Creeping Terror is THE unintentionally funniest movie ever made. God knows we need one of those now. As it is, Birth of the Empire sounds too much like a comment on current politics and the Patriot Act.
I would kind of agree with you, but you do have to remember that ESPN's web page is one of THE most popular sites on the Internet in the USA. As such, if you can't read that web page correctly that can cause problems for many users.
The fact I can properly read ESPN.com with Mozilla 1.6 shows that the developers of Mozilla are willing to accommodate the wishes of the majority of Internet users.
Read the article at the last link in the story. MSN (which is where ESPN comes from) checks the agent sent by the browser and then sends Opera a style sheet purposely designed to display incorrectly. Reminds of when I was in the Pentagon in 1997 and Netscape would display empty pages at Microsoft.com where IE showed content.
That's because the usual journalist's unit of comparison for space rocks is VW Beetles, as in "Scientists say the space rock is about the size of 2000 Volkswagen Beetles." Thye just weren't ready for the city size comparison...
Meanwhile, purpose of the Egyptian pyramids is to act as a tomb, and the focus of the Egyptian pyramids is a chamber deep inside. Once the dead king was entombed, the Pyramids were never entered again, but were admired only from the outside. On the other hand, the Aztec structures were temples that saw constant use, and their focus was a ceremonial altar space at the top. And that's just for starters, some obvious and important differences in purpose and usage.
I have to disagree on this part-- we've found more ancient dead guys (and gals) in Western Hemisphere pyramids than in Egyptian pyramids.
That being said, the way all of these were built is more diverse than the function that they served.
Seems to me most of this could be fixed with a simple application if printing paper
recipes . I know that the ideal would be to get away from paper but I don't think it will ever happen. I would see these machines printing 2 recipes . One to go into a box at the voting office so audit of the machine can be done there. The other would go to the voter. So in an extream case a recount can be done by having people bring thier recipes in for a recount that way.
Cooking the vote, are we? You're not related to Betty Crocker by any chance?
Speaking of which, good luck if they wanted to collect. As the article mentioned, the honor system doesn't work.
Tell that to my cousins who got audited. The IRS nailed them on this since they had made some rather big ticket purchases.
Since this is state tax we're talking about, why would the IRS nail them?
To top things off, Corel accepted a huge investment from Microsoft--the ultimate humiliation. Microsoft obviously just did it to fend off accusations of monopolistic practices (and to neutralize Corel in the PC office software and desktop OS space).
I've always believed that this investment was a brilliant move by Microsoft. They saw a company with a good office suite and a good desktop OS in their Linux distro and realized that was just too dangerous. So MS offered Corel a bunch of cash to give up on Linux (but probably not in so many words). That way, Microsoft remained the only company with a widely used office suite and desktop OS.
I didn't change it. I was working from thirteen year old memories here, and I thought the strip ended with the general giving the briefing talking about the regretable fact that the missile killed a group of Iraqi women and children after it flew out the window. What it hit I wasn't sure of, but given the general tone of Trudeau's strips, a school seemed right. I wasn't trying to slant it one way or the other. I was in the Air Force during the first Gulf War and Trudeau's strip gave me a sense of deja vu about some of the briefings I attended. If anyone knows where to see a copy of the strip, I would really appreciate it.
I hope my biass wasn't showing... although I did just recently rip a pair of jeans...
You get the camera view from the nose of a cruise missile as it flies through one of Saddam's bunkers, showing lots of Iraqi soldiers scrambling out of the way as the missile negotiates hallways, doors, stairwells, bathrooms and then flies out a window and explodes in a school down the street.
The question is, given liquid water, did life evolve on Mars before the planet freeze dried? That would say a lot about the probabilities of life in the universe.
BTW, just chaning a few words in your first question:
Ok, my theory is a small lifeform used the
hydrocarbons for energy, converting it to something else, and then when it ran out, it couldn't adapt and died.
Very true, but remember that the atmosphere will slow the object, and that such objects rarely approach the Earth straight on. More often, they strike at an oblique angle. The Peekskill meteor crossed the sky for forty seconds.
More worrisome to me is "Neun und Neunzig Luftballon" scenario, where an incoming object explodes in the atmosphere, is mis-interpreted by NORAD and Whoops! It's Armageddon!
The tax isn't meant to pay the artists, it's meant to cover the cost of your fair use rights.
And what exactly is the cost to the artist of my fair use rights? I already paid for my copy of their artistry. If I want to copy that onto a blank CD so that I don't bake the one I paid for in my car, what is the cost to them? If I want to copy it onto my iPod so that I don't have to lug around my stereo and CD collection, how does that hurt the artist? The artists have already been compensated for the copy I listen to.
If this tax were on VHS tapes, does that mean that actors, direcotors, writers and set decorators should receive additional compensation from every blank tape sold? Is there a tax on every copier sold to support authors that have their works copied?
All this tax is is a penalty apllied to honest people to cover the costs to copyright holders of dishonest people.
Why, then, does SCO say that IBM sponsors Groklaw? They make the claim based on the fact that they say IBM gave some computer equipment to Ibiblio once upon a time. And Ibiblio hosts Groklaw for free. They have also been telling journalists that I live near IBM headquarters. That's it. That is IBM's "sponsorship".
Given SCO's interpretation of Derivative Works, the statement above actually sounds logical...
But then again, given SCO's interpretation of Derivative Works, we all owe royalties to Ada Byron Lovelace...
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Sudden death is most often proceeded by the words "Hey! Watch this!"
You know, this gives a whole new meaning to the term "Fire Ant Mound"
Ahem, Pluto is the god of the Underworld. That would be DOWN from everywhere except New Jersey...
I'll let you know how it goes.
I don't know, but an hour after I delete Chinese spam, I'm getting some more...
Actually, if it's as good as The Creeping Terror I'll HAVE to go see it.
Creeping Terror is THE unintentionally funniest movie ever made. God knows we need one of those now. As it is, Birth of the Empire sounds too much like a comment on current politics and the Patriot Act.
Read the article at the last link in the story. MSN (which is where ESPN comes from) checks the agent sent by the browser and then sends Opera a style sheet purposely designed to display incorrectly. Reminds of when I was in the Pentagon in 1997 and Netscape would display empty pages at Microsoft.com where IE showed content.
Nah, I think he just needs a spill clicker...
That's because the usual journalist's unit of comparison for space rocks is VW Beetles, as in "Scientists say the space rock is about the size of 2000 Volkswagen Beetles." Thye just weren't ready for the city size comparison...
I have to disagree on this part-- we've found more ancient dead guys (and gals) in Western Hemisphere pyramids than in Egyptian pyramids.
That being said, the way all of these were built is more diverse than the function that they served.
Good to see an AC with the balls to admit a mistake and then own up to it. Well done.
Cooking the vote, are we? You're not related to Betty Crocker by any chance?
Since this is state tax we're talking about, why would the IRS nail them?
I've always believed that this investment was a brilliant move by Microsoft. They saw a company with a good office suite and a good desktop OS in their Linux distro and realized that was just too dangerous. So MS offered Corel a bunch of cash to give up on Linux (but probably not in so many words). That way, Microsoft remained the only company with a widely used office suite and desktop OS.
I hope my biass wasn't showing... although I did just recently rip a pair of jeans...
- your dreams.
You get the camera view from the nose of a cruise missile as it flies through one of Saddam's bunkers, showing lots of Iraqi soldiers scrambling out of the way as the missile negotiates hallways, doors, stairwells, bathrooms and then flies out a window and explodes in a school down the street.
The question is, given liquid water, did life evolve on Mars before the planet freeze dried? That would say a lot about the probabilities of life in the universe.
BTW, just chaning a few words in your first question:
Ah, but were the MIT Grads the ones making the financial decisions? :-)
That part there might be a clue...
More worrisome to me is "Neun und Neunzig Luftballon" scenario, where an incoming object explodes in the atmosphere, is mis-interpreted by NORAD and Whoops! It's Armageddon!
Apparently, they have not yet discovered my ex-wife...
And what exactly is the cost to the artist of my fair use rights? I already paid for my copy of their artistry. If I want to copy that onto a blank CD so that I don't bake the one I paid for in my car, what is the cost to them? If I want to copy it onto my iPod so that I don't have to lug around my stereo and CD collection, how does that hurt the artist? The artists have already been compensated for the copy I listen to.
If this tax were on VHS tapes, does that mean that actors, direcotors, writers and set decorators should receive additional compensation from every blank tape sold? Is there a tax on every copier sold to support authors that have their works copied?
All this tax is is a penalty apllied to honest people to cover the costs to copyright holders of dishonest people.
No, but you have to subscribe to get fp. The question is who is so desperate for attention that they pay money so they can post this tripe?
Given SCO's interpretation of Derivative Works, the statement above actually sounds logical...
But then again, given SCO's interpretation of Derivative Works, we all owe royalties to Ada Byron Lovelace...