>>During their research, it was found that a single jet contrail could be tracked by satellite across the U.S., growing from a narrow plume of vapor to substantial cloud cover as it traveled the country
Guess which plane it was that the researchers tracked.
That information can be of almost any type or of any form.
Want to read about the mercury space program, or see the latest pictures of nebulae? Go search for it. In the old days you could have headed to the library and look for this stuff, but they would be unlikely to have Hubble photos released this morning.
You think your Aunt Tellie has Diabetes? Go search for the symptoms... and support groups too. In the old days tis was a trip to the library, a local clinic, or you had to wait for a doctor's appointment
Need to find out if someone is selling a 4 barrel carbeurator for your 1974 Chevy Impalla? If your local shop doesn't have it, Go search on Ebay or another sales site. If not, maybe do a directory search of auto parts stores in the city next door. In the old days, you were SOL until your local shop got the part
Hey, there's a new Rush album and DVD coming out. Cool. Head over to their website and see if there's a clip or some photos.In the old days you were lucky to hear the guy on the radio announce that Rush was releasing a record..or did a week ago
This is all information that can now be obtained in a matter of minutes.
That's what the net gives us, instant information and knowledge.
>>and keep strengthening and strengthening the law. why are we so eager to expand government control over an unfettered means of communication? because spam is "inconvenient"?
You're entitled to your lifestyle brother. And you DID have a say in the decision, whether she chose to recognize it or not.
I'm sure her family is important to her and all, but come on, you should give up your life and things that make you happy just because of it. (And I'm sure you're losing more than broadband).
What good does her 'being there' in the same town do for those folks anyway?
This pisses me off a bit, because my wife tries crap all the time to talk me into moving nearer to her co-depandant, loser sister. But I make a stand for my vision of my life.
>>From strictly a standpoint of increased safety, sure - it might help a little bit. But there's much more to it than that. For one thing, the people spending the money needed to own one of these cars in the first place aren't generally the "average" or even "inexperienced" driver. They're more likely to fit the profile of a wealthy individual who buys the car for "show" and "bragging rights", while not really having much time or inclination to drive around at reckless speeds on public roads.
Seems to me that you're describing a 2 classed system here. So the rich guy should be able to get away with driving over the speed limit, but the average Joe-Schmo can't.
Rich guys aren't above the law. Their blood is the same color as mine and they breathe the same air. They should be observing the same laws that I do. End of story.
>>Don't forget to return (empty or containing a nice message to the poor guy that is paid to process the replies) all prepaid business reply envelopes that get sent to you in junk mail.
I just recently started doing this. Now whenever I get a credit card application or anything at all with a business reply envelope, I send back everything that came to me, minus the stuff that has my name or identifying information on it.
It doesn't take up too much of my time to stuff the envelopes, and I usually have a couple of them queued up by the time I'm ready to go to the post office to drop off my regular mail.:)
I don't think there's anything illegal about this. I justify it as sending them back materials that I don't want. Perhaps they can reuse the materials that I've returned.
Mom barely knows that the Internet exists, never mind the EFF. She's too busy making a living.
Though, as I post I find myself wondering if the RIAA settled not only for PR reasons but also because they're afraid of pissing off the RIAA and ACLU? Maybe the RIAA was afraind of running into these guys in court, and somehow having a precident setting judgement made against them.
Thereby screwing up all future enforcement activities.
I got the impression that they really didn't know it was wrong, and now Mom, in order to protect her kid is somehow going to come up with the cash. And no, she probably doesn't have it sitting around.
In order to protect your children, you'd find that you'd do anything. Even coming up with a corny 'sorry story' to help make the big bad company go away.
But seriously, I guess they were pretty lenient with her. For their own reasons of course, they don't want to be viewed as beating up on a single mom with a pre-teen.
Though I really would like to know what her sharing numbers were.
I agree with the parent and it's parent. However, the reality of the situation depresses me.
I've always had a hope that man could one day figure out how to break the bonds of this planet and set foot upon another.
There's a certain beauty to this. And even if I don't live to see it happen myself, It would still make me happy to know that we're making progres in that direction. Sadly, this isn't the case.
Sending machines to explore seems so sterile. Not to take anything away from the work that needs to be put into doing that type of stuff, but when I think about it I get a mental image of a bunch of vikings sending out a raft attached with a rope to explore their western waters. Chances are they wouldn't have found America.
People need to go explore and do the work. Much more can be gained this way.
Besides, just because we don't have all the answers now, it doesn't mean that we'll never figure it out. We've only been flying for 100 years. That's like the blink of an eye.
So there's still hope.
And in the meantime, I can look at all the pretty Hubble pictures and read the reports of new extra-solar planets being found. Never thought I'd hear about THAT in my lifetime. So maybe things aren't so bad.
If it was easier for Saddam to hide them there instead of Syria he would do it in a heartbeat.
And fuck you. Come on down to the corner of Greenwich and Park Place in NYC and call me a bastard to my face. Anytime you want coward boy. I'll use your head as a soccer ball you little prick. I'll kick your ass over the fence into the big hole where the WTC used to stand.
I was there. I'll make any fucking WMD joke I want. When's the last time YOU saw someone die you freakin coward?
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I have my old 486 right here on my desktop. It's a paperweight.
Not the box, but the CPU itself. The box went to the old COMPAQ home about 11 months ago.
wbs.
Yeah, and when the Germans were rolling across Europe everyone should have just surrendered.
"Geez, 5% of the continent fell to Hitler last week, lets turn ourselves over without a fight".
Yeah Riiight...
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Hre'es antoher bug It scblreams numbers. For epmxale in 1897, I olny had $.000198 in my svaigns accuont.
That's 1987 and $1000.98.
wbs.
Please mod parent up as insightful.
>>...does that make Neil Peart a webserver?
:)
I was waiting for someone to mention Pratt in this thread.
I think that he'd be more than a webserver.... more like part of the net's backbone or something.
wbs.
welcome our 1000 borg cube overlords.
wbs.
>>During their research, it was found that a single jet contrail could be tracked by satellite across the U.S., growing from a narrow plume of vapor to substantial cloud cover as it traveled the country
Guess which plane it was that the researchers tracked.
Air Force One. The only plane flying that day.
Not exactly true. It was Air Force one and 2 escort fighters...so 3 planes.
wbs.
Information at our fingertips.
That information can be of almost any type or of any form.
Want to read about the mercury space program, or see the latest pictures of nebulae? Go search for it. In the old days you could have headed to the library and look for this stuff, but they would be unlikely to have Hubble photos released this morning.
You think your Aunt Tellie has Diabetes? Go search for the symptoms... and support groups too. In the old days tis was a trip to the library, a local clinic, or you had to wait for a doctor's appointment
Need to find out if someone is selling a 4 barrel carbeurator for your 1974 Chevy Impalla?
If your local shop doesn't have it, Go search on Ebay or another sales site. If not, maybe do a directory search of auto parts stores in the city next door. In the old days, you were SOL until your local shop got the part
Hey, there's a new Rush album and DVD coming out. Cool. Head over to their website and see if there's a clip or some photos.In the old days you were lucky to hear the guy on the radio announce that Rush was releasing a record..or did a week ago
This is all information that can now be obtained in a matter of minutes.
That's what the net gives us, instant information and knowledge.
p/g
>>+computer -tree -orchard +mouse .. c'mon, google isn't rocket science.
Yes, from a user's point of view. But just think about the implementation that makes those easy searches possible.
Pretty impressive eh? Not exactly rocket science, but pretty darned close.
wbs.
>>and keep strengthening and strengthening the law. why are we so eager to expand government control over an unfettered means of communication? because spam is "inconvenient"?
In a word. Yes.
wbs.
So why did you agree to go?
You're entitled to your lifestyle brother. And you DID have a say in the decision, whether she chose to recognize it or not.
I'm sure her family is important to her and all, but come on, you should give up your life and things that make you happy just because of it. (And I'm sure you're losing more than broadband).
What good does her 'being there' in the same town do for those folks anyway?
This pisses me off a bit, because my wife tries crap all the time to talk me into moving nearer to her co-depandant, loser sister. But I make a stand for my vision of my life.
wbs.
Looking at the title, I think to myself that asking that question is kind of like asking if a new sunrise is coming soon.
wbs.
>>From strictly a standpoint of increased safety, sure - it might help a little bit. But there's much more to it than that. For one thing, the people spending the money needed to own one of these cars in the first place aren't generally the "average" or even "inexperienced" driver. They're more likely to fit the profile of a wealthy individual who buys the car for "show" and "bragging rights", while not really having much time or inclination to drive around at reckless speeds on public roads.
Seems to me that you're describing a 2 classed system here. So the rich guy should be able to get away with driving over the speed limit, but the average Joe-Schmo can't.
Rich guys aren't above the law. Their blood is the same color as mine and they breathe the same air. They should be observing the same laws that I do. End of story.
wbs.
>>Don't forget to return (empty or containing a nice message to the poor guy that is paid to process the replies) all prepaid business reply envelopes that get sent to you in junk mail.
:)
I just recently started doing this. Now whenever I get a credit card application or anything at all with a business reply envelope, I send back everything that came to me, minus the stuff that has my name or identifying information on it.
It doesn't take up too much of my time to stuff the envelopes, and I usually have a couple of them queued up by the time I'm ready to go to the post office to drop off my regular mail.
I don't think there's anything illegal about this. I justify it as sending them back materials that I don't want. Perhaps they can reuse the materials that I've returned.
wbs.
Dali came to the USA to escape WW2. He went home afterwards.
wbs.
Just because it's illegal doesn't mean that it won't happen.
Maybe the SCO applicant will get the super-hard, impossible to pass tech interview. And everyone else gets the regular-hard tech.
It's not discrimination, the guy couldn't pass the tech when we gave it to him. It happens. Prove it.
NEXT!
wbs.
Awesome stuff. Simply awesome.
:)
I've been looking for a new hobby for a while. I think this may be it.
Thank you for sharing the link buddy!
wbs.
>>pissing off the RIAA and ACLU
I meant EFF and ACLU.
wbs.
This is some working mom and her kid.
Mom barely knows that the Internet exists, never mind the EFF. She's too busy making a living.
Though, as I post I find myself wondering if the RIAA settled not only for PR reasons but also because they're afraid of pissing off the RIAA and ACLU? Maybe the RIAA was afraind of running into these guys in court, and somehow having a precident setting judgement made against them.
Thereby screwing up all future enforcement activities.
wbs.
I think this adds up just fine.
I got the impression that they really didn't know it was wrong, and now Mom, in order to protect her kid is somehow going to come up with the cash. And no, she probably doesn't have it sitting around.
In order to protect your children, you'd find that you'd do anything. Even coming up with a corny 'sorry story' to help make the big bad company go away.
wbs.
What did she do, share 1 song?
I thought the RIAA was going after big fish.
But seriously, I guess they were pretty lenient with her. For their own reasons of course, they don't want to be viewed as beating up on a single mom with a pre-teen.
Though I really would like to know what her sharing numbers were.
wbs.
I agree with the parent and it's parent. However, the reality of the situation depresses me.
I've always had a hope that man could one day figure out how to break the bonds of this planet and set foot upon another.
There's a certain beauty to this. And even if I don't live to see it happen myself, It would still make me happy to know that we're making progres in that direction. Sadly, this isn't the case.
Sending machines to explore seems so sterile. Not to take anything away from the work that needs to be put into doing that type of stuff, but when I think about it I get a mental image of a bunch of vikings sending out a raft attached with a rope to explore their western waters. Chances are they wouldn't have found America.
People need to go explore and do the work. Much more can be gained this way.
Besides, just because we don't have all the answers now, it doesn't mean that we'll never figure it out. We've only been flying for 100 years. That's like the blink of an eye.
So there's still hope.
And in the meantime, I can look at all the pretty Hubble pictures and read the reports of new extra-solar planets being found. Never thought I'd hear about THAT in my lifetime. So maybe things aren't so bad.
wbs.
My Dad used to use an ammo box as a toolbox. It was just the right size to carry the socket sets and wrenches he used for automotive work.
He'd get a good kick out of seeing a computer running out of one.
wbs.
If it was easier for Saddam to hide them there instead of Syria he would do it in a heartbeat.
And fuck you. Come on down to the corner of Greenwich and Park Place in NYC and call me a bastard to my face. Anytime you want coward boy. I'll use your head as a soccer ball you little prick. I'll kick your ass over the fence into the big hole where the WTC used to stand.
I was there. I'll make any fucking WMD joke I want. When's the last time YOU saw someone die you freakin coward?
wbs.
Yeah, great. Thanks for the Al Jazeera link.
If they're reporting this it must mean that there's anthrax or botulsim or plague growing in the phones.
Watch out, that phone is a mini WMD!
wbs.