Didn't you see Armageddon, with Bruce Willis? Several small meteorites pulverized taxicabs in New York City a few days before the arrival of "the big mama."
I assume that even Armageddon was based on some scientific research.
I agree. If your degree is from an unaccredited institution, there is no guarantee it's worth anything. Don't waste your time or money on such a "degree."
Maybe there are a series of asteroids for a reason. Maybe the meteorites and asteroids we're seeing lately are just the small rocks that are preceding a large rock.
Maybe the big one is bearing down on us even as we speak.
You could follow Hawkeye and get a quiver. It would work like a small backpack.
Building on that idea, how about a shoulder belt? You could get an ammo belt from a military surplus store. Just rig it so you can hang your gadgets on it.
You could get an ammo belt for the front, and attach a quiver on the back.
Last idea. Get a big gun holster and attach it to your belt. You could probably fit two or three devices in that thing.
he shrinking number of cases where the information is locked in some book, and not online.
I think the number of new books published without content placed online is significantly outpacing old books placed online for the first time. Thus, the number of cases, in percentage terms, is increasing.
I started on Usenet in 1991, and the web in 93 or 94. I've used the web heavily. I consider myself to be a bit of a pseudo-academic. Though for years I immersed myself in the Internet, I have steadily gained a new appreciation for print media.
Print media takes time to produce. Internet content takes little to produce. On average, analytic content found in print is better than web-only content. Raw data is different. For example, if you want economic data, there's little sense in waiting for the BLS report to be published. Just pull it off the web. If you want something that someone has spent time on, lingered over, then you want print media.
Eventually, you realize that the Internet's best feature is the ability to find basic info. Let's say you've never heard of something, like hysteresis. Search Google for it. Use another search engine. You'll quickly find basic information. You will learn that hysteresis is an economic phenomenona with certain details, etc, etc. You will have to look very hard to find much more than basic info, however.
Content on the Internet is a mile wide and an inch deep. It's a dictionary of everything. Yet, if you want something that is in-depth, there is no easy way to find it. If there were a search engine that would give you lots and lots of in-depth info on your search terms, that would be great. That's not what we have today. Today, all you can expect is basic info.
Furthermore, on the web, you have to go looking for opinions that are contrary to yours. You have to think, "Hmm, I believe that the minimum wage should be increased, so let me go find someone's essay that argues that it should not be raised." It is really difficult and counterintuitive to think that way all the time. As a result, you tend to visit web sites with content that you tend to already agree with. In this way, your intellectual experience is sub-optimal.
Books are different. When you open a new book, you don't know what you're going to get. When you walk through a library or a bookstore, you will find books that you've never heard of. Then you will pick them up and be surprised and often challenged.
In conclusion, the web is useful as a dictionary of everything. The web is not useful as an in-depth encyclopedia of everything. Books are still the best.
Mine was very, very cruel. I don't even want to talk about it. While I was there, it was great. But here goes.
First all we employees had to gather in the main meeting room. Management told us to reach under our seats. Below about 5 seats were taped slips of paper. Those five people had to perform in this humiliating contest. They had to do something or say something to embarass themselves. The president of the company is sitting there as judge. Whoever has the right to be the most mortified, in his judgement, won the showdown. I lost, but it was close. Had I won, I would have kept my job.
Then he starts calling us, one by one. Each of us goes up. Some were told to go back to their desks. They were the lucky ones. They survived to work another day. The rest of us had to pick up our commerative plates--the ones we got when we started--and hand them to the president. He said, "So-and-so, you're dead to us." Then he throws the plate into the fireplace (the office was an old mansion). Then we had to leave. People were bawling. Women were fainting. It was something I'll never be able to forget.
You young folks might not know what that is. You might even be scared. Well, let me tell you. That thar fireball warn't caused by no rock fallin from the sky. That thar was a dragon.
Bzzzt. You can get hurt on a Segway if it stops and nothing else happens. You can't say that about any other land vehicle. As for a bicycle, you can get hurt if it comes to a stop, because of the difficulty in retaining balance. Nevertheless, whether the bicycle stops or not is determined by the actions of the rider. OTOH, a Segway can stop regardless of what its rider does.
Interesting. I take it you will have to adjust the software so that the Segway halts while it still has a charge, to prevent throwing the rider. In other words, users with adjusted Segways will be going along, and then suddenly, in the middle of their trip, perhaps in the middle of traffic, their Segway will just stop, dead, though it will still be upright.
How are you going to prevent users from becoming stranded in the middle of nowhere, when the battery runs out?
I've got karma to burn. So what the hell? I'll say something unpopular. Not because I'm contrarian. Because I honestly believe what I'm saying.
You can't blame this on user stupidity. They are trying to sell the Segway to children. It isn't right to tell a child that they must always remember to check the power light on their scooter, or they could fall off and die. They're only kids.
A Segway is different than a car or a motorcycle or a bike. A Segway is not balanced by four tires or by the user. It is balanced only by the work of its gyros. If the Segway loses power for any reason, there will be no balance.
The Segway is the only land vehicle in the world what can injure a passenger simply by stopping. That is totally unacceptable.
A good safety feature would be a software modification that prevents the Segway from moving forward or backward when its power is low. That is the only way to ensure that there is enough power left in the battery to keep the user balanced. Unfortunately, it will mean riders will be stranded wherever they are with a heavy machine and no way to easily move it.
Today, the Segway is exposed. The inventor of the Segway should hang his head in shame. He has put his own greed above the safety of human life.
It's important to note that people already have been injured by the scooters. Reuters
Segway has received three such reports of riders falling off, including one person who sustained a head injury that required stitches, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the company said in a statement.
And I don't want anybody to say that we didn't warn you. We sure enough warned you.
This is not action by a court. This is not a lawsuit. This is action by a governmental regulatory body under George W. Bush. If they are acting under Bush, this must be a humongous problem.
In my opinion, proper use of a Segway will probably require at least a helmet.
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I assume that even Armageddon was based on some scientific research.
The point is that, from the human standpoint, you must take into account not only the probability, but also the potential intensity of harm.
A 1% chance of getting killed in an accident is much different from the human perspective than is a 1% chance a losing one penny.
I agree. If your degree is from an unaccredited institution, there is no guarantee it's worth anything. Don't waste your time or money on such a "degree."
There's a big difference between trying to roll boxcars on the craps table and the approach of a planet-killer asteroid.
Maybe the big one is bearing down on us even as we speak.
Apparently not everyone is watching "Joe Schmo."
Mod that one up.
A house? Well, that thar rock would ha made a real fireball.
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Substituing your IP address, of course. Maybe spam harvesting bots would fail to treat that as a valid address.
On another note, this is a CGI thing that looks interesting: Master Spambot Buster.
Building on that idea, how about a shoulder belt? You could get an ammo belt from a military surplus store. Just rig it so you can hang your gadgets on it.
You could get an ammo belt for the front, and attach a quiver on the back.
Last idea. Get a big gun holster and attach it to your belt. You could probably fit two or three devices in that thing.
Get thee to a barrister's office, my friend.
It does have economic meanings.
Me too.
Nice. Good luck to you.
I think the number of new books published without content placed online is significantly outpacing old books placed online for the first time. Thus, the number of cases, in percentage terms, is increasing.
Print media takes time to produce. Internet content takes little to produce. On average, analytic content found in print is better than web-only content. Raw data is different. For example, if you want economic data, there's little sense in waiting for the BLS report to be published. Just pull it off the web. If you want something that someone has spent time on, lingered over, then you want print media.
Eventually, you realize that the Internet's best feature is the ability to find basic info. Let's say you've never heard of something, like hysteresis. Search Google for it. Use another search engine. You'll quickly find basic information. You will learn that hysteresis is an economic phenomenona with certain details, etc, etc. You will have to look very hard to find much more than basic info, however.
Content on the Internet is a mile wide and an inch deep. It's a dictionary of everything. Yet, if you want something that is in-depth, there is no easy way to find it. If there were a search engine that would give you lots and lots of in-depth info on your search terms, that would be great. That's not what we have today. Today, all you can expect is basic info.
Furthermore, on the web, you have to go looking for opinions that are contrary to yours. You have to think, "Hmm, I believe that the minimum wage should be increased, so let me go find someone's essay that argues that it should not be raised." It is really difficult and counterintuitive to think that way all the time. As a result, you tend to visit web sites with content that you tend to already agree with. In this way, your intellectual experience is sub-optimal.
Books are different. When you open a new book, you don't know what you're going to get. When you walk through a library or a bookstore, you will find books that you've never heard of. Then you will pick them up and be surprised and often challenged.
In conclusion, the web is useful as a dictionary of everything. The web is not useful as an in-depth encyclopedia of everything. Books are still the best.
First all we employees had to gather in the main meeting room. Management told us to reach under our seats. Below about 5 seats were taped slips of paper. Those five people had to perform in this humiliating contest. They had to do something or say something to embarass themselves. The president of the company is sitting there as judge. Whoever has the right to be the most mortified, in his judgement, won the showdown. I lost, but it was close. Had I won, I would have kept my job.
Then he starts calling us, one by one. Each of us goes up. Some were told to go back to their desks. They were the lucky ones. They survived to work another day. The rest of us had to pick up our commerative plates--the ones we got when we started--and hand them to the president. He said, "So-and-so, you're dead to us." Then he throws the plate into the fireplace (the office was an old mansion). Then we had to leave. People were bawling. Women were fainting. It was something I'll never be able to forget.
I don't think anybody can beat that one.
The right spelling and pronunciation is Neandertal. I thought everyone knew that by now.
You young folks might not know what that is. You might even be scared. Well, let me tell you. That thar fireball warn't caused by no rock fallin from the sky. That thar was a dragon.
There are also hard drive enclosures.
Nice try, however.
I'd love to see you say that to the family of the first person a Segway kills.
How are you going to prevent users from becoming stranded in the middle of nowhere, when the battery runs out?
You can't blame this on user stupidity. They are trying to sell the Segway to children. It isn't right to tell a child that they must always remember to check the power light on their scooter, or they could fall off and die. They're only kids.
A Segway is different than a car or a motorcycle or a bike. A Segway is not balanced by four tires or by the user. It is balanced only by the work of its gyros. If the Segway loses power for any reason, there will be no balance.
The Segway is the only land vehicle in the world what can injure a passenger simply by stopping. That is totally unacceptable.
A good safety feature would be a software modification that prevents the Segway from moving forward or backward when its power is low. That is the only way to ensure that there is enough power left in the battery to keep the user balanced. Unfortunately, it will mean riders will be stranded wherever they are with a heavy machine and no way to easily move it.
Today, the Segway is exposed. The inventor of the Segway should hang his head in shame. He has put his own greed above the safety of human life.
And I don't want anybody to say that we didn't warn you. We sure enough warned you.
This is not action by a court. This is not a lawsuit. This is action by a governmental regulatory body under George W. Bush. If they are acting under Bush, this must be a humongous problem.
In my opinion, proper use of a Segway will probably require at least a helmet.