I'm sure the other 100 have defected to South Korea since then, figuring they could get rich off of their newly acquired skills...or maybe they were just wanted something to eat.
If you're trying to make a logo and not a diagram, then you might want to try Inkscape as well. It's a vector-drawing program, similar in nature to Adobe Illustrator (but with fewer features)
For Linux, there's MythTV and Freevo. They're both free, and I've heard good things about both of them.
I'm planning to get a mini-ITX form-factor computer and install Linux and one of the above to use as a media box. I'd also like to put some games and possibly Stepmania on it. That would be a nice setup.
Anyone care to share any personal experiences with MythTV or Freevo?
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the people reporting it were porn site operators themselves. They get to shut down their competition and make a tidy profit at the same time.
So we get a better business plan:
1) Put up porn site 2) Report competitors' sites to Chinese officials 3) Small Profit! 4) People come to your site because their options are limited. 5) Big Profit!
With suborbital flights at the edge of space that Scaled Composites seems to be specializing it, there wouldn't be too many noise issues, and the craft will probably be too high to bother anyone on the ground.
The lack of air at higher altitudes might also reduce fuel costs, and a working scramjet might reduce them even more.
Of course getting the thing up that high is expensive as well, but it might be possible to make it economical enough to make money off suborbital flights.
I have a friend who grew in Hong Kong. He has brown spots on his teeth that he claims are the result of Hong Kong having had *too much* floride in the municipal water supply when he was little?
Does anyone know about the potential effects of too much floride?
Osama is lucky he doesn't share videos over the Internet or he would awaken the RIAA Rebellious Viva La Resistance Militia capturing him in 24 hours.
Actually, he does, but they tend to be hostage or Osama-speech videos. The RIAA hasn't gotten control of "Osama Productions": not yet, at least. It's only a matter of time before RIAA or MPAA tries to absorb Al Qaeda because they can't stand it when there are videos they don't control.
This is especially true in Germany, where good beer is often significantly cheaper than bottled water or soft drinks.
When in a restaurant there, I would often order beer because it was the cheapest drink on the menu. I actually like ordinary tap water, but often asking for water there gets you carbonated water, which I do not like at all. You have to actually specify that you want tap water (Leitungswasser), but sometimes they still don't seem to get it.
For some reason, Germans think tap water is somehow bad for you. Coming from California, I'm telling you their tap water is *really* good. It isn't chlorinated (which makes water taste really nasty) so I never felt any need to buy bottled water, unless I was away from home traveling.
You could even get "l33t" knowledge cheaply, if you know where to look.
You could probably get extensive knowledge of nuclear weapon technology from an out-of-work Russian scientist for the price of a few bottles of Vodka. The only trick there is to get it out of him before he is either bought out by Iran (for six cases of Vodka and a trip to a sunny country) or he expires of liver cirrhosis.
There are actually painters who specialize in making copies of famous paintings. They will closely examine the original and hand-paint a copy, which will look just like it. They will then sell these copies, clearly marked as copies, to people for a pretty good price. It takes a lot of skill to exactly copy a painting by hand.
Wealthy individuals apparently enjoy having handpainted copies in their homes if they're unable to obtain the original. It's like having a print, but 100 times better. Less scrupulous individuals have sold some of these excellent copies, and it's taken an expert to be able to tell it apart from the original. Usually, the copying artist will sign the painting with something (hidden behind the paint) that only shows up when you x-ray the copy. The copying artists like to get credit for their work, and the invisible signature imbedded behind the paint also helps prevent it from being mistaken for the original.
I recall one incident (unfortunately I don't have a link) where even the experts mistook a copy for the original, and only an x-ray of the painting years later showed it to be a copy when the copying artist's mark appeared.
These very skilled copying artists could very well produce much cheaper paintings that are virtually indistinguishable from the original. Museums could very well do this, and almost everyone would be fooled.
Amendment 73? I've heard those secret laws that they've been passing since 2001, where they can't tell you what the law says, but they can arrest you for violating it. There apparently are secret amendments too.
Apparently, you've stumbled across the secret constitution with the 100 Patriot-Flag-Waving-Nationalism-Anti-Terrorism-Jin goism amendments that the Department of Justice keeps stashed away somewhere.
Unfortunately, you failed to read the 100th amendment, which states that you aren't allow to reveal any of these amendments anywhere. Of course, I'm not allowed to reveal that amendment either.
Well, it looks like we will soon both be charged with something very vague and terrorism-related, and sent off to Guantanamo. Flee the country while you can, citizen.
Indeed, the group "Irgun Tsvai-Leumi" devoted to the creation of a Jewish state in Israel led by Ben Gurion conducted numerouse "terrorist" attacks in the region, and even setting off a bomb at the King David Hotel, which killed 91 people, most of them civilians. Interestingly enough, they were secretly supported by Poland.
These people are not commonly referred to as terrorists, yet their tactics reflect those of whom we now call terrorists.
There's some interesting information about the group here, including a list of the targets they bombed.
My parents have a pair of llamas in their field. They will chase any dog without mercy that happens to come into that field. They get along just fine with horses and cows, and don't seem to mind my parents' cat.
My parents recently gave away a llama (he was too lazy for backpacking) to a farmer who needed a llama to guard some sheep from dogs and coyotes. They are very protective of other herd animals they live with.
Note that getting money for doing this is nothing all that unusual. Participants of psychological studies are usually paid for their participation, as it becomes a lot easier to find subjects for study. At universities where psychological research is conducted, it is not uncommon to see posters urging students to come and participate in a study to earn a little extra cash.
Paying people for participating has no effect on the results of the study. What can screw up a study is when the subjects are aware what exactly is being studied. When you're aware of what behaviour is being observed, you usually change that behaviour, either consciously or unconsciously. Usually, people conducting a study will tell the subjects they are studying one thing, where in reality they are studying something else.
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You could of (if you have the time and interest) offered to fix her computer at a fraction of the price it would cost to get a new one. You get some money and she save a bunch of money.
According the Spiegel website (yes, I can read German), the shuttle was purchased by the Automobile and Aerospace Museum in Sinsheim, near Heidelberg. That sounds quite plausible to me, as that museum has a very impressive collections of cars inside the museum and a large collection of aircraft sitting outside the museum. Some of the aircraft are open to visitors to walk into.
If anyone find themselves in southwestern Germany, and is interested in this sort of thing, I would strongly recommend going to visit this museum. It was quite interesting even to someone like me. Even though I don't find cars interesting and aircraft only mildly interesting, I still enjoyed this museum. Seeing the full-size aircraft in person instead of in pictures is a worthwhile experience. The presence of the Buran shuttle would make it even better.
Budapest has a higher cost of living than San Francisco? That makes me wonder where they got these numbers from. Budapest isn't the cheapest place in the world, but in my experience, rent and food prices there are nowhere near those in San Francisco.
Not only that, but people in Budapest make a lot less money than people in San Francisco. I noticed that it mentioned prices for luxury apartments. Luxury apartments are somewhat lacking in Budapest, so the prices for those might be pretty high. The cost of an average apartment has got to be a lot less in Budapest than in San Francisco. I haven't looked at rental rates on apartments in Budapest for 3 or 4 years, but last time I checked, they were significantly lower than ones in San Francisco.
Fast food prices probably weren't the best comparison either. In Hungary, McDonalds fast food is an expensive luxury, whereas grocery store food and local hole-in-the-wall fast food is dirt cheap in comparison to food prices in California.
If you're eating out all the time and living in luxury apartments, then the cost of living is may be pretty high in Budapest, but the average citizen there doesn't exactly live that kind of lifestyle.
I've been to the Deutsches Museum. It's an engineer's dream museum. They have exhibits on all sorts science and engineering subjects.
The place is absolutely huge: you'd probably need a week to go through it all if you looked at everything. I just saw the Computer Science section (very cool) and it took at least half a day to go through.
I strongly recommend paying it a visit if you're ever in Munich, even if you don't spend much time there.
Wow, I visited their website and just now and I found a list
of all the exhibits they have there. There are far more than I realized.
In addition, European houses generally have those wall heaters in every room, so you just turn the heaters on in the rooms that are being used, close the doors, and leave the unused portion of the house unheated.
I rather liked that when I was living in Europe. In the U.S. (at least in California), you either heat the whole house or not at all.
In fact, Vivendi closed down the former Sierra offices and killed Dynamix off a few months ago. All that's left of Sierra, really, is the name.
I'm sorry to say that Dynamix was actually killed off a number of years ago, long before Vivendi came along.
It's too bad. I like the stuff Dynamix put out, but I didn't feel terribly sorry to see Sierra bite the dust. They put out a lot of crappy stuff in their later years, and all the extra crap that Sierra games installed on your computer, like Sierra Utilities, sure pissed me off.
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I'm sure the other 100 have defected to South Korea since then, figuring they could get rich off of their newly acquired skills...or maybe they were just wanted something to eat.
If you're trying to make a logo and not a diagram, then you might want to try Inkscape as well. It's a vector-drawing program, similar in nature to Adobe Illustrator (but with fewer features)
For Linux, there's MythTV and Freevo. They're both free, and I've heard good things about both of them.
I'm planning to get a mini-ITX form-factor computer and install Linux and one of the above to use as a media box. I'd also like to put some games and possibly Stepmania on it. That would be a nice setup.
Anyone care to share any personal experiences with MythTV or Freevo?
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the people reporting it were porn site operators themselves. They get to shut down their competition and make a tidy profit at the same time.
So we get a better business plan:
1) Put up porn site
2) Report competitors' sites to Chinese officials
3) Small Profit!
4) People come to your site because their options are limited.
5) Big Profit!
With suborbital flights at the edge of space that Scaled Composites seems to be specializing it, there wouldn't be too many noise issues, and the craft will probably be too high to bother anyone on the ground.
The lack of air at higher altitudes might also reduce fuel costs, and a working scramjet might reduce them even more.
Of course getting the thing up that high is expensive as well, but it might be possible to make it economical enough to make money off suborbital flights.
I have a friend who grew in Hong Kong. He has brown spots on his teeth that he claims are the result of Hong Kong having had *too much* floride in the municipal water supply when he was little?
Does anyone know about the potential effects of too much floride?
Osama is lucky he doesn't share videos over the Internet or he would awaken the RIAA Rebellious Viva La Resistance Militia capturing him in 24 hours.
Actually, he does, but they tend to be hostage or Osama-speech videos. The RIAA hasn't gotten control of "Osama Productions": not yet, at least. It's only a matter of time before RIAA or MPAA tries to absorb Al Qaeda because they can't stand it when there are videos they don't control.
Especially since beer is cheaper.
This is especially true in Germany, where good beer is often significantly cheaper than bottled water or soft drinks.
When in a restaurant there, I would often order beer because it was the cheapest drink on the menu. I actually like ordinary tap water, but often asking for water there gets you carbonated water, which I do not like at all. You have to actually specify that you want tap water (Leitungswasser), but sometimes they still don't seem to get it.
For some reason, Germans think tap water is somehow bad for you. Coming from California, I'm telling you their tap water is *really* good. It isn't chlorinated (which makes water taste really nasty) so I never felt any need to buy bottled water, unless I was away from home traveling.
However, the law will not allow you to consent to a touching that is likely or certain to cause death.
That's what my grandfather told the Grim Reaper when he came for him. Unfortunately, grandfather is no longer around to file the lawsuit.
You could even get "l33t" knowledge cheaply, if you know where to look.
You could probably get extensive knowledge of nuclear weapon technology from an out-of-work Russian scientist for the price of a few bottles of Vodka. The only trick there is to get it out of him before he is either bought out by Iran (for six cases of Vodka and a trip to a sunny country) or he expires of liver cirrhosis.
I'm not sure how you'd copy paintings though.
There are actually painters who specialize in making copies of famous paintings. They will closely examine the original and hand-paint a copy, which will look just like it. They will then sell these copies, clearly marked as copies, to people for a pretty good price. It takes a lot of skill to exactly copy a painting by hand.
Wealthy individuals apparently enjoy having handpainted copies in their homes if they're unable to obtain the original. It's like having a print, but 100 times better. Less scrupulous individuals have sold some of these excellent copies, and it's taken an expert to be able to tell it apart from the original. Usually, the copying artist will sign the painting with something (hidden behind the paint) that only shows up when you x-ray the copy. The copying artists like to get credit for their work, and the invisible signature imbedded behind the paint also helps prevent it from being mistaken for the original.
I recall one incident (unfortunately I don't have a link) where even the experts mistook a copy for the original, and only an x-ray of the painting years later showed it to be a copy when the copying artist's mark appeared.
These very skilled copying artists could very well produce much cheaper paintings that are virtually indistinguishable from the original. Museums could very well do this, and almost everyone would be fooled.
That's rather interesting. I hadn't heard much about the infighting. It reminds me a bit of Trotsky vs. Stalin after the death of Lenin.
Amendment 73? I've heard those secret laws that they've been passing since 2001, where they can't tell you what the law says, but they can arrest you for violating it. There apparently are secret amendments too.
n goism amendments that the Department of Justice keeps stashed away somewhere.
Apparently, you've stumbled across the secret constitution with the 100 Patriot-Flag-Waving-Nationalism-Anti-Terrorism-Ji
Unfortunately, you failed to read the 100th amendment, which states that you aren't allow to reveal any of these amendments anywhere. Of course, I'm not allowed to reveal that amendment either.
Well, it looks like we will soon both be charged with something very vague and terrorism-related, and sent off to Guantanamo. Flee the country while you can, citizen.
Indeed, the group "Irgun Tsvai-Leumi" devoted to the creation of a Jewish state in Israel led by Ben Gurion conducted numerouse "terrorist" attacks in the region, and even setting off a bomb at the King David Hotel, which killed 91 people, most of them civilians. Interestingly enough, they were secretly supported by Poland.
These people are not commonly referred to as terrorists, yet their tactics reflect those of whom we now call terrorists.
There's some interesting information about the group here, including a list of the targets they bombed.
I wonder why you don't see that unlike half the eastern world, we are NOT FIGHTING you ?.
Don't worry, I'm sure good ol' G.W. will think up some reason to invade India when he's run out of other countries to invade. :)
Maybe he'll claim that India's moon rockets and nuclear weapons are secretly being combined to terrorize the U.S. or something equally as silly.
How could this post possibly be flamebait? I think some moderator is smoking crack or something.
Well, there's about the be a meta-moderation of "Unfair" for that mod.
My parents have a pair of llamas in their field. They will chase any dog without mercy that happens to come into that field. They get along just fine with horses and cows, and don't seem to mind my parents' cat.
My parents recently gave away a llama (he was too lazy for backpacking) to a farmer who needed a llama to guard some sheep from dogs and coyotes. They are very protective of other herd animals they live with.
Note that getting money for doing this is nothing all that unusual. Participants of psychological studies are usually paid for their participation, as it becomes a lot easier to find subjects for study. At universities where psychological research is conducted, it is not uncommon to see posters urging students to come and participate in a study to earn a little extra cash.
Paying people for participating has no effect on the results of the study. What can screw up a study is when the subjects are aware what exactly is being studied. When you're aware of what behaviour is being observed, you usually change that behaviour, either consciously or unconsciously. Usually, people conducting a study will tell the subjects they are studying one thing, where in reality they are studying something else.
You could of (if you have the time and interest) offered to fix her computer at a fraction of the price it would cost to get a new one. You get some money and she save a bunch of money.
Everybody wins.
By the way, the Wikipedia has a page about the museum in Sinsheim.
According the Spiegel website (yes, I can read German), the shuttle was purchased by the Automobile and Aerospace Museum in Sinsheim, near Heidelberg. That sounds quite plausible to me, as that museum has a very impressive collections of cars inside the museum and a large collection of aircraft sitting outside the museum. Some of the aircraft are open to visitors to walk into.
If anyone find themselves in southwestern Germany, and is interested in this sort of thing, I would strongly recommend going to visit this museum. It was quite interesting even to someone like me. Even though I don't find cars interesting and aircraft only mildly interesting, I still enjoyed this museum. Seeing the full-size aircraft in person instead of in pictures is a worthwhile experience. The presence of the Buran shuttle would make it even better.
Budapest has a higher cost of living than San Francisco? That makes me wonder where they got these numbers from. Budapest isn't the cheapest place in the world, but in my experience, rent and food prices there are nowhere near those in San Francisco.
Not only that, but people in Budapest make a lot less money than people in San Francisco. I noticed that it mentioned prices for luxury apartments. Luxury apartments are somewhat lacking in Budapest, so the prices for those might be pretty high. The cost of an average apartment has got to be a lot less in Budapest than in San Francisco. I haven't looked at rental rates on apartments in Budapest for 3 or 4 years, but last time I checked, they were significantly lower than ones in San Francisco.
Fast food prices probably weren't the best comparison either. In Hungary, McDonalds fast food is an expensive luxury, whereas grocery store food and local hole-in-the-wall fast food is dirt cheap in comparison to food prices in California.
If you're eating out all the time and living in luxury apartments, then the cost of living is may be pretty high in Budapest, but the average citizen there doesn't exactly live that kind of lifestyle.
I've been to the Deutsches Museum. It's an engineer's dream museum. They have exhibits on all sorts science and engineering subjects.
The place is absolutely huge: you'd probably need a week to go through it all if you looked at everything. I just saw the Computer Science section (very cool) and it took at least half a day to go through.
I strongly recommend paying it a visit if you're ever in Munich, even if you don't spend much time there.
Wow, I visited their website and just now and I found a list of all the exhibits they have there. There are far more than I realized.
In addition, European houses generally have those wall heaters in every room, so you just turn the heaters on in the rooms that are being used, close the doors, and leave the unused portion of the house unheated.
I rather liked that when I was living in Europe. In the U.S. (at least in California), you either heat the whole house or not at all.
In fact, Vivendi closed down the former Sierra offices and killed Dynamix off a few months ago. All that's left of Sierra, really, is the name.
I'm sorry to say that Dynamix was actually killed off a number of years ago, long before Vivendi came along.
It's too bad. I like the stuff Dynamix put out, but I didn't feel terribly sorry to see Sierra bite the dust. They put out a lot of crappy stuff in their later years, and all the extra crap that Sierra games installed on your computer, like Sierra Utilities, sure pissed me off.