What I am still surprised at is the copyright owners don't hunt and pursue their fans and try to destroy them like so many other companies normally would.
Long ago, during WW2, a military training-film editor invented the blooper reel and the Pentagon asked to have them distributed to the troops. SAG complained that it would hurt actors' reputations and tried to ban the reels, but there was ultimately a compromise: distribution was restricted to the Armed Forces Motion Picture Network and they were off-limits to the public.
When I was in the AF in the 1960's we had a library of blooper reels with that caveat appearing in the opening credits, and some of them were really good.
Took the industry a long time to realize they were a profitable entertainment product.
I believe most casinos tolerate card counting though, as most people cock it up, negating the benefits and thus generating additional income for the house.
Yes they do. With the multi-deck games they run today, a card counter has to be extremely accurate to make money...one error per hour will put you in negative territory. You can't hide counting, so they'll know you're doing it -- but if you aren't playing well enough they're happy to accommodate. If you do show talent, then they exercise the right courts have given them to usher you out.
If it makes you laugh, great. If it doesn't, don't watch it.
I feel the same about football -- but that, sadly, does not fly with certain geeks. There are people who not only don't like certain entertainments, but are offended by those who do.
There's a reason that major motion pictures don't use laugh tracks.
Ummm, yeah, there is: the audience supplies its own. The laugh track was invented, for better or for worse, to simulate the experience of being at a live performance.
If you want to get silly with different transmission media, economic transactions can show traveling disturbances with wavelengths from New York to Hong Kong.
why should puny humans even expect to detect waste heat from an advanced civilisation? Surely it would make more sense to dump it back into the nearest star?
Excuse me? Of all the possible ways to get rid of heat, transferring it into a high-temperature object is the worst. You unload heat by removing it at LOW temperature. Second Law, and all that.
another mutual friend where he attempted to play the "i'm superior to you" card by switching into talking Russian.
I had a college French course circa 1961 with a prof who was convinced his shit smelled rosy, because -- of all the silly-ass reasons -- he could also speak Spanish. One day we were translating text from a French novel into English -- one of the simplest possible exercises in a foreign-language course -- and he turned to a student who was a recent refugee from Cuba. He said "Senor Hernandez, would you please translate the next paragraph into (visibly puffing himself up) "any language you please?"
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Splendid metaphor...wish I'd thought of it.
It's not a clock. It's an islamophobe detector, and it works perfectly.
Worst office Christmas party ever.
Back in the 80's, the RS manager in my local mall kept a hidden stash of quality components for ham customers...tempus fugit.
The air compressor appears to be a c2006 type 4 porter cable 6 gallon 150 psi pancake compressor.
I just mash mine with a griddle.
What I am still surprised at is the copyright owners don't hunt and pursue their fans and try to destroy them like so many other companies normally would.
Long ago, during WW2, a military training-film editor invented the blooper reel and the Pentagon asked to have them distributed to the troops. SAG complained that it would hurt actors' reputations and tried to ban the reels, but there was ultimately a compromise: distribution was restricted to the Armed Forces Motion Picture Network and they were off-limits to the public.
When I was in the AF in the 1960's we had a library of blooper reels with that caveat appearing in the opening credits, and some of them were really good.
Took the industry a long time to realize they were a profitable entertainment product.
No worries...they'll have LOTS of guns.
"Some other fraud" is the most likely of your list. He'll make a shitload of money selling people something that won't help.
Wrong as stated. The proper formulation is "You can't hustle an honest man. Hustling is cheating someone by making him think he's cheating you.
I believe most casinos tolerate card counting though, as most people cock it up, negating the benefits and thus generating additional income for the house.
Yes they do. With the multi-deck games they run today, a card counter has to be extremely accurate to make money...one error per hour will put you in negative territory. You can't hide counting, so they'll know you're doing it -- but if you aren't playing well enough they're happy to accommodate. If you do show talent, then they exercise the right courts have given them to usher you out.
If it makes you laugh, great. If it doesn't, don't watch it.
I feel the same about football -- but that, sadly, does not fly with certain geeks. There are people who not only don't like certain entertainments, but are offended by those who do.
Some kind of an insecurity thing, I guess.
There's a reason that major motion pictures don't use laugh tracks.
Ummm, yeah, there is: the audience supplies its own. The laugh track was invented, for better or for worse, to simulate the experience of being at a live performance.
If you want to get silly with different transmission media, economic transactions can show traveling disturbances with wavelengths from New York to Hong Kong.
Yet at that exact same age they can not only enlist in the military.
...which will train the living shit out of them.
Those retards crack me up. They spend all their money on a stupid car that hogs gas and costs a shit ton in maintenance
And then they have lawn fertilizer delivered so their big-buck utility vehicles don't get messed up.
why should puny humans even expect to detect waste heat from an advanced civilisation? Surely it would make more sense to dump it back into the nearest star?
Excuse me? Of all the possible ways to get rid of heat, transferring it into a high-temperature object is the worst. You unload heat by removing it at LOW temperature. Second Law, and all that.
another mutual friend where he attempted to play the "i'm superior to you" card by switching into talking Russian.
I had a college French course circa 1961 with a prof who was convinced his shit smelled rosy, because -- of all the silly-ass reasons -- he could also speak Spanish. One day we were translating text from a French novel into English -- one of the simplest possible exercises in a foreign-language course -- and he turned to a student who was a recent refugee from Cuba. He said "Senor Hernandez, would you please translate the next paragraph into (visibly puffing himself up) "any language you please?"
The guy came back at him in Japanese.
I think "hack" is reasonable, in the sense of an improvised solution implemented in the field...
They would love to...but the AF's friends in Congress make damn sure they aren't allowed to.
pilots loved the A-10...was the first aircraft engineered to be shot at and keep fighting
Might want to google "Sturmovik".
That's a remark you generally hear from people who fly other people's airplanes.
Is it still a witch hunt if you find an actual witch?
In Soviet Russia, decent criminalizes you!
Come on. We can't even criminalize poor diction.
Fair is one thing. The law is another.
Try that in California. It'll work great until your tag expires.