One of my favorite quotes from that episode is when the elevator doors open and blood comes gushing out. Burns says "That's strange, the blood usually gets off on the second floor."
No, Homer Vs. New York has aired several times in the last year. For that matter, another "banned" episode of something, the Seinfeld epsiode where George's girlfriend dies from licking toxic envelopes (supposedly banned after the anthrax incidents) has re-appeared on the air.
No, Data wasn't retarded when he died. At the beginning of the movie, the crew found pieces of an earlier version of data and assembled him. He looked like Data, of course, but had trouble understanding very basic concepts.
And if you have multiple toilets in the house that are connected via the same piping, if one toilet gets a virus, do they all immediately get infected?
I would imagine you won't see any shuttle flights for at least a couple of years, and maybe the ISS will have to be de-manned unless we bring everybody up on Soyuz rockets.
Then again, maybe this will cause the next generation of space shuttles to be built on an accelerated pace, and there won't be anymore flights of the current model.
The slashdot filter filtered out my tags. There were smilely face emoticons surrounding my last line there. Kind of like:)/:) but with the brackets around them. Dang it. It looks stupid now.
Reminds me of a prescription I got filled a couple of years ago. On the label, it instructed me to call my doctor if I became pregnant. That would be quite a shock, being male and all.
Of course it is just gravity. The important thing is that it has *a lot* of gravity. Drop your weight from 1000 feet over a black hole (if you could get that close) and you'll get a lot more energy than if you dropped the same weight off a 1000 foot cliff here on Earth.
I've read that if you could get close enough to a black hole, and you threw something into it that was attached to a cord strong enough, the black hole will pull the matter into in, thereby pulling the cord, which in turn can be hooked to a turbine to produce electricity. The book (The Last Three Minutes) says that theoretically, you could get energy consistant with e=mc^2 this way.
So what that the characters used in the katakana and hiragana syllabaries were derived from Chinese characters? My point was that katakana and hiragana characters carry no meaning. They only represent sound. It is kanji characters that have meaning, which is why most words now are written in kanji, instead of katakana and hiragana.
Japanese was originally a spoken language only. Then they came up with an 'alphabet' that could be used to write words, with one character per syllable. The problem with this was that each character had a sound, but no meaning, making it hard to determine what the meaning of the word was. Gradually, Chinese characters started filtering into the written language, and by and large, words started being written by characters whose intrinsic individual or combined meanings were similar or the same as the word itself. That makes it easy for even a dumb foreigner like me to see a combination of characters that I have never seen before and know what the meaning of the word is. For example, if I saw the characters for "learn" and "building" put together, I would know that it means "school".
What I am trying to say is, at least in Japanese, is the word was there first. They chose what characters to represent it later.
But in all honesty, I am sick of that phrase, and I hate motivational speakers.
I speak Japanese, which derives it's written language from Chinese. While I was living in Japan, I heard a motivational speaker tell us (in Japanese) about how there is opportunity in crisis. It seems to be a pretty common phrase over there. The exact phrase he used was "Kiki wa kikai desu." kiki=danger, kikai=opportunity, the first "ki" in each word is the character for danger.
Then again, Frink created a large robot that tried to sell itself off at his garage sale, to which Frink told him, "Scrubbing is what you were designed for, and scrubbing is what you shall do."
Fred Haise came and spoke to my University a few years back. He made it a point to tell us that they didn't swear at all during the whole crisis. He claims the mission logs will back him up on that.
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I'm not required by law to play the lottery. I am required to have insurance.
Man, I just used a Lite-Brite when I was a kid.
No, the best thing about cloning is being able to clone endless copies of Scratchy and send each copy into an auto-killing machine.
You forgot about the follow up quote. Rod (or Todd): Ow, my freakin' ears!
One of my favorite quotes from that episode is when the elevator doors open and blood comes gushing out. Burns says "That's strange, the blood usually gets off on the second floor."
I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the first Bleeding Gums Murphy episode. Without a doubt, that is in my top five.
No, Homer Vs. New York has aired several times in the last year. For that matter, another "banned" episode of something, the Seinfeld epsiode where George's girlfriend dies from licking toxic envelopes (supposedly banned after the anthrax incidents) has re-appeared on the air.
No, Data wasn't retarded when he died. At the beginning of the movie, the crew found pieces of an earlier version of data and assembled him. He looked like Data, of course, but had trouble understanding very basic concepts.
And if you have multiple toilets in the house that are connected via the same piping, if one toilet gets a virus, do they all immediately get infected?
I would imagine you won't see any shuttle flights for at least a couple of years, and maybe the ISS will have to be de-manned unless we bring everybody up on Soyuz rockets. Then again, maybe this will cause the next generation of space shuttles to be built on an accelerated pace, and there won't be anymore flights of the current model.
You never know. It might only take us a week before we realize we are not going to survive 2003.
The slashdot filter filtered out my tags. There were smilely face emoticons surrounding my last line there. Kind of like :) /:) but with the brackets around them. Dang it. It looks stupid now.
How about text-only, loaded with emoticon tags? I'm smiling as I say this!
Reminds me of a prescription I got filled a couple of years ago. On the label, it instructed me to call my doctor if I became pregnant. That would be quite a shock, being male and all.
Of course it is just gravity. The important thing is that it has *a lot* of gravity. Drop your weight from 1000 feet over a black hole (if you could get that close) and you'll get a lot more energy than if you dropped the same weight off a 1000 foot cliff here on Earth.
I've read that if you could get close enough to a black hole, and you threw something into it that was attached to a cord strong enough, the black hole will pull the matter into in, thereby pulling the cord, which in turn can be hooked to a turbine to produce electricity. The book (The Last Three Minutes) says that theoretically, you could get energy consistant with e=mc^2 this way.
So what that the characters used in the katakana and hiragana syllabaries were derived from Chinese characters? My point was that katakana and hiragana characters carry no meaning. They only represent sound. It is kanji characters that have meaning, which is why most words now are written in kanji, instead of katakana and hiragana.
Japanese was originally a spoken language only. Then they came up with an 'alphabet' that could be used to write words, with one character per syllable. The problem with this was that each character had a sound, but no meaning, making it hard to determine what the meaning of the word was. Gradually, Chinese characters started filtering into the written language, and by and large, words started being written by characters whose intrinsic individual or combined meanings were similar or the same as the word itself. That makes it easy for even a dumb foreigner like me to see a combination of characters that I have never seen before and know what the meaning of the word is. For example, if I saw the characters for "learn" and "building" put together, I would know that it means "school". What I am trying to say is, at least in Japanese, is the word was there first. They chose what characters to represent it later. But in all honesty, I am sick of that phrase, and I hate motivational speakers.
I speak Japanese, which derives it's written language from Chinese. While I was living in Japan, I heard a motivational speaker tell us (in Japanese) about how there is opportunity in crisis. It seems to be a pretty common phrase over there. The exact phrase he used was "Kiki wa kikai desu." kiki=danger, kikai=opportunity, the first "ki" in each word is the character for danger.
Then again, Frink created a large robot that tried to sell itself off at his garage sale, to which Frink told him, "Scrubbing is what you were designed for, and scrubbing is what you shall do."
Microsoft will claim that it is going to crush Linux.
Fred Haise came and spoke to my University a few years back. He made it a point to tell us that they didn't swear at all during the whole crisis. He claims the mission logs will back him up on that.