Rush limbaugh called for a nuclear strike against whatever country the bombers were from. If I remember correctly he said to turn the country into a parking lot
If I remember correctly, Timothy McVeigh lived an awful lot of his life in Kansas. It won't take many megatons to turn that into a parking lot.
As another example, recently a government study pointed out that children who had breast milk has 30% fewer incidents of ear infections, allergies and Downs syndrome, compared to infants who used formula.
Wait a second there. Downs Syndrome is a chromosomal disease--the battle is lost the moment the ovum starts developing. How on earth can breast feeding help?
When I was 12, I took a vacation to Sault Ste. Marie (on both sides of the border w/Michigan) with my family and some friends of the family. On day, we decided to go to the other side of the border for the hell of it. One car had my father and some friends, and the other car had a friend of the family, me, and my brother.
The first car gets through, but, when they find out that I'm not related to the driver of my car, they detain us on suspicion of child abduction. We're taken to a room for interrogation. For 15 minutes, a 5'0" woman with a Napoleon complex grills us as though each one of us was a suspect. She then leaves the room to get another officer--we wait. We get bored. We walk right out of the station unnoticed to our unlocked, unimpounded vehicle. After that we spent a couple of minutes in Canada and went right back into the States through the same checkpoint.
So, if you are a sexual predator who likes to smuggle young boys out of the country, Sault Ste. Marie is the place to go.
As for me, British Columbia is a much kinder place, IMHO.
Gilette's Mach 3 cost $1 billion to develop and doesn't do nearly as much as this thing does.
But haven't you seen the commercials? They had to test that sucker in F-15's and space stations on male underware models while ex-Russian kiddie-porn stars fondled them to evaluate the results.
China is currently facing the dilemma of joining the world community yet somehow maintaining it's authoritarian (yes they are still communist) government. Communism itself can't tolerate any kinds of rivals whatsoever. This extends to churches like the inability of Tibetans to display pictures of the Dalai Lama
After decades of his preaching that the original kingdom of Tibet and non-Tibetan out-lying regions be racially purified? In the West, he only commands symapathy thanks to the feel-good New Age vein in society. In his own land, he's just a retro-crazed feudalist.
Sure China cracked down on Tibet decades ago during the Cutural Revolution, but now it's, and I can say from direct experience, a well-loved part of the country. Han tourists love the place and frequently spend a sizable part of their salary for a vacation there.
to the fact that Chinese Catholics cannot be loyal to the Pope (he is not a Chinese National and therefore verboten).
Even today in the US, millions of people would be up in arms for if another Catholic president came up for election for the very same reasons.
Other Chinese intolerances include banning Falun Gong which commands hearts and minds of a huge number of Chinese and is therefore an enemy of communist ideology even though it's a relatively benign movement.
Falun Gong is a pretty straight-forward messianic cult which is more than a little creepy to most Chinese. Think Branch Davidians without the guns and you'll see why the people and the State aren't universally friendly to it.
Just because China is offically Red does not mean that they hate freedom, want to kill God, and eat babies. You make them sound like some Captain Planet supervillian hell-bent on being a groundless bastard despite the fact that their justifications could easily be found on our half of the Globe.
IBM used to be profoundly anti-alcohol. Something to do with Thomas J Watson being a Quaker. I may be wrong - it's been almost twenty years since I worked there. Anyway, company policy was offset by the employees, who all drank like fish.
A couple of months ago, a political watchdog group put out a bounty of $250,000 for ínformation leading to the discovery of a senator who inserted a clause for the prevention of certain lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies. Today, I am here to carry on that tradition.
Today, my fellow Americans, I hold in my hand... A RUSTY SPOON A spoon which will be awarded to the person or persons leading to the discovery of the United States senator who is making these acronyms. The spoon will be presented to the winner in a lavish ceremony taking place in an unspecified warehouse on the beautiful Potomac waterfront--in which the senator in question will be castrated with it.
No kidding. This friend of mine Igor said that with nothing more than a couple of propellors and an engine that he would someday get a big one ton cage of metal and glass to fly and carry people! Yeah, right. I wonder what ever happened to that Sikorsky guy anyway...
It's not the thrust-to-weight ratio that matters here--it's just so ugly that the earth repells it.
It is also possible that cell phones do interfere with some onboard control things.. Have you ever put a working digital cell phone next to a pair of speakers, a monitor, etc? Hear the buzz? (I haven't researched what that is, but I think its an artifact of TDMA encoding - also used in GSM phones. If my theory is right, it should buzz with a CDMA phone [if you have a CDMA phone, and you can get things to 'buzz' like GSM/TDMA phones, please let me know so I can think of a new theory])In any case, I'm sure they can sheild for that sort of thing.
Five minutes ago, I recieved a call. My cellphone was sitting a foot or two away from the CRT. A second before it started ringing, the monitor went just as squirrely as when one degausses it.
I was born in Sweden but has studied at some other universities around the world (Switzerland, Japan) but I must say that I get more and more impressed with Swedish universities (especially the engineering faculties).
By law higher education is free of charge in Sweden (!), ie no tuition fees (this applies to foreigners as well). For foreign student's I think there are various scholarship to cover living expenses as well.
Finland might be another good option, there are definately some world class universities overthere.
I am an American studying civil engineering in Sweden. The parent is absolutely right about Swedish universities. Despite having to fly back to the States every summer to earn money, it is still a savings when you factor in how much I'm saving on tuition and rent.
The language is not difficult for an English-speaker and can be learned on the flight over if you have prior knowledge of German. However, I'm continuing my language studies so I am elligeble for a scholarship from the Swedish Institute.
The universities here are much more flexible and more personal--student/professor relations are much less formal. Even the bureaucracy in Swedish universities is more personal.
The other nice thing is that, while I'm not studying in English, language is less of a problem. My former US university had, with the exception of high-up professors, a near-majority of TA's and professors from India and the former USSR. It is much easier to understand the day-to-day English here.
How is it that your English is so good? I am constantly amazed at how well some people who presumably have never lived in an English-speaking country can speak English. It's just amazing. Very impressive.
I am an English-speaker living in Sweden. I can tell you it's a combination of:
Swedish and English are very similar
There aren't many Swedes in the grand scheme of things
American and British media saturate the place
Of course, you can't discount the fact that they spend their whole education studying it. However, as an English-speaker trying to learn Swedish, I find it intensely annoying that Swedes refuse to speak Swedish to you if they know you speak English.
Science fans may be excited to learn that "Mutant X" has been cancelled.
I watch Saturday Night Live religiously--whether it sucks or not. Sometimes, if I'm not tired, I watch what we've come to call The Damned Time Slot, 12:00AM-1:00AM. It's a frightening place with such shows as Cleopatra 2525, Relic Hunter, Hercules, Xena, and Mutant X and Andromeda.
We came to the conclusion that to enter this timeslot, you had to have at least three current/former porn stars in your cast.
(Earlier today, I saw a perfect picture of modern-day Shanghai: in a sea of bicycles, a man riding, and a woman seated in the Chinese way in equilibrium on the back of the bike with both her legs on one side... And as the man pedals his old rusted bike, the girl behind her is merrily thumb-keying SMS messages to her friends.)
That's nothing. When I was on a bus going through backwoods Poland last month, I heard some beeping from the seat behind me: There sat a munk--with Friar Tuck haircut, robe, and a rope belt--typing away an SMS on a new-model Samsung.
Anakin Skywalker becomes 'Darth Vader'!!! You heard it here first! (c=
Okay, I kind of missed out on the PR before Episode I, but how did we find out that Darth Vader is Anakin? Was it in a book? Was it written in 50ft letters of fire in the sky over Skywalker Ranch?
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wrap the drug infusion pumps...
I bet it would cost a lot less than wallpapering the entire hospital...
A fool wraps the world in leather, a wise man wraps his feet in leather.
And now, my interpretation...
A foolish woman wraps the world in spikes. An even more foolish woman wraps her feet in them.
Rush limbaugh called for a nuclear strike against whatever country the bombers were from. If I remember correctly he said to turn the country into a parking lot
If I remember correctly, Timothy McVeigh lived an awful lot of his life in Kansas. It won't take many megatons to turn that into a parking lot.
As another example, recently a government study pointed out that children who had breast milk has 30% fewer incidents of ear infections, allergies and Downs syndrome, compared to infants who used formula.
Wait a second there. Downs Syndrome is a chromosomal disease--the battle is lost the moment the ovum starts developing. How on earth can breast feeding help?
Thats ok, it was furnished by ikea.
No, that was furnished by SatireWire.
They don't want the Finns or the Norwegians to get any ideas. :)
Okay, where are the Norski jokes?
I for one welcome our Gila monster overlord!
If you stop putting peyote on your corn flakes, you won't have to keep welcoming him...
When will they port Net BSD to it?
Actually, SuSe should be coming out with a port next quarter.
Yup. I can attest to that. Being part of a GPU design team myself.
If only we hadn't have used the goatse man as part of our tech presentation on the big night, we might still be around.
So that's what happened to BitBoys...
When I was 12, I took a vacation to Sault Ste. Marie (on both sides of the border w/Michigan) with my family and some friends of the family. On day, we decided to go to the other side of the border for the hell of it. One car had my father and some friends, and the other car had a friend of the family, me, and my brother.
The first car gets through, but, when they find out that I'm not related to the driver of my car, they detain us on suspicion of child abduction. We're taken to a room for interrogation. For 15 minutes, a 5'0" woman with a Napoleon complex grills us as though each one of us was a suspect. She then leaves the room to get another officer--we wait. We get bored. We walk right out of the station unnoticed to our unlocked, unimpounded vehicle. After that we spent a couple of minutes in Canada and went right back into the States through the same checkpoint.
So, if you are a sexual predator who likes to smuggle young boys out of the country, Sault Ste. Marie is the place to go.
As for me, British Columbia is a much kinder place, IMHO.
Gilette's Mach 3 cost $1 billion to develop and doesn't do nearly as much as this thing does.
But haven't you seen the commercials? They had to test that sucker in F-15's and space stations on male underware models while ex-Russian kiddie-porn stars fondled them to evaluate the results.
China is currently facing the dilemma of joining the world community yet somehow maintaining it's authoritarian (yes they are still communist) government. Communism itself can't tolerate any kinds of rivals whatsoever. This extends to churches like the inability of Tibetans to display pictures of the Dalai Lama
After decades of his preaching that the original kingdom of Tibet and non-Tibetan out-lying regions be racially purified? In the West, he only commands symapathy thanks to the feel-good New Age vein in society. In his own land, he's just a retro-crazed feudalist.
Sure China cracked down on Tibet decades ago during the Cutural Revolution, but now it's, and I can say from direct experience, a well-loved part of the country. Han tourists love the place and frequently spend a sizable part of their salary for a vacation there.
to the fact that Chinese Catholics cannot be loyal to the Pope (he is not a Chinese National and therefore verboten).
Even today in the US, millions of people would be up in arms for if another Catholic president came up for election for the very same reasons.
Other Chinese intolerances include banning Falun Gong which commands hearts and minds of a huge number of Chinese and is therefore an enemy of communist ideology even though it's a relatively benign movement.
Falun Gong is a pretty straight-forward messianic cult which is more than a little creepy to most Chinese. Think Branch Davidians without the guns and you'll see why the people and the State aren't universally friendly to it.
Just because China is offically Red does not mean that they hate freedom, want to kill God, and eat babies. You make them sound like some Captain Planet supervillian hell-bent on being a groundless bastard despite the fact that their justifications could easily be found on our half of the Globe.
IBM used to be profoundly anti-alcohol. Something to do with Thomas J Watson being a Quaker. I may be wrong - it's been almost twenty years since I worked there. Anyway, company policy was offset by the employees, who all drank like fish.
It reminds me of quote from the creator of the iBong:
The IBM PC was created by people who drank alcohol. The Mac was created by people who smoked pot.
Will these forced acronyms never end?
A couple of months ago, a political watchdog group put out a bounty of $250,000 for ínformation leading to the discovery of a senator who inserted a clause for the prevention of certain lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies. Today, I am here to carry on that tradition.
Today, my fellow Americans, I hold in my hand...
A RUSTY SPOON
A spoon which will be awarded to the person or persons leading to the discovery of the United States senator who is making these acronyms. The spoon will be presented to the winner in a lavish ceremony taking place in an unspecified warehouse on the beautiful Potomac waterfront--in which the senator in question will be castrated with it.
No kidding. This friend of mine Igor said that with nothing more than a couple of propellors and an engine that he would someday get a big one ton cage of metal and glass to fly and carry people! Yeah, right. I wonder what ever happened to that Sikorsky guy anyway...
It's not the thrust-to-weight ratio that matters here--it's just so ugly that the earth repells it.
It is also possible that cell phones do interfere with some onboard control things.. Have you ever put a working digital cell phone next to a pair of speakers, a monitor, etc? Hear the buzz? (I haven't researched what that is, but I think its an artifact of TDMA encoding - also used in GSM phones. If my theory is right, it should buzz with a CDMA phone [if you have a CDMA phone, and you can get things to 'buzz' like GSM/TDMA phones, please let me know so I can think of a new theory])In any case, I'm sure they can sheild for that sort of thing.
Five minutes ago, I recieved a call. My cellphone was sitting a foot or two away from the CRT. A second before it started ringing, the monitor went just as squirrely as when one degausses it.
I was born in Sweden but has studied at some other universities around the world (Switzerland, Japan) but I must say that I get more and more impressed with Swedish universities (especially the engineering faculties).
By law higher education is free of charge in Sweden (!), ie no tuition fees (this applies to foreigners as well). For foreign student's I think there are various scholarship to cover living expenses as well.
Finland might be another good option, there are definately some world class universities overthere.
I am an American studying civil engineering in Sweden. The parent is absolutely right about Swedish universities. Despite having to fly back to the States every summer to earn money, it is still a savings when you factor in how much I'm saving on tuition and rent.
The language is not difficult for an English-speaker and can be learned on the flight over if you have prior knowledge of German. However, I'm continuing my language studies so I am elligeble for a scholarship from the Swedish Institute.
The universities here are much more flexible and more personal--student/professor relations are much less formal. Even the bureaucracy in Swedish universities is more personal.
The other nice thing is that, while I'm not studying in English, language is less of a problem. My former US university had, with the exception of high-up professors, a near-majority of TA's and professors from India and the former USSR. It is much easier to understand the day-to-day English here.
I am an English-speaker living in Sweden. I can tell you it's a combination of:
Of course, you can't discount the fact that they spend their whole education studying it. However, as an English-speaker trying to learn Swedish, I find it intensely annoying that Swedes refuse to speak Swedish to you if they know you speak English.
Telephone receiver, eh? Sounds like you're the one who is most likely to get a virus out of everyone
Thank god for the telephone sanitizers.
Science fans may be excited to learn that "Mutant X" has been cancelled.
I watch Saturday Night Live religiously--whether it sucks or not. Sometimes, if I'm not tired, I watch what we've come to call The Damned Time Slot, 12:00AM-1:00AM. It's a frightening place with such shows as Cleopatra 2525, Relic Hunter, Hercules, Xena, and Mutant X and Andromeda.
We came to the conclusion that to enter this timeslot, you had to have at least three current/former porn stars in your cast.
I discovered the power of Akamai last year during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. ... I was amazed with the quality of the video - almost no latency.
That's the great thing about streaming media: As the number of viewers approaches zero, the media quality approaches perfection.
Well it's about time that the Constitution started protecting the things near and dear to me.
(Earlier today, I saw a perfect picture of modern-day Shanghai: in a sea of bicycles, a man riding, and a woman seated in the Chinese way in equilibrium on the back of the bike with both her legs on one side... And as the man pedals his old rusted bike, the girl behind her is merrily thumb-keying SMS messages to her friends.)
That's nothing. When I was on a bus going through backwoods Poland last month, I heard some beeping from the seat behind me: There sat a munk--with Friar Tuck haircut, robe, and a rope belt--typing away an SMS on a new-model Samsung.
Then it got weird...
"Any sufficiently strong vodka is indistinguishable from rubbing alcohol."
One of the first things printed in mass-form after the Bible...
You sound like you never read Song of Solomon.
Anakin Skywalker becomes 'Darth Vader'!!!
You heard it here first! (c=
Okay, I kind of missed out on the PR before Episode I, but how did we find out that Darth Vader is Anakin? Was it in a book? Was it written in 50ft letters of fire in the sky over Skywalker Ranch?