The lyrics are trying to get people to vote in communistic or socialistic changes into the American system.
What, like government-funded retirement income and medical supplemental coverage? Or state-owned passenger rail system and postal delivery services? Or redistribution of taxes from one region to projects benefitting only other regions?
HellooooOOOOOOOOoooooo? "Communist" and "Socialist" are generally extremely bad words here in the U.S.A., but we're not quite the free market capitalist society I was taught were were growing up. That's not an opinion, just an observation.
The Amish didn't write the song, so on what grounds would they sue?
Duh, they felt offended. You're new in the U.S., aren't you? I'm waiting for the new disability or diseased, the treatment therapy and a book and movie based on the ailment. God willing, we'll even have a benefit concert. If not, a telethon will do.
I don't give money to the EFF to get individuals off the hook on technicalities. I give it to them to fight for cases that will influence the way our laws work.
Eh, what? Just curious, how would you rather the EFF have handled this situation? A small organization was sued unreasonably (from the EFF's--and my--point of view), and they came to help out. It's my understanding/presumption that the "technicality" was revealed during case preparation. Did you want the EFF to ignore the fact that it's in the public domain and proceed with the lawsuit? I'm not sure what that would accomplish.
Tell me about it. Have you seen "The Twenty" or "The 2wenty" or whatever they call it? It's a digitally projected "show" (cough cough) in place of the old slideshow ads. It's a thinly veiled series of ads along the lines of an entertainment show. What really gets me is at the end they always summarize what they've shown you and say "if you didn't see all of the twenty, come to the theater earlier!" ?!?! Yeah, thanks for the advice. I'll come early to see more ads. At least the slideshows were easy to ignore.
And by the way, that digital projector sucks. I can see the pixels on the edges. It'll be a sad day when theater movies go digital.
In response to peer poster Diabolical: "All restarants are Taco Bell."
Do the sofas burn faster than the wicker tables? I swear I think those wicker tables are on the verge of spontaneously combusting when no source of heat is nearby.
Toaster ovens are a fairly reliable ignition source with untrained cooks. I never even use them in a game where I'm not trying to kill.
My limited experience is with Filemaker 4 and 5 on the PC, but there is a file for each table.
I definitely see the appeal for ease of design, though. From a technical point of view, though, I see it as a Appled-up version of Excel. (Ever notice how Excel is used a lot as a flat file database?)
Going back to my one-file-per-table point, though: Come to think of it, anyone using Access for relational databases is overbuilding Access and needs to either calm down or turn the problem over to a real database person. At least with Filemaker I've seen people make apps that aren't counterproductive and hated by everyone but the creator.
Most such "experiments" end quietly. But sometimes the new breed cannot interbreed with the original, and successfully outcompetes it. In the latter case, the new species spreads.
The 9/11 hijackers didn't have anything that security wouldn't allow through. That's why they used boxcutters. Blades less than 3" were fine.
People set off the metal detector all the time, even today. They are screened by hand.
If there were any security failures on 9/11 it's that there was no procedures or policies to prevent that type of attack even though similar attacks have been tried on a smaller scale at least three times before by crazed or distressed individuals. (Source of info: Gavin de Becker's _Fear Less_ and experience which I won't disclose.)
Geez, people...no terrorist is going to successfuly hijack a jet in the next 50 years because everyone remembers 9/11. Hell, look at the Pennsylvania crash...that's how fast we figured it out. The 4th plane was taken down by passengers hours after the first attacks. How's that for rapid response to changing conditions?
Just keep bombs off the planes and everything else will be prevented by the passengers.
I have heard it commented elsewhere that it may be possible to use gravity as the countering force for tacking with a solar sail. Does anyone know if this is possible, or is it just a bad sci-fi element?
Sounds reasonable to me, but I'm too tired to imagine all the vectors. However with water this is lateral resistance for any direction when the keel/centerboard is deployed or if an asymmetrical hull is under way, but with a solar sail gravity won't be as convenient as water.
By the way, in another thread here I learned that you can still use a solar sail to approach the sun by slowing down your solar orbit and "falling" towards the sun, if you will. So it's not tacking, but from a layman's point of view you can move towards the sun which at first glance sounds like into the "wind".
1: Rocket propelled probes so far don't decelerate (much?); they just enter orbit with careful aiming.
2: Tacking in a water-based sailboat uses the water to prevent lateral motion. Try sailing without any sort of keel/centerboard or asymmetric hulls or rudder--you can't go towards the wind this way. Hmmm...I wonder if chemical or ion propulsion could be used as lateral resistance with solar sails in an analog to hybrid gas/electric cars...would there be any economy or advantage to that?
RGB are Additive Colours. (You add them together to create White) CMY(K) are Subtractive Colours. (You add them together to get black)
I've seen that said several times here, but I thought that's backwards. I thought CMY are additive and RBG are pigments. I never quite understood why monitors are RGB and not CMY.
My color darkroom equipment has CMY adjustments for the light to adust color on the print.
Isn't it kinda apples and oranges comparing light emitting color to printed color anyway? Light is additive, surface color is subtractive (some colors absorbed & others reflected).
And do you honestly think that it's impossible to turn off Zone Alarm and those other ones with an application? I'm willing to bet that it's possible
There's already at least one virus/worm/trojan that does this. Well, the one I read about actually uses a script to emulate the user openening the ZoneAlarm control app and letting it's port through. I forget which one that was, and a quick lazy search didn't show me what I was looking for but lists others that seem to delete or disable ZoneAlarm.
Is anyone thinking of taking these sort of rules into the US system? Or would that not work with the constitution?
What? And copy something another country did? Not a chance. Here in the USA we think of everything, invent everything and discover everything. If we're not doing it your way it's because you're not as good as we are. Oh, and we have free market enterprise, democracy and personal freedom to boot.
At least that's the collective attitude I sense that is driving me buggy these days. Geez, fellow countrymen: we're not the only people on the planet to ever have an idea, you know? When was the last time you heard a large U.S. organization admit to considering following a foreign example? I like a lot of my own ideas, but periodically I find other people's ideas come in really handy, too.
I'm starting to think the out of control litigation is not due to laws but due to a culture of adversariness. It seems like we define and act upon everyhing confrontationally rather than cooperatively. Or maybe I'm just very cynical...it is an election year, after all, and my choices are Tweedledee, Tweedledum or the Cheshire cat.
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Gotta leave town
Got another appointment
Spent all my rent
Girl you know I enjoyed it
Ain't gonna hang around till there's nobody dancing
I don't wanna hold hands and talk about our little plans, alright!
Cold hard bitch
Just a kiss on the lips
And I was on my knees
I'm waiting, give me
Cold hard bitch
She was shakin' her hips
That's all that I need
This site is so wrong.
(I laughed, too.)
The lyrics are trying to get people to vote in communistic or socialistic changes into the American system.
What, like government-funded retirement income and medical supplemental coverage? Or state-owned passenger rail system and postal delivery services? Or redistribution of taxes from one region to projects benefitting only other regions?
HellooooOOOOOOOOoooooo? "Communist" and "Socialist" are generally extremely bad words here in the U.S.A., but we're not quite the free market capitalist society I was taught were were growing up. That's not an opinion, just an observation.
The Amish didn't write the song, so on what grounds would they sue?
Duh, they felt offended. You're new in the U.S., aren't you? I'm waiting for the new disability or diseased, the treatment therapy and a book and movie based on the ailment. God willing, we'll even have a benefit concert. If not, a telethon will do.
I don't give money to the EFF to get individuals off the hook on technicalities. I give it to them to fight for cases that will influence the way our laws work.
Eh, what? Just curious, how would you rather the EFF have handled this situation? A small organization was sued unreasonably (from the EFF's--and my--point of view), and they came to help out. It's my understanding/presumption that the "technicality" was revealed during case preparation. Did you want the EFF to ignore the fact that it's in the public domain and proceed with the lawsuit? I'm not sure what that would accomplish.
I can't stand ads in the movies,
Tell me about it. Have you seen "The Twenty" or "The 2wenty" or whatever they call it? It's a digitally projected "show" (cough cough) in place of the old slideshow ads. It's a thinly veiled series of ads along the lines of an entertainment show. What really gets me is at the end they always summarize what they've shown you and say "if you didn't see all of the twenty, come to the theater earlier!" ?!?! Yeah, thanks for the advice. I'll come early to see more ads. At least the slideshows were easy to ignore.
And by the way, that digital projector sucks. I can see the pixels on the edges. It'll be a sad day when theater movies go digital.
In response to peer poster Diabolical: "All restarants are Taco Bell."
Who's going to sponsor the little blue pills that make Pacman bigger and stronger?
Red Bull or Power Ade! Who else?
Also, in Quake IV the Megasphere has been replaced with Red Bull.
In the U.S. we don't order "pints". Mostly it's 22 oz. glasses of beer. Then there's "the yard"....
No, but it is sexist. It "suckerizes" only men. Where is the parity? Show us the virtual boyfriend and we call it even.
We want equal opportunity suckerizer.
Harlequin novels, Mattel's Ken, Fabio, the Diet Coke guy and the Boyfriend Arm Pillow.
Do the sofas burn faster than the wicker tables? I swear I think those wicker tables are on the verge of spontaneously combusting when no source of heat is nearby.
Toaster ovens are a fairly reliable ignition source with untrained cooks. I never even use them in a game where I'm not trying to kill.
Statistically speaking you are more likely to get malaria in Arizona than experience a random MD5 collision.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!
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My limited experience is with Filemaker 4 and 5 on the PC, but there is a file for each table.
I definitely see the appeal for ease of design, though. From a technical point of view, though, I see it as a Appled-up version of Excel. (Ever notice how Excel is used a lot as a flat file database?)
Going back to my one-file-per-table point, though: Come to think of it, anyone using Access for relational databases is overbuilding Access and needs to either calm down or turn the problem over to a real database person. At least with Filemaker I've seen people make apps that aren't counterproductive and hated by everyone but the creator.
Most such "experiments" end quietly. But sometimes the new breed cannot interbreed with the original, and successfully outcompetes it. In the latter case, the new species spreads.
Oh great, one more reason I can't get laid...
Insightful? How?
The 9/11 hijackers didn't have anything that security wouldn't allow through. That's why they used boxcutters. Blades less than 3" were fine.
People set off the metal detector all the time, even today. They are screened by hand.
If there were any security failures on 9/11 it's that there was no procedures or policies to prevent that type of attack even though similar attacks have been tried on a smaller scale at least three times before by crazed or distressed individuals. (Source of info: Gavin de Becker's _Fear Less_ and experience which I won't disclose.)
Geez, people...no terrorist is going to successfuly hijack a jet in the next 50 years because everyone remembers 9/11. Hell, look at the Pennsylvania crash...that's how fast we figured it out. The 4th plane was taken down by passengers hours after the first attacks. How's that for rapid response to changing conditions?
Just keep bombs off the planes and everything else will be prevented by the passengers.
Forget the PC. Just sell your house and possesions and work and tour with Scarborough Fair.
You know, that blond kid from the IBM Linux commercials does look a little bit like Luke Skywalker...
I have heard it commented elsewhere that it may be possible to use gravity as the countering force for tacking with a solar sail. Does anyone know if this is possible, or is it just a bad sci-fi element?
Sounds reasonable to me, but I'm too tired to imagine all the vectors. However with water this is lateral resistance for any direction when the keel/centerboard is deployed or if an asymmetrical hull is under way, but with a solar sail gravity won't be as convenient as water.
By the way, in another thread here I learned that you can still use a solar sail to approach the sun by slowing down your solar orbit and "falling" towards the sun, if you will. So it's not tacking, but from a layman's point of view you can move towards the sun which at first glance sounds like into the "wind".
(yes, solar sails can travel toward the sun)
Um, how? I just got done posting that you couldn't sail into the "wind" without some form of lateral resistance. Inquiring minds want to know...
Or is it just a matter of using solar energy to slow down solar orbiting speed to 'fall' towards the sun?
1: Rocket propelled probes so far don't decelerate (much?); they just enter orbit with careful aiming.
2: Tacking in a water-based sailboat uses the water to prevent lateral motion. Try sailing without any sort of keel/centerboard or asymmetric hulls or rudder--you can't go towards the wind this way. Hmmm...I wonder if chemical or ion propulsion could be used as lateral resistance with solar sails in an analog to hybrid gas/electric cars...would there be any economy or advantage to that?
RGB are Additive Colours. (You add them together to create White)
CMY(K) are Subtractive Colours. (You add them together to get black)
I've seen that said several times here, but I thought that's backwards. I thought CMY are additive and RBG are pigments. I never quite understood why monitors are RGB and not CMY.
My color darkroom equipment has CMY adjustments for the light to adust color on the print.
Isn't it kinda apples and oranges comparing light emitting color to printed color anyway? Light is additive, surface color is subtractive (some colors absorbed & others reflected).
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And do you honestly think that it's impossible to turn off Zone Alarm and those other ones with an application? I'm willing to bet that it's possible
There's already at least one virus/worm/trojan that does this. Well, the one I read about actually uses a script to emulate the user openening the ZoneAlarm control app and letting it's port through. I forget which one that was, and a quick lazy search didn't show me what I was looking for but lists others that seem to delete or disable ZoneAlarm.
Is anyone thinking of taking these sort of rules into the US system? Or would that not work with the constitution?
What? And copy something another country did? Not a chance. Here in the USA we think of everything, invent everything and discover everything. If we're not doing it your way it's because you're not as good as we are. Oh, and we have free market enterprise, democracy and personal freedom to boot.
At least that's the collective attitude I sense that is driving me buggy these days. Geez, fellow countrymen: we're not the only people on the planet to ever have an idea, you know? When was the last time you heard a large U.S. organization admit to considering following a foreign example? I like a lot of my own ideas, but periodically I find other people's ideas come in really handy, too.
I'm starting to think the out of control litigation is not due to laws but due to a culture of adversariness. It seems like we define and act upon everyhing confrontationally rather than cooperatively. Or maybe I'm just very cynical...it is an election year, after all, and my choices are Tweedledee, Tweedledum or the Cheshire cat.
If they want something frozen right now, they need a freezer.
Or they could just dig down to the permafrost.
(But I always preferred the using the freezer when I lived there.)