I heard you could choose what the flight attendants wore as the plane taxied out for takeoff.
Please select one:
[1] Sexy nurse (with medicinal whip).
[2] Leather Goddess Of The Sky (with studded whip).
[3] Perky space cadet (with phaser whip).
[4] Pikachu.
I guess that last one is for more family oriented flights, because families are our Most Important (nay, Precious) Natural Resource according to our Trusted Politicians.
And then there was the in-flight pr0n. This led to the only glitch where the plane ran out of tissues. All passengers were given 1000 honorary frequent flyer miles in the Mile High Club.
I suppose in theory you could watch a live video stream of your own plane crashing.
Rupert Murdoch, his News Corp, the Fox News subsidiary have just about the worst track record of sacrificing truth to profit.
Nice to see the ad hominem fallacy is alive and well.
The examples you gave were business decisions by Murdoch for whatever reason he has for courting the Chinese, and nothing to do with Fox News content. Please state actual, confirmed examples of Fox News lying.
You're as bad as those that say they distrust CNN because they feel Ted Turner's hand is lurking editorially behind the scenes.
Remember, kids, just say no to ideology. It'll ruin your brain faster and more effectively than a 9mm shot to the head.
If I recall, the "non-need" group was simply as defined people who could have gotten to their destinations just as efficiently (or more efficiently given traffic snarls on the freeways at the time) and quickly by using surface roads or alternate transportation methods.
It was suprising how many people popped on the freeway for something just a few exits away. They were a big cause of the snarls around major on ramps.
Need" gets to be very, sticky, sticky issue subject to political interpretaion.
Well, duh! Anything involving humans is sticky because most people don't think well, and will fly off the handle easily, as this thread demonstrates. I have maintained for years that political ideology is a mental illness, and have yet to see anything to disprove this theory.
Some of y'all are reading too much into it. The study's "need" factor was almost a purely mechanical consideration based on distance and transportation alternatives. No need to get political or start crying about "my tax dollars blah blah blah whine whine whine".
My tax dollars paid for a lot of F-15s but I can't take one of those to work.:-)
When I saw Traffic Congestion Charge I had a vision of a quantity of C4 blasting the cars out of the highway lane in front of me in the morning.
Actually, as a highly paid engineer god, I would support a minor usage fee for freeway access during rush hour to clear out some of the riffraff.:-) A few years back our local highway department ran a survey and found aout that almost half the people on the freeway in the afternoon rush really didn't *need* to be there.
Some have commented that the inner workings of the brain are still an unknown. But I wonder if this might not be a good thing.
There's some thought out there that our basic sentience may have its source all the way down to theoretical quantum effects in the structures of the brain. The tiny effects are then amplified into macroscopic results via chaos theory (butterfiles affecting the weather and all that). The macroscopic results are, of course, all the annoying, pig ignorant and stupid things people do every day.
This is sheer theory, but it is discussed in many places. There's a decent book on it: The Quantum Brain by Jeffrey Satinover. A controversial subject, but interesting. Not sure I buy it but I remain open minded.
Regardless of the source, these learning and adaptive processes inside our little brains are dense and difficult to fathom, but we might not have to *completely* understand them. If these chips can provide an interface that is at least in the general ballpark of what the brain wants to deal with, the adaptability of of our brains may rise to the occasion and optimize the link for us.
There may not be such a thing as a standard chip interface. Each one may have to be tuned and programmed for the individual user. People with highly adaptive brains may get a discount because the chip vendor doesn't have to do as much work.;-)
If we can make this work, we can all be like John Doe over on Fox and have mountains of knowledge at our mental fingertips. Maybe that's a good thing.
Of course, the information is only as good as it is. [CLICHE]Garbage in produces garbage out.[/CLICHE] You could raise a group of people in isolation and download a complete alternate history to their infomation chips.
Then again many people today believe alternate versions of history through which they have actually *lived*, so we don't need chips to create legions of deluded ideologues.;-) We seem to have that ability built into us. Maybe it's just quantum weirdness...
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The problem here is that most of humanity still needs to have a BRAIN implanted before they can start thinking about brain enhancing chips.
DOS attacks on my toaster oven. Swell. Can't a man just have a piece of toast?
And then the real clever hacks will flicker my light bulbs to induce that alpha-beta wave hypnosis thing I read about on a UFO site, so I know it's true.
And then someone will figure out inductive electromagnetic control of wire-sitting pigeons using the evanescent propagation mode of the power cables. Yeesh! Foul smelling flying rats dive-crapping and generally inconviencing passers-by. Is all this really worth fatser access to alt.linux.leatherfetish.penguins.penpen or whatever?
The saving grace will be that they'll never figure out how to impedance match to random pairs of tied-together sneakers hanging over the cables.
Who needs Hollywood when your own offspring will milk your legacy until it withers and dies- oh, wait, it already HAS withered and died. I guess now the appropriate cliche would be "beating a dead Shai'Hulud" which is something many of you guys out there can relate to. Hoo hoo!
Further sequels from Hollywood:
The Color Of Dune: a pool shark hits Arrakis and comes within one step of hustling the trust deed to the palace. Muad'Dib manages to weirding his way around a tricky three ball combination to win the day. Stars Tom Cruise as the dumb guy.
Look Who's Taking Dune: Yet more children are exposed to their ancestral memories in the womb, and squirt their way out into the new world chatting up a storm and calling storms down from the skies. Stars John Travolta as the dumb guy.
Dune - The Revenge: Ravenous sand sharks infest the deserts of Arrakis. A malfunctioning transport full of children and Bene Gesserit nuns (or whatever) is stranded in the middle of the Great Erg, and hilarity ensues! Starring Owen Wilson as the dumb guy.
Dune 3 - Cruise Control: Muad-Dib must somehow rescue a band of Fremen from the back of a bezerk sandworm rigged to explode if it's speed drops below 50 mph! Starring Keanu Reeves as the really dumb guy.
Dune & Robin: Arrakis. Schumacher. Show tunes. Do the math. The horror... the horror...
The Quisatz Haderach's New Groove: Muad'Dib is transformed by a nanotech accident into a llama, and hilarity ensues.
ObBeowulf: Soon they will have enough sequels for a Beowulf cluster. Ha ha.:-\
Could the Belle of Cupertino and the Stud of Redmond be the hottest new couple on the Siliconwood stage? That's what this gossip reporter tried to find out this week, but alas there was little 411 to be found as intimate confidantes of both parties were tight lipped and mum!
Apple and Microsoft we heard to be discussing a "rendezvous" of some sort. Could it be merely a business deal, or a romantic entanglement? Une telle excitation!
Only time will tell, sassy tech fans!
Maybe Microsoft can only tell us how Apple signs a contract. But if the stars favor romance as Valentine's Day (every geek's FAVORITE holiday!) approaches, perhaps Microsoft will learn if Apple cries out or sighs softly or squeals like a pig as she, well, consummates the deal, if you know what I mean.
And I know you know, you naughty voyeurs!;-) Une fessée sur le fond pour vous!
Oh, I'm a cheap bastard.:-) I wait five to six years. I started with an Apple I (not II, a I), so that's still be a number of upgrade cycles. I went from a G3/266 with OS9 directly to a dual G4/dual 1000 with OS X.
You *can* upgrade Macs. There are processor card upgrades that could have turned my G3/266 into a fast G4 machine. I also added USB and Firewire cards to it a while before the upgrade.
One of the big selling points of a Mac is it's stability.
I think you mean longevity here. Yes. I give my old Macs to friends and family. My mum is writing her autobiography on my old Mac IIsi. That's a 68K processor running at something like 20 MHz!
Yet, they release new products all the time.
Um... this probably has something to do with the fact that, unlike women confined to the same living quarters, Mac users are not on the same cycle. My current Mac is a year old now. A friend of mine bought a new one 3 years ago. I don't really need to explain this, right?
Do these new machines mean that much to Apple users, or can they happily chug away on their old iBook or Powerbook?
We chug away fine. The PC gaming world is an exception even in the PC world. My sister & her husband have an old Gateway with one of the first Pentiums (they do email and that's about it).
If you aren't a pro user, and iBook would probably suit you fine. I've been considering adding one to my home entertainment center as it folds away a bit better than an LCD iMac.
It's the inability to make simple decisions without using your "phone a friend" lifeline.
It's not a simple decision when another person is involved in the final say and is elsewhere when new selections come to be known. If you ever get married, you may come to understand this. You are WAY to friggin' sensitive if this case would have irritated you. No one was bellowing. No one was "disassociated" from their surroundings. No one was "discussing trivia."
The Leftists that run the place recognize that the Segway is a toy of the rich, and so they must ban it lest any of their Pwecious Stweet People get run over or made to feel inadequate or something.
I know ATHIESTS who are amazed that San Francisco has not been destroyed by a gigantic bolt of lightning. That much total and complete fuckheadedness HAS to provoke some sort of reaction from the universe eventually.
In fact, all of California is a prime exaple for you out there of what happens when the Left has pretty much free reign to do what they want. They can anally rape a budget surplus into a record deficit in no time at all, and profess innocence and blame everyone else as they stand naked over the still warm corpse with their smoking, bloody dick wiggling about.
And before you Lefties get all hurt like, yes, the Right is just as bad. Ideology = mental illness.
Of course, if you try and grab *my* phone while I'm using it appropriately (you said merely "or in public" which could mean just out on the street), well, be assured that YOU will be following the phone into the toilet.
What's funny is that now the non-phone users have become the assholes in many cases. I can understand not liking phone use in restaurants or movies, but the prissy indignation of some of the addle-brained losers out there has gone too far.
Example: I was with a friend at a large home improvement center, and he phoned home to the wife to check on her color preferences for some mini-blinds. A lady nearby did the big, exaggerated sigh and shook her head.
We're standing in the middle of a noisy, cavernous store big enough to have an independent weather system, and she's upset someone is using a phone. What's the difference between that and him talking to one of the store staff, or talking to me? I mean, the resident birds in this store have evolved into their own sub-species, sparrowus homedepotus. This store is big!
I looked back at the woman and quietly asked, "What do you do when faced with a real problem?" She walked off in a huff, the big fat bitch.
On the flip side, the same friend, who always claims talking on the phone does not distract him from driving called me from the road last week. In the middle of the conversation, the call is cut off. He phones back a minute later and said he had to drop the phone because he turned the wrong way down a one way street. Fortunately the nearest traffic was two blocks away. Doh!
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Please select one:
[1] Sexy nurse (with medicinal whip).
[2] Leather Goddess Of The Sky (with studded whip).
[3] Perky space cadet (with phaser whip).
[4] Pikachu.
I guess that last one is for more family oriented flights, because families are our Most Important (nay, Precious) Natural Resource according to our Trusted Politicians.
And then there was the in-flight pr0n. This led to the only glitch where the plane ran out of tissues. All passengers were given 1000 honorary frequent flyer miles in the Mile High Club.
I suppose in theory you could watch a live video stream of your own plane crashing.
Nice to see the ad hominem fallacy is alive and well.
The examples you gave were business decisions by Murdoch for whatever reason he has for courting the Chinese, and nothing to do with Fox News content. Please state actual, confirmed examples of Fox News lying.
You're as bad as those that say they distrust CNN because they feel Ted Turner's hand is lurking editorially behind the scenes.
Remember, kids, just say no to ideology. It'll ruin your brain faster and more effectively than a 9mm shot to the head.
And your tax dollars have paid for a few square feet of freeway. The analogy holds.
If I recall, the "non-need" group was simply as defined people who could have gotten to their destinations just as efficiently (or more efficiently given traffic snarls on the freeways at the time) and quickly by using surface roads or alternate transportation methods.
It was suprising how many people popped on the freeway for something just a few exits away. They were a big cause of the snarls around major on ramps.
Need" gets to be very, sticky, sticky issue subject to political interpretaion.
Well, duh! Anything involving humans is sticky because most people don't think well, and will fly off the handle easily, as this thread demonstrates. I have maintained for years that political ideology is a mental illness, and have yet to see anything to disprove this theory.
Some of y'all are reading too much into it. The study's "need" factor was almost a purely mechanical consideration based on distance and transportation alternatives. No need to get political or start crying about "my tax dollars blah blah blah whine whine whine".
My tax dollars paid for a lot of F-15s but I can't take one of those to work. :-)
Off the road with ye, riff-raff!
Actually, as a highly paid engineer god, I would support a minor usage fee for freeway access during rush hour to clear out some of the riffraff. :-) A few years back our local highway department ran a survey and found aout that almost half the people on the freeway in the afternoon rush really didn't *need* to be there.
There's some thought out there that our basic sentience may have its source all the way down to theoretical quantum effects in the structures of the brain. The tiny effects are then amplified into macroscopic results via chaos theory (butterfiles affecting the weather and all that). The macroscopic results are, of course, all the annoying, pig ignorant and stupid things people do every day.
This is sheer theory, but it is discussed in many places. There's a decent book on it: The Quantum Brain by Jeffrey Satinover. A controversial subject, but interesting. Not sure I buy it but I remain open minded.
Regardless of the source, these learning and adaptive processes inside our little brains are dense and difficult to fathom, but we might not have to *completely* understand them. If these chips can provide an interface that is at least in the general ballpark of what the brain wants to deal with, the adaptability of of our brains may rise to the occasion and optimize the link for us.
There may not be such a thing as a standard chip interface. Each one may have to be tuned and programmed for the individual user. People with highly adaptive brains may get a discount because the chip vendor doesn't have to do as much work. ;-)
If we can make this work, we can all be like John Doe over on Fox and have mountains of knowledge at our mental fingertips. Maybe that's a good thing.
Of course, the information is only as good as it is. [CLICHE]Garbage in produces garbage out.[/CLICHE] You could raise a group of people in isolation and download a complete alternate history to their infomation chips.
Then again many people today believe alternate versions of history through which they have actually *lived*, so we don't need chips to create legions of deluded ideologues. ;-) We seem to have that ability built into us. Maybe it's just quantum weirdness...
The problem here is that most of humanity still needs to have a BRAIN implanted before they can start thinking about brain enhancing chips.
Wow. There's a shocker.
And then the real clever hacks will flicker my light bulbs to induce that alpha-beta wave hypnosis thing I read about on a UFO site, so I know it's true.
And then someone will figure out inductive electromagnetic control of wire-sitting pigeons using the evanescent propagation mode of the power cables. Yeesh! Foul smelling flying rats dive-crapping and generally inconviencing passers-by. Is all this really worth fatser access to alt.linux.leatherfetish.penguins.penpen or whatever?
The saving grace will be that they'll never figure out how to impedance match to random pairs of tied-together sneakers hanging over the cables.
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Yes, but support them when they do actual science fiction.
Ever seen an actual fashion show? The Dune miniseries was tame in comparison to what is really out there.
Who needs Hollywood when your own offspring will milk your legacy until it withers and dies- oh, wait, it already HAS withered and died. I guess now the appropriate cliche would be "beating a dead Shai'Hulud" which is something many of you guys out there can relate to. Hoo hoo!
Further sequels from Hollywood:
The Color Of Dune: a pool shark hits Arrakis and comes within one step of hustling the trust deed to the palace. Muad'Dib manages to weirding his way around a tricky three ball combination to win the day. Stars Tom Cruise as the dumb guy.
Look Who's Taking Dune: Yet more children are exposed to their ancestral memories in the womb, and squirt their way out into the new world chatting up a storm and calling storms down from the skies. Stars John Travolta as the dumb guy.
Dune - The Revenge: Ravenous sand sharks infest the deserts of Arrakis. A malfunctioning transport full of children and Bene Gesserit nuns (or whatever) is stranded in the middle of the Great Erg, and hilarity ensues! Starring Owen Wilson as the dumb guy.
Dune 3 - Cruise Control: Muad-Dib must somehow rescue a band of Fremen from the back of a bezerk sandworm rigged to explode if it's speed drops below 50 mph! Starring Keanu Reeves as the really dumb guy.
Dune & Robin: Arrakis. Schumacher. Show tunes. Do the math. The horror... the horror...
The Quisatz Haderach's New Groove: Muad'Dib is transformed by a nanotech accident into a llama, and hilarity ensues.
ObBeowulf: Soon they will have enough sequels for a Beowulf cluster. Ha ha. :-\
Could the Belle of Cupertino and the Stud of Redmond be the hottest new couple on the Siliconwood stage? That's what this gossip reporter tried to find out this week, but alas there was little 411 to be found as intimate confidantes of both parties were tight lipped and mum!
Apple and Microsoft we heard to be discussing a "rendezvous" of some sort. Could it be merely a business deal, or a romantic entanglement? Une telle excitation!
Only time will tell, sassy tech fans! Maybe Microsoft can only tell us how Apple signs a contract. But if the stars favor romance as Valentine's Day (every geek's FAVORITE holiday!) approaches, perhaps Microsoft will learn if Apple cries out or sighs softly or squeals like a pig as she, well, consummates the deal, if you know what I mean.
And I know you know, you naughty voyeurs! ;-) Une fessée sur le fond pour vous!
Oh, I'm a cheap bastard. :-) I wait five to six years. I started with an Apple I (not II, a I), so that's still be a number of upgrade cycles. I went from a G3/266 with OS9 directly to a dual G4/dual 1000 with OS X.
You *can* upgrade Macs. There are processor card upgrades that could have turned my G3/266 into a fast G4 machine. I also added USB and Firewire cards to it a while before the upgrade.
One of the big selling points of a Mac is it's stability.
I think you mean longevity here. Yes. I give my old Macs to friends and family. My mum is writing her autobiography on my old Mac IIsi. That's a 68K processor running at something like 20 MHz!
Yet, they release new products all the time.
Um... this probably has something to do with the fact that, unlike women confined to the same living quarters, Mac users are not on the same cycle. My current Mac is a year old now. A friend of mine bought a new one 3 years ago. I don't really need to explain this, right?
Do these new machines mean that much to Apple users, or can they happily chug away on their old iBook or Powerbook?
We chug away fine. The PC gaming world is an exception even in the PC world. My sister & her husband have an old Gateway with one of the first Pentiums (they do email and that's about it).
If you aren't a pro user, and iBook would probably suit you fine. I've been considering adding one to my home entertainment center as it folds away a bit better than an LCD iMac.
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It's not a simple decision when another person is involved in the final say and is elsewhere when new selections come to be known. If you ever get married, you may come to understand this. You are WAY to friggin' sensitive if this case would have irritated you. No one was bellowing. No one was "disassociated" from their surroundings. No one was "discussing trivia."
I know ATHIESTS who are amazed that San Francisco has not been destroyed by a gigantic bolt of lightning. That much total and complete fuckheadedness HAS to provoke some sort of reaction from the universe eventually.
In fact, all of California is a prime exaple for you out there of what happens when the Left has pretty much free reign to do what they want. They can anally rape a budget surplus into a record deficit in no time at all, and profess innocence and blame everyone else as they stand naked over the still warm corpse with their smoking, bloody dick wiggling about.
And before you Lefties get all hurt like, yes, the Right is just as bad. Ideology = mental illness.
"Do you feel that geek culture is as susceptible to embarassing personality cults as any other groups of human beings?"
Athlons will become G5s!
Cats will become dogs!
Ach! Where will it all end, I ask you?
It's the end times. The END TIMES!
That night you will sleep with the feces.
Example: I was with a friend at a large home improvement center, and he phoned home to the wife to check on her color preferences for some mini-blinds. A lady nearby did the big, exaggerated sigh and shook her head.
We're standing in the middle of a noisy, cavernous store big enough to have an independent weather system, and she's upset someone is using a phone. What's the difference between that and him talking to one of the store staff, or talking to me? I mean, the resident birds in this store have evolved into their own sub-species, sparrowus homedepotus. This store is big!
I looked back at the woman and quietly asked, "What do you do when faced with a real problem?" She walked off in a huff, the big fat bitch.
On the flip side, the same friend, who always claims talking on the phone does not distract him from driving called me from the road last week. In the middle of the conversation, the call is cut off. He phones back a minute later and said he had to drop the phone because he turned the wrong way down a one way street. Fortunately the nearest traffic was two blocks away. Doh!
So, I can stop reading your post right here then? OK.