"Since the government doesn't need a reason to arrest you, the only way to stay out of solitary is to hope they don't notice you. Don't do anything to stand out and be like everyone else, and maybe you can stay out of prison."
I guess we were wrong about that whole "we won the cold war and the Soviet Union lost" thing.
Or did Mrs. Mao and them just export the Cultural Revolution over here?
"50 years ago our Grantparents would be appalled at what we have become."Maybe, if they stopped applauding Joe McCarthy and the blacklisting long enough to notice.
Come to think of it wasn't it about 59 years ago that they shoehorned religion into the textile worship, I mean, Pledge of Allegience?
"The AG over there ought to know very well that this is going to be challenged, appealed and will probably make it all the way to the US Supreme Court."
By which time he will have gotten lots and lots of political mileage out of "protecting the children" and moved up the ladder an elective office or two.
"What's that. The web site of my opponent in the election is on that list? Gee, I wonder how an innocent little ol' mistake like that could have happened. 'Course it's a secret list so you can't tell any of the newspapers about this. Come to think of it, I think we'll just have to stick you in the pokey for knowing what's on the list. Say, if you know what's on the list you must be one of them there terrorist hackers. I reckon we'll just have to revoke your citizenship and tuck you away in a cell in Gitmo without telling anybody."
"Few people would care much about a "disruption" of snail mail."
Unless of course they were waiting on their paycheck, or retirement benefits, or payments from customers, or something that they had ordered, or mail to or from a family member over where people are getting shot at, or the newspaper from their hometown across the country, or...(the list is almost endless)
"always, always, really always carry a clean handkerchief."
Not to mention one of those zip-loc type plastic bags with several diaper wipes sealed inside. You can stash it in a jacket or pants pocket and they have a number od uses.
"Everything begins to go through the 'I am a parent' filter."
Well said. I'm only an uncle and have been amazed at the change which that has made in me. Imagine my surprise at developing a certain appreciation of the Purple One who must not be named (No, not Prince, although this one also sings) after viewing him (over and over again!) through a child's eyes.
Fortunately we've moved on to Hot Wheels and G.I. Joes.
In some cases it isn't that the wipe is warm or cold, it's that some brands sting or sting a lot more than others when applied to irritated skin. Seems to be partly correllated to price, advertised brand or not, etc.
If by receiver you mean a photo-transistor or the like that is indeed an opto-isolator circuit. The isolation part comes from there being no direct electrical connection between the signal source and that which detects the signal.
I don't think the power company applies a correction so much as it tends to drift above 60Hz about as often as it drifts below 60Hz so it all evens out.
"The camera bit sounds a little over the top, surely an led and a receiver???"
I'm guessing that you mean an opto-isolator type circuit. Other possibilities, a magnet embedded in the pendulum and a hall-effect device near each end of the path of the swing or a coil attached to a circuit which will detect the inductance change caused by the pendulum's proximity, or just let the pendulum brush across a contact pair and complete a circuit.
Well, let's see, the first definition of 'second superpower' was 'huge anti-war demonstrations', and the second was 'worldwide peace campaign'. Those might not be two different ways of talking about the same thing but it's not blindingly obvious.
Google is neither a dictionary nor an encyclopaedia. It doesn't tell you what your search terms mean, it shows you who else is talking about them.
Why should there be a single, fixed definition of 'second superpower' when you won't find universal agreement on the meaning of 'superpower'? The best you can hope for is an indication of the relative percentages of the various opinions.
The 'and' is best saved for speech of a poetic nature ('fourscore and seven', 'four and twenty blackbirds') or colloquial use.
The sloppier one's speech, in circumstances where clarity and precision should be the norm, such as newscasters, public utterances of politicians, teachers in the classroom, et cetera, the sloppier I suspect to be their thinking.
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Think of it as reverse broadcast power. This is why a few minutes in their company leaves you exhausted for several hours afterwards.
I guess we were wrong about that whole "we won the cold war and the Soviet Union lost" thing.
Or did Mrs. Mao and them just export the Cultural Revolution over here?
Come to think of it wasn't it about 59 years ago that they shoehorned religion into the textile worship, I mean, Pledge of Allegience?
No, no, you misunderstood, he's sleeping in a cell.
It's a secret list, so there's no way to know for sure if it's banned or not.
...then you're already most of the way to being qualified to serve as a U.S. Postal Inspector.
I'm not making that up.
By which time he will have gotten lots and lots of political mileage out of "protecting the children" and moved up the ladder an elective office or two.
"What's that. The web site of my opponent in the election is on that list? Gee, I wonder how an innocent little ol' mistake like that could have happened. 'Course it's a secret list so you can't tell any of the newspapers about this. Come to think of it, I think we'll just have to stick you in the pokey for knowing what's on the list. Say, if you know what's on the list you must be one of them there terrorist hackers. I reckon we'll just have to revoke your citizenship and tuck you away in a cell in Gitmo without telling anybody."
Unless of course they were waiting on their paycheck, or retirement benefits, or payments from customers, or something that they had ordered, or mail to or from a family member over where people are getting shot at, or the newspaper from their hometown across the country, or...(the list is almost endless)
All those in favor of mob rule, lynch the next guy I point to!
Well, all the Republican whining at the time was about how Gore had conceeded, as though that had legal standing.
Osama: "Never mind, guys, Gore won. Just come on back to the Middle East and help us stone non-believing Afghanis."
However since it was an airplane they decided to make sure that it was airworthy as well.
Or perhaps you were referring to the Chevrolet Corvair of Unsafe At Any Speed fame.
Lots of us who remembered how Noriega was 'our guy' not so long before were calling it "Operation Just Because" at the time.
Not to mention one of those zip-loc type plastic bags with several diaper wipes sealed inside. You can stash it in a jacket or pants pocket and they have a number od uses.
Well said. I'm only an uncle and have been amazed at the change which that has made in me. Imagine my surprise at developing a certain appreciation of the Purple One who must not be named (No, not Prince, although this one also sings) after viewing him (over and over again!) through a child's eyes.
Fortunately we've moved on to Hot Wheels and G.I. Joes.
In some cases it isn't that the wipe is warm or cold, it's that some brands sting or sting a lot more than others when applied to irritated skin. Seems to be partly correllated to price, advertised brand or not, etc.
Even if you have the energy, you won't have the time or the privacy.
Only a true geek...:-)
You mean they aren't an integeral part of the operating system? :-)
If by receiver you mean a photo-transistor or the like that is indeed an opto-isolator circuit. The isolation part comes from there being no direct electrical connection between the signal source and that which detects the signal.
Sometimes two wrongs do make a right. On average.
I'm guessing that you mean an opto-isolator type circuit. Other possibilities, a magnet embedded in the pendulum and a hall-effect device near each end of the path of the swing or a coil attached to a circuit which will detect the inductance change caused by the pendulum's proximity, or just let the pendulum brush across a contact pair and complete a circuit.
Once you assume that it was ghostwritten by Jon Katz all becomes clear.
Google is neither a dictionary nor an encyclopaedia. It doesn't tell you what your search terms mean, it shows you who else is talking about them.
Why should there be a single, fixed definition of 'second superpower' when you won't find universal agreement on the meaning of 'superpower'? The best you can hope for is an indication of the relative percentages of the various opinions.
The sloppier one's speech, in circumstances where clarity and precision should be the norm, such as newscasters, public utterances of politicians, teachers in the classroom, et cetera, the sloppier I suspect to be their thinking.