"...there is no such thing as "fabric of space-time""...
It's just a way at looking at the WSOGMM (Whole Sort of General Mish-Mash). A way of defining things from our perspective. It may have been a joke, but I think that Adams was on to something.
I'm sorry, but there is a way of paying for their programming. It's called the CABLE BILL!
(Actually, although my apartment comes with basic cable, I choose not to own a television. There's just not enough interesting programming on to justify it.)
No doubt. Nearly everyone has something for which they are fanatical. It's often what one does with their fanaticism that makes the notion dangerous, ie: Al Qaeda/KKK, or some kook that wants to be a real-life Joker. I don't claim to be an exception to this in any way. Hell, I'd love to be a researcher for a equivlant to "The Guide".
On the other hand, one can behave in this manner with factual material. Anyone who has seen a Civil War re-enactment can attest to this. Canon Fanatics are everywhere.
I am suddenly reminded of that FedEx commercial he was in. The one where he gets bit by the snake, and he says "That's no problem, we have a shipment of antivenom arriving via FedEx", then an off-camera voice says: "Uh, we didn't use FedEx this time..."
Not to be pedantic, but that scene was in Alien: Ressurection... However, I have a similar question with Space Truckers. Wouldn't a table just as easily been "sucked" over the hull breach rather than George Wendt's posterior?
Ahh, yes. "All Animals are created equal..." until, that is, a treatment for disease neccisitates the killing of another, then we just whitewash the barn-door with the ammendment "...but some animals are more equal than others."
I, for once, did not read the article. Does it explain how the climate change is affecting the Earth's position in its orbit and angle of its axis as to change daylight hours? Last I knew, Equinox came from a Latin expression meaning "equal night", and is used in reference to how during the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes have equal number of daylight and nighttime hours.
"Do you not need a service provider for short phonecalls?"
You usually need a provider for the phone to make any sort of call other than an emergency system.
"Are they free if they're short?"
If you're lucky. Sometimes I can make a quickie call with mine (Cingular, pay-as-you-go type service) and not get charged the full $0.15/minute for a 30-sec call. Sometimes the system will 'be nice" and only charge $0.10, but that's rare. On the otherhand, many providers do have a service where you can call other mobiles for free, but those service plans tend to run ~$60.00/month, so it's not really free in the end if you only make a few calls. Some providers also have "free" longdistance in this respect.
"Is there a particular carrier that provides only short calls, but for free?"
Kind of, read above. If you don't mind paying ~$80.00/month for your service plan, you can get unlimited calls (mobile to mobile, mobile to landline, mobile to tin-cans-on-a-string, etc) that aren't charge minute-rates.
"The best we can hope to do is treat the symptoms but never the sickness itself."
Actually, we do hope to cure the sickness itself. Whether we succeed, is another matter. Please watch how you form your sentances.
"Modern medicine hasn't even been able to cure the cold and yet we expect them to deal with "avian" flu."
No, but we can treat a cold. We can supress symptoms and make a person suffer less while their body fights-off the disease on its own. Pretty much the same goes for any other form of viral infection. We try to treat the disease so the person lives. Also, through simple methods as quarrintine, we can isolate a disease from the rest of the population until it burns itself out. Smallpox, for example, is not nearly as common as it once was, partly because of quarrintine, as well as vaccinations.
As I've just returned home from work, I'm a bit tired myself, but could you point out which portion of the post had incorrect grammar? Your subject title implies that it was an it's/its mistake. I see only one instance of "it's", and in the manner it's used ("So long as one person knows, it's fine.") is correct. The sentance is meant to read as "it is fine", thus the apostrophe is necessary.
As I said though, I'm tired, so I may be missing the mistake to which you refer.
Only the well-written ones. About 80% of my posts in some way reference Adams's material, but I attempt at least to create a fitting paraphrase, rather than directly quoting. Perhaps if someone wrote something like: "Hey, you sass that hoopy cardboard cutout? Now there's a frood that knows where his corrugation is.", it'd be worth a few +1 Funny mods, as oppose to -1 Boring...
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Quite correct. I only used "gigantic" as an example, as it had the "giga", and I felt it better illustrated the link.
"...there is no such thing as "fabric of space-time""...
It's just a way at looking at the WSOGMM (Whole Sort of General Mish-Mash). A way of defining things from our perspective. It may have been a joke, but I think that Adams was on to something.
Still, I think Oedipus beats him in regards to that title...
"Giga" is the root for "gigantic". Personally, I use the hard 'G' for the prefix out of habit.
I'm sorry, but there is a way of paying for their programming. It's called the CABLE BILL!
(Actually, although my apartment comes with basic cable, I choose not to own a television. There's just not enough interesting programming on to justify it.)
No doubt. Nearly everyone has something for which they are fanatical. It's often what one does with their fanaticism that makes the notion dangerous, ie: Al Qaeda/KKK, or some kook that wants to be a real-life Joker. I don't claim to be an exception to this in any way. Hell, I'd love to be a researcher for a equivlant to "The Guide".
On the other hand, one can behave in this manner with factual material. Anyone who has seen a Civil War re-enactment can attest to this. Canon Fanatics are everywhere.
Hmm, I coulda sworn that the first episode of Batman: TAS depicted Scarecrow, and that Red Claw didn't appear until season two.
I am suddenly reminded of that FedEx commercial he was in. The one where he gets bit by the snake, and he says "That's no problem, we have a shipment of antivenom arriving via FedEx", then an off-camera voice says: "Uh, we didn't use FedEx this time..."
Well, although I can view images in Dreamweaver, I cannot actually *edit* the files, so therefore, Dreamweaver *is* a "text editor".
Not to be pedantic, but that scene was in Alien: Ressurection... However, I have a similar question with Space Truckers. Wouldn't a table just as easily been "sucked" over the hull breach rather than George Wendt's posterior?
I'll take giant rabbits over any movie with the line: You gonna be da' worm face!
"MOVE OUT OF YOUR PARENTS BASEMENT!"
Because the rent is cheap, and the attic is too hot.
Ahh, yes. "All Animals are created equal..." until, that is, a treatment for disease neccisitates the killing of another, then we just whitewash the barn-door with the ammendment "...but some animals are more equal than others."
Given the socio-political/ecological/etc state of things, it's hard to tell if you're being serious, or just quoting Bill Murray...
I, for once, did not read the article. Does it explain how the climate change is affecting the Earth's position in its orbit and angle of its axis as to change daylight hours? Last I knew, Equinox came from a Latin expression meaning "equal night", and is used in reference to how during the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes have equal number of daylight and nighttime hours.
"Do you not need a service provider for short phonecalls?"
You usually need a provider for the phone to make any sort of call other than an emergency system.
"Are they free if they're short?"
If you're lucky. Sometimes I can make a quickie call with mine (Cingular, pay-as-you-go type service) and not get charged the full $0.15/minute for a 30-sec call. Sometimes the system will 'be nice" and only charge $0.10, but that's rare. On the otherhand, many providers do have a service where you can call other mobiles for free, but those service plans tend to run ~$60.00/month, so it's not really free in the end if you only make a few calls. Some providers also have "free" longdistance in this respect.
"Is there a particular carrier that provides only short calls, but for free?"
Kind of, read above. If you don't mind paying ~$80.00/month for your service plan, you can get unlimited calls (mobile to mobile, mobile to landline, mobile to tin-cans-on-a-string, etc) that aren't charge minute-rates.
As in 976-Evil, or were you thinking 867, as in followed by "5309"?
Nope. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/21/173253
Then when can we expect to see higher intelligence emerge in the common population?
"Yes, it is correct that some people say that I don't tell the truth on this show."
If I've ever learned anything from about radiation exposure from low-budget Japanese films, I think that the missus would be rather pleased...
"The best we can hope to do is treat the symptoms but never the sickness itself."
Actually, we do hope to cure the sickness itself. Whether we succeed, is another matter. Please watch how you form your sentances.
"Modern medicine hasn't even been able to cure the cold and yet we expect them to deal with "avian" flu."
No, but we can treat a cold. We can supress symptoms and make a person suffer less while their body fights-off the disease on its own. Pretty much the same goes for any other form of viral infection. We try to treat the disease so the person lives. Also, through simple methods as quarrintine, we can isolate a disease from the rest of the population until it burns itself out. Smallpox, for example, is not nearly as common as it once was, partly because of quarrintine, as well as vaccinations.
As I've just returned home from work, I'm a bit tired myself, but could you point out which portion of the post had incorrect grammar? Your subject title implies that it was an it's/its mistake. I see only one instance of "it's", and in the manner it's used ("So long as one person knows, it's fine.") is correct. The sentance is meant to read as "it is fine", thus the apostrophe is necessary.
As I said though, I'm tired, so I may be missing the mistake to which you refer.
Only the well-written ones. About 80% of my posts in some way reference Adams's material, but I attempt at least to create a fitting paraphrase, rather than directly quoting. Perhaps if someone wrote something like: "Hey, you sass that hoopy cardboard cutout? Now there's a frood that knows where his corrugation is.", it'd be worth a few +1 Funny mods, as oppose to -1 Boring...
What? No towel jokes yet? Slashdotters must be slacking.