Let me see, the options are FPMITA prison or "Lemon Cookie" let us ponder that for a bit.
{Jepordy music plays in background}
I bet most of these guys are thinking they probably don't even have cookies in prison and their worn-out asses would probably look big in an adult diaper. So I'm thinkin' they'll take the lemon cookie.
I see what your are saying, but what I'm actually saying is that the CJ's more numerous, tend work on smaller budgets, and be more diverse in thier motivations. As a result, it is much harder to influence all of them. Sure, you can buy some of them, but the overall effect is mitigated by the inherent diversity of CJ.
The Electoral process seems to be more of a "marketing contest" and marketing takes bags and bags of money. There's commercial time, signs, billboards, radio, etc. Let's face it, a commercial is, at most 90 seconds to tell me why I should vote for you - hardly enough time. So, all we see are glittering generalities or, all to often, "don't vote for the other guy" spots.
If "Citizen Jounalism" takes off, do you see this as a way that candidates without the massive financial resources normally required to sustain a traditional campain could actually compete? Could this make the "third party candidates" a credible threat? Could this actually serve to "level the playing field"?
You'd be escorted to a sunny, tropical, government run facility in the south Atlantic to answer a few simple questions. In exchange, you'll have the opportunity to be "debriefed" on some of the incorrect information you may have received from terrorist sympathizer living among us.
Just a tip...when they ask, go with the "two scoop" lobotomy.
While I'm not a conspiricy theorist and I'm fully aware that is may well just be an "interesting topographical formation", to be honest, If I saw this out in some desert region, I'd be thinking that this could be some massive sculpture that eroded over time. To be certain however, I'd want to go see it close up.
Difficult to do that when the "interesting topographical feature" is on Mars.
Again, not trying to espouse any "conspiricy theories here", but if that formation was on Earth, I'd be thinking it could be an ancient sculpture.
I think I'm just plain done with Windows. I'll either defect to Apple or (more likely) go exclusively to Ubuntu and purchase Cedega to run the games I have.
Of course, I say this recalling that, once upon I time, I removed windows from my computer and installed OS/2. I really liked OS/2 but, unfortunately, IBM apparantly did not.
There are myriad social an economic issues that fall from this (like having to get government authorization to reproduce in order to control population for example) but let's leave those alone for now.
What about body part wearing out? Broken bones, worn out teeth, other injuries that, given hundreds of years, are bound to happen?
It seems to me that success in this field will necessarily create a need for engineering effective replacement body parts. Sounds like an interesting premise for a Sci-Fi novel that I'm pretty sure somebody here is going to tell me has already been written.
Dell 8100 with 128M RD Ram...yup I said RD Ram. I did get a second hard drive and have it set up as triple boot (SuSE 9.1 and Ubuntu Warty). These days, Windows ME just handles the kids games (Blue's Clues, Freddy the Fish, Dora the Explorer, etc.) but I DON'T connect to the internet, that is only through SuSE or Ubuntu.
Getting ready to do some major file organization on the old machine. At that time I will probably go exclusively to Ubuntu Breezy. SuSE is quite nice, and while a strong argument can be made for it, the small footprint of Ubuntu ultimately tips the scales. Both are nice though, it was a tough call between two very strong Linux distributions.
Although maybe I should start hunting eBay for RD RAM? Then again, we now also have an HP laptop with and AMD64 processor and WinXP on board.
My next computer will be a home-built with MythTV and Cedega on board. I don't think I'll be moving on to Vista.
In the earlier releases of emacs, there was no GUI, it was all command line and simple commands were done by pairs of cntrl-? Meta-? and so on. At first, it was confusing to just figure out how to shut the program down.
Don't get me wrong, it was immensely powerful, even back then....it just wasn't even remotely user-friendly until you gained some serious experience with it.
On the other hand, vi was also a bit cryptic but did not have as many features. However, the learning curve was a lot shorter in my opinion. I used vi all through college (bachelor's portion anyways) and nroff (which lives on Linux as groff) to write my reports and resumes.
"I mean your ID is "StressGuy", I am guessing you are a little high strung. "
No, I'm a stress engineer and my posting is observation as much as opinion mixed with a little of coming to Jamie's defense as I thought some of the characterizations of him were unfair.
Application "Safely Land Vehicle on Mars" is not responding; Would you like to?
1) click "WAIT" to see if application responds before impact with planet's surface
2) click "FORCE QUIT" to stop application "Warning, you may lose some data"
3) Hit CNTRL-ALT-DEL frantically about 40 times followed by holding the power switch down until computer finally shuts down then restart. System should reboot after mandatory check of hard drive allowing you to try the application again.
4) start MS Word to quickly compose last will and testament?
It's unfortunate that, in this society, quiet + intellegent = "lack of social skills". Sometimes, if your natural curiosity allows you to, over time, develop a broad knowledge on a variety of subjects, it can be very difficult not to come across as "aloof" as you put it. Here is the problem.
To make such a leap on that basis alone is prejudicial - plain and simple.
If an obviously intellegent person tries to explain something that the person he's talking to already knows, he will often assume he's being "condescending" because "smart people lack social skills"
If the same person assumes you know something that you don't, then he's being "aloof", "pompus", or a "know-it-all".
Point is, none of us are psychic. We are all prone to make these type of errors. However, if an average person does it, it's a faux pax at most and generally not taken as indicitive of a deep-seated personality disorder.
Now, let a person go through life facing that kind of prejudice, and they just might start to wall people off over time.
Jamie reminds me of me in a lot of ways...and I've fought hard to break the "intorvert" mold, I even took up storytelling at one point to get me used to interacting with a large group of people, but there are circles of people out there that just won't give you a chance. Sadly, the best course of action in those cases is to just "keep quiet" so as not to expose yourself to their judgment.
==
on a related note, sorry to hear that he and Adam apparantly don't get along. I also think it's an unfair characterization that Adam lacks the basic skills. Compared to Jamie's more methodical nature, it might appear so, but there are a couple of times where he came up with a better design than Jamie as I recall.
Those guys have to coolest job in the world, and I hope it continues on.
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Let me see, the options are FPMITA prison or "Lemon Cookie" let us ponder that for a bit.
{Jepordy music plays in background}
I bet most of these guys are thinking they probably don't even have cookies in prison and their worn-out asses would probably look big in an adult diaper. So I'm thinkin' they'll take the lemon cookie.
I mean, that what *I* would do.
I see what your are saying, but what I'm actually saying is that the CJ's more numerous, tend work on smaller budgets, and be more diverse in thier motivations. As a result, it is much harder to influence all of them. Sure, you can buy some of them, but the overall effect is mitigated by the inherent diversity of CJ.
But let's see what the expert says.
The Electoral process seems to be more of a "marketing contest" and marketing takes bags and bags of money. There's commercial time, signs, billboards, radio, etc. Let's face it, a commercial is, at most 90 seconds to tell me why I should vote for you - hardly enough time. So, all we see are glittering generalities or, all to often, "don't vote for the other guy" spots.
If "Citizen Jounalism" takes off, do you see this as a way that candidates without the massive financial resources normally required to sustain a traditional campain could actually compete? Could this make the "third party candidates" a credible threat? Could this actually serve to "level the playing field"?
You'd be escorted to a sunny, tropical, government run facility in the south Atlantic to answer a few simple questions. In exchange, you'll have the opportunity to be "debriefed" on some of the incorrect information you may have received from terrorist sympathizer living among us.
Just a tip...when they ask, go with the "two scoop" lobotomy.
I don't know, perhaps we should ask the fine folks over at the Fox News Network ...gotta go now...
While I'm not a conspiricy theorist and I'm fully aware that is may well just be an "interesting topographical formation", to be honest, If I saw this out in some desert region, I'd be thinking that this could be some massive sculpture that eroded over time. To be certain however, I'd want to go see it close up.
Difficult to do that when the "interesting topographical feature" is on Mars.
Again, not trying to espouse any "conspiricy theories here", but if that formation was on Earth, I'd be thinking it could be an ancient sculpture.
I think I'm just plain done with Windows. I'll either defect to Apple or (more likely) go exclusively to Ubuntu and purchase Cedega to run the games I have.
Of course, I say this recalling that, once upon I time, I removed windows from my computer and installed OS/2. I really liked OS/2 but, unfortunately, IBM apparantly did not.
Q: What do you call a dedicated internet appliance?
A: A Pornograph!
On humans
There are myriad social an economic issues that fall from this (like having to get government authorization to reproduce in order to control population for example) but let's leave those alone for now.
What about body part wearing out? Broken bones, worn out teeth, other injuries that, given hundreds of years, are bound to happen?
It seems to me that success in this field will necessarily create a need for engineering effective replacement body parts. Sounds like an interesting premise for a Sci-Fi novel that I'm pretty sure somebody here is going to tell me has already been written.
I wonder if we can turn that into a "Mythbuster" experiment?
Dell 8100 with 128M RD Ram...yup I said RD Ram. I did get a second hard drive and have it set up as triple boot (SuSE 9.1 and Ubuntu Warty). These days, Windows ME just handles the kids games (Blue's Clues, Freddy the Fish, Dora the Explorer, etc.) but I DON'T connect to the internet, that is only through SuSE or Ubuntu.
Getting ready to do some major file organization on the old machine. At that time I will probably go exclusively to Ubuntu Breezy. SuSE is quite nice, and while a strong argument can be made for it, the small footprint of Ubuntu ultimately tips the scales. Both are nice though, it was a tough call between two very strong Linux distributions.
Although maybe I should start hunting eBay for RD RAM? Then again, we now also have an HP laptop with and AMD64 processor and WinXP on board.
My next computer will be a home-built with MythTV and Cedega on board. I don't think I'll be moving on to Vista.
In the earlier releases of emacs, there was no GUI, it was all command line and simple commands were done by pairs of cntrl-? Meta-? and so on. At first, it was confusing to just figure out how to shut the program down.
Don't get me wrong, it was immensely powerful, even back then....it just wasn't even remotely user-friendly until you gained some serious experience with it.
On the other hand, vi was also a bit cryptic but did not have as many features. However, the learning curve was a lot shorter in my opinion. I used vi all through college (bachelor's portion anyways) and nroff (which lives on Linux as groff) to write my reports and resumes.
...pardon me while I look for my asbestos suit....
here I was waiting for the numerous obligitory "Frikkin' laser beams!" post and you all went the shark route
Oh well...good thing I didn't join the office pool
What if the sails themselves were solar panels?
What if solar and sail were not concurrent? (solar for sunny days and no wind)
What if the solar panels primary purpose was to store energy to run on-board systems and for docking?
There are many iterations here, but it's an idea worth pursuit. (I think)
Once that's established a solar/convenional Sail hybrid is the logical next step.
It's a proof of technology, not a planned usurper to sail power, at least that's how I see it.
"I mean your ID is "StressGuy", I am guessing you are a little high strung. "
No, I'm a stress engineer and my posting is observation as much as opinion mixed with a little of coming to Jamie's defense as I thought some of the characterizations of him were unfair.
Application "Safely Land Vehicle on Mars" is not responding; Would you like to?
1) click "WAIT" to see if application responds before impact with planet's surface
2) click "FORCE QUIT" to stop application "Warning, you may lose some data"
3) Hit CNTRL-ALT-DEL frantically about 40 times followed by holding the power switch down until computer finally shuts down then restart. System should reboot after mandatory check of hard drive allowing you to try the application again.
4) start MS Word to quickly compose last will and testament?
Will SCO go to Mars to support their IP rights?
Longtime Slashdot user makes "rookie mistake" of clicking a webcam link on a recently posted Slashdot article
and the link was NOT SLASHDOTTED!!!
some things are too strange to be believed....I don't know if life even makes sense now...
It's unfortunate that, in this society, quiet + intellegent = "lack of social skills". Sometimes, if your natural curiosity allows you to, over time, develop a broad knowledge on a variety of subjects, it can be very difficult not to come across as "aloof" as you put it. Here is the problem.
To make such a leap on that basis alone is prejudicial - plain and simple.
If an obviously intellegent person tries to explain something that the person he's talking to already knows, he will often assume he's being "condescending" because "smart people lack social skills"
If the same person assumes you know something that you don't, then he's being "aloof", "pompus", or a "know-it-all".
Point is, none of us are psychic. We are all prone to make these type of errors. However, if an average person does it, it's a faux pax at most and generally not taken as indicitive of a deep-seated personality disorder.
Now, let a person go through life facing that kind of prejudice, and they just might start to wall people off over time.
Jamie reminds me of me in a lot of ways...and I've fought hard to break the "intorvert" mold, I even took up storytelling at one point to get me used to interacting with a large group of people, but there are circles of people out there that just won't give you a chance. Sadly, the best course of action in those cases is to just "keep quiet" so as not to expose yourself to their judgment.
==
on a related note, sorry to hear that he and Adam apparantly don't get along. I also think it's an unfair characterization that Adam lacks the basic skills. Compared to Jamie's more methodical nature, it might appear so, but there are a couple of times where he came up with a better design than Jamie as I recall.
Those guys have to coolest job in the world, and I hope it continues on.
Perhaps they should get the fine computer experts at Diebold involved? I hear they are pretty good at propping up Republicans.
{....ohhhh...I can feel the flames already....}
...just tryin' to help :)
Happy Hippy Hunting Season?
I smell reality/sitcom!
An amazing generation those "hippies", 40 years down the road they still ruffle feathers
I've sat next to more than my fair share of passengers that managed to smuggle "methane" of board the aircraft.
{...shhh!, not everybody got that....}