Martian gravity is lower than Earth's, and dust should be lighter and hence easier to blow off. Or shake off - couldn't NASA have built in some way to have the vehicle shake itself like a dog? Or at least jerk forward, stop, jerk backwards. At which point the Martians would groan and wait for the probe to start spouting rap lyrics.
Same thing happened to me - I set up an obscure and virgin name master account name I never gave out and never used for mail or site logins anywhere, yet suddenly I began receiving tons of spam and the key clue was that the spammers also included the names of other customers alphabetically around my name at the ISP. I contacted the Baby Bell, and they said "Well, we didn't have a leak, they used a dictionary attack."
This was total baloney, because the other names were not mere sequential permutation strings, they were clearly names - including cryptic ones - surrounding my name. Assuming a 16-character name string and each character from a set of 36 symbols (26 letters plus 10 numbers = 36) giving a possible 36 ^ 16 combinations, well, that's pretty large. No way somone can crank out then verify even a fraction of that. Later I saw a news item telling of hacks on the mail servers at the Baby Bell. Another example of corporate liars, defending incompetence.
The side effects of these sorts of drugs are not yet fully known, although many neuroscientists think that they may lead to 'mental clutter' or task-obsessiveness.
Nonsense. I've been taking them for years. No they don't. No they don't. No they don't. No they don't. No they don't. No they don't.
This is why I run naked through Starbucks shouting "I LOVE my new HP computer with an Intel processor and Microsoft operating system! I love my X-Box!" It makes me feel like I'm getting the attention I deserve while influencing my peers.
You have a point. It looks like the Disney execs decided to make Marvin 'cute', which is a really stupid thing. Marvin is supposed to be a whiny character you laugh at because he's always complaining; the fun comes from looking down on his impotence. Making him sympathetic like a puppy is completely antithetical to the role. Worst, those money grubbing bastards will probably make a cutesy Marvin toy and stick it in a McD 'Brain the Size of a Small Planet' Happy Meal. I just hope the clueless execs at Disney don't remake this by formula as another Mermaid or Hercules with happy little sidekicks. Just wait until you see the Marvin in costume at Disneyland. - puke -
While I have every reason to distrust Diebold given their atrocious history of faulty machines and rabid partisanship, it's hard to believe that a conspiracy of three vendors, all of whom sold optical scan machines to different precincts, worked together to create this fraud.
Two of those three vendors, ES&S and Diebold Election Systems, were started by the Urosovich brothers, financed by members of the Ahmanson family. Howard F. Ahmanson Jr has heavily funded the anti-evolution movement and other right-wing causes that advance a fundamentalist Christian outlook. He has a long-time relationship with Christian Reconstructionism, an extreme faction of the Religious Right advocating a theocratic takeover of American democracy, placing the entire society under the "dominion" of "Christ the King."
Now, I don't know about you, but this situation is ripe for shady dealings.
I work for an R&D manager who is the software engineering equivalent of Ed Wood. His methods and designs must be art, because they induce an emotion too. Unabashed dismay.
Hello. I'm Galactic Sheriff Balcolm of the Andromedan Federation, and you're violating the Andromedan DMCA by intercepting and decoding our transmissions. Please remove your foil and step away from your saucer.
The infamous Apple G4.5, in the shape of a football, was pulled off the market after numerous high school jocks mistook it for a sports object and put the hard drive through the goalpost. Sadly, the data did not survive.
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Phillip K Dick used to get stoked on amphetamines and write a novel in one week. Now, he was a pro, and a genius, but some of those books really sucked. A novice rushing to pour out 50K words from his/her heart is going to produce art more like that of a contestant on American Idol.
But then, 95% of fiction on store shelves these days is utter crap. It's written by morons whose idea of prose style is dominated by extensive TV watching, whose plots are recycled from LoTR, Star Wars, or possibly Speed Racer. And maybe all three. You do NOT learn good writing techniques in crap-cramming marathons. You only learn to rush your thinking and self-judgement, not to think well and write well. As Harlan Ellison said in another context, these people are merely going to be 'creative typists'.
In the coding context, a tight dreadline may force your focus to be tight, but it does not guarantee good code nor learning quality. It just leads to code-spew. All I ever see from the majority of pressured coders at work is half-assed broken limping code done in death marches. Discipline and thought and a little pride in standards of quality are way better working standards than treating production like some video game you're trying to beat the clock on.
Speaking of defecation processing time, here's a little speculation spawned by all this: CPUs and GPUs obtain faster processing using parallel pipelines. No organic creature I know of has multiple parallel intestines. Imagine how having them could speed up ingestion of food into the bloodstream. For instance, a runner with this mutation could refuel and rehydrate almost instantly partway through a race. You would think this might have developed as an evolutionary advantage because it enables a hunter to more quickly eat prey then move on to avoid being attacked by other hunters attracted by the kill.
I suppose someone will point out that this has already been done on Star Trek, or maybe American Idol.
Here on the planet Klepton, we've built our saucer hulls out of this stuff for decades. You Earth scientists are so retarded. Except for the one who invented Twinkies. He's cool.
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Martian gravity is lower than Earth's, and dust should be lighter and hence easier to blow off. Or shake off - couldn't NASA have built in some way to have the vehicle shake itself like a dog? Or at least jerk forward, stop, jerk backwards. At which point the Martians would groan and wait for the probe to start spouting rap lyrics.
Phooey! *MY* self-heating coffee uses Thermite and doubles as a WMD. Disclaimer: Not responsible for acid indigestion.
This was total baloney, because the other names were not mere sequential permutation strings, they were clearly names - including cryptic ones - surrounding my name. Assuming a 16-character name string and each character from a set of 36 symbols (26 letters plus 10 numbers = 36) giving a possible 36 ^ 16 combinations, well, that's pretty large. No way somone can crank out then verify even a fraction of that. Later I saw a news item telling of hacks on the mail servers at the Baby Bell. Another example of corporate liars, defending incompetence.
Nonsense. I've been taking them for years. No they don't. No they don't. No they don't. No they don't. No they don't. No they don't.
I, for one, welcome our new relativistic, heat-dissipating overlords!
This is why I run naked through Starbucks shouting "I LOVE my new HP computer with an Intel processor and Microsoft operating system! I love my X-Box!" It makes me feel like I'm getting the attention I deserve while influencing my peers.
I get the same effect breathing helium and eating Mexican food while wearing airtight pants.
This won't make the Cometpeople very happy!
Actually, if you get water really, really angry, it boils over very easily.
My manager: "Say, is this patented yet?"
Wow! With all this, how does he find time for AOL chat?
Speaking as a Laser-American, I consider this racist!
You have a point. It looks like the Disney execs decided to make Marvin 'cute', which is a really stupid thing. Marvin is supposed to be a whiny character you laugh at because he's always complaining; the fun comes from looking down on his impotence. Making him sympathetic like a puppy is completely antithetical to the role. Worst, those money grubbing bastards will probably make a cutesy Marvin toy and stick it in a McD 'Brain the Size of a Small Planet' Happy Meal. I just hope the clueless execs at Disney don't remake this by formula as another Mermaid or Hercules with happy little sidekicks. Just wait until you see the Marvin in costume at Disneyland. - puke -
Nothing beats a Glock 21, Dad.
I plan to celebrate by ordering sushi and not paying for it!
Two of those three vendors, ES&S and Diebold Election Systems, were started by the Urosovich brothers, financed by members of the Ahmanson family. Howard F. Ahmanson Jr has heavily funded the anti-evolution movement and other right-wing causes that advance a fundamentalist Christian outlook. He has a long-time relationship with Christian Reconstructionism, an extreme faction of the Religious Right advocating a theocratic takeover of American democracy, placing the entire society under the "dominion" of "Christ the King."
Now, I don't know about you, but this situation is ripe for shady dealings.
I work for an R&D manager who is the software engineering equivalent of Ed Wood. His methods and designs must be art, because they induce an emotion too. Unabashed dismay.
Hello. I'm Galactic Sheriff Balcolm of the Andromedan Federation, and you're violating the Andromedan DMCA by intercepting and decoding our transmissions. Please remove your foil and step away from your saucer.
And your wife is also named "1"? SOMEONE's in for a surprise next time she wrecks the car.
The infamous Apple G4.5, in the shape of a football, was pulled off the market after numerous high school jocks mistook it for a sports object and put the hard drive through the goalpost. Sadly, the data did not survive.
But then, 95% of fiction on store shelves these days is utter crap. It's written by morons whose idea of prose style is dominated by extensive TV watching, whose plots are recycled from LoTR, Star Wars, or possibly Speed Racer. And maybe all three. You do NOT learn good writing techniques in crap-cramming marathons. You only learn to rush your thinking and self-judgement, not to think well and write well. As Harlan Ellison said in another context, these people are merely going to be 'creative typists'.
In the coding context, a tight dreadline may force your focus to be tight, but it does not guarantee good code nor learning quality. It just leads to code-spew. All I ever see from the majority of pressured coders at work is half-assed broken limping code done in death marches. Discipline and thought and a little pride in standards of quality are way better working standards than treating production like some video game you're trying to beat the clock on.
I suppose someone will point out that this has already been done on Star Trek, or maybe American Idol.
Here on the planet Klepton, we've built our saucer hulls out of this stuff for decades. You Earth scientists are so retarded. Except for the one who invented Twinkies. He's cool.
Thank goodness. Finally a beer that goes well with Twinkies.