Dentistry has historically been a profession sadists love to enter. With pain-free lasers, they won't be able to torture people any more. This could lead to a terrible shortage of dentists. There's just no way the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors could get off using one of these.
Did you see the Saturday Night Live parody of that, called Who Wants To Eat? While it was a bit mean spirited, it did point out that fat lazy americans in sitting in front of our idiot boxes have it too easy. Millions around the world dream of just having basic food, clothing and shelter. Some of these live in Bhutan. I especially liked how the hungry contestants could not name the eating disorder in which people starve themselves because they are afraid of getting fat, anorexia. The very idea was too absurd for them to imagine. I hope American TV and culture flop in Bhutan.
what if I took Return of the Jedi, and took the cool Ewok song off the end, added a completely idiotic musical number, and passed it off as the same movie? Wouldn't George Lucas be offended that I was distributing such crap and calling it his?
Lucas did that himself with the Special Edition.
HP backed down, but the damage to their reputation is done. When I heard of their DMCA threat, I decided never to buy their products. I have not changed my mind. They have backed of their threat because a lawyer told them their DMCA suit was frivolous, but would do it again if their lawyers said they had a chance. They are a bunch of thugs playing dirty pool in the marketplace much like Microsoft or IBM, and their products are quickly becoming junk. To hell with Hewlett-Packard-Bell.
Maybe it wasn't a Dos Attack. Maybe people unfamiliar with the P2P controversy wanted to confirm that the proposal to legalize hacking against so-called pirates was real. To an uneducated outsider, it seems like an urban legend, like a tax on e-mail. The possibility that they were overwealmed by legitimate traffic is worthy of consideration. It also could be Worldcom's fault. Maybe they laid off the people who used to maintain the backbone, and these outages all across the net will become common.
Corporations do not exist just to make money. Their charters require them to perform a valuable public service. They naturally want to do this at a profit, but greed for greed's own sake destroys everything it touches. If it is only about money, then they should get into theft, or counterfeiting, and out of legitimate business, if there still is such a thing.
The Amish are way too modern, and technologically inclined. We need to get back to hunter-gatherer society. That will keep science from discovering things we don't need to know. Fire and the wheel have frequently been used by terrorists. Darn! If only we had never invented those confounded things!
Sounds like they are trying to build a protocol droid. They are supposed to look like C-3PO, not like a trash can with a monitor on top. And give her some arms already! Their trashcan design might be useful for an astrodroid, such as an R2 unit.
The Microsoft Vs. Linux dispute could be turned into a cool monster movie. Imagine Godzilla with Bill Gates' face smashing his way through the city. He crushes buildings that say Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Novel, BeOs, etc. until he encounters a giant Tux the Penguin, and they fight! Gateszilla Vs. Torvalds!
Coming soon to a theater near you!
The Linux Vs. Microsoft dispute could be turned into a cool monster movie. Imagine Godzilla with Bill Gates' face smashing his way through the city. He crushes buildings that say Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Novel, BeOs, etc. until he encounters a giant Tux the Penguin, and they fight! Gateszilla Vs. Torvalds! Coming soon to a theater near you!
Computers for the starving, homeless and naked? Reminds me of horn-tooting American Christian missionaries going to Africa to give the natives Bibles, instead of food clothing and shelter. English language King James versions to boot. Lousy dogooders either don't understand the problems they are trying to solve, or don't give a damn about anything but looking holier than thou. The dogooders can shove the simputers sideways up their ass.
Superheroine? They sell that on the street. You, too can be a Superjunkie!
Windows vs. Linux would make a good monster movie.
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Imagine a Godzilla with Bill Gates' face going through a city, crushing little buildings that say Sun Microsystems, Netscape, BeOs, etc. until he runs into a giant Tux The Penguin, and they fight! It could be called Gateszilla Vs. Torvalds.
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Maybe they'll completely destroy each other. If they were both gone, that would be wonderful!
Dentistry has historically been a profession sadists love to enter. With pain-free lasers, they won't be able to torture people any more. This could lead to a terrible shortage of dentists. There's just no way the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors could get off using one of these.
Did you see the Saturday Night Live parody of that, called Who Wants To Eat? While it was a bit mean spirited, it did point out that fat lazy americans in sitting in front of our idiot boxes have it too easy. Millions around the world dream of just having basic food, clothing and shelter. Some of these live in Bhutan. I especially liked how the hungry contestants could not name the eating disorder in which people starve themselves because they are afraid of getting fat, anorexia. The very idea was too absurd for them to imagine. I hope American TV and culture flop in Bhutan.
Some of those wild animals are really violent!
what if I took Return of the Jedi, and took the cool Ewok song off the end, added a completely idiotic musical number, and passed it off as the same movie? Wouldn't George Lucas be offended that I was distributing such crap and calling it his? Lucas did that himself with the Special Edition.
Oh my God! It's "them"! Giant Ants! AAuuuuugh!
HP backed down, but the damage to their reputation is done. When I heard of their DMCA threat, I decided never to buy their products. I have not changed my mind. They have backed of their threat because a lawyer told them their DMCA suit was frivolous, but would do it again if their lawyers said they had a chance. They are a bunch of thugs playing dirty pool in the marketplace much like Microsoft or IBM, and their products are quickly becoming junk. To hell with Hewlett-Packard-Bell.
You could also use roman candles as anti-aircraft batteries on these little buggers.
Yes, IBM loves to assimilate, or destroy its competition. They assimilated PWC, and will destroy HP through their mole, Carly Fiorina.
There are scary and fantastic creatures in the world today. For example Red River Gorge is plagued by flying snakes and flesh-eating termites!
Maybe it wasn't a Dos Attack. Maybe people unfamiliar with the P2P controversy wanted to confirm that the proposal to legalize hacking against so-called pirates was real. To an uneducated outsider, it seems like an urban legend, like a tax on e-mail. The possibility that they were overwealmed by legitimate traffic is worthy of consideration. It also could be Worldcom's fault. Maybe they laid off the people who used to maintain the backbone, and these outages all across the net will become common.
Corporations do not exist just to make money. Their charters require them to perform a valuable public service. They naturally want to do this at a profit, but greed for greed's own sake destroys everything it touches. If it is only about money, then they should get into theft, or counterfeiting, and out of legitimate business, if there still is such a thing.
The Amish are way too modern, and technologically inclined. We need to get back to hunter-gatherer society. That will keep science from discovering things we don't need to know. Fire and the wheel have frequently been used by terrorists. Darn! If only we had never invented those confounded things!
Sounds like they are trying to build a protocol droid. They are supposed to look like C-3PO, not like a trash can with a monitor on top. And give her some arms already! Their trashcan design might be useful for an astrodroid, such as an R2 unit.
This is cool. Maybe filtered frying grease could replace motor oil, too. I've heard that synthetic oils are vegetable based.
The Microsoft Vs. Linux dispute could be turned into a cool monster movie. Imagine Godzilla with Bill Gates' face smashing his way through the city. He crushes buildings that say Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Novel, BeOs, etc. until he encounters a giant Tux the Penguin, and they fight! Gateszilla Vs. Torvalds! Coming soon to a theater near you!
The Linux Vs. Microsoft dispute could be turned into a cool monster movie. Imagine Godzilla with Bill Gates' face smashing his way through the city. He crushes buildings that say Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Novel, BeOs, etc. until he encounters a giant Tux the Penguin, and they fight! Gateszilla Vs. Torvalds!
Coming soon to a theater near you!
Computers for the starving, homeless and naked? Reminds me of horn-tooting American Christian missionaries going to Africa to give the natives Bibles, instead of food clothing and shelter. English language King James versions to boot. Lousy dogooders either don't understand the problems they are trying to solve, or don't give a damn about anything but looking holier than thou. The dogooders can shove the simputers sideways up their ass.
Just a song before I go, to whom it may concern. Traveling twice the speed of sound, it's easy to get burned.
He's Toast!
Ooopski!
Superheroine? They sell that on the street. You, too can be a Superjunkie!
Imagine a Godzilla with Bill Gates' face going through a city, crushing little buildings that say Sun Microsystems, Netscape, BeOs, etc. until he runs into a giant Tux The Penguin, and they fight! It could be called Gateszilla Vs. Torvalds.