Add in something like bluetooth, and you can hack in and change the alpha value on some people...
Kinda reminds me of a book, 'Sentanced to Prism'. Good concepts, not well written... But anyway. Woman wandering around in a suit. The suit displayed ads. Every once in a while, in a random pattern, the suit would go totally transparent for about a second, and then the ads would pop up again. Now THAT is advertising.
"Time rolls on, eventually we will get complacent/get back to normal"
Except that the politicians will have a new tool in getting people to accept more restrictions on their freedom.
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I picked up some decent quality stuff from AC Moore. Don't know if there are any in your area...
If you have access to a decent paper cutter, some wrapping paper makes good folding paper, as well.
And be really careful... I thought that was handy, too, until I started doing complex models. My first try on a rhino tore about 1/2 way through because of too-strong creasing. Not that I've gotten it right yet, but still.
Sadly enough, I'm serious... It's right above my monitor. Along with a crane, chrysanthemum, antelope, giraffe, frog, kangaroo, and an eagle. I also have another (actually, the standard) style crane folded out of aluminum foil bonded to tissue paper, which is a really neat material.
"What we need is a high tech 'weed' GROWER!!... OK, TO GET SERIOUS NOW"
You mean you weren't? I was thinking you can't even get rid of weeds when you're trying, and there's that neato gadget that turns bio-waste into oil and gas...
"No, the LSD doesn't cause the bad trip in and of itself"
Thank you. You have proven my point. We're discussing the chemicals. Environmental conditions are not LSD, in case you missed the point. They are environmental conditions, and hence, not what we were discussing.
"cutting with "cheaper hallucinogens" (BS)"
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that dealers around you cut with more expensive hallucinogens. Cutting was wrong. Fine. The effect is the same, contamination with other/worse versions of LSD.
"Basically my gripe here is that you're implying that LSD can't cause negative experiences, it has to be something else."
Which, by your own admission, is a correct statement. The LSD isn't CAUSING the problem. Incorrect use of it is.
Let's try this on a different tack... A person gets knifed by accident when his running brother trips, and dies. Is it the knife that caused the problem? Of course not. It's the idiot running with the knife that did.
Just to be clear, until about 1990 or so, any dictionary and encyclopedia (as people have been missing the obvious lately, I feel the need to say 'that I was able to get my hands on to look at') defined assault rifle with the additional charactaristic 'Must be capable of burst fire and fully automatic fire'.
(Some patches break some applications) + (Applications being down means lost productivity, sales, possibly data, depending on the app) + (MS apps won't let you roll back the patch, so you can't recover) = Many companies feel the need to test the patches first.
My computer at work doesn't get patched all that often (luckally it's behind multiple firewalls), because Unigraphics is very touchy (according to our support people).
No, as in reports about the reactions of people to drugs. And yes, Strychnine is a poisen. I'm so glad you managed to get that right.
The source of the "strychnine is commonly found in LSD" myth may be somewhat grounded in truth. For example, in LSD: My Problem Child Albert Hoffman cites a case in the late sixties of Strychnine being found in an "LSD" sample that was a white powder.
So it's not found in blotter acid, just sometimes in other types. The basic damn POINT of my post remains. Just eliminate the sentance that I specifically noted I wasn't sure about (why do you think I said 'I remember being mentioned' instead of presenting it as fact? If I want to make my sentances longer, I'll use parenthesis).
The studies still show it's contaminants that tend to cause the bad trips, including caffine (externally taken) and various by-products and related versions of LSD, which would, as I said, result from poor QC.
Actually, based on the medical stuff I've read, LSD doesn't have the bad trips you're talking about. The problem is that street vendors have no quality control, and cut with cheeper halucinigins. Strychnine is the one I remember being mentioned. That's what _causes_ the bad trip, the LSD just magnifies.
Blame LSD illegality for the problem, not LSD
I'll have to see if I can find the study, but not here.
You are close to completeness, grasshopper, but you make one mistake. It _is_ legal for you to
IS illegal for you to "Rip, Mix & Burn" ((C)Apple Computer, 2002) and give the CD-R to someone else, because you are DISTRIBUTING the work in violation of the copyright.
The Napster case used this as a defense, in fact. The judge did not rule the argument invalid (it had been used many times before), but instead ruled that Napster users were not considered 'friends' with all other Napster users (in other words, taking the contents of your napster directory, burning it, and handing it to your friend is legal, but Napster was the equivilent of burning a hundred copies and handing them out to passerby).
As that was the only thing I saw wrong, I beleive you now grok in fullness.
"Designing a product to wear out in a specified amount of time is done all the time"
There's a distinct flip side to this argument. I'm a mechanical engineer. I _could_ design some things that would never, ever, wear out. Would you care to spend $300 on a mechanical pencil? You're talking planned obsolecence, which is what HP is pulling (I should mention my company competes with a very small division of Adjulent (or however the hell you're supposed to spell that stupid name) which used to be HP). Most companies just design and test so that the device has a statistical lifespan assuring that 99%, or whatever (depends on warrentee of failures occur after warentee... They don't plan on it failing right after that, it's just that they're not overbuilding and testing to the overbuild parameters (we go to 3 times lifespan at maximum operating conditions).
Everything else adds cost. While marketing might think 'and then they need to by a new one, cool!', most engineers think 'that makes it cheeper to make, price goes down by 3X cost' (3X includes labor, overhead, storage/logistics, R&D, and profit... mostly the first 4, actually... It varies by part (spare parts are MOSTLY storage and logistics, after all, not manufaturing costs in quantity))
Too bad there isn't a decent picture of the Ark from Tuf Voyaging...
Other ships: the Disks from ID4. The fighter from The Fifth Element (I'd love to see the capships from the opening sequence against 'Mr. Shadow', too, but there was no scale referance there). Moya, Scaran Dreadnaught, etc. from Farscape.
If the guy is a flight risk, but you don't have enough evidence to hold him, guess what? You should _not_ have him followed, and you should not prevent him from leaving.
At least we know how to drive, and we're consistant about it. How do you tell what a NH driver will do? A: You can't. Q: How do you tell what a Mass driver will do? A: Figure out what the most agressive action would be. That is what the Mass driver will be doing.
Heh... statistics show that Mass drivers are less likely to get into accidents than any other state's drivers. Reason? We're paranoid.
Only time I hear us referred to as "Massholes" is when discussing driving.
Now to go totally off topic (like I wasn't before)...
Londo Molari (Ambasador, Centuri Republic) is talking about the old days. "Back in the days of the empire, our fleet was feared. We would crush all that opposed us. We even used the most feared of weapons, Mass drivers. They are banned throughout the galaxy!"
Eh, sounds better out of context. Back to my caffine, you can tell I need it.
Would that be bad? Like the article says, the US is the only country with first to invent. That is, as far as anyone interested in inventing anything, and as far as anyone interested in innovation AT ALL is concerned, at the very top of the non-negotiable list.
No way in hell we need to give more power to megacorps.
Making someone essentially give up their rights to a patent because they aren't good at paperwork is just plain dumb.
As far as business method patents, etc. are concerned... they should be eliminated. But that's a secondary concern.
Well, this version gives him some wiggle room. Instead of saying 'believe there is no evolution, than no letter', he says 'show you comprehend the idea and can use it for analysis'.
In other words, the first way says that you can't be a creationist at all. The second way says that you have to prove you can do science. There is a bit of differance.
"The answer? Look to Slashdot. Create artificial "delays" in access times."
For spam protection, that works. Problem, though: I hit the main page, middle click on the interesting stories to open them in a new tab, and grab all the good stuff before going on to read the discussions. I use a lot LESS than 2 seconds between accesses, for about 30 seconds, then nothing for quite a while. I imagine that's a fairly common reading method, too.
"(until I get modded down by the PC monitors, that is.)"
The word you're looking for is 'intelligent', not 'PC'
From elsewhere you posted this: "Creationism probably isn't a scientific explanation. But it might be provable."
It is provable. All that God needs to do to prove it is to come to Earth, prove he's God (easy enough, HE'S GOD...), and say that he did it that way. The point Creationism (and ID, creationism in a mask) is that it is not falsifiable. Hence, it is not a scientific theory, no matter how hard you want it to be one.
Correction: Not "if two individuals cannot produce viable offspring", but "if two individuals cannot produce fertile offspring" is the more proper definition. Horses and donkeys produce mules, a viable offspring. They are different species, though, as the mule isn't fertile.
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Kinda reminds me of a book, 'Sentanced to Prism'. Good concepts, not well written... But anyway. Woman wandering around in a suit. The suit displayed ads. Every once in a while, in a random pattern, the suit would go totally transparent for about a second, and then the ads would pop up again. Now THAT is advertising.
Don't forget the sound card and servomotors.
Except that the politicians will have a new tool in getting people to accept more restrictions on their freedom.
If you have access to a decent paper cutter, some wrapping paper makes good folding paper, as well.
And be really careful... I thought that was handy, too, until I started doing complex models. My first try on a rhino tore about 1/2 way through because of too-strong creasing. Not that I've gotten it right yet, but still.
Sadly enough, I'm serious... It's right above my monitor. Along with a crane, chrysanthemum, antelope, giraffe, frog, kangaroo, and an eagle. I also have another (actually, the standard) style crane folded out of aluminum foil bonded to tissue paper, which is a really neat material.
Remember the 85% efficient biomatter transformation thing from what, last week? Bet that's more efficient than humans. Direct to oil...
Makes sense... For most dot coms 'profitable' was an indeterminate state.
You mean you weren't? I was thinking you can't even get rid of weeds when you're trying, and there's that neato gadget that turns bio-waste into oil and gas...
At least you know where you are. If you're screaming 'AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! My EYES!!!!' then you can be quite certain you are in the games section.
Thank you. You have proven my point. We're discussing the chemicals. Environmental conditions are not LSD, in case you missed the point. They are environmental conditions, and hence, not what we were discussing.
"cutting with "cheaper hallucinogens" (BS)"
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that dealers around you cut with more expensive hallucinogens. Cutting was wrong. Fine. The effect is the same, contamination with other/worse versions of LSD.
"Basically my gripe here is that you're implying that LSD can't cause negative experiences, it has to be something else."
Which, by your own admission, is a correct statement. The LSD isn't CAUSING the problem. Incorrect use of it is.
Let's try this on a different tack... A person gets knifed by accident when his running brother trips, and dies. Is it the knife that caused the problem? Of course not. It's the idiot running with the knife that did.
Just to be clear, until about 1990 or so, any dictionary and encyclopedia (as people have been missing the obvious lately, I feel the need to say 'that I was able to get my hands on to look at') defined assault rifle with the additional charactaristic 'Must be capable of burst fire and fully automatic fire'.
(Some patches break some applications) + (Applications being down means lost productivity, sales, possibly data, depending on the app) + (MS apps won't let you roll back the patch, so you can't recover) = Many companies feel the need to test the patches first.
My computer at work doesn't get patched all that often (luckally it's behind multiple firewalls), because Unigraphics is very touchy (according to our support people).
The studies still show it's contaminants that tend to cause the bad trips, including caffine (externally taken) and various by-products and related versions of LSD, which would, as I said, result from poor QC.
Blame LSD illegality for the problem, not LSD
I'll have to see if I can find the study, but not here.
As that was the only thing I saw wrong, I beleive you now grok in fullness.
(sorry, I'm feeling mildly zen this morning)
You just slashdotted the place. Figures...
There's a distinct flip side to this argument. I'm a mechanical engineer. I _could_ design some things that would never, ever, wear out. Would you care to spend $300 on a mechanical pencil? You're talking planned obsolecence, which is what HP is pulling (I should mention my company competes with a very small division of Adjulent (or however the hell you're supposed to spell that stupid name) which used to be HP). Most companies just design and test so that the device has a statistical lifespan assuring that 99%, or whatever (depends on warrentee of failures occur after warentee... They don't plan on it failing right after that, it's just that they're not overbuilding and testing to the overbuild parameters (we go to 3 times lifespan at maximum operating conditions).
Everything else adds cost. While marketing might think 'and then they need to by a new one, cool!', most engineers think 'that makes it cheeper to make, price goes down by 3X cost' (3X includes labor, overhead, storage/logistics, R&D, and profit... mostly the first 4, actually... It varies by part (spare parts are MOSTLY storage and logistics, after all, not manufaturing costs in quantity))
Other ships: the Disks from ID4. The fighter from The Fifth Element (I'd love to see the capships from the opening sequence against 'Mr. Shadow', too, but there was no scale referance there). Moya, Scaran Dreadnaught, etc. from Farscape.
Innocent until proven guilty, remember.
Heh... statistics show that Mass drivers are less likely to get into accidents than any other state's drivers. Reason? We're paranoid.
Only time I hear us referred to as "Massholes" is when discussing driving.
Now to go totally off topic (like I wasn't before)...
Londo Molari (Ambasador, Centuri Republic) is talking about the old days. "Back in the days of the empire, our fleet was feared. We would crush all that opposed us. We even used the most feared of weapons, Mass drivers. They are banned throughout the galaxy!"
Eh, sounds better out of context. Back to my caffine, you can tell I need it.
No way in hell we need to give more power to megacorps.
Making someone essentially give up their rights to a patent because they aren't good at paperwork is just plain dumb.
As far as business method patents, etc. are concerned... they should be eliminated. But that's a secondary concern.
In other words, the first way says that you can't be a creationist at all. The second way says that you have to prove you can do science. There is a bit of differance.
For spam protection, that works. Problem, though: I hit the main page, middle click on the interesting stories to open them in a new tab, and grab all the good stuff before going on to read the discussions. I use a lot LESS than 2 seconds between accesses, for about 30 seconds, then nothing for quite a while. I imagine that's a fairly common reading method, too.
The word you're looking for is 'intelligent', not 'PC'
From elsewhere you posted this: "Creationism probably isn't a scientific explanation. But it might be provable."
It is provable. All that God needs to do to prove it is to come to Earth, prove he's God (easy enough, HE'S GOD...), and say that he did it that way. The point Creationism (and ID, creationism in a mask) is that it is not falsifiable. Hence, it is not a scientific theory, no matter how hard you want it to be one.
Correction: Not "if two individuals cannot produce viable offspring", but "if two individuals cannot produce fertile offspring" is the more proper definition. Horses and donkeys produce mules, a viable offspring. They are different species, though, as the mule isn't fertile.