the religious whackjobs weren't harassing her enough as it is.
One good book? Personally I would consider enders game to be one of Cards WORST efforts. Not terrible , but not his best.
The sequels and the parallel to the original story is where the real character development and writing style is found. And the plot holes get bigger, deeper, wider.
I liked reading Enders' game, and I liked reading it again as Enders' shadow (the book so popular, he wrote it twice!), but man, the more he exploited that story, the worse it got.
Now if you have read all of these and still believe what you believe, then i guess thats a matter of personal opinion (or perhaps you're a sci-fi author and he is competition =). If not, read a bit more before talking shit about an author. Maybe if you read some good sci-fi instead of spending all your time on the soap opera that is the Anders saga, with its computers that can wait for him in near-c space travel dilatation for all the time it takes, but gets so upset at him if he cuts "her" off on the phone that she pouts and refuses to talk to him (women!)... ah man, the lameness, the lameness!
Unless you are using a fiber optic cable with a transparent sheath, there shouldn't be any kind of detectable emissions from a fiber optic cable One word: junctions.
Should the government have the right to even be on Wikipedia making edits? Isn't that similar to them controling any other media outlet? Or does the 'openness' of wiki mean that the government is justified in making changes to whatever articles they want? I personally don't want them even touching it, or influencing any media outlet. With this deal in place, government officials and their contractors began approving, and in some cases altering, the scripts of shows before they were aired to conform with the government's anti-drug messages. "Script changes would be discussed between ONDCP and the show -- negotiated," says one participant.
Rick Mater, the WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards, acknowledges: "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."
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That would also be one of my three wishes.
And there was a gorram sign warning you about deers! Slow down already!
That would solve two problems: Heavy traffic and regular accidents.
Offtopic a little, but I live near a small airport. Whenever a plane lands my cell phone drops a call. I'll have full bars then it will suddenly go to none. This always coincides with a plane landing. Late at night when there are no planes landing I seem to be fine. I guess that's what they mean by "This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation".
STAHL: If someone's in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and they are brutalized, by a law enforcement person -- if you listen to the expression "cruel and unusual punishment," doesn't that apply?
SCALIA: No. To the contrary. You think -- Has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don't think so.
STAHL: Well I think if you're in custody, and you have a policeman who's taken you into custody-
SCALIA: And you say he's punishing you? What's he punishing you for?
Oh, that's great, you have dishonest monsters deciding what is equal protection and what isn't! Fantastic!
Maybe you should switch away from the Asshole mode you're on.
What I never understood, is how they ever got to Arrakis in the first place, if you can't get there without the use of a substance only found there
And you need to go faster than light to reach another planet while you're still young.
But can that excrement allow humans to see the future and travel faster than light? First, the sleeper must awaken.
Insider reports suggest that the production is done with amateurish cameras and gerry-rigged equipment.
The pay is also rumored to be quite low, as a sound technician has been seen improvising a trap to catch small game in order to feed himself, using nothing more than a piece of wire from his equipment and a twig.
That's all kinds of messed up.
Hint: No, you're just wrong.
That man is a monster, and he gets to decide what is just!
I can probably fabricate a circuit with an oscillator that syncs up to the 60Hz of power. After that, it's a matter of how to convert from DC to AC. It doesn't seem hard to me. Your kung fu is better than my kung fu.
If you do fabricate this interesting little setup of which you speak, please document your efforts and publish it on this web, on instructables or something. Open-sourced, near-free energy reduction projects is something this world needs.
THAT'S what her children story needs, MORE controversy! Because the religious whackjobs weren't harassing her enough as it is.
The sequels and the parallel to the original story is where the real character development and writing style is found. And the plot holes get bigger, deeper, wider.
I liked reading Enders' game, and I liked reading it again as Enders' shadow (the book so popular, he wrote it twice!), but man, the more he exploited that story, the worse it got. Now if you have read all of these and still believe what you believe, then i guess thats a matter of personal opinion (or perhaps you're a sci-fi author and he is competition =). If not, read a bit more before talking shit about an author. Maybe if you read some good sci-fi instead of spending all your time on the soap opera that is the Anders saga, with its computers that can wait for him in near-c space travel dilatation for all the time it takes, but gets so upset at him if he cuts "her" off on the phone that she pouts and refuses to talk to him (women!)... ah man, the lameness, the lameness!
Unless you are using a fiber optic cable with a transparent sheath, there shouldn't be any kind of detectable emissions from a fiber optic cable One word: junctions.
Or does the 'openness' of wiki mean that the government is justified in making changes to whatever articles they want?
I personally don't want them even touching it, or influencing any media outlet. With this deal in place, government officials and their contractors began approving, and in some cases altering, the scripts of shows before they were aired to conform with the government's anti-drug messages. "Script changes would be discussed between ONDCP and the show -- negotiated," says one participant.
Rick Mater, the WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards, acknowledges: "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."