Sir, your suggestion to outlaw voip is completely unamerican. It runs contraty to the freedoms that our country holds dear.
Instead, we should regulate voip and apply surcharges and taxes to ensure that this exciting new technology will never gain a foothold against existing infrastructure.
Yes, because your bills are sent to where you are with your laptop *at that moment* (highway, hotel, coffee shop), not the billing address you specified with you signed up for the service.
I was going to make a joke about that fact depending on whether you consider Picasso a good artists or a great artist, but instead I looked it up on wikiquote and they have it as such:
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal."
* Possibly originally "Los mediocres imitan. Los talentosos, roban." or "Los grandes artistas copian, los genios roban." etc.
My favorite quote attributed to Picasso is
"Los ordenadores son inútiles. Sólo pueden darte respuestas."* Translation: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Well, then an audience thinks that the robot is an exaggerator and complaining that he has a relatively large head. And that's as deep as it gets. It doesn't reinforce the metaphor, it changes the joke entriely.
AFAIK, Joseph Campbell commented on Star Wars as mytholoby after the fact. George drew most of his inspiration from _The Hidden Fortress_, a samurai film.
If you look through the history of creative works, you'll not find a single original idea. In screenwriting class you cover the 13 (smallest count) different stories (boy leaves home, boy gets girl, person comes home to die, etc). As Oscar Wild said, "Good artists borrow, great artists steal."
What was the driving inspiration behind the look for the movie version of Marvin? Fans are all aware of the "brain the size of a planet" lament, but what's with that giant round head? A new play on words?...
RS: Well the clue to this one is in your question - "brain the size of a planet", many of which are round and "giant round head!"
I think marvin was talking about relative processing power, not lamenting having a big head. This movie has definately been dumbed down from the book tremendously. Worse is that this guy is on board, if not downright stupid himself.
I think for the live-action TV series, this might be good. I would like to see the everyday life of people who live under the empire, with pirates and gangsters and all the other stuff that make up a regular world. As long as they stay away from the force and "save the universe" level plots, it should be interesting.
I thought is was muslims who did the most work on it in the western world.
From the wikipedia article: "The word algebra itself comes from the name of the treatise first written by a Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi 700 AD, who wrote a treatise titled: Kitab al-mukhtasar fi Hisab Al-Jabr wa-al-Moghabalah meaning The book of summary concerning calculating by transposition and reduction. The word al-jabr (from which algebra is derived) means "reunion", "connection" or "completion"."
What makes that even more interesting is that birds usually have a terrible sense of smell. If that's true for this parrot that means that he wasn't smelling out the lunch.
So if he went straight for the lunch, he either saw this bad being packed, or deduced a plan of action from seeing other similar situations.
"how the country is worse off because of Bush (I don't know about you but my salary is up 130% over the last 5 years, I own a house at 5.5%, I have health insurance which I didn't during the Clinton years, and I've been able to get completely out of debt except for my house.. so to me I think Bush has done a good job on the home front.).
This is classis psychopathic libertarian reasoning. A psychopath is someone who only cares about themselves, and has no concern for anyone else. So things look great for you? Wonderful! who cares about anyone else?
My dad used to work at a nuclear pharmacy. There was a very cold freezer there, somewhere aroun -200 F. One time he stored some ice cream in there before he brought it home. They were as hard as bricks.
I think IQ tests are geard towards another kind of puzzle solving skills that kids don't have to deal with today. How many of the tasks on an IQ test have to deal with filtering out information, or finding information on a computer? I'll bet that these subjects would score better on computer-related tasks.
That's nothing. Back in the Mayan days, if you let the ball slip, that was tantamount to the sun falling out the sky! If you did that, you were the human sacrifice to the sun god!
The idea of this hibernation is that it slows down the cell's metabolism so that they don't use that much oxygen. That way the cells don't die, they are just *hibernating*.
True story: In the third grade, our class took a field trip to the circus. At one point, they brought out a liger. Everyone in the class was like "what is that" and I was like "it's when a lion and a tiger have a baby", and they were all like "Ha, ha! Of course Steve knows what it is!" They were all laughing at me, but I was kind of happy for momentarily losing my invisibility.
"(3) An infinite God cannot be satisfied with a finite creation. After all, to an infinite being, everything finite is nothing. Creating a single earth would be about as meaningful as doing nothing. We cannot imagine an intelligent God that does things without meaning or purpose (because lacking meaning and purpose is also a lack of intelligence).
I'm really choking on this one. There's too much to get into, but here's the first few: Why would God have to be satisfied? Wouldn't a truly infinite being be satisfied, not satisfied, both satisfied and not satisfied, and neither satisfied and not satisfied? Why is finiteness 'nothing' to an infinite being? Can't an intelligent God do some things meaninglessly and other things meaningfully?
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I think the book probably would have been burned.
Instead, we should regulate voip and apply surcharges and taxes to ensure that this exciting new technology will never gain a foothold against existing infrastructure.
Yes, because your bills are sent to where you are with your laptop *at that moment* (highway, hotel, coffee shop), not the billing address you specified with you signed up for the service.
Dude, he died in 1973.
I was going to make a joke about that fact depending on whether you consider Picasso a good artists or a great artist, but instead I looked it up on wikiquote and they have it as such:
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal."
* Possibly originally "Los mediocres imitan. Los talentosos, roban." or "Los grandes artistas copian, los genios roban." etc.
My favorite quote attributed to Picasso is
"Los ordenadores son inútiles. Sólo pueden darte respuestas."* Translation: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Why don't you just teach them?
Oh really? The back of the book says that similarities to any person, living or dead, is purely coincidental... ;)
Well, then an audience thinks that the robot is an exaggerator and complaining that he has a relatively large head. And that's as deep as it gets. It doesn't reinforce the metaphor, it changes the joke entriely.
If you look through the history of creative works, you'll not find a single original idea. In screenwriting class you cover the 13 (smallest count) different stories (boy leaves home, boy gets girl, person comes home to die, etc). As Oscar Wild said, "Good artists borrow, great artists steal."
RS: Well the clue to this one is in your question - "brain the size of a planet", many of which are round and "giant round head!"
I think marvin was talking about relative processing power, not lamenting having a big head. This movie has definately been dumbed down from the book tremendously. Worse is that this guy is on board, if not downright stupid himself.
Hey, a Jedi is basically a samurai, while the Dark Jedi are ninjas. So Star Wars really is pirates and ninjas.
I think for the live-action TV series, this might be good. I would like to see the everyday life of people who live under the empire, with pirates and gangsters and all the other stuff that make up a regular world. As long as they stay away from the force and "save the universe" level plots, it should be interesting.
The Carribean islands are part of the Americas.
There are that many groups, but in other histories I've encoutered, they say that modern western algebra originated in Islamic society.
From the wikipedia article: "The word algebra itself comes from the name of the treatise first written by a Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi 700 AD, who wrote a treatise titled: Kitab al-mukhtasar fi Hisab Al-Jabr wa-al-Moghabalah meaning The book of summary concerning calculating by transposition and reduction. The word al-jabr (from which algebra is derived) means "reunion", "connection" or "completion"."
So if he went straight for the lunch, he either saw this bad being packed, or deduced a plan of action from seeing other similar situations.
This is classis psychopathic libertarian reasoning. A psychopath is someone who only cares about themselves, and has no concern for anyone else. So things look great for you? Wonderful! who cares about anyone else?
My dad used to work at a nuclear pharmacy. There was a very cold freezer there, somewhere aroun -200 F. One time he stored some ice cream in there before he brought it home. They were as hard as bricks.
I think IQ tests are geard towards another kind of puzzle solving skills that kids don't have to deal with today. How many of the tasks on an IQ test have to deal with filtering out information, or finding information on a computer? I'll bet that these subjects would score better on computer-related tasks.
That's nothing. Back in the Mayan days, if you let the ball slip, that was tantamount to the sun falling out the sky! If you did that, you were the human sacrifice to the sun god!
The idea of this hibernation is that it slows down the cell's metabolism so that they don't use that much oxygen. That way the cells don't die, they are just *hibernating*.
I don't get it. If sun was responsible for 64-bit computers being commonplace, how come Java doesn't support 64 bits?
Call Wendy's and get your $10,000 reward.
True story: In the third grade, our class took a field trip to the circus. At one point, they brought out a liger. Everyone in the class was like "what is that" and I was like "it's when a lion and a tiger have a baby", and they were all like "Ha, ha! Of course Steve knows what it is!" They were all laughing at me, but I was kind of happy for momentarily losing my invisibility.
I'm really choking on this one. There's too much to get into, but here's the first few: Why would God have to be satisfied? Wouldn't a truly infinite being be satisfied, not satisfied, both satisfied and not satisfied, and neither satisfied and not satisfied? Why is finiteness 'nothing' to an infinite being? Can't an intelligent God do some things meaninglessly and other things meaningfully?