Yeah, the IMAX theaters in Edmonton (we have two now) have canned statements to that effect before the (fairly impressive) light & sound stuff before the movie. Noone seemed bothered when I saw it though.
Hmmm. Wonder if my mom's going to get around to taking my sister to see it while its still out...
No, there isn't. You can tell that they intend this to be released on vid at somepoint. Considering how little they used the sheer size of the screen, they should've just released it to standard theaters. (Well, maybe just to one's with kick ass sound systems, nothing's worse than Stravinsky in mono)
The Rhapsody section was cool, but I liked "The Firebird" best. You could feel all the nymph's emotions. Incredibly powerful imagery. After that, I liked the "Carnival of the Animals" bit. Rebellious, individualistic flamingo wins out in the end:)
Ok, it's nano related, so Hemos posted it. But, who are these guys? Can't say I've heard of the ACS... (not that that's neccessarily a signifigant statement about anything but my own ignorance)
Who would want to spend money on a purebred? They're almost all sick and unhealthy from all the inbreeding required to create the breed in the first place.
That's my point exactly. I'd rather read biased, poorly edited news than a completely unedited tabloid full of ads that doesn't even bother to try to seem respectable.
Could you maybe find that again and post the URL? I can't find any such thing, and I'd love to have the stand-alone, but I'm not about to go back to 4.08.
Well, the local Southam paper ran the lyrics (mostly), and there was one letter the next day bashing it. I swear, the editorial page needs to have a reply button...
Actually, I agree with what you've said. Intent does matter. Although, to some extent I think that they make sure to remain indifferent/ignorant. I'm sure that many executives who thought much about it would realize that the reason that most of their oil tankers are registered in Third World countries (including some landlocked ones) is pretty obvious.
I don't mind the 6 on the left. It's a better split, and I never did learn to use the proper fingers to type. I learned the key locations, so I can type without looking, by moving my hands, and using primarily the middle and index fingers, plus the left pinky for the leftmost keys. And I can still put out an easy 60-70 words most days. When I really get going I can easily clear 80. The only real problem I have with the split is that the F6 is on the right, which seems counter-intuitive when there are 12 F keys. Split them evenly into 3 x 4 or 2 x 6 please, I type by instinct.
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I agree that the cross arrows are annoying, but they're a lot easier to get used to than the rotated home/end/etc block. I still have to look at those to use them, and I've been using this keyboard for more than a year now. I'd love to find a similar split keyboard with standard layout, and key size (or bigger). I'd have a really hard time going back to a normal keyboard now, because I've gotten used to not having my very big hands right against one another. At this point, when I get stuck on a standard sized keyboard, I just type with one hand, as they're only slightly too large for me to easily reach all the keys without moving my hand side to side at all.
Don't feel like doing the math on your silly Imperial system numbers, but I know that the gas prices in Canada have gotten so high, that there's a huge protest being staged by truckers in the East. They've got hundreds of trucks stopped on the New Brunswick / Nova Scotia border, restricting traffic to one lane, and preventing any freight from passing. And the 401 in Ontario is being slowed to a crawl by other truckers (well it was last night anyhow) Unfortunately, they're not trying to get the oil companies to straighten up, they want gasoline taxes reduced. Sounds good for the immediate, but, reducing a fixed cost when the variable cost is driven up means fewer tax dollars that have to come from somewhere. Also, the oil companies can then reduce the prices to what they were, say, a month ago, when the taxes were at the current level, meaning more profit for them, and a mostly placated public. Then, the next time they drive the price up, the government is forced to reduce the tax even further, and so on, until there is no tax on the gas, and prices where they are now, and oil companies making huge profits that used to pay for roads which are now pothole filled messes.
Any hydrocarbon can be used in a Diesel. That was the original point of them. Pour it in, turn it over, and go. Preformance and fuel economy will vary with the hydrocarbon, but it'll go just the same. (You can do the same thing in gasoline engine, but it won't last long.)
Uh huh. Competitive. That's why gas prices never vary across the city for more than 18 hours or so. They may compete for sources, but they don't compete for customers at all.
I'm fairly sure I remember reading (in SciAm, or maybe PopSci) about an arangement of carbon that would hold hydrogen, at fairly high density, without any pressure, and allowed for simple extraction. I'm sure I'm not remembering it right, because it doesn't sound like anything plausible. Anyone else read the article and actually remember it? It would have been at least a couple years back...
That's why cutting down rainforest to make room for cattle ranches is so bad... Cows make an obscene amount of methane, to the point where they actually contribute a signifigant amount to greenhouse.
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And when everything except being a good little consumer drone, working 10 hour days all your life and dying in debt is the only thing still legal?
Hrmmm... What about Neons, Focuses, and similar cars? Hell, Ford makes & sells cars in Europe that we never get to have on this side of the Atlantic.
Yeah, the IMAX theaters in Edmonton (we have two now) have canned statements to that effect before the (fairly impressive) light & sound stuff before the movie. Noone seemed bothered when I saw it though.
Hmmm. Wonder if my mom's going to get around to taking my sister to see it while its still out...
No, there isn't. You can tell that they intend this to be released on vid at somepoint. Considering how little they used the sheer size of the screen, they should've just released it to standard theaters. (Well, maybe just to one's with kick ass sound systems, nothing's worse than Stravinsky in mono)
The Rhapsody section was cool, but I liked "The Firebird" best. You could feel all the nymph's emotions. Incredibly powerful imagery. After that, I liked the "Carnival of the Animals" bit. Rebellious, individualistic flamingo wins out in the end :)
That sounds similar to the way that I have little to no interest in buying the music that I hear over and over and over on the radio...
Lots of kids with bigger bank accounts than I buy that brand new CD for one song then decide they don't want it and sell it
Sure, it's the rich kids supplying those stores. Even the Disc's that still have the shrink-wrap from the original store...
Ok, it's nano related, so Hemos posted it. But, who are these guys? Can't say I've heard of the ACS... (not that that's neccessarily a signifigant statement about anything but my own ignorance)
Who would want to spend money on a purebred? They're almost all sick and unhealthy from all the inbreeding required to create the breed in the first place.
That's my point exactly. I'd rather read biased, poorly edited news than a completely unedited tabloid full of ads that doesn't even bother to try to seem respectable.
Yeah, reading Southam papers involves supporting Black, but its better than the alternative, which is reading the Sun.
Anyone want to tell me how to do this sort of thing in Win?
Yeah, pity people who play games on their home computers. Poor, poor us.
Could you maybe find that again and post the URL? I can't find any such thing, and I'd love to have the stand-alone, but I'm not about to go back to 4.08.
Hmm. I play an opinionated socialist on Slashdot. Of course, that's what I play in real life too...
I use the same name everywhere too, and I use it as a psuedonym when I write as well.
Well, the local Southam paper ran the lyrics (mostly), and there was one letter the next day bashing it. I swear, the editorial page needs to have a reply button...
Actually, I agree with what you've said. Intent does matter. Although, to some extent I think that they make sure to remain indifferent/ignorant. I'm sure that many executives who thought much about it would realize that the reason that most of their oil tankers are registered in Third World countries (including some landlocked ones) is pretty obvious.
I don't mind the 6 on the left. It's a better split, and I never did learn to use the proper fingers to type. I learned the key locations, so I can type without looking, by moving my hands, and using primarily the middle and index fingers, plus the left pinky for the leftmost keys. And I can still put out an easy 60-70 words most days. When I really get going I can easily clear 80. The only real problem I have with the split is that the F6 is on the right, which seems counter-intuitive when there are 12 F keys. Split them evenly into 3 x 4 or 2 x 6 please, I type by instinct.
I agree that the cross arrows are annoying, but they're a lot easier to get used to than the rotated home/end/etc block. I still have to look at those to use them, and I've been using this keyboard for more than a year now. I'd love to find a similar split keyboard with standard layout, and key size (or bigger). I'd have a really hard time going back to a normal keyboard now, because I've gotten used to not having my very big hands right against one another. At this point, when I get stuck on a standard sized keyboard, I just type with one hand, as they're only slightly too large for me to easily reach all the keys without moving my hand side to side at all.
Don't feel like doing the math on your silly Imperial system numbers, but I know that the gas prices in Canada have gotten so high, that there's a huge protest being staged by truckers in the East. They've got hundreds of trucks stopped on the New Brunswick / Nova Scotia border, restricting traffic to one lane, and preventing any freight from passing. And the 401 in Ontario is being slowed to a crawl by other truckers (well it was last night anyhow) Unfortunately, they're not trying to get the oil companies to straighten up, they want gasoline taxes reduced. Sounds good for the immediate, but, reducing a fixed cost when the variable cost is driven up means fewer tax dollars that have to come from somewhere. Also, the oil companies can then reduce the prices to what they were, say, a month ago, when the taxes were at the current level, meaning more profit for them, and a mostly placated public. Then, the next time they drive the price up, the government is forced to reduce the tax even further, and so on, until there is no tax on the gas, and prices where they are now, and oil companies making huge profits that used to pay for roads which are now pothole filled messes.
Any hydrocarbon can be used in a Diesel. That was the original point of them. Pour it in, turn it over, and go. Preformance and fuel economy will vary with the hydrocarbon, but it'll go just the same. (You can do the same thing in gasoline engine, but it won't last long.)
Uh huh. Competitive. That's why gas prices never vary across the city for more than 18 hours or so. They may compete for sources, but they don't compete for customers at all.
...the oil companies are inherently evil...
...they're just ruthless moneygrubbing companies...
Uh, am I the only one who failed to see any difference in opinion here? (Other than a refinement from general to specific?)
I'm fairly sure I remember reading (in SciAm, or maybe PopSci) about an arangement of carbon that would hold hydrogen, at fairly high density, without any pressure, and allowed for simple extraction. I'm sure I'm not remembering it right, because it doesn't sound like anything plausible. Anyone else read the article and actually remember it? It would have been at least a couple years back...
That's why cutting down rainforest to make room for cattle ranches is so bad... Cows make an obscene amount of methane, to the point where they actually contribute a signifigant amount to greenhouse.