I KNEW IT! I'm on Mars! right? So what happens if I, ah, attend to bodily functions here in this imaginary world, do I get all yucky on Mars or do my handlers time it so I'm voiding into an appropriate recepticle? Or are there tubes or something like in the Matrix movie I imagined I watched a few imagined years ago.
none of the three hundred servers we just imaged for a new datacenter have hard power switches. The only way to remove power without the aid of a bios is by removing the power cable.
You only have to fill out some forms with the Gistapo BATF, registering your still, prove you're not going to burn your house down, and you can burn it in your tank all day long:
Spirits may be produced for nonbeverage purposes for fuel use only without payment of tax, but you also must file an application, receive ATF's approval, and follow requirements, such as construction, use, records and reports.
Basically, don't build the still in your house. Keep records and don't sell it (in any way that can be tracked) and you're fine. You only have to register your still once, and re-register if you enbiggen it. The process is simple and been done by loads of regular folks.
I always figured such a move to be more like, "I sense you are a threat and will now destroy your entire lineage. With my bare hands." rather than a C&D letter on paper
Why? Because NASA would be forced to buy the carbon offsets from a business Gore owns.../sorry, that's the current universe, but I assume some things will be the same between the two parallels
I would pay good money to see the book faithfully reproduced in a movie, hell stretch it out into several flicks, there's enough of a story there for it
vampires, speculating that vampirism of old was caused by a bacteria that animated the cells of the body through a process other than normal human cellular mitosis or some such, and all the old stories about them fearing garlic, crosses and all that were studied in the book by the main character.
some are found to be purely social holdouts from the sickened person's prior life (cross) while others were real allergies brought on by the disease (garlic).
Of course, there's the living-dead merely sick with the disease driven to madness by the insatiable thirst for blood, and the un-dead, those re-animated by the bacteria.
well that's easy, you simply LEAP up and use that powered suit for all it's worth, then drop a talking bomb in the room that squeeks out it's alert "I AM A BOMB" in the twittering language of whatever alien stronghold you're currently attacking... but be sure you take it home after the invasion, so what if you look like an ape while you wear it, it's in the constitution or something
I had to stop and think this weekend when telling my (less than 7 year old) kids to turn to the next station on the dial... they just stopped and stared at me. They're not "stations" and there is no "dial" my wife says... wonderful times, and I'm not even 40 years old!
I want to respectfully disagree with the opinion that the series is in decline, but I can't, except to qualify it: decline of quality to any degree that matters. IMO, when we compare this series to any other on television, even the lowest quality episode is better than the best quality the rest of the dial has to offer. I believe the intensity of the plots and story lines ebbed and flowed and will peak in season 5 as a natural part of telling this story, and that this isn't taking away from the impact the series had in season 4, or as it moves into the last season. I agree that all episodes aren't created equal.
I do definately get the impression they blew their wad in the mini-series and season 1...
Even still, this is the first time I've ever watched a television show and literally sat on the edge of my seat fully captured by the story.
you see pictures of these bicycle regiments go up on ebay once in a while, in fact a few years ago a photo of a bicycle riding fife and drum corps was up for sale, along with a bike (allegedly from the photo) with a drum mounted on the handlebars! freaky for sure, to think a regimental field music unit rode bikes while they played
Great. When our customers do this, all they do is contribute to the problem. Any spam that filters through to their inbox they assume is fine to report, and the brain dead reporting methods attribute the spam to their original destination, us. So, we get kicked for it, even though that customer explicitly asked for their mail to be forwarded.
Worse yet, when a customer thinks it's a good idea to turn on a catch all, for a domain name that's been around since 1996, and also choose to forward all their email.
SPAM sucks, but don't make the problem worse by forwarding email, just check the temporary account via pop or whatever, and orphan it when you're done with it.
woa, html badness going on, but I'll try and reply sensibly...
bigfoot = my number 1 baddie, with the worst scare coming as a kid watching the Six Million Dollar Man fight BigFoot, and even though there was a twist at the end (bigfoot is a robot) it still scared the crap out of me more than any other monster, hence my vote for favorite.
The recent cheeze fest sasquach movie on Sci Fi didn't do anything to ease that image in my mind, certainly not when the baddie bit that guy's head in half.
As far as using the word for a person from Saskatchewan, maybe it's the other way around... maybe the people who live in the province are named after the creature that lived there in the local tribe's lore...
if you had any idea how many horses were in use before cars became common-place, you would cease recommending horses as "safer" in any term, long or short. The whole world would be covered in their manure. You would run out of places to compost it, let alone the billions of acres that would have to be used to produce feed for them, or the new roads and trucks required to ship the feed to the animals...
how about just investing in small parallel running monorail tracks featuring 100 passenger compartments powered by complaints.
Why not use a finger print scanner instead of a password?
It's not just about physical access, the bigger picture has to be considered, and that's: Kids aren't allowed secrets from parents, they aren't peers and a parent-child relationship isn't some give-and-take thing between school-aged nit wits.
Be it medical, social, political, financial, no secrets until the kid is legally emancipated. That includes disallowing root to dad via some complicated scheme involving hacking the BIOS and run level scripts.
I think it's insane to think children deserve privacy from parents, they earn privacy from parents by proving time and again they can handle the responsibility. It's not cumulative either, violate the parents' trust once, and they remember it for a long time. Frankly, if I ever caught my kid using a system to block access to devices in my house, such a system as described above, that kid's ass is grass.
Why? Because kids can't be trusted and kids do stupid shit and sometimes you have to intervene and redirect their energy away from the destructive stuff before it destroys and costs the parents serious money or heartache. But you have to know about it if you're to train them. Sometimes you let them crash and learn, and sometimes you intervene, but either way it's the parent's right and responsibility to choose which.
In this case, since the kid is trying to keep the brother out, and that's an entirely different thing than trying to keep mom and dad at bay, and then there's the trouble remember a 10 character string, just get a $30 fingerprint scanner and be done with it. They work well enough to keep a brother out.
has anyone mentioned Thor (footfall)? Kinetic energy weapons stashed in the bomb bay of this sat, launched at ground targets destroying burried bunkers at any depth... They would certainly survive reentry.
I thought warheads too, but now I'm leaning towards software or encryption keys... stored on hardy memory media protected against radiation in an enclosure they didn't buy at CompUSA.
What precisely is wrong with putting the infected in concentration camps? How about a nice big building where Doctors and Nurses get together to issue treatments, conduct research and the patients have immediate access to care? They can even have their own cemeteries. How about an island in the tropics all to themselves? We'll even give them an internet feed (usenet read-only, of course)
Surely it would be cheaper and more successful than the methods used over the last 30 years, AND the sooner implemented the more lives will be spared being infected in the first place. Delaying means you're killing more people.
We've done it before, loads of times, most recent would probably be the TB epidemics, but surely one could compare it to the lepper colonies of old.
Afterall, isn't eradicating the disease the goal, the whole point of spending the billions in the first place? And there's no faster way to make the disease extinct than eliminating it from society by taking the vessels into seclusion.
I'm not suggesting using their bodies as fuel for factories or anything like that, but if no other method is working, and the cost to society is as large as the lobbies say it is, then perhaps we should revert to tried and true methods.
You say, "Is saving the species from disease worth it at the cost of our humanity?"
I say the above nonesense IS HUMANITY. That's what it means to be human, to be unforgivably cruel to anyone we percieve as different, unclean or unworthy and cutting off the hand that offends you. BUT if the diease is bad enough, yes, draconian measures ARE worth it. And I'll go ahead and prognosticate, like Phill the groundhog and say humans will do it again. Some disease will appear and we'll isolate the infected and the pyres will darken the sky.
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I KNEW IT! I'm on Mars! right? So what happens if I, ah, attend to bodily functions here in this imaginary world, do I get all yucky on Mars or do my handlers time it so I'm voiding into an appropriate recepticle? Or are there tubes or something like in the Matrix movie I imagined I watched a few imagined years ago.
none of the three hundred servers we just imaged for a new datacenter have hard power switches. The only way to remove power without the aid of a bios is by removing the power cable.
You only have to fill out some forms with the Gistapo BATF, registering your still, prove you're not going to burn your house down, and you can burn it in your tank all day long:
http://www.atf.gov/alcohol/info/faq/genalcohol.htm
Spirits may be produced for nonbeverage purposes for fuel use only without payment of tax, but you also must file an application, receive ATF's approval, and follow requirements, such as construction, use, records and reports.
Basically, don't build the still in your house. Keep records and don't sell it (in any way that can be tracked) and you're fine. You only have to register your still once, and re-register if you enbiggen it. The process is simple and been done by loads of regular folks.
you aren't a hardcore green if you are using CFLs, pony up the dough for truly efficient LED bulbs or turn in your green card
so we really are descended from Cylons and the new BSG series is a documentary.
cool!
but, it's time for the harvest
about $2.49 a pound
process them into biofuels and fertilizer
I always figured such a move to be more like, "I sense you are a threat and will now destroy your entire lineage. With my bare hands." rather than a C&D letter on paper
not aneurym, orgasm.
/sorry, that's the current universe, but I assume some things will be the same between the two parallels
Why? Because NASA would be forced to buy the carbon offsets from a business Gore owns...
thanks ;-)
I would pay good money to see the book faithfully reproduced in a movie, hell stretch it out into several flicks, there's enough of a story there for it
vampires, speculating that vampirism of old was caused by a bacteria that animated the cells of the body through a process other than normal human cellular mitosis or some such, and all the old stories about them fearing garlic, crosses and all that were studied in the book by the main character.
some are found to be purely social holdouts from the sickened person's prior life (cross) while others were real allergies brought on by the disease (garlic).
Of course, there's the living-dead merely sick with the disease driven to madness by the insatiable thirst for blood, and the un-dead, those re-animated by the bacteria.
It's a quick read, only a few hundred pages long.
well that's easy, you simply LEAP up and use that powered suit for all it's worth, then drop a talking bomb in the room that squeeks out it's alert "I AM A BOMB" in the twittering language of whatever alien stronghold you're currently attacking... but be sure you take it home after the invasion, so what if you look like an ape while you wear it, it's in the constitution or something
a dial is a brand of soap, I guess.
I had to stop and think this weekend when telling my (less than 7 year old) kids to turn to the next station on the dial... they just stopped and stared at me. They're not "stations" and there is no "dial" my wife says... wonderful times, and I'm not even 40 years old!
I want to respectfully disagree with the opinion that the series is in decline, but I can't, except to qualify it: decline of quality to any degree that matters. IMO, when we compare this series to any other on television, even the lowest quality episode is better than the best quality the rest of the dial has to offer. I believe the intensity of the plots and story lines ebbed and flowed and will peak in season 5 as a natural part of telling this story, and that this isn't taking away from the impact the series had in season 4, or as it moves into the last season. I agree that all episodes aren't created equal. I do definately get the impression they blew their wad in the mini-series and season 1... Even still, this is the first time I've ever watched a television show and literally sat on the edge of my seat fully captured by the story.
you see pictures of these bicycle regiments go up on ebay once in a while, in fact a few years ago a photo of a bicycle riding fife and drum corps was up for sale, along with a bike (allegedly from the photo) with a drum mounted on the handlebars! freaky for sure, to think a regimental field music unit rode bikes while they played
Great. When our customers do this, all they do is contribute to the problem. Any spam that filters through to their inbox they assume is fine to report, and the brain dead reporting methods attribute the spam to their original destination, us. So, we get kicked for it, even though that customer explicitly asked for their mail to be forwarded.
Worse yet, when a customer thinks it's a good idea to turn on a catch all, for a domain name that's been around since 1996, and also choose to forward all their email.
SPAM sucks, but don't make the problem worse by forwarding email, just check the temporary account via pop or whatever, and orphan it when you're done with it.
yeah, catchalls will kill you. One dictionary attack and you're server might as well be made of cheese. Really slow, hot cheese.
woa, html badness going on, but I'll try and reply sensibly...
bigfoot = my number 1 baddie, with the worst scare coming as a kid watching the Six Million Dollar Man fight BigFoot, and even though there was a twist at the end (bigfoot is a robot) it still scared the crap out of me more than any other monster, hence my vote for favorite.
The recent cheeze fest sasquach movie on Sci Fi didn't do anything to ease that image in my mind, certainly not when the baddie bit that guy's head in half.
As far as using the word for a person from Saskatchewan, maybe it's the other way around... maybe the people who live in the province are named after the creature that lived there in the local tribe's lore...
if you had any idea how many horses were in use before cars became common-place, you would cease recommending horses as "safer" in any term, long or short. The whole world would be covered in their manure. You would run out of places to compost it, let alone the billions of acres that would have to be used to produce feed for them, or the new roads and trucks required to ship the feed to the animals...
how about just investing in small parallel running monorail tracks featuring 100 passenger compartments powered by complaints.
now _that's_ funny.
Why not use a finger print scanner instead of a password?
It's not just about physical access, the bigger picture has to be considered, and that's: Kids aren't allowed secrets from parents, they aren't peers and a parent-child relationship isn't some give-and-take thing between school-aged nit wits.
Be it medical, social, political, financial, no secrets until the kid is legally emancipated. That includes disallowing root to dad via some complicated scheme involving hacking the BIOS and run level scripts.
I think it's insane to think children deserve privacy from parents, they earn privacy from parents by proving time and again they can handle the responsibility. It's not cumulative either, violate the parents' trust once, and they remember it for a long time. Frankly, if I ever caught my kid using a system to block access to devices in my house, such a system as described above, that kid's ass is grass.
Why? Because kids can't be trusted and kids do stupid shit and sometimes you have to intervene and redirect their energy away from the destructive stuff before it destroys and costs the parents serious money or heartache. But you have to know about it if you're to train them. Sometimes you let them crash and learn, and sometimes you intervene, but either way it's the parent's right and responsibility to choose which.
In this case, since the kid is trying to keep the brother out, and that's an entirely different thing than trying to keep mom and dad at bay, and then there's the trouble remember a 10 character string, just get a $30 fingerprint scanner and be done with it. They work well enough to keep a brother out.
ohohoho to reply to my own post...
has anyone mentioned Thor (footfall)? Kinetic energy weapons stashed in the bomb bay of this sat, launched at ground targets destroying burried bunkers at any depth... They would certainly survive reentry.
I thought warheads too, but now I'm leaning towards software or encryption keys... stored on hardy memory media protected against radiation in an enclosure they didn't buy at CompUSA.
whatever it is, it's quite a story.
What precisely is wrong with putting the infected in concentration camps? How about a nice big building where Doctors and Nurses get together to issue treatments, conduct research and the patients have immediate access to care? They can even have their own cemeteries. How about an island in the tropics all to themselves? We'll even give them an internet feed (usenet read-only, of course)
Surely it would be cheaper and more successful than the methods used over the last 30 years, AND the sooner implemented the more lives will be spared being infected in the first place. Delaying means you're killing more people.
We've done it before, loads of times, most recent would probably be the TB epidemics, but surely one could compare it to the lepper colonies of old.
Afterall, isn't eradicating the disease the goal, the whole point of spending the billions in the first place? And there's no faster way to make the disease extinct than eliminating it from society by taking the vessels into seclusion.
I'm not suggesting using their bodies as fuel for factories or anything like that, but if no other method is working, and the cost to society is as large as the lobbies say it is, then perhaps we should revert to tried and true methods.
You say, "Is saving the species from disease worth it at the cost of our humanity?"
I say the above nonesense IS HUMANITY. That's what it means to be human, to be unforgivably cruel to anyone we percieve as different, unclean or unworthy and cutting off the hand that offends you. BUT if the diease is bad enough, yes, draconian measures ARE worth it. And I'll go ahead and prognosticate, like Phill the groundhog and say humans will do it again. Some disease will appear and we'll isolate the infected and the pyres will darken the sky.