These days it's the buyers at Costco and WalMart who decide what format is going to win.
Ninety percent of the folks wandering around with their humvee sized shopping carts don't even know they're buying, only that it runs their humvee sized kid's new video game.
"There's a historic house in north Philly, I forget the site, but it's an old battle from the Revolutionary war with the British. Germantown seems to be a familiar name, but doesn't seem right."
A battleground in Philly involving the British called Germantown. Ouch!
I imagine a blob of stuff with the consistancy of very stiffly whipped cream, but with the elasticity of Silly Putty, dolloped all over the Earth completely covering.
I then set the Earth spinning very fast on its axis until the bulk of the stuff starts to sag down towards equator, stretching out into a flying saucer shape while getting very thin at the poles.
I can then stick a satellite somewhere on the "rim" and imagine that the stuff isn't there.
I could put the satellite somewhere on the stuff while it is stretching out but it would eventually end up out on the far rim whatever I did.
For some reason I always thought that we could put a satellite in a geostationary orbit above any point on the Earth's surface. Now I'm left wondering why only above the Equator.
No doubt it's something to do with gravity only stretching out far enough at the Equator to keep a grip on an object at the kind of distances required for such an orbit.
"Can you tell me which ones you have that are over 40 years old?"
Sure, one of them is by Elvis Presley called "Only The Lonely" and the other is The Beatles' "From Me To You". Both are in excellent condition with only a few scratches and with the original 7" sleeves.
I used to visit this site a couple of times every day to see how many people would be getting laid off that week at the Seattle based.com I was working at.
It was amazing the kind shit you'd find out about the company you worked for.
"i don't think you'd get gloves that would handle atnospheric persure on the outside and vacum on the inside without resorting to hard materials and complex mechanical joints."
A pair of metal gloves from a suit of armor, with plastic gloves on the inside and outside should work.
Is there a numbering system used to classify different things, similar to that used in a library? And if so, how does one possibly know how many unassigned numbers to put in-between any one particular species of thing to allow for the discovery of many other undiscovered new things in-between said things.
I'm assuming there are more unassigned numbers placed between cats in a jungle and other four legged things in the same jungle, than there are unassigned numbers between me and a monkey! (one would hope so anyway)
"I think I read somewhere that on some voice menu systems, a swear word will get you connected to a human. I definitely tried it once, and it did indeed work."
Cool, so all we need to do is say "fuck" in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhii, Tamill, Telugu and Urdu.
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It doesn't look at stuff you ripped yourself. Only the purchases you made from the iTunes store.
Don't worry. That Moderator will pay the ultimate price when he or she tries to enter Heaven!!
"Perhaps the meteor smashed into a flock of birds?"
Didn't this happen back in the 80's?
Oh wait, that was a flock of seagulls.
(OK, I'm sorry already, jeez)
These days it's the buyers at Costco and WalMart who decide what format is going to win.
Ninety percent of the folks wandering around with their humvee sized shopping carts don't even know they're buying, only that it runs their humvee sized kid's new video game.
This is the funniest comment I've seen so far this year!
I liked the look of this camera at first glance, but if the control surfaces on the back are anything to go by this camera is a POS.
"There's a historic house in north Philly, I forget the site, but it's an old battle from the Revolutionary war with the British. Germantown seems to be a familiar name, but doesn't seem right."
A battleground in Philly involving the British called Germantown. Ouch!
"That would be true for an average designer but an industrial designer is as much engineer as they are designer. "
Strange there was never a Industrial White Band (doh - all of them are).
Thanks, this one hits the spot for me.
I can now imagine the kind of forces that would force the satellite to keep on an equatorially aligned orbit.
Now I'm getting it.
I imagine a blob of stuff with the consistancy of very stiffly whipped cream, but with the elasticity of Silly Putty, dolloped all over the Earth completely covering.
I then set the Earth spinning very fast on its axis until the bulk of the stuff starts to sag down towards equator, stretching out into a flying saucer shape while getting very thin at the poles.
I can then stick a satellite somewhere on the "rim" and imagine that the stuff isn't there.
I could put the satellite somewhere on the stuff while it is stretching out but it would eventually end up out on the far rim whatever I did.
Interesting read.
For some reason I always thought that we could put a satellite in a geostationary orbit above any point on the Earth's surface. Now I'm left wondering why only above the Equator.
No doubt it's something to do with gravity only stretching out far enough at the Equator to keep a grip on an object at the kind of distances required for such an orbit.
"when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground."
Or was it a 12-centimeter LONG iPod?
Merry Christmas everybody!
"I can't help thinking that a lot of public money will be spent on something that the criminals will find ways around."
What, like the Arc De Triumph?
"Can you tell me which ones you have that are over 40 years old?"
Sure, one of them is by Elvis Presley called "Only The Lonely" and the other is The Beatles' "From Me To You". Both are in excellent condition with only a few scratches and with the original 7" sleeves.
Some of my CD's are over 40 years old and they play great!
Look at Spinal Tap.
Those guys had to form a fake rock band to get some decent action!
Admiral Gates is in his quarters struggling to put on his space tights and calls Captain Balmer over for assistance:
ADMIRAL GATES: We need to do something about these damn space tights!
CAPTAIN BALMER: But what about Longhorn?
ADMIRAL GATES: That's the problem!
I used to visit this site a couple of times every day to see how many people would be getting laid off that week at the Seattle based .com I was working at.
It was amazing the kind shit you'd find out about the company you worked for.
"i don't think you'd get gloves that would handle atnospheric persure on the outside and vacum on the inside without resorting to hard materials and complex mechanical joints."
A pair of metal gloves from a suit of armor, with plastic gloves on the inside and outside should work.
Is there a numbering system used to classify different things, similar to that used in a library? And if so, how does one possibly know how many unassigned numbers to put in-between any one particular species of thing to allow for the discovery of many other undiscovered new things in-between said things.
I'm assuming there are more unassigned numbers placed between cats in a jungle and other four legged things in the same jungle, than there are unassigned numbers between me and a monkey! (one would hope so anyway)
I hear it all went to the SBF (Strange Beard Fund).
How would changing the oil and brake fluid on my PC make it more secure?
"the author spends so much time bashing Microsoft in the book... for filler"
Sounds like a good read!
If Microsoft start calling it iString I swear I'm gonna snap!
"I think I read somewhere that on some voice menu systems, a swear word will get you connected to a human. I definitely tried it once, and it did indeed work."
Cool, so all we need to do is say "fuck" in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhii, Tamill, Telugu and Urdu.