And Gore's attacks on Bush's intelligence were contrasted against the video clip where Gore asks the tour guide of the White House, "and who is this?"...pointing to a bust of George Washington....
This could be a bad thing for the postal system if it makes it into USPS vehicles. Imagine a postal worker who uses AOL, driving around hearing, "you got mail!" all day. Talk about "going postal...."
Nintendo has been in the gaming business since 1889.
His dates are flawed. Nintendo's been making games since 475 B.C. when the first version of "The Great Wall Tycoon" came out. Man, talk about addictive....
Horses still have much usage. Police units around the world find them extremely handy in crowd control, et al. They are still a main means for transportation and the "vehicle of choice" for certain, rough terrain where no other land vehicle is practical. They are nearly irreplacable in mountainous terrain, et al. Sure, they lost their place as a common-mode piece in daily life among commoners, but they function well in their existing niche. They are a basic military vehicle even in recent wars for those forces without the means and benefits of modern technology (the Soviet-Afghan war).
The floppy drive, too, will not go away soon. It is far too common a device when all else fails and serves to basic a purpose in trouble-shooting a PC IMO. With 2 P4s here, and one having a bad NIC in it, I used the floppy drives just recently to transfer some important docs. New, glitsy, devices blow away the speed and storage of a floppy, but they are not replete throughout the PC world to replace that old horse....
Such inventions are what's needed if those who promote the "human factor" of space exploration are to prevail. Killing a shuttle full of astronauts for purposes of some objective experimentation in space isn't worth it. Providing best-possible-safety and life preservation is what's needed at this point. However, it does sound like this device being used as a "life boat" is serendipitous. Actual efforts along these lines should be more pursued on a project level. If we want to put people in space then we need to assure their safe return....
Tolkien stated clearly that his goal was to create cosmology, mythology, language and history and needed something to fill it. The LoTR was an after-thought of sorts -- the filler. People who sit down to read it and be entertained -- with no knowledge of the incredible work that went before it and which it rests upon -- mostly won't get it. They'll still be entertained -- about as much as the unenlightened posts we see here....
Personally, my favorite of his works is the Silmarillion for purposes I mention at the beginning of this post. He wrote it first even though it was published last (by Christopher) and it best embodies his true intentions....
He believed the key to expediting space exploration was to remove the human factor. Believe what you may, but if you remove that element, we could explore a lot more a lot faster. Also, it would enable poorer countries to get into the race. Of course, his vision of using artillery to launch pieces into space mandated no humans be involved:
Gerald Vincent Bull (born 1928 Ontario, died March 22, 1990 Brussels) was an engineer who many consider to have developed long range artillery beyond what anyone else has accomplished. He was a driven man, who moved from project to project always chasing his dream of launching a satellite using a huge artillery piece. To this end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for the Iraqi government, during which he was killed (purportedly by Israeli Mossad agents) outside his home in Brussels.
...and then launch a probe that could send video images of the interior to soldiers at a safe distance.
To:
Canon Factory Service
1440 Chase AVE
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Concerning:
Canon Elura 65 digital camcorder malfunction
To whom it may concern,
I have greatly enjoyed my Elura 65 camcorder. I got it after reading a review by PCWorld. I bought it from Staples on 6/12/04 and have used it a lot. This past weekend, the lens became unable to fully close or fully open, and any videos taken with it are out of focus.
I hope you can fix my camcorder. Canon is makes great products. My Dad always used a Canon.
Note: nothing in your warranty mentions that shooting the Elura 65 from an aerial robot in order to facilitate remote video feed of possible military targets voids the warranty.
Thanks,
Himring
PS: Also, never hand your canon digital camera to an equally drunken friend to take a picture of you kissing the yaegermeister girl at Coyote Ugly. It may fall and jam the lens thus forcing repairs....
I'm sick and tired of drive-through service. As Joe Pesci put it, "they always screw you in the drive through." And oh hell if you piss them off -- time to eat a snot-burger. It's time to automate drive-through service. Surely, voicecom is far-enough along and/or they can make a push-button system just like an ATM. All the employees would need to do then is keep bin-trails filled with correct burger, fries, whathaveyou. The drinks would be an issue, but if nothing else, remove the need to explain to the human what you want to eat and the exchange of money. Of course, this would end stuff like I used to do when I was 16, ordering $4 worth of food and then putting on an act of, "oh, all I have is a $1.50...." They'd take the buck fiddy and give me all the food anyhow....
And those new tree fields will provide trees that WON'T be taken from old forests. This conversion to all pine means that some forest somewhere doesn't have to get mowed down. And the field will continue to produce the pulp and other products for years to come.
I've grown up witnessing a tragedy: the raping of old-growth forest in the appalachian mountain range. My dad was a naturalist, and I've been all over the mountains in this area. None are unscathed, and it's a pain to the heart to go back the next year and see the devastation. Sure, a managed forest now, but that managed forest is nothing more than a euphemism covering the ugly horror it took to create it.
The problem for you, of course, is that it wasn't your forest that was spared and you wish it had been and I can sympathize with that, but even your own house probably occupied land once covered in trees. Whose view have you ruined?
If houses could now be built without destroying natural habitats I'd be all for it. This analogy doesn't work. We can stop the pillage of our natural resources by using electronic means for attaining news. It is so simple and good a solution. It is difficult to understand the lack of compliance, but then again it's not I suppose....
The nice thing is that your house will probably provide shelter for years to come to many different people and trading a bit of forest for that is probably worth it. The same idea applies to managed forests that supply paper.
They've not stopped raping natural forests around here yet. Believe it or not, the industrial revolution has been rather hard on natural resources. There's sorta history books written on this and stuff. I'll continue to not like what the paper mill has done to my region regardless of any spin to the contrary....
Soylent green is good. Just watch the happy commercial!...
Actually, most of the wood pulp comes from trees grown in managed forests where trees are replanted to replace the old ones.
So it's a bit like growing corn or wheat to eat.
You couldn't be more wrong. I live near a large paper mill that produces products for news paper companies. I've lived here all my life. I've seen first hand how they rape the forests, the mountains, etc. Sure, they plant yellow pine because yellow pine grows fast and fits their purposes, but where they plant the yellow pine was once a lush hardware forest of oaks, maples, etc. They take out the large hardwoods that provide acorns for deer and other small animals and replace them with pine, so now the pines grow unabated. The animal populations suffers. Also, any smaller hardwoods they cannot use they slash or poison so it will die. Next, since there are so many pines we recently had a plague of pine beetles. Huge tracts of pine forest (man-made pine forests) lay in waste in the mountains, hills and along the highways here. This is partly the fault of the paper company. Also, the chemicals they use creates an artificial/chemical fog that wreaks havoc. I kid you not. We had one of the largest traffic accidents in US history here some years back where 100s of cars piled up on I75. It made national news. I think the paper company paid off the victims families nicely enough though. Finally, the workers in this mill are exposed to harmful chemicals such as chlorine that takes a toll over time. Usually, late in life there are massive respiratory problems.
It's easy to arm-chair quater-back where your news paper comes from, but I for one don't subscribe to anything but online sources. You should too....
They need to get back on track and help contribute to that 1 billion windows installs. We'll never make that 2010 deadline if they keep this shit up....
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And Gore's attacks on Bush's intelligence were contrasted against the video clip where Gore asks the tour guide of the White House, "and who is this?" ...pointing to a bust of George Washington....
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=122006&cid=102 64796
consitutionally
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/you.html
Base camp: So how's it going there?
Dome C: Weh, Biwwy daywed me to stiwck my tung to the waw. Oh, and we'we outta beew....
Al Gore did not invent Quantum Networking. He did, however, sleep at a Holiday Inn Express....
This could be a bad thing for the postal system if it makes it into USPS vehicles. Imagine a postal worker who uses AOL, driving around hearing, "you got mail!" all day. Talk about "going postal...."
And failed miserably.
...coward
*cough*5*cough*
Plus the original post aparently thinks nintendo is from china and not japan.
The original post knew all that and was trying to be funny -- which is, apparently, lost on you vulcans....
Nintendo has been in the gaming business since 1889.
His dates are flawed. Nintendo's been making games since 475 B.C. when the first version of "The Great Wall Tycoon" came out. Man, talk about addictive....
This reminds me of that line from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation:
"Since I got that metal plate in my head, every time the wife uses the microwave, I forget where I'm at and piss my pants...."
Horses still have much usage. Police units around the world find them extremely handy in crowd control, et al. They are still a main means for transportation and the "vehicle of choice" for certain, rough terrain where no other land vehicle is practical. They are nearly irreplacable in mountainous terrain, et al. Sure, they lost their place as a common-mode piece in daily life among commoners, but they function well in their existing niche. They are a basic military vehicle even in recent wars for those forces without the means and benefits of modern technology (the Soviet-Afghan war).
The floppy drive, too, will not go away soon. It is far too common a device when all else fails and serves to basic a purpose in trouble-shooting a PC IMO. With 2 P4s here, and one having a bad NIC in it, I used the floppy drives just recently to transfer some important docs. New, glitsy, devices blow away the speed and storage of a floppy, but they are not replete throughout the PC world to replace that old horse....
[Thu Feb 10 01:08:09 2007] You have become better at never getting a date! (66)
Such inventions are what's needed if those who promote the "human factor" of space exploration are to prevail. Killing a shuttle full of astronauts for purposes of some objective experimentation in space isn't worth it. Providing best-possible-safety and life preservation is what's needed at this point. However, it does sound like this device being used as a "life boat" is serendipitous. Actual efforts along these lines should be more pursued on a project level. If we want to put people in space then we need to assure their safe return....
Itanium servers and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003
This reminds me of another article this week where a guy strapped jet engines to a wheel chair....
Tolkien stated clearly that his goal was to create cosmology, mythology, language and history and needed something to fill it. The LoTR was an after-thought of sorts -- the filler. People who sit down to read it and be entertained -- with no knowledge of the incredible work that went before it and which it rests upon -- mostly won't get it. They'll still be entertained -- about as much as the unenlightened posts we see here....
Personally, my favorite of his works is the Silmarillion for purposes I mention at the beginning of this post. He wrote it first even though it was published last (by Christopher) and it best embodies his true intentions....
He believed the key to expediting space exploration was to remove the human factor. Believe what you may, but if you remove that element, we could explore a lot more a lot faster. Also, it would enable poorer countries to get into the race. Of course, his vision of using artillery to launch pieces into space mandated no humans be involved:
Gerald Vincent Bull (born 1928 Ontario, died March 22, 1990 Brussels) was an engineer who many consider to have developed long range artillery beyond what anyone else has accomplished. He was a driven man, who moved from project to project always chasing his dream of launching a satellite using a huge artillery piece. To this end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for the Iraqi government, during which he was killed (purportedly by Israeli Mossad agents) outside his home in Brussels.
http://www.fact-index.com/g/ge/gerald_bull.html
O'Dowd thinks that unfriendly countries will attempt to hide intentional bugs that the Open Source community will have no chance of finding.
At least the bugs will have thought and purpose behind them. Unlike Windows, where the bugs are the result of a complete lack of competency....
Of course, I disagree with the supposition in any case....
I thought /.'ers were some king of educated people, but I must be wrong !!!
I wish I could kick your ass...
How sophisticated of you....
This guy does it from a hole in the ground he dug (an epic adventure; a hole, in the ground, in a galaxy, far, far, away...).
The Hole
...and then launch a probe that could send video images of the interior to soldiers at a safe distance.
To: Canon Factory Service
1440 Chase AVE
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Concerning:
Canon Elura 65 digital camcorder malfunction
To whom it may concern,
I have greatly enjoyed my Elura 65 camcorder. I got it after reading a review by PCWorld. I bought it from Staples on 6/12/04 and have used it a lot. This past weekend, the lens became unable to fully close or fully open, and any videos taken with it are out of focus.
I hope you can fix my camcorder. Canon is makes great products. My Dad always used a Canon.
Note: nothing in your warranty mentions that shooting the Elura 65 from an aerial robot in order to facilitate remote video feed of possible military targets voids the warranty.
Thanks,
Himring
PS: Also, never hand your canon digital camera to an equally drunken friend to take a picture of you kissing the yaegermeister girl at Coyote Ugly. It may fall and jam the lens thus forcing repairs....
Why the change of heart?
$
I'm sick and tired of drive-through service. As Joe Pesci put it, "they always screw you in the drive through." And oh hell if you piss them off -- time to eat a snot-burger. It's time to automate drive-through service. Surely, voicecom is far-enough along and/or they can make a push-button system just like an ATM. All the employees would need to do then is keep bin-trails filled with correct burger, fries, whathaveyou. The drinks would be an issue, but if nothing else, remove the need to explain to the human what you want to eat and the exchange of money. Of course, this would end stuff like I used to do when I was 16, ordering $4 worth of food and then putting on an act of, "oh, all I have is a $1.50...." They'd take the buck fiddy and give me all the food anyhow....
what about creating your own stone sculpture? ...'Using a huge Italian-made Omag Mill5 five-axis milling machine
Sounds great! I'm supposing Staples will have the huge Italian-made Omag Mill5 five-axis milling machine....
And those new tree fields will provide trees that WON'T be taken from old forests. This conversion to all pine means that some forest somewhere doesn't have to get mowed down. And the field will continue to produce the pulp and other products for years to come.
I've grown up witnessing a tragedy: the raping of old-growth forest in the appalachian mountain range. My dad was a naturalist, and I've been all over the mountains in this area. None are unscathed, and it's a pain to the heart to go back the next year and see the devastation. Sure, a managed forest now, but that managed forest is nothing more than a euphemism covering the ugly horror it took to create it.
The problem for you, of course, is that it wasn't your forest that was spared and you wish it had been and I can sympathize with that, but even your own house probably occupied land once covered in trees. Whose view have you ruined?
If houses could now be built without destroying natural habitats I'd be all for it. This analogy doesn't work. We can stop the pillage of our natural resources by using electronic means for attaining news. It is so simple and good a solution. It is difficult to understand the lack of compliance, but then again it's not I suppose....
The nice thing is that your house will probably provide shelter for years to come to many different people and trading a bit of forest for that is probably worth it. The same idea applies to managed forests that supply paper.
They've not stopped raping natural forests around here yet. Believe it or not, the industrial revolution has been rather hard on natural resources. There's sorta history books written on this and stuff. I'll continue to not like what the paper mill has done to my region regardless of any spin to the contrary....
Soylent green is good. Just watch the happy commercial!...
Actually, most of the wood pulp comes from trees grown in managed forests where trees are replanted to replace the old ones. So it's a bit like growing corn or wheat to eat.
You couldn't be more wrong. I live near a large paper mill that produces products for news paper companies. I've lived here all my life. I've seen first hand how they rape the forests, the mountains, etc. Sure, they plant yellow pine because yellow pine grows fast and fits their purposes, but where they plant the yellow pine was once a lush hardware forest of oaks, maples, etc. They take out the large hardwoods that provide acorns for deer and other small animals and replace them with pine, so now the pines grow unabated. The animal populations suffers. Also, any smaller hardwoods they cannot use they slash or poison so it will die. Next, since there are so many pines we recently had a plague of pine beetles. Huge tracts of pine forest (man-made pine forests) lay in waste in the mountains, hills and along the highways here. This is partly the fault of the paper company. Also, the chemicals they use creates an artificial/chemical fog that wreaks havoc. I kid you not. We had one of the largest traffic accidents in US history here some years back where 100s of cars piled up on I75. It made national news. I think the paper company paid off the victims families nicely enough though. Finally, the workers in this mill are exposed to harmful chemicals such as chlorine that takes a toll over time. Usually, late in life there are massive respiratory problems.
It's easy to arm-chair quater-back where your news paper comes from, but I for one don't subscribe to anything but online sources. You should too....
They need to get back on track and help contribute to that 1 billion windows installs. We'll never make that 2010 deadline if they keep this shit up....