I watched the eclipse for more than an hour and a half. Here's how... I sat on my balcony and caught the reflection of the eclipse on the screen of my turned off iPad. I watched that with my polarized sunglasses. Worked great!
> gatekeepers standing between them and their customers.
Yes! Exactly correct! Now if we could just squeeze out TicketBastard too. The 'convenience fees' on my McCartney tickets amounted to more than I spent to see the other 3 Beatles individually at 3 separate shows. That's not 'convenient' at all!
George Lucas and Star Wars stopped me from going to the movies (and I want to tell him that). I went to Phantom Menace and when I got home I was *still* infuriated about having to sit through about 50 commercials. All I could remember about the movie was the racial stereotyping. It was years before I went to another movie. I've seen about 6 films since that experience (The Prestige, Avatar, Storm Surfers, August Osage County, a Star Trek, and Snowden), all of them because someone with me wanted to go (except Avatar and SS; I wanted to see the new era of 3D and the surfing).
I NEVER even THINK about going to the movies because they charge you to ruin your afternoon or evening. If the price of admission was given to me by them, I still wouldn't go. That said, I really enjoyed Snowden and there was NO COMMERCIALS! I was stunned, but happy. Sad to say, they never turned out the house lights so my gf couldn't give me one without being seen. I really want to see Dr. Strange but will only go if I know they'll turn the lights out.;)
No, no. It was earlier than that. In fact, when the Batman show was on the air in the '60s, Burt Ward (who played Robin) was said to be a graduate of Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics and a MUCH speedier reader than is claimed for the system today ($700. http://www.ewrd.com/ewrd/evely... ). The claim was VERY high, like 10,000 wpm, equivalent to reading Hamlet in 1 minute.
I read avidly before I went to school and was pretty much a black hole for text until the Interwebs went public and text became a black hole for me!!! So I've been FASCINATED with the idea of such overachieving reading since I first read that Robin could do it. Sadly, it was well out of my price range (and still is!) though I dearly wanted to read that fast. Thanks for bringing the system up and letting me find out its status today (still too pricey).
Let's see... Xiaomi. I note they use Mi as a stand-in for English "my". If used as a stand-in for "me" and xiao meaning little, the company's name signifies... Mini-Me! That's hilarious!
"countries with which the United States has a non-espionage pact. Those nations include Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand."
What a joke! The U.S. doesn't have to spy on those countries. They are already *willfully* a completely open book to ANY U.S. data-gobbler. Started decades ago. Has everyone (including Angela) forgotten Echelon? Old news!
You missed the beginning of the sentence, which was "Responding to questions from Alaska Sen." So your reading skills should have told you that the period after "Sen" was abbreviating Senator and not ending the sentence.
And they'll be right! Actually, "other ways to manage" probably means they've found a way to dramatically cost-reduce (and miniaturize) the ionosphere-controlling device. Something to fit on one of the big ships. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Since Skype will stop working with *_the webcam that is integral to my netbook_*, I have to think that they're trying to limit Skype usage to devices that have full GPS built-in, such that the spooks might locate us more precisely.
It's particularly troublesome because I bought the netbook FOR NO OTHER REASON than to do video Skype! Bozos. A pox upon all their houses. And yet... it was not even for this reason that I bought a Mac Mini on Halloween. I got that because my 1GB netbook, which can only be expanded to 2GB, runs Win7 Starter, which will refuse to see more than 1GB unless I give Bill another $90 (or more). Bill's seen me coming too many times. Hello, Mac Mini!
First time I saw one for sale. I bought it. Put it in the most used and most switched socket I had. It lasted 11 years! Use them everywhere except with dimmers.
NB: Contains mercury! Like your LCD panel light. Take it to your household toxic waste centre.
C. Montgomery Burns: Tell you what... See all those 15-year-olds with cell phones glued to their heads? If we come back in 15 years and none of them has developed brain tumours, I owe you a Coke.
I read about a pilot project in Berlin in which municipal busses were being operated on hydrogen. The hydrogen was said to be stored on the busses as powdered hydride that got converted back to hydrogen somewhere in the fuel line between tank and engine.
It was said that an accident that would pierce the fuel tank would be like dropping a make-up compact.
This project (and my reading about it) happened in the mid-1970s!! Think about it.
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the "porn pipe". Calls em like he sees em I suppose.
Um. Would that be the connection or the content.:D
I never get hacked. I get spammed to death (oddly enough)! Eventually (before the year's out), I'll just go offline for good and pretend there never was an Inet.
I've heard it said for years that you can't go back and forth between the two. Don't even try is the accepted wisdom. That and the ever-present necessity of sharing machines with others are what's kept me from switching lo these 20-odd years.
I've ALWAYS wanted to switch to Dvorack and still do. But the real world has never let it be an option.:/
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I watched the eclipse for more than an hour and a half. Here's how... I sat on my balcony and caught the reflection of the eclipse on the screen of my turned off iPad. I watched that with my polarized sunglasses. Worked great!
> gatekeepers standing between them and their customers.
Yes! Exactly correct! Now if we could just squeeze out TicketBastard too. The 'convenience fees' on my McCartney tickets amounted to more than I spent to see the other 3 Beatles individually at 3 separate shows. That's not 'convenient' at all!
If we're gonna be the data they sell, their services should be free of charge to ISP users.
> Ubuntu on Windows is not Windows running Linux by any stretch of the imagination. It's Windows running a Linux app.
Read his post again. I think that's what he's really looking for. "I can do Linux and do it still running Windows!" ;)
But it makes an even better macOS machine!
Hey! Ubuntu has made its way into Windows. Get on board! ðY
Yes! Of course. Absolutely. To both questions. Can't believe that anyone even needs to ask!
George Lucas and Star Wars stopped me from going to the movies (and I want to tell him that). I went to Phantom Menace and when I got home I was *still* infuriated about having to sit through about 50 commercials. All I could remember about the movie was the racial stereotyping. It was years before I went to another movie. I've seen about 6 films since that experience (The Prestige, Avatar, Storm Surfers, August Osage County, a Star Trek, and Snowden), all of them because someone with me wanted to go (except Avatar and SS; I wanted to see the new era of 3D and the surfing).
I NEVER even THINK about going to the movies because they charge you to ruin your afternoon or evening. If the price of admission was given to me by them, I still wouldn't go. That said, I really enjoyed Snowden and there was NO COMMERCIALS! I was stunned, but happy. Sad to say, they never turned out the house lights so my gf couldn't give me one without being seen. I really want to see Dr. Strange but will only go if I know they'll turn the lights out. ;)
> Canadean
Geez Louise, manishs! It's *CANADIAN*! Now write it out 500 times. :P
The 2 biggest threats to YOU, where you are right now, are Fukushima and GM food. Nothing else comes close.
> Circa 1976/1977
No, no. It was earlier than that. In fact, when the Batman show was on the air in the '60s, Burt Ward (who played Robin) was said to be a graduate of Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics and a MUCH speedier reader than is claimed for the system today ($700. http://www.ewrd.com/ewrd/evely... ). The claim was VERY high, like 10,000 wpm, equivalent to reading Hamlet in 1 minute.
I read avidly before I went to school and was pretty much a black hole for text until the Interwebs went public and text became a black hole for me!!! So I've been FASCINATED with the idea of such overachieving reading since I first read that Robin could do it. Sadly, it was well out of my price range (and still is!) though I dearly wanted to read that fast. Thanks for bringing the system up and letting me find out its status today (still too pricey).
Let's see... Xiaomi. I note they use Mi as a stand-in for English "my". If used as a stand-in for "me" and xiao meaning little, the company's name signifies... Mini-Me! That's hilarious!
"countries with which the United States has a non-espionage pact. Those nations include Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand."
What a joke! The U.S. doesn't have to spy on those countries. They are already *willfully* a completely open book to ANY U.S. data-gobbler. Started decades ago. Has everyone (including Angela) forgotten Echelon? Old news!
You missed the beginning of the sentence, which was "Responding to questions from Alaska Sen." So your reading skills should have told you that the period after "Sen" was abbreviating Senator and not ending the sentence.
And here at Slashdot we all know what HAARP is.
> just moved to a dark site
And they'll be right! Actually, "other ways to manage" probably means they've found a way to dramatically cost-reduce (and miniaturize) the ionosphere-controlling device. Something to fit on one of the big ships. Yeah, that's the ticket.
They're going to sell them and turn them into an asset.
Since Skype will stop working with *_the webcam that is integral to my netbook_*, I have to think that they're trying to limit Skype usage to devices that have full GPS built-in, such that the spooks might locate us more precisely. It's particularly troublesome because I bought the netbook FOR NO OTHER REASON than to do video Skype! Bozos. A pox upon all their houses. And yet... it was not even for this reason that I bought a Mac Mini on Halloween. I got that because my 1GB netbook, which can only be expanded to 2GB, runs Win7 Starter, which will refuse to see more than 1GB unless I give Bill another $90 (or more). Bill's seen me coming too many times. Hello, Mac Mini!
First time I saw one for sale. I bought it. Put it in the most used and most switched socket I had. It lasted 11 years! Use them everywhere except with dimmers.
NB: Contains mercury! Like your LCD panel light. Take it to your household toxic waste centre.
C. Montgomery Burns: Tell you what... See all those 15-year-olds with cell phones glued to their heads? If we come back in 15 years and none of them has developed brain tumours, I owe you a Coke.
Excellent post!
The Prisoner. Best TV show ever!
What's this Nowhere Man people are posting about?
|| Before it was called America Online, Quantum Link provided a pre-Internet online service to Commodore users. ||
AND it sold life memberships to users and dumped them with nothing. Then, with the money they scammed from C64 users, they opened as AOL.
Bastards
I read about a pilot project in Berlin in which municipal busses were being operated on hydrogen. The hydrogen was said to be stored on the busses as powdered hydride that got converted back to hydrogen somewhere in the fuel line between tank and engine.
It was said that an accident that would pierce the fuel tank would be like dropping a make-up compact.
This project (and my reading about it) happened in the mid-1970s!! Think about it.
Um. Would that be the connection or the content. :D
Death penalty for *SPAMMERS*!!!
I never get hacked. I get spammed to death (oddly enough)! Eventually (before the year's out), I'll just go offline for good and pretend there never was an Inet.
I've heard it said for years that you can't go back and forth between the two. Don't even try is the accepted wisdom. That and the ever-present necessity of sharing machines with others are what's kept me from switching lo these 20-odd years.
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I've ALWAYS wanted to switch to Dvorack and still do. But the real world has never let it be an option.