Have we ruled out charlatanism because, hey, they float things with superconductors already, and that is a kind of antigravity and some suckers, most likely state legislatures, will think we're 90% there?
Why be the world's first trillionaire when you can let other people earn all the money because you have an anachronistic secular variant of discredited religious sentiments based on want caused by poor world design by an uncaring deity?
Keep in mind that one drug that saves a fraction of the people with heart disease or cancer being delayed a few years would cause more deaths than all the wars the US has been in plus all the needless deaths that drugs too early to market might cause.
What's that worth (not including the ": priceless!" stuff.)
I'm sure that's never happened, of course. Thirty million needless early deaths in the bush are worth one needless death in the front of cameras in the hand to a politician.
Actually, given that you can probably take out $300/day max, that amount is less than the interest on the interest on the interest on what his pocket lint is worth, so, like a mosquiteo sucking on Sally Struthers, you wouldn't make a dent.
That's also roughly the equivalent of about $45/hour, after taxes.
Although the Yoda fight scene was interesting, they could have moved her belly button up an hour and a half to make the beginning part more interesting.
And Darth still has a foot and a half to grow.
And couldn't they hire someone with a brain powerful enough to enunciate words correctly and clearly, instead of a kid who sounds like he just got yanked off his first high school play project after one lesson from his drama teacher (played by Will Farrell of Saturday Night Live.)
> So if you consider this three possible states (0-2 > lanterns) it takes 2 bits to encode.
Wrong!
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That system is using unary! There are only 2 pieces of information, or 3 if you count nothing = no info yet. Unary doesn't waste a "half a bit", which binary would do since you have to use two bits to encode 3 pieces of information, wasting "half a bit".
And, like with phone numbers in The Matrix, it's that last damned digit that is so hard to figure out, what with all the tens of thousands of possibilities they have to try.
No doubt he parks a dozen skeleton pets outside it to guard it when he's "asleep" or out on an adventure. Man, that's be so cool! They guard against orc invasions and other invasions!
Actually, that bit is only good enough to tell them to pick up their copy of King Lear or Hamlet. If they don't have it on hand locally, it does them no good, and you'll still need to transmit the whole thing.
In this sense, of course, you could "compress" every major movie ever made into two bytes or so. Downloading that won't help you pirate the actual movie, sadly.
Actually, you can't legally sell the data there since it's owned by EQ.
In fact, people trying to get around the EQ license are not even selling the ID/PW info, they're selling the time they spent developing the character as a service.
Still not good enuf if he's stupid enough to accidentally mention he paid $2k for an EverQuest account with a really cool level 60 wizard whose got his epic weapon and a pet familiar and a focus device and two glowing red hands and boy he kicks ass!!!
Esso paid something like 100k for a company to come up with the name Exxon. They made sure it didn't spell a swear word or something stupid in any language on earth. Or maybe 10k, or 10 million, don't know, can't find easy reference outside of my old Guiness book of world records back home.
Anyhoo, that's (price)/5 bytes of value, probably still the world record holder, especially corrected for inflation.
Methinks someone with billions of playing around money would swat aside any worker who tried to implement that like the fly deserving death that he is.
Ten years ago during Gulf War I (just wait a few months, folks) Kuwait was already earning other money from foreign investments than from oil. They've invested...wisely. How about the other states?
> * The liberals sold of a large portion of > Australias monopoly telco
Is it still a (legal) monopoly? If so, don't expect any improvements any time soon. The US labored under 50 years of mandated monopoly, then decided it was illegal.
Given that I can make interstate long distance calls much cheaper (via a handy cell phone yet!) than in-state long distance calls shows there are some anachronistic laws protecting monopolies in-place still...
Although I can empathize with those Gore supporters who feel angry and ripped off (and also realize that had it been the other way, Bush supporters would feel the same way, along with a feeling that recounts were rigged) we sould realize that Gore is arguably stupider (worse grades at a worse school, and how horrible it is to wonder which candidate is stupider) and even more power hungry than Bush. Don't think his positions (e.g. environmentalism) come from some deep and wise understanding. People whisper in his ear and away he goes.
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Have we ruled out charlatanism because, hey, they float things with superconductors already, and that is a kind of antigravity and some suckers, most likely state legislatures, will think we're 90% there?
Why be the world's first trillionaire when you can let other people earn all the money because you have an anachronistic secular variant of discredited religious sentiments based on want caused by poor world design by an uncaring deity?
Pay a thousand dollars for the weakest possible character in the game: a loaded level 60.
If you want a powerful character, go create a level 1, where you can:
-- Fight hand-to-hand vs. a monster of your own level! Even if you are a wizard with no spells!
-- Get weapons and items off the monsters you can actually use!
-- Be more powerful compared to the monsters than you ever will be again!
Keep in mind that one drug that saves a fraction of the people with heart disease or cancer being delayed a few years would cause more deaths than all the wars the US has been in plus all the needless deaths that drugs too early to market might cause.
What's that worth (not including the ": priceless!" stuff.)
I'm sure that's never happened, of course. Thirty million needless early deaths in the bush are worth one needless death in the front of cameras in the hand to a politician.
Ehehehe, whoom! Right over your head, Colmore, so closely you got a buzz cut from it.
Actually, given that you can probably take out $300/day max, that amount is less than the interest on the interest on the interest on what his pocket lint is worth, so, like a mosquiteo sucking on Sally Struthers, you wouldn't make a dent.
That's also roughly the equivalent of about $45/hour, after taxes.
Exactly. He gets to do what he loves to do, play games online, and get paid for it. Now, howmany here wouldn't love a job like that?
> Yes, it says he's a complete and utter looser.
As opposed to your cool job pumping gas.
Although the Yoda fight scene was interesting, they could have moved her belly button up an hour and a half to make the beginning part more interesting.
And Darth still has a foot and a half to grow.
And couldn't they hire someone with a brain powerful enough to enunciate words correctly and clearly, instead of a kid who sounds like he just got yanked off his first high school play project after one lesson from his drama teacher (played by Will Farrell of Saturday Night Live.)
> So if you consider this three possible states (0-2
> lanterns) it takes 2 bits to encode.
Wrong!
< ubernerd=on>
That system is using unary! There are only 2 pieces of information, or 3 if you count nothing = no info yet. Unary doesn't waste a "half a bit", which binary would do since you have to use two bits to encode 3 pieces of information, wasting "half a bit".
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And, like with phone numbers in The Matrix, it's that last damned digit that is so hard to figure out, what with all the tens of thousands of possibilities they have to try.
It is a stupid phrase, isn't it?
It's like a bank robber saying "dollar bills just want to be free".
I'm here to liberate your dollars and your MP3's.
No doubt he parks a dozen skeleton pets outside it to guard it when he's "asleep" or out on an adventure. Man, that's be so cool! They guard against orc invasions and other invasions!
[/"cool"-fantasy-in-a-boring-fantasy-world]
Actually, that bit is only good enough to tell them to pick up their copy of King Lear or Hamlet. If they don't have it on hand locally, it does them no good, and you'll still need to transmit the whole thing.
In this sense, of course, you could "compress" every major movie ever made into two bytes or so. Downloading that won't help you pirate the actual movie, sadly.
It's clear you're having some problems with didecaheximal yourself.
Actually, you can't legally sell the data there since it's owned by EQ.
In fact, people trying to get around the EQ license are not even selling the ID/PW info, they're selling the time they spent developing the character as a service.
Cost of key blank: $1.00
Having Vinnie the Pick grind a copy: $3.00
Price house infiltrated: $200,000,000.00
Having friends see you led away in chains on a minor story on CNN: priceless
Still not good enuf if he's stupid enough to accidentally mention he paid $2k for an EverQuest account with a really cool level 60 wizard whose got his epic weapon and a pet familiar and a focus device and two glowing red hands and boy he kicks ass!!!
Esso paid something like 100k for a company to come up with the name Exxon. They made sure it didn't spell a swear word or something stupid in any language on earth. Or maybe 10k, or 10 million, don't know, can't find easy reference outside of my old Guiness book of world records back home.
Anyhoo, that's (price)/5 bytes of value, probably still the world record holder, especially corrected for inflation.
Actually, there are something on the order of 10k key variations, so you've got at least 14 bits for that, plus...
...plus a stack of signed paper well over an inch and a half thick, which would easily exceed one floppy disk of storage space, let's say 1.4meg.
$200,000/1,440,000b = about 14 cents per byte
Methinks someone with billions of playing around money would swat aside any worker who tried to implement that like the fly deserving death that he is.
Ten years ago during Gulf War I (just wait a few months, folks) Kuwait was already earning other money from foreign investments than from oil. They've invested...wisely. How about the other states?
Graphite does conduct, thanks.
To test:
1. Get a pencil lead fill for a mechanical pencil. Split wood pencil leads work wonderfully, too.
2. Hook each end to a DC transformer of, say, and I'm pulling this off the top of my head, one that one would use for a model train set.
3. Turn on the juice
4. When lead glows red, bend it into a pretzel shape.
5. Turn off power if transformer's circuit breaker hasn't kicked in, yet.
I note that there is eventually a chemical change in the lead such that after awhile it won't conduct electricity anymore.
Let's not forget England's recent entry into the Idiocy Bowl:
4. Anything you say, or don't say, can and will be used against you in a court of law.
That's right, your silence may be used as evidence against you.
> * The liberals sold of a large portion of
> Australias monopoly telco
Is it still a (legal) monopoly? If so, don't expect any improvements any time soon. The US labored under 50 years of mandated monopoly, then decided it was illegal.
Given that I can make interstate long distance calls much cheaper (via a handy cell phone yet!) than in-state long distance calls shows there are some anachronistic laws protecting monopolies in-place still...
Although I can empathize with those Gore supporters who feel angry and ripped off (and also realize that had it been the other way, Bush supporters would feel the same way, along with a feeling that recounts were rigged) we sould realize that Gore is arguably stupider (worse grades at a worse school, and how horrible it is to wonder which candidate is stupider) and even more power hungry than Bush. Don't think his positions (e.g. environmentalism) come from some deep and wise understanding. People whisper in his ear and away he goes.