"I always have other feelers out," he said. "There's no such thing as a permanent position anymore."
And to think everybody voted for four more years of this garbage. Not that Clinton and his lookalike Kerry would have been that much better- but at least Democrats are smart enough to hide the pain behind an artifical bubble propped up by government surplus, as opposed to running deficits as far as the eye can see and robbing the future from the under-18 crowd.
Congradulations to all of those who voted for more of the same- all 59 million of you- who apparently like making sure that people can't get ahead.
Would a motion detector actually detect a teleport? Somehow I don't think the el-cheapo X10 Hawkeyes I use in my hallway would- they seem to have problems actually detecting human beings walking down the hallway, let alone something that pops in without movement.
You're one of the few who doesn't use Asperger's as some sort of all-encompassing excuse for all kinds of behavior, and on top of it, you admit it might be learned. Thank you. You have restored my faith in that diagnosis.
Well- uh, I have been known to do that- but I do limit it to the 10 basic symptoms list. Unfortuneately for me- I exhibit 10/10, at least internally- I fight against it as much as possible.
I knew this guy ('knew' because I want nothing to do with him anymore) who would behave in the most atrocious, self-serving and maniplulative ways, and use Asperger's to absolve himself from responsibility, AND play the victim!!!
Sounds more like NT behavior than anything AC to me- most ACs dislike their own behavior and work against it as much as is possible (but of course, fail...).
That's why I'm very suspicious of people who claim to have Asperger's. I fit the description much more than my ex-friend. I guess he just latched on to this 'disease of the year' to get what he wanted.
It's amazing to me that this became disease of the year- likely due to that series of Wired articles a couple of years back. It's almost as strange as the grunge movement- which had it's own autistic overtones. Like Kurt Cobain said "When did what I wear become styleish?". My own diagnosis didn't come until age 30- and even then, it just seemed like an explaination of what already was. At least it helped to get me some good meds for the migraines- and it's helping to get my 17-month-old son early intervention, so maybe he won't be as phobic about dentists, the sun, parties and loud, multicolored celebrations as I am.
Casinos in any town which has more than one consecutive casino on any given street are damned easy to beat- just remember that the key for any casino is to draw in as many people as possible, and for people walking by on the sidewalk, winners behind glass=new customers who probably will sit further back than the first row of tables/machines.
A small town might have that many books. A large city could easily run to more than that. The Vatican, Amazon.com, or the Library of Congress easily runs into the tens of thousands of volumes.
But separate out the fiction from the nonfiction and I'm sure you'd limit the number of volumes needed greatly.
As an interesting side note, both Ken Jenning and Kim Peek are Mormon. In fact, Mormon doctrine is one of the subjects that Kim has mastered in mind-dumbing detail.
That's a scary thought in and of itself- but it only requires three books out of the 8000 he has read...I wonder if he'd turn Catholic after being let loose in the Vatican Library and consuming another 15,000 volumes of information on natural law, philosophy, and general theology?
Sounds more like a specific-to-him birth defect in the brain, from the article. Asperger's is higher level functioning than this- I've got Asperger's and not only can I find the silverware drawer, but also the disk that is under the 2" stack of papers on my desk, as long as nobody has attempted to "tidy up" after me. Nope- Kim is someplace on the autistic spectrum, as is anybody with some savant and some retarded abilities, but is definately too low functioning to be Asperger's. Despite advanced degrees in 15 subjects.
In addition, MRI scans of my brain don't show the additional connections this guy has (I've had them done, repeatedly, in an attempt to find better medication for my sensory overload problems that result in my most disabling symptom; migraines). For me, my Asperger's is likely just learned behavior avoiding social and environmental situations that cause major pain; where this guy simply has a brain that is wired differently from anybody else on the planet.
It's sci-fi- but the proposal already does exist and has for some time. The idea is that the thin shaft of THOR system's crowbars negates terminal veloscity by being hyper-aerodynamic and also still a solid chunk of iron, long enough to hit before it melts.
Is 500 lbs of TNT enough to crack a buried bunker designed to be safe from tactical nuclear weapons?
It likely is if it's a focused shaped charge to a single 1" circle....which is basically the entire idea of the crowbar-dropped-from-orbit idea. The idea isn't to demolish the bunker, it's to kill a single person *despite* that person being in a bunker- like you say:
and tolerably adequate as assasination tools if you know where the target is but don't have weapon platforms nearby.
And that's exactly the entire point of the crowbar-dropped-from-orbit idea.
They're ok for knocking out other satellites or even spacecraft, if suitably armed. What they're not good at is defeating conventional armies or cracking fortified targets.
And I'm completely agreed with that idea- but NEITHER can fortified targets or conventional armies stop an attack from space. Multiply that crobar by thousands- even millions- of similar crowbars taking out *specific* ground based targets (of the command and communications variety) and your ground-based army gets one heck of a lot easier to defeat.
Well, the machines in Ft Lauderdale which were counting backwards after the 32,767th voter (ok, the article said 32,000, but damnit, I know 16-bit binary hitting twos-complement zone when I see it) since nobody knows how often these machines rolled over, there could easily be millions of spare votes for Kerry AND Bush that will never be recorded.
And since Diebold CEO said he'd deliver votes to Bush- well, that's all the doubt you need about the RECORDED votes- provisional ballots be damned.
Hmm- would my favortie space based weapon- guided 2-meter crowbars as a Weapon of Minimal Distruction- be legal then because it's specifically designed only for assasination inside of reinforced concrete bunkers?
I think Cobra did in one of the GI Joe cartoons. But then again, Cobra was as smart as bin Laden's terrorist organization- their overriding concern in choosing bases was neat ways to hide airports in hugely out-of-the-way locations where they wouldn't be bothered.
Not all the same companies- Kerry was much larger on Media and Finance, and Bush was much larger on Oil. But this issue was as big (80% of jobs-and-economy voters voted for Kerry) as abortion was for Bush- and thus we could have forced him into doing something (kind of like how Heuy Long's Bonus Army forced Roosevelt into the New Deal).
Nah- Bush got re-elected. The Cheap Labor Movement is here to stay for at least another 4 years. (note, I would have said nearly the same about Kerry, but it would have been longer and more complex to get around the extra taxes).
Wouldn't actually fit in the envelopes. Here in Oregon, we have mail-in voting only, no actual polling places (unless you consider the volunteers in the old polling places with the bucket and the drive-up ballot drop-off....)
Can somebody explain to me how a battery, heating element, plastic case, and filter can POSSIBLY be as cheap to manufacture as dried leaves, paper, and a filter? Am I missing something here?
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"I always have other feelers out," he said. "There's no such thing as a permanent position anymore."
And to think everybody voted for four more years of this garbage. Not that Clinton and his lookalike Kerry would have been that much better- but at least Democrats are smart enough to hide the pain behind an artifical bubble propped up by government surplus, as opposed to running deficits as far as the eye can see and robbing the future from the under-18 crowd.
Congradulations to all of those who voted for more of the same- all 59 million of you- who apparently like making sure that people can't get ahead.
Would a motion detector actually detect a teleport? Somehow I don't think the el-cheapo X10 Hawkeyes I use in my hallway would- they seem to have problems actually detecting human beings walking down the hallway, let alone something that pops in without movement.
You're one of the few who doesn't use Asperger's as some sort of all-encompassing excuse for all kinds of behavior, and on top of it, you admit it might be learned. Thank you. You have restored my faith in that diagnosis.
Well- uh, I have been known to do that- but I do limit it to the 10 basic symptoms list. Unfortuneately for me- I exhibit 10/10, at least internally- I fight against it as much as possible.
I knew this guy ('knew' because I want nothing to do with him anymore) who would behave in the most atrocious, self-serving and maniplulative ways, and use Asperger's to absolve himself from responsibility, AND play the victim!!!
Sounds more like NT behavior than anything AC to me- most ACs dislike their own behavior and work against it as much as is possible (but of course, fail...).
That's why I'm very suspicious of people who claim to have Asperger's. I fit the description much more than my ex-friend. I guess he just latched on to this 'disease of the year' to get what he wanted.
It's amazing to me that this became disease of the year- likely due to that series of Wired articles a couple of years back. It's almost as strange as the grunge movement- which had it's own autistic overtones. Like Kurt Cobain said "When did what I wear become styleish?". My own diagnosis didn't come until age 30- and even then, it just seemed like an explaination of what already was. At least it helped to get me some good meds for the migraines- and it's helping to get my 17-month-old son early intervention, so maybe he won't be as phobic about dentists, the sun, parties and loud, multicolored celebrations as I am.
Casinos in any town which has more than one consecutive casino on any given street are damned easy to beat- just remember that the key for any casino is to draw in as many people as possible, and for people walking by on the sidewalk, winners behind glass=new customers who probably will sit further back than the first row of tables/machines.
A small town might have that many books. A large city could easily run to more than that. The Vatican, Amazon.com, or the Library of Congress easily runs into the tens of thousands of volumes.
But separate out the fiction from the nonfiction and I'm sure you'd limit the number of volumes needed greatly.
As an interesting side note, both Ken Jenning and Kim Peek are Mormon. In fact, Mormon doctrine is one of the subjects that Kim has mastered in mind-dumbing detail.
That's a scary thought in and of itself- but it only requires three books out of the 8000 he has read...I wonder if he'd turn Catholic after being let loose in the Vatican Library and consuming another 15,000 volumes of information on natural law, philosophy, and general theology?
Sounds more like a specific-to-him birth defect in the brain, from the article. Asperger's is higher level functioning than this- I've got Asperger's and not only can I find the silverware drawer, but also the disk that is under the 2" stack of papers on my desk, as long as nobody has attempted to "tidy up" after me. Nope- Kim is someplace on the autistic spectrum, as is anybody with some savant and some retarded abilities, but is definately too low functioning to be Asperger's. Despite advanced degrees in 15 subjects.
In addition, MRI scans of my brain don't show the additional connections this guy has (I've had them done, repeatedly, in an attempt to find better medication for my sensory overload problems that result in my most disabling symptom; migraines). For me, my Asperger's is likely just learned behavior avoiding social and environmental situations that cause major pain; where this guy simply has a brain that is wired differently from anybody else on the planet.
It's sci-fi- but the proposal already does exist and has for some time. The idea is that the thin shaft of THOR system's crowbars negates terminal veloscity by being hyper-aerodynamic and also still a solid chunk of iron, long enough to hit before it melts.
I got a funny- and if I had mod points you'd get one too for remembering that nobody ever died in GI Joe cartoons.
Is 500 lbs of TNT enough to crack a buried bunker designed to be safe from tactical nuclear weapons?
It likely is if it's a focused shaped charge to a single 1" circle....which is basically the entire idea of the crowbar-dropped-from-orbit idea. The idea isn't to demolish the bunker, it's to kill a single person *despite* that person being in a bunker- like you say:
and tolerably adequate as assasination tools if you know where the target is but don't have weapon platforms nearby.
And that's exactly the entire point of the crowbar-dropped-from-orbit idea.
They're ok for knocking out other satellites or even spacecraft, if suitably armed. What they're not good at is defeating conventional armies or cracking fortified targets.
And I'm completely agreed with that idea- but NEITHER can fortified targets or conventional armies stop an attack from space. Multiply that crobar by thousands- even millions- of similar crowbars taking out *specific* ground based targets (of the command and communications variety) and your ground-based army gets one heck of a lot easier to defeat.
Well, the machines in Ft Lauderdale which were counting backwards after the 32,767th voter (ok, the article said 32,000, but damnit, I know 16-bit binary hitting twos-complement zone when I see it) since nobody knows how often these machines rolled over, there could easily be millions of spare votes for Kerry AND Bush that will never be recorded.
And since Diebold CEO said he'd deliver votes to Bush- well, that's all the doubt you need about the RECORDED votes- provisional ballots be damned.
Hmm- would my favortie space based weapon- guided 2-meter crowbars as a Weapon of Minimal Distruction- be legal then because it's specifically designed only for assasination inside of reinforced concrete bunkers?
I think Cobra did in one of the GI Joe cartoons. But then again, Cobra was as smart as bin Laden's terrorist organization- their overriding concern in choosing bases was neat ways to hide airports in hugely out-of-the-way locations where they wouldn't be bothered.
Not required in Ohio until 2006. So why should they care?
If the source code gets out, it won't for very long. Not very long at all.
Not all the same companies- Kerry was much larger on Media and Finance, and Bush was much larger on Oil. But this issue was as big (80% of jobs-and-economy voters voted for Kerry) as abortion was for Bush- and thus we could have forced him into doing something (kind of like how Heuy Long's Bonus Army forced Roosevelt into the New Deal).
And Cisco, beat them to it by realeasing a totaly new version of the compiled firmware, then GPL'ing the source that they're trying to sell.
If you get MSDN, you can compile a special install of any version of Windows- leaving out or including whatever you want.
Why should we let the cycle complete? And wasn't the East India Company British as opposed to American?
Don't do it- just don't.
But a question- why would you want to outsource data to the US at all, when you can send it to India at 1/10th the cost?
A damned good reason to not let multinational companies import and export across American borders anymore if you ask me.
Nah- Bush got re-elected. The Cheap Labor Movement is here to stay for at least another 4 years. (note, I would have said nearly the same about Kerry, but it would have been longer and more complex to get around the extra taxes).
Wouldn't actually fit in the envelopes. Here in Oregon, we have mail-in voting only, no actual polling places (unless you consider the volunteers in the old polling places with the bucket and the drive-up ballot drop-off....)
Doubt it- OSS would have had some programmer, somewhere, catch the fallacy of buffering 13000+ votes in RAM without a single disk write....
Can somebody explain to me how a battery, heating element, plastic case, and filter can POSSIBLY be as cheap to manufacture as dried leaves, paper, and a filter? Am I missing something here?