Matthias: Look, I don't think it should be a sin, just for saying "Jehovah".
[Everyone gasps]
Jewish Official: You're only making it worse for yourself!
Matthias: Making it worse? How can it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!
Jewish Official: I'm warning you! If you say "Jehovah" one more time (gets hit with rock) RIGHT! Who did that? Come on, who did it?
Stoners: She did! She did! (suddenly speaking as men) He! He did! He!
Jewish Official: Was it you?
Stoner: Yes.
Jewish Official: Right...
Stoner: Well you did say "Jehovah. "
[Crowd throws rocks at the stoner]
Jewish Official: STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT RIGHT NOW! STOP IT! All right, no one is to stone _anyone_ until I blow this whistle. Even... and I want to make this absolutely clear... even if they do say, "Jehovah. "
[Crowd stones the Jewish Official to death]
I also concur with the short stories but I would include at least a couple of the classics in long form.
My suggestions...
Long: Dune, Fahrenheit 451, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Neuromancer, 1984, Ringworld, Bolo (Keith Laumer)
Short: The Past Through Tomorrow (collection), Burning Chrome (Collection), Sandkings (George RR Martin novella), Anthem (Ayn Rand)
I also agree that an open source camera with support for Astronomy would be very well received. There are a number of lower level projects around webcams that have produced some remarkable work.
See http://www.qcuiag.org.uk/ and http://www.astrosurf.com/re/audine.html.
I would love to see an open source camera that had support for temperature stabilization and active cooling, long exposure, stacking, etc.
I looked at the website if IQor.
As and entry level you make "$" then you move up to "$$" and if you get really good you can make "$$$" or even "$$$$"! Of course bonus as a trainee are "" but as you move up your bonus can go from "$" to "$$$$".
Seems pretty clear to me!
Shouldn't be "whitejack" or "person-of-color-jack" - don't want to be racist now.
You could put 8-ball on the site as well - oh wait, that is where the white ball knocks all the colored balls off the table... Better not..
Well, we better start cutting down some more rainforests and start pouring more swimming pools and parking lots if we are ever going to beat this global warming thing!
'Smith!' screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. '6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me.'
A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and -- one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency -- bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
'There, comrades! That's how I want to see you doing it. Watch me again. I'm thirty-nine and I've had four children. Now look.' She bent over again. 'You see my knees aren't bent. You can all do it if you want to,' she added as she straightened herself up. 'Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our boys on the Malabar front! And the sailors in the Floating Fortresses! Just think what they have to put up with. Now try again. That's better, comrade, that's much better,' she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.
-George Orwell 1984
until they realize finally that the brian does not produce consciousness but rather, is an interface for it. When they do realize that, maybe they'll be a little humbled by those who have been saying as much for the last several thousand years and won't be so quick to discount such things in the future.
Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly! Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity. Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah! Followers: He is! He is the Messiah! Brian: Now, fuck off! [silence] Arthur: How shall we fuck off, O Lord?
I've noticed that most people are getting smarter, understand technology, privacy, business, free enterprise, propoganda, and are becoming less reliant on help desks, friends, church groups, retailers, and especially the government for help.
Just stick with it, I'm sure it will get better! How bad can it really be, they are just lawyers?
The fate of newspapers is vitally important to every Westerner. Newspapers have long served as the 4th branch of government. They are our eyes and ears in keeping us informed of the operation of our government. Without the in-depth investigative reports by newspapers, the voters would be ignorant. An ignorant public is the 1st step to the establishment of an authoritarian society.
I agree with the first sentence, I use to agree with the second sentence. They no longer perform the third, and I agree with the 4th and believe it has arrived.
As for the last: "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." -Frank Herbert
The MSM has become so blinded by ideology, primaraly liberal on the left (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC) and fanatical on the right (FNS, EIB) so that it is very hard to find objective, believable reporting. The MSM with the Anti-Bush and Obama worship elected this clown while once again ignoring the vast corruption, pay-to-play, and flat out payoffs in both houses of both parties. We are going to see 3-5% inflation by the end of the year due to current set of clowns. Was ABB (anybody but Bush) really what the American people wanted?
Newspapers sold out, that is the simple truth. When every story is written with bias, and then the editorial page is worse, it is just propoganda - not reporting. I only get the Sunday paper for the ads and coupons, certainly not for the "reporting."
So AP and and the rest, just keep sending me the inserts for the anti-itch, anti-fungal, spring and summer fresh, strawberry flavored coupons and if I have enough left over after lining the kitty box, I might actually read something out of your paper!
The data shows that in 2004, the Republicans got more. if you look one more cycle back, you will see the Dems got more. So in 3 out of the last 4 cycles, the Dems had more high dollar donors. There is not much difference between them anyway, they are all bought off. As a citizen, I would like to see who is paying and what they are buying for their "donation".
I agree with your general statements but I do take exception with the statement "This covers many Democrats and all Republicans. Unfortunately, it also seems to cover most Libertarians."
That statement regarding republicans and libertarians is part of the current liberal myths.
Democrats got paid by business more than the Republicans. The MSM likes to say the Republicans are bought off more but it is not supported by the facts.
I'm not sure public campaign financing will work however. Do you really want to give these people more power to vote themselves more money to promote themselves? I do think it is a free speech issue and I would rather see a laws around TOTAL DISCLOSURE DOWN TO THE PENNY!!! Every penny, every donor, every time I believe would work better. Money should not equal access rather than saying money=speech is the problem. If I want to buy a billboard for my candidate, it is my money and I should be able to spend it as I see fit. It just should be fully disclosed and any quid pro quo should be obvious. That use to be what the press did but...
"At a fundraiser in Philadelphia where he was flanked by PA governor Ed Rendell, Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, and Sen. Bob Casey, Barack Obama said, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I've seen Eagles fans." . . . I think that it is quite a stretch to claim that this Obama comment is evidence that Obama is nothing new." http://www.politicususa.com/en/Obama-Philly
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Well, it did you know...
Matthias: Look, I don't think it should be a sin, just for saying "Jehovah".
[Everyone gasps]
Jewish Official: You're only making it worse for yourself!
Matthias: Making it worse? How can it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!
Jewish Official: I'm warning you! If you say "Jehovah" one more time (gets hit with rock) RIGHT! Who did that? Come on, who did it?
Stoners: She did! She did! (suddenly speaking as men) He! He did! He!
Jewish Official: Was it you?
Stoner: Yes.
Jewish Official: Right...
Stoner: Well you did say "Jehovah. "
[Crowd throws rocks at the stoner]
Jewish Official: STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT RIGHT NOW! STOP IT! All right, no one is to stone _anyone_ until I blow this whistle. Even... and I want to make this absolutely clear... even if they do say, "Jehovah. "
[Crowd stones the Jewish Official to death]
"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! "
Don't forget, you can also wash the garbage smell off if you are a programmer however...
Don't forget the politicians, if wall street are the vultures, they are the birdshit!
"Soylent Green is people! We've got to stop them somehow!".
Hmmmm....
The WiFi Direct spec was just released. Hopefully it will address this exactly and get this off of Top Dead Center... http://www.wi-fi.org/news_articles.php?f=media_news&news_id=909
"Fetchez La Vache"
Beans, Onions and garlic do that to me and get the same results as the no-balls committee!
"It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. " -Fielding Mellish - Bananas (1971)
I also concur with the short stories but I would include at least a couple of the classics in long form.
My suggestions...
Long: Dune, Fahrenheit 451, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Neuromancer, 1984, Ringworld, Bolo (Keith Laumer)
Short: The Past Through Tomorrow (collection), Burning Chrome (Collection), Sandkings (George RR Martin novella), Anthem (Ayn Rand)
I also agree that an open source camera with support for Astronomy would be very well received. There are a number of lower level projects around webcams that have produced some remarkable work. See http://www.qcuiag.org.uk/ and http://www.astrosurf.com/re/audine.html. I would love to see an open source camera that had support for temperature stabilization and active cooling, long exposure, stacking, etc.
I looked at the website if IQor. As and entry level you make "$" then you move up to "$$" and if you get really good you can make "$$$" or even "$$$$"! Of course bonus as a trainee are "" but as you move up your bonus can go from "$" to "$$$$". Seems pretty clear to me!
Shouldn't be "whitejack" or "person-of-color-jack" - don't want to be racist now. You could put 8-ball on the site as well - oh wait, that is where the white ball knocks all the colored balls off the table... Better not..
Well, we better start cutting down some more rainforests and start pouring more swimming pools and parking lots if we are ever going to beat this global warming thing!
'Smith!' screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. '6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me.'
A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and -- one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency -- bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
'There, comrades! That's how I want to see you doing it. Watch me again. I'm thirty-nine and I've had four children. Now look.' She bent over again. 'You see my knees aren't bent. You can all do it if you want to,' she added as she straightened herself up. 'Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our boys on the Malabar front! And the sailors in the Floating Fortresses! Just think what they have to put up with. Now try again. That's better, comrade, that's much better,' she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.
-George Orwell 1984
Well the article did say "high quality" so I'm not sure this applies to them...
until they realize finally that the brian does not produce consciousness but rather, is an interface for it. When they do realize that, maybe they'll be a little humbled by those who have been saying as much for the last several thousand years and won't be so quick to discount such things in the future.
Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!
Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.
Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!
Followers: He is! He is the Messiah!
Brian: Now, fuck off!
[silence]
Arthur: How shall we fuck off, O Lord?
I've noticed that most people are getting smarter, understand technology, privacy, business, free enterprise, propoganda, and are becoming less reliant on help desks, friends, church groups, retailers, and especially the government for help.
Just stick with it, I'm sure it will get better! How bad can it really be, they are just lawyers?
The fate of newspapers is vitally important to every Westerner. Newspapers have long served as the 4th branch of government. They are our eyes and ears in keeping us informed of the operation of our government. Without the in-depth investigative reports by newspapers, the voters would be ignorant. An ignorant public is the 1st step to the establishment of an authoritarian society.
I agree with the first sentence, I use to agree with the second sentence. They no longer perform the third, and I agree with the 4th and believe it has arrived.
As for the last: "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
-Frank Herbert
The MSM has become so blinded by ideology, primaraly liberal on the left (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC) and fanatical on the right (FNS, EIB) so that it is very hard to find objective, believable reporting. The MSM with the Anti-Bush and Obama worship elected this clown while once again ignoring the vast corruption, pay-to-play, and flat out payoffs in both houses of both parties. We are going to see 3-5% inflation by the end of the year due to current set of clowns. Was ABB (anybody but Bush) really what the American people wanted?
Newspapers sold out, that is the simple truth. When every story is written with bias, and then the editorial page is worse, it is just propoganda - not reporting. I only get the Sunday paper for the ads and coupons, certainly not for the "reporting."
So AP and and the rest, just keep sending me the inserts for the anti-itch, anti-fungal, spring and summer fresh, strawberry flavored coupons and if I have enough left over after lining the kitty box, I might actually read something out of your paper!
As above, I'm pretty sure none of them will want to mate with Nancy Pelosi either. Actually, I'm not sure any species would want to mate with her...
The data shows that in 2004, the Republicans got more. if you look one more cycle back, you will see the Dems got more. So in 3 out of the last 4 cycles, the Dems had more high dollar donors. There is not much difference between them anyway, they are all bought off. As a citizen, I would like to see who is paying and what they are buying for their "donation".
I agree with your general statements but I do take exception with the statement "This covers many Democrats and all Republicans. Unfortunately, it also seems to cover most Libertarians."
That statement regarding republicans and libertarians is part of the current liberal myths.
See this: http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/blio.php
Look here: http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/DonorDemographics.php?cycle=2006
See that the Dems got the $10k and the $95K plus donation lead categories in even the 2006 cycle. IIn 2008, they smoked it by business.
Democrats got paid by business more than the Republicans. The MSM likes to say the Republicans are bought off more but it is not supported by the facts.
I'm not sure public campaign financing will work however. Do you really want to give these people more power to vote themselves more money to promote themselves? I do think it is a free speech issue and I would rather see a laws around TOTAL DISCLOSURE DOWN TO THE PENNY!!! Every penny, every donor, every time I believe would work better. Money should not equal access rather than saying money=speech is the problem. If I want to buy a billboard for my candidate, it is my money and I should be able to spend it as I see fit. It just should be fully disclosed and any quid pro quo should be obvious. That use to be what the press did but...
p.s. I'm not a republican or a democrat.
"At a fundraiser in Philadelphia where he was flanked by PA governor Ed Rendell, Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, and Sen. Bob Casey, Barack Obama said, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I've seen Eagles fans."
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I think that it is quite a stretch to claim that this Obama comment is evidence that Obama is nothing new."
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Obama-Philly
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/bring+a+knife+to+a+gunfight.html
When Margaret Trudeau showed everyone her cooter?