Oh, you mean he could say, "Oh, I was talking about Iraq of an alternate UNIVERSE..." and it absolute truth? Cool. Whenever I say something stupid I'll use that technique!
My daughter was born three months ago. My wife jokes, "She won't be allowed to date until she's 25!" I always add, "Yeah, and not until after she gets a PhD in Programmable Genetics..."
I was only half kidding. Now I'm not kidding at all.:)
I thought of something similar to this when I was a kid. (Ya, I know, should have patented it, would have made a killing, yada, yada...)
Anyway, my idea came from the speed warnings in the road driving up to the airport in Dallas: about fifty 1cm ruts, perpendicular to the direction of traffic, caused a loud noise and strong vibration in the car. I thought, "If this can make noise, why not speech?" And the faster you went, the louder, more high pitched, and more strident the voice would be. It could say, "ssloooww doooowwn..." if you were going 30mph, and scream "SLOW DOWN!!" at 60mph.
I fear that the future only holds more and more patents being acquired by professors.
Cool. Spread that meme. If more people start thinking that then the patent system will finally get fixed. When you can blame something on an icon of the left wing world (elite, ivory tower professors, for instance) then something gets done about it. Nothing motivates right wingers more, and left wingers are always happy to doubt themselves or eat their own.
While SETI will never prove that ET life does NOT exist, it might prove that it does. That will be the largest discovery in the history of man... BY FAR!
I beg to differ. The greatest discovery would be: do WE exist?
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Oh, you mean he could say, "Oh, I was talking about Iraq of an alternate UNIVERSE..." and it absolute truth? Cool. Whenever I say something stupid I'll use that technique!
Iraq defines the context of the comment.
Weak. Trying what you perceive to be my tactic on me. And you demand? Drop the shoe, Kruschev!
The vast majority of our troops in Iraq are deployed in urban areas. Thus any tactics discussed will be used primarily in that setting.
What's with your short term memory?
AKAImBatman: Fire a DU round from a tank down the road...
Your ability to deny your own words borders on the Clintonian. Next thing you'll be denying that we're fighting insurgents on roads in urban areas.
Firing a tank round down the street in an urban area (as the parent post suggested) doesn't strike me as efficient in that regard.
== Bad when you create 2x more insurgents because of all the civvies you just collaterally damaged.
...that way you don't have to admit the galacticly stupid decision to invade in the first place.
U.S. Government: Can we listen to all Internet traffic? We'll give you the fat FCC contract.
AT&T: Um...OK!
Interesting typo
My daughter was born three months ago. My wife jokes, "She won't be allowed to date until she's 25!" I always add, "Yeah, and not until after she gets a PhD in Programmable Genetics..."
:)
I was only half kidding. Now I'm not kidding at all.
I thought of something similar to this when I was a kid. (Ya, I know, should have patented it, would have made a killing, yada, yada...)
Anyway, my idea came from the speed warnings in the road driving up to the airport in Dallas: about fifty 1cm ruts, perpendicular to the direction of traffic, caused a loud noise and strong vibration in the car. I thought, "If this can make noise, why not speech?" And the faster you went, the louder, more high pitched, and more strident the voice would be. It could say, "ssloooww doooowwn..." if you were going 30mph, and scream "SLOW DOWN!!" at 60mph.
Ah, the folly of youth.
Cool. Spread that meme. If more people start thinking that then the patent system will finally get fixed. When you can blame something on an icon of the left wing world (elite, ivory tower professors, for instance) then something gets done about it. Nothing motivates right wingers more, and left wingers are always happy to doubt themselves or eat their own.
Not my point.
Ever heard of a "secret ballot"?
"Protecting anonymity isn't a fight that can be won."
Has this man never voted?
Or, maybe that's a moot point.
Descartes proved that "I" exists.
He said nothing about "WE"
I beg to differ. The greatest discovery would be: do WE exist?
For chrissakes, people. Are you trying to mock yourselves?
It's a golden parachute. Follow the money.
Or get you really excited about political candidate X when you go to their speech.
1) locked mailbox
2) mail slot in your door
3) get mail sent to a p.o. box
If you don't do any of those things then the security isn't important enough to you.
Probabilities.
Get a mail box with a lock.
That's why, when you get 'em, you shred 'em.
Security is not absolute. It's always about probabilities. You reduce the chance of a breach, but you can never make it absolutely impossible.
Use a shredder.
Nah. By that standard hide 'n' seek beats them all.