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If you visit the island fortress/abbey of Mont Saint-Michel off the coast of France, one of the first things you see inside the gate is a stone wall built circa 1000 CE with an ATM set into it. So they've obviously been around since William the Conqueror...;-)
Plus ça change...in 1982 when the film Conan the Barbarian came out, excited movie reviewers announced the invention of a new fiction form called "sword and sorcery".
First, the sum trumpeted by Sen. Grassley in 1983 for the "toilet seat" was $640, not $40,000. Second, it was not a seat but a shroud for the toilet assembly, made corrosion-resistant because it was designed for Navy airplanes that are used near salt water -- in other words, it was a complete airplane bathroom enclosure. Not a bad price.
Seems like a big problem if they mistakenly identify a car and a ticket is issued for a passenger using a phone.
No problem. You get a fair ticket, you pay it. You get an unfair ticket, you pay it or pay a lawyer $1000 to get out of it. Welcome to traffic enforcement.
I believe that was the substance of a/. article some months ago...a state gubmint made some noises about taxing ordinary MMOG players on their virtual income, on grounds that gold farmers were endowing it with real value.
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...a Magnum Opus.
rj
Prodigious Penguins Populated Prehistoric Peru
rj
If you visit the island fortress/abbey of Mont Saint-Michel off the coast of France, one of the first things you see inside the gate is a stone wall built circa 1000 CE with an ATM set into it. So they've obviously been around since William the Conqueror...;-)
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rj
First, the sum trumpeted by Sen. Grassley in 1983 for the "toilet seat" was $640, not $40,000. Second, it was not a seat but a shroud for the toilet assembly, made corrosion-resistant because it was designed for Navy airplanes that are used near salt water -- in other words, it was a complete airplane bathroom enclosure. Not a bad price.
Oh, and the actual seat was included.
rj
Isn't that where all of them are?
rj
Redundant. Flak is a German-style contraction for Flugabwehrkanone, anti-aircraft cannon.
Guess that makes me a German Nazi...
rj
If you want to talk witch burning, I'd dial that back a century or two.
rj
Sure...a fifty-year nuclear war would give you quite a dose in a shelter with water leaks.
rj
Water is good at turning corners.
rj
No problem. You get a fair ticket, you pay it. You get an unfair ticket, you pay it or pay a lawyer $1000 to get out of it. Welcome to traffic enforcement.
rj
...Step Three will involve Linus Torvalds.
rj
I believe that was the substance of a /. article some months ago...a state gubmint made some noises about taxing ordinary MMOG players on their virtual income, on grounds that gold farmers were endowing it with real value.
rj
Fruit, cereal, milk, bread and butter. Or other foods for variety, such as eggs or breakfast meat.
rj
It would be very interesting to see them try that in Colorado. Can you say "Make My Day Law"?
rj
How about an adapter cable that would let you text in your metadata from your cellphone?
rj
Which is to say, game, set and match, MPAA.
rj
Good idea...excellent film, and not just for the Tesla connection.
rj
I take it you're about a hundred years old?
rj
The movie The Prestige explores that at some length.
rj
Well, we're working on "amnesty"...
rj
No, but tribesmen operating primitive machine shops in huts all over Southern Asia do.
rj
No...the "47" in the name is the year of adoption by the Red Army, its first customer.
rj
At least the cop car cameras begin doing their thing when you've been pulled over, hopefully with some degree of probable cause.
rj
Well...ummm...no.
rj