Boone is almost universally hated around here because of his horrible designs on sucking all the water out of the Ogalala aquifer and sell it to places without water. Of course once our aquifer is gone the entire Midwest turns back into a grassy desert. A lot of people around here believe this is just another way to get mineral rights under the wind power generators so he can get to the water.
I've heard this argument before and it's bullshit. Almost every meeting I'm in I have a 5 minute window that I'm actually useful or insightful, and I'm there for the other hour or two wondering why the fuck they didn't just ask me the question in an email. No sir, I think people give meetings the attention they rightfully deserve which is likely somewhere around 5%.
Right, but if it was a bacterial thing then by all means disinfect like a madman:). The problem I always have with a viral infection is that the virus beats me down, then some germ dog piles me in my weakened state. I know a lot of dr's prescribe antibiotics when you have a viral infection for that reason.
What would putting your laptop in a bag, then in the freezer do? Would condensation form on the inside of things that it shouldnt' and kill it?
Dammit being a robber should be dangerous. A year ago I finally moved out of the barrio, and now that I live in less of a dump I keep getting my crap robbed. Why should someone risk their life on a crab boat in the Bering sea for 10 to 50 thousand dollars when they can just beat the window in on my car and steal 4 grand worth of tools in less than 10 minutes. This may sound callous, but dammit robbing peoples stuff should be more dangerous than ice road trucking, working on an oil platform, or fishing for crab. It's definitely a lot easier.
The last game I purchased was never winter nights because they said it was Linux compatible. Well I got home and it wasn't, but they promised a patch. Well a year or so later they came out with a patch, but then I couldn't find my install key so the CD was a coaster. Now I just download the torrent of a game with a crack, and I can test to see if its compatible with my system immediately (often cracked games are easier to get to work under Linux anyways), and everything is stored on my app archive store, so if I ever have to reinstall I can do that very easily. I have the money to buy games, but I am not going to bother because it's A. A pain in the butt to run down to the store, B. Unknown if it will actually work on my system, C. unlikely that I will keep up with whatever scraps of paper I have to keep up with to install the license.
Wow, I'm sorry you are no longer free wherever you are since 9/11. I'm personally doing great here in Texas though. I'm also pretty sure that they are still enforcing habeas corpus, and I can still pursue happiness.
The thing with Ebola is that it kills its victims way too fast to be a great super disease. The worst thing that could happen with Ebola is that it becomes *less* deadly.
I'm more afraid of any random oncoming car in the opposing lane than any of this stuff:).
They are more progressive because lives are at stake in an immediate fashion. Who wants to be the guy that says "yea we could have built a supercomputer to test nuclear mishandling, but we decided it would take too long and be too expensive.. oh, yea sorry about turning the Dallas metroplex into a cherry red ember."
On a side note, Grand theft auto decreases gun crimes, car jacking, and prostitution. Since that game has come out originally all of the above have plummeted. Some have gone up a little then fallen again, but the general trend has been downwards.
We need more cop killing, whore murdering, throat cutting, gang banging, drive by games to bring down crime in this country.
By the way, on a serious note crime in this country is on a downward trend.
I agree. With my kids my main goal will be curtailing non-useful activities such as console games, TV, movies, instant messaging, etc. I'll spend time with my son (he's only two so far) doing things like building a big fort out of cardboard boxes, or other imagination engaging activities.
I completely agree. You might be feeding them with a non-ending stream of literature or telescope equipment. My parent's couldn't buy me enough books, electronic junk to tear apart for base components, and telescopes. Neither one of them were into any of that stuff.
My mothers first fiance died stuffing a bunch of fireworks into a pipe and making small pipe bombs. If your kids go retooling fireworks make sure they know that they really are dealing with real explosives.
Just environmentalists looking for a reason to hate the technology. We have tons of the power windmills here, and even when the wind is howling those things move slow as a glacier. The old water pump windmills of the plains would have been a bigger threat, but I'll bet the birds loved the water from the horse troughs.
This could easily fit under the necessary and proper clause. In an emergency where a botnet were taking over massive internet resources and threatening the global financial system or even energy grid they could deploy this thing as a counter insurgent application to take over and halt the spread of a malicious botnet. What's so different about taking over your pc that is being used to attack a bank vs taking a car that is being used to run away from a bank robbery.
Exactly. I live in Texas, and if you don't want to pay through the teeth for polluting our land for your cheap electricity then eat blackouts.
Stop building power plants, then regulate how much suppliers in your state can charge the people. What could go wrong?
Did Enron screw California over? Yep, don't like it? Fix your goofy ass laws, and build some infrastructure. It's the same exact thing that's happening right now in the oil market. In the U.S. we stopped building any infrastructure in refining or producing, now idiots are crying that someone else controls the price of their fuel.
Man we had the adams family pinball game, which is the best pinball game ever built in our bowling alley where I was a kid, and the cleaning staff did a great job of waxing the floors. So good that we could always push the machine back and forth, and usually left 40 or 50 credits on the machine by the time we were done pwning it;).
Police have been using domestic spying in the "war" on drugs forever. I had a narcotics cop tell me once that they would routinely zip around the city in a helicopter and use a special camera that would show them UV light coming from houses to check for grow operations. All this is is another step above that.
Believe it or not there are people that don't really watch TV unless it's something special, or they need to tune in to see if a tornado is coming towards their house.
It's been a long time since I had a business class. Isn't this what is called the poison pill? Either buying up things that make the company a poor purchase decision, or entering into contracts that do the same thing etc?
Those "homemade" explosives are pouring in from Iran and aren't really homemade. I mean really, who of you knows how to make some crap in your tub that can kill people in a tank? I don't think military action against Iran is a good idea or even feasible, but even PBS and NPR has had footage of the cases of drugs/money/explosives coming over from Iran. All of the soldiers patrolling the border know it to be a fact, all of the major media outlets know it to be a fact. I think the general populace refuses to acknowledge it so they don't appear to be giving the thumbs up to attacking Iran, which might be a good reason, but it's still silly to call them homemade. Improvised yes, homemade no..
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Boone is almost universally hated around here because of his horrible designs on sucking all the water out of the Ogalala aquifer and sell it to places without water. Of course once our aquifer is gone the entire Midwest turns back into a grassy desert. A lot of people around here believe this is just another way to get mineral rights under the wind power generators so he can get to the water.
I've heard this argument before and it's bullshit. Almost every meeting I'm in I have a 5 minute window that I'm actually useful or insightful, and I'm there for the other hour or two wondering why the fuck they didn't just ask me the question in an email. No sir, I think people give meetings the attention they rightfully deserve which is likely somewhere around 5%.
Damnit! That's why I keep having kids.
Right, but if it was a bacterial thing then by all means disinfect like a madman :). The problem I always have with a viral infection is that the virus beats me down, then some germ dog piles me in my weakened state. I know a lot of dr's prescribe antibiotics when you have a viral infection for that reason.
What would putting your laptop in a bag, then in the freezer do? Would condensation form on the inside of things that it shouldnt' and kill it?
Dammit being a robber should be dangerous. A year ago I finally moved out of the barrio, and now that I live in less of a dump I keep getting my crap robbed. Why should someone risk their life on a crab boat in the Bering sea for 10 to 50 thousand dollars when they can just beat the window in on my car and steal 4 grand worth of tools in less than 10 minutes. This may sound callous, but dammit robbing peoples stuff should be more dangerous than ice road trucking, working on an oil platform, or fishing for crab. It's definitely a lot easier.
The last game I purchased was never winter nights because they said it was Linux compatible. Well I got home and it wasn't, but they promised a patch. Well a year or so later they came out with a patch, but then I couldn't find my install key so the CD was a coaster. Now I just download the torrent of a game with a crack, and I can test to see if its compatible with my system immediately (often cracked games are easier to get to work under Linux anyways), and everything is stored on my app archive store, so if I ever have to reinstall I can do that very easily. I have the money to buy games, but I am not going to bother because it's A. A pain in the butt to run down to the store, B. Unknown if it will actually work on my system, C. unlikely that I will keep up with whatever scraps of paper I have to keep up with to install the license.
Wow, I'm sorry you are no longer free wherever you are since 9/11. I'm personally doing great here in Texas though. I'm also pretty sure that they are still enforcing habeas corpus, and I can still pursue happiness.
The thing with Ebola is that it kills its victims way too fast to be a great super disease. The worst thing that could happen with Ebola is that it becomes *less* deadly.
:).
I'm more afraid of any random oncoming car in the opposing lane than any of this stuff
They are more progressive because lives are at stake in an immediate fashion. Who wants to be the guy that says "yea we could have built a supercomputer to test nuclear mishandling, but we decided it would take too long and be too expensive.. oh, yea sorry about turning the Dallas metroplex into a cherry red ember."
On a side note, Grand theft auto decreases gun crimes, car jacking, and prostitution. Since that game has come out originally all of the above have plummeted. Some have gone up a little then fallen again, but the general trend has been downwards.
We need more cop killing, whore murdering, throat cutting, gang banging, drive by games to bring down crime in this country.
By the way, on a serious note crime in this country is on a downward trend.
I agree. With my kids my main goal will be curtailing non-useful activities such as console games, TV, movies, instant messaging, etc. I'll spend time with my son (he's only two so far) doing things like building a big fort out of cardboard boxes, or other imagination engaging activities.
I completely agree. You might be feeding them with a non-ending stream of literature or telescope equipment. My parent's couldn't buy me enough books, electronic junk to tear apart for base components, and telescopes. Neither one of them were into any of that stuff.
My mothers first fiance died stuffing a bunch of fireworks into a pipe and making small pipe bombs. If your kids go retooling fireworks make sure they know that they really are dealing with real explosives.
Just environmentalists looking for a reason to hate the technology. We have tons of the power windmills here, and even when the wind is howling those things move slow as a glacier. The old water pump windmills of the plains would have been a bigger threat, but I'll bet the birds loved the water from the horse troughs.
This could easily fit under the necessary and proper clause. In an emergency where a botnet were taking over massive internet resources and threatening the global financial system or even energy grid they could deploy this thing as a counter insurgent application to take over and halt the spread of a malicious botnet. What's so different about taking over your pc that is being used to attack a bank vs taking a car that is being used to run away from a bank robbery.
Exactly. I live in Texas, and if you don't want to pay through the teeth for polluting our land for your cheap electricity then eat blackouts.
Stop building power plants, then regulate how much suppliers in your state can charge the people. What could go wrong?
Did Enron screw California over? Yep, don't like it? Fix your goofy ass laws, and build some infrastructure. It's the same exact thing that's happening right now in the oil market. In the U.S. we stopped building any infrastructure in refining or producing, now idiots are crying that someone else controls the price of their fuel.
Why not just paint the floor a dull green instead of all this stupidity?
Not only that, but I can see whaling ships taking pot shots at them as they go by.
Man we had the adams family pinball game, which is the best pinball game ever built in our bowling alley where I was a kid, and the cleaning staff did a great job of waxing the floors. So good that we could always push the machine back and forth, and usually left 40 or 50 credits on the machine by the time we were done pwning it ;).
Recycling fails the same way socialism does. If there is nothing directly in it for the participating individual then any effort is too much.
Police have been using domestic spying in the "war" on drugs forever. I had a narcotics cop tell me once that they would routinely zip around the city in a helicopter and use a special camera that would show them UV light coming from houses to check for grow operations. All this is is another step above that.
Believe it or not there are people that don't really watch TV unless it's something special, or they need to tune in to see if a tornado is coming towards their house.
It's been a long time since I had a business class. Isn't this what is called the poison pill? Either buying up things that make the company a poor purchase decision, or entering into contracts that do the same thing etc?
Those "homemade" explosives are pouring in from Iran and aren't really homemade. I mean really, who of you knows how to make some crap in your tub that can kill people in a tank? I don't think military action against Iran is a good idea or even feasible, but even PBS and NPR has had footage of the cases of drugs/money/explosives coming over from Iran. All of the soldiers patrolling the border know it to be a fact, all of the major media outlets know it to be a fact. I think the general populace refuses to acknowledge it so they don't appear to be giving the thumbs up to attacking Iran, which might be a good reason, but it's still silly to call them homemade. Improvised yes, homemade no..