I don't want a refund. I want my money to go toward funding the FBI teams that are going after Rep. Jefferson. I want them expanded by several hundred agents and to have what happened to Jefferson to happen to the entire Congress. You want to save money? Bush the sons of bitches who spend nearly $2B on bridges to nowhere, $1B on repairing and then moving a perfectly good railroad and all of that other pork barrel crap. Sorry, they can keep my $18/year in exchange for the FBI continuing to go after these scumbags. I'd consider that some of the best $18 I've ever spent.
Problem is, the system rewards those who bring home the pork. See, the pork spent in your district is an investment, the pork spent in the other guy's state is wasted. We can put the whole of Congress in FPYITA prison. The newly-elected replacements will preach financial responsibility and restraint for about two election cycles, then it will be right back where it was.
Although it may seem that if a promising drug is found in a deep sea organism, the rapacious drug companies will get all Constant Gardener on them and start the dredging, that is not how it goes. If a compound is isolated from a sponge that had some desirable bioactivity in humans, that compound is isolated and its stucture is determined. Now the reason this compound has some activity in humans - a species the sponge has had no evolutionary contact with - is most usually due to the way some corner of the chemical sticks into a receptor or enzyme in the mammalian cell. This corner, by no means the whole thing, is called a pharmaphore - the actual working part of the molecule. The rest of the compound is unnecessary. The drug company doesn't need to waste money making that part, or squeezing out gallons of sponge juice. They set their hundreds of medicinal chemists to work preparing a simpler, easier to manufacure, compound that contains the necessary pharmaphore.
According to these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Quantum_Mec hanics, it's in the bag. All they require is a couple more years and just a bit more money, then you will all have hydrino generating plants in your basement. Electricity too cheap to meter; Doc Brown cars for everyone. Got your checkbook on you?
While I play neither, it is my understanding that a trumpeter cannot simply pick up a bugle and play it (especially well enough to do funeral detail).
Yes, it is obvious you play neither. I played trombone and taught myself some trumpet/french horn/baritone back in the day. One brass instrument is faily similar to another once you learn slide positions/valve combinations and train your lips to fit the different sizes of the mouthpieces. I can play you taps on the trombone, trumpet, bugle, flugelhorn, baritone, tuba, french horn, etc. Taps is the chopsticks of brass instruments.
I swear to God, what is wrong with him? Is he stupid or what? OSing OS X? This is exactly why he writes a few paragraphs once in a while instead of being entrusted with running an actual company. What a twit.
OS X (open or not) for PC timeline: 1. Apple releases OS X for PCs. 2. Dell begins to sell desktops preloaded with OS X. 3. Phone call to Dell from Redmond about the new per unit cost to "nonexclusive" vendors of preloaded Windows: $500. 4. Dell announces that OS X shipments being discontinued due lack of demand. 5. Apple shipments of computers decline, revenue from OS X makes up only a fraction of shortfall. 6. Apple stock falls.
I'm hereby naming it "Martorana's Law" (that's my last name) - within any discussion of Science, there is an ~90% chance that someone will take the opportunity to take a swipe at ID.
I hereby declare the existence of The Eponymous Law: people will continually try to invent and name new laws after themselves.
The finding of corollaries is left to the reader as a problem set.
Maybe email is more like how we like to work. We think for a while on something, then we gather information (Google it), then we seek out the input of others (email), then we think on it some more, then we start to build/write/mold a rough outline. Then we stand back, look at it, and pretty much repeat the previous cycle of discovery and synthesis as needed.
Collaboration software seems to me more like a committee meeting. Good for getting a team of people touching the same base, but not good for actual accomplishement.
See, I was going to do a huge study and monitor the prayers by type. I'd have a bunch of Baptists pray for one set of patients, Methodists another, Mormons, Anglicans, Mennonites, etc.
This would finally determine scientifically who God listens to, then we can kill the rest as infidels.
Seeing as how MS does not want there to be some great new application that slays their precious Windows/Office cash cow, the instant it - whatever it is - is announced, we will read
Really, before you dropped a few thousand on a house you had never seen, wouldn't you at least
look at it in Google Maps? search the local papers for stories mentioning the street, streets nearby, the neighborhood? call someone who lived near to it - maybe a business - and ask what they thought of the place? check any online information from the city/county/state - assessed values, etc?
I know jack about real estate, and I would be doing those in the first ten minutes after the thought to invest came to me.
So I miss a couple of episodes of Veronica Mars. I grab them out of the ether using Tomato Torrent. It's a beautiful picture - better than my TV, and no commercials. The networks don't want that. But the alternative (when their prime money-making fare is episodic, either fiction or reality) is that I lose interest in the story arc altogether and never bother to turn the program on again. So take your pick, suits. Either tolerate my catching up or say goodbye to my eyeballs.
I had a brain storm about an idea for a sci-fi short story in which a team of college grads figure out a way to turn their dna into computers. This would enable them to form huds in their mind and use their brains for neural computers instead of say... Cybernetic implants...
Then one student learns how to break the code and then start to modify all his DNA and becomes a superbeast consuming all life and then the good guy nerd transforms into some physic dragon ball-esque character (who can also modify his dna to turn into a female supermodel) and fights it out in an anti-clamtic battle and then my story goes down hill from there... So I sort of never bothered to even to try to start writing down the story.
Greenlight! I got Woo at the helm, Gyllenhaal as the good guy. I've got calls in to Carrey's agent - if he's available to play the heavy we go, if not we fall back on Busey. He's cheap, and what the hell, it's going to be all latex and cgi anyway, right? We do a reading tomorrow for the female lead, Rachel McAdams, Johansson, Beyonce. Beckinsale keeps calling me, but I think she's done. What say you have a first draft on my desk by Friday?
Our IT guys don't want anything to do with Google. They think, rightly or wrongly, that Google is a potential IP leak. Fine, but we really need to be able to Googlelike search our network volumes. What other products can I suggest to them?
Slashdot Mirror
What's with the unreadable font? And the square corners? I feel like we just lost two decades of graphic design wisdom.
I don't want a refund. I want my money to go toward funding the FBI teams that are going after Rep. Jefferson. I want them expanded by several hundred agents and to have what happened to Jefferson to happen to the entire Congress. You want to save money? Bush the sons of bitches who spend nearly $2B on bridges to nowhere, $1B on repairing and then moving a perfectly good railroad and all of that other pork barrel crap. Sorry, they can keep my $18/year in exchange for the FBI continuing to go after these scumbags. I'd consider that some of the best $18 I've ever spent.
Problem is, the system rewards those who bring home the pork. See, the pork spent in your district is an investment, the pork spent in the other guy's state is wasted. We can put the whole of Congress in FPYITA prison. The newly-elected replacements will preach financial responsibility and restraint for about two election cycles, then it will be right back where it was.
Although it may seem that if a promising drug is found in a deep sea organism, the rapacious drug companies will get all Constant Gardener on them and start the dredging, that is not how it goes. If a compound is isolated from a sponge that had some desirable bioactivity in humans, that compound is isolated and its stucture is determined. Now the reason this compound has some activity in humans - a species the sponge has had no evolutionary contact with - is most usually due to the way some corner of the chemical sticks into a receptor or enzyme in the mammalian cell. This corner, by no means the whole thing, is called a pharmaphore - the actual working part of the molecule. The rest of the compound is unnecessary. The drug company doesn't need to waste money making that part, or squeezing out gallons of sponge juice. They set their hundreds of medicinal chemists to work preparing a simpler, easier to manufacure, compound that contains the necessary pharmaphore.
Oh yeah, it was when Alex Forrest was flirting with Dan Gallagher. How'd that work out for him?
According to these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Quantum_Mec hanics, it's in the bag. All they require is a couple more years and just a bit more money, then you will all have hydrino generating plants in your basement. Electricity too cheap to meter; Doc Brown cars for everyone. Got your checkbook on you?
http://chronicle.com/colloquy/98/suicide/backgroun d.htm
While I play neither, it is my understanding that a trumpeter cannot simply pick up a bugle and play it (especially well enough to do funeral detail).
Yes, it is obvious you play neither. I played trombone and taught myself some trumpet/french horn/baritone back in the day. One brass instrument is faily similar to another once you learn slide positions/valve combinations and train your lips to fit the different sizes of the mouthpieces. I can play you taps on the trombone, trumpet, bugle, flugelhorn, baritone, tuba, french horn, etc. Taps is the chopsticks of brass instruments.
I swear to God, what is wrong with him? Is he stupid or what? OSing OS X? This is exactly why he writes a few paragraphs once in a while instead of being entrusted with running an actual company. What a twit.
OS X (open or not) for PC timeline:
1. Apple releases OS X for PCs.
2. Dell begins to sell desktops preloaded with OS X.
3. Phone call to Dell from Redmond about the new per unit cost to "nonexclusive" vendors of preloaded Windows: $500.
4. Dell announces that OS X shipments being discontinued due lack of demand.
5. Apple shipments of computers decline, revenue from OS X makes up only a fraction of shortfall.
6. Apple stock falls.
I'm hereby naming it "Martorana's Law" (that's my last name) - within any discussion of Science, there is an ~90% chance that someone will take the opportunity to take a swipe at ID.
I hereby declare the existence of The Eponymous Law: people will continually try to invent and name new laws after themselves.
The finding of corollaries is left to the reader as a problem set.
Maybe email is more like how we like to work. We think for a while on something, then we gather information (Google it), then we seek out the input of others (email), then we think on it some more, then we start to build/write/mold a rough outline. Then we stand back, look at it, and pretty much repeat the previous cycle of discovery and synthesis as needed.
Collaboration software seems to me more like a committee meeting. Good for getting a team of people touching the same base, but not good for actual accomplishement.
See, I was going to do a huge study and monitor the prayers by type. I'd have a bunch of Baptists pray for one set of patients, Methodists another, Mormons, Anglicans, Mennonites, etc.
This would finally determine scientifically who God listens to, then we can kill the rest as infidels.
Calculations of the flux due to the sun shows that 60 billion neutrinos pass thru your thumbnail every second. So that's the tingling sensation.
$35? It won't take off until it goes below $20.
Linus: Hilf, do you actually expect me to believe that you want to contibute to the Linux community?
Hilf: No, Mr. Torvalds. I expect you to die.
And how much did it cost him to get to Australia?
"The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end."
Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner of the Patent Office, 1843
Seeing as how MS does not want there to be some great new application that slays their precious Windows/Office cash cow, the instant it - whatever it is - is announced, we will read
Microsoft Betas Killer App Killer
Really, before you dropped a few thousand on a house you had never seen, wouldn't you at least
look at it in Google Maps?
search the local papers for stories mentioning the street, streets nearby, the neighborhood?
call someone who lived near to it - maybe a business - and ask what they thought of the place?
check any online information from the city/county/state - assessed values, etc?
I know jack about real estate, and I would be doing those in the first ten minutes after the thought to invest came to me.
Buying a house site unseen
Accidentally perfect statement.
Dud'e! Ton'e dow'n you're i'll punctuation's. Its like wrong.
'Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright!
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Poor Richard
So I miss a couple of episodes of Veronica Mars. I grab them out of the ether using Tomato Torrent. It's a beautiful picture - better than my TV, and no commercials. The networks don't want that. But the alternative (when their prime money-making fare is episodic, either fiction or reality) is that I lose interest in the story arc altogether and never bother to turn the program on again. So take your pick, suits. Either tolerate my catching up or say goodbye to my eyeballs.
I had a brain storm about an idea for a sci-fi short story in which a team of college grads figure out a way to turn their dna into computers. This would enable them to form huds in their mind and use their brains for neural computers instead of say... Cybernetic implants...
Then one student learns how to break the code and then start to modify all his DNA and becomes a superbeast consuming all life and then the good guy nerd transforms into some physic dragon ball-esque character (who can also modify his dna to turn into a female supermodel) and fights it out in an anti-clamtic battle and then my story goes down hill from there... So I sort of never bothered to even to try to start writing down the story.
Greenlight! I got Woo at the helm, Gyllenhaal as the good guy. I've got calls in to Carrey's agent - if he's available to play the heavy we go, if not we fall back on Busey. He's cheap, and what the hell, it's going to be all latex and cgi anyway, right? We do a reading tomorrow for the female lead, Rachel McAdams, Johansson, Beyonce. Beckinsale keeps calling me, but I think she's done. What say you have a first draft on my desk by Friday?
I have a quantum clock on my desk that is shut off, too. It is exactly correct twice a day.
Our IT guys don't want anything to do with Google. They think, rightly or wrongly, that Google is a potential IP leak. Fine, but we really need to be able to Googlelike search our network volumes. What other products can I suggest to them?