The ridiculous shroud thing sounds like something that should be reserved for more mystical games like doom, etc. Wolfenstein was cool in that there was no monsters, just human guards and german shepherds. Shroud sounds lame.
That highway is quite spectacular, with some interesting vista's along the way. Unfortunately, some of those vista's were poorly designed. The foundation of this particular one was unstable from the beginning, and looks to have crashed Mozilla. Personally, I think they should do away with the vista's and focus on stability and long term viability.
Maybe it was only a Canadian thing, but I remember way back when that you had to pay for incoming text. I spent half an hour on hold with Telus once to tell them that it was crap that they sent me a text spam that I had to pay $0.10 for. The helpful chick on the other end of the phone agreed with me. Then I remember something along the lines of it being illegal to charge for something that the customer has no choice to decide if they wanted to accept or reject, and they were no longer allowed to charge for incoming text messages.
However we are still over the barrel with system access fees, absurd charges for call display, $400 cancellation fees, Contracts that get reset for any changes made to your plan. I'm looking forwards to the upcoming bandwidth auction! I have heard that Shaw wants to enter the cell phone market. So far my experiences with Shaw have been un-evil.
The secret is in the angle of the boob host. Once you get her on her back, and the boobs are sitting perched upon her rib cage, they should sit nice and round.
Been married almost 10 years now... and I still can't get enough of that set of boobs!
My in-laws live on a rural mountain road with a cell phone tower just across the river. A while back, someone with an Onstar equipped vehicle drove off the road, and down a bank. The brush closed behind them, and their vehicle didn't make any noticeable marks on the side of the road. The ONLY reason the authorities found them was because Onstar told them exactly where to find their car.
The fact that they were drunk, and trying to avoid the authorities is another matter.
The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) that I assume they are talking about is far from lethal. Loud? Yes. Annoying? Oh yeah. Kickass speaker for AC/DC Thunderstruck? Yeaaahhhh!!!
I had the pleasure of playing with one of these in a previous job, and the pain of having it turned up too high while I was in front of it. The LRAD is good for causing extreme discomfort, and disorienting a large crowd of people, and though it may cause permanent hearing damage if abused, I can't see it killing anyone.
My wife and I are Christians, and my mother-in-law has recently become a Jehova's Witness. This leads to an extra "special" relationship with my mother-in-law. But it evens out because my mother is a Mormon. Lets just say that our kids absolutely have to grow up knowing how to make their own decisions, and research what they believe thoroughly. If they forgo Christianity once they are old enough to make their own decision, that is their decision as it is my job to raise them in such a way that they can make decisions that are un-tainted by others.
Cows have 4 stomaches designed for a vegetarian diet. I have a single stomach designed for vegetarians!
The other day, I was home alone tiling my floor which meant I had no stove in the house. I was forced to survive with what I could cook on the bbq. There is a cute little German meat shop a few blocks away where I picked up 2 AA Alberta strip loins about 2.5cm thick (I had to survive for 2 nights with no woman around;-). I covered both sides of each steak with garlic pepper and allowed them to reach room temperature on my counter before I grilled them to a beautiful juicy rare with perfect grill marks on both sides. Then I like to hold the steak on the side with the fat strip down to sear to a nice crispy brown. That's my desert. Served with an ice cold home-brew stout, it was the best meal I had in a long time.
If you can grow a strip-loin with perfect texture, perfect amount of sinew and perfect flavor to reproduce the perfect steak? I'll give it a go!
If I am sitting down to a meal that has no meat in it, I will generally enjoy it until someone says something like "Pretty good, and it doesn't even have any meat in it". I then have to suppress the urge to go to McD's.
I agree with what you say Omestes, but you missed an important point.
When the government draws up a budget, they determine how much money they are going to need to spend, then decide where they are going to get the money from. By not taking the $528 million from the big greedy corporations, they need to adjust the tax rate of the citizens to compensate. So in essence, that $528 million is coming directly out of your pocket.
The drug heads, bums, and other burdens on society are part of living in a civilized community. I would like to see laws allowing the incarceration of drug users for their own help, but that's just me.
I pulled out ear plugs once on a road trip when the kids were getting loud in the back seat. I got in flack though because I didn't bring a pair for the wife.
When I used to fly, I would wear earplugs, then ear phones (the big ones) on top. It worked pretty good, and with engine noise and such, wouldn't disturb anyone else. My biggest problem was that cranked to full volume, the battery wouldn't make it for the 8-10 hours of flying.
Except that the CEO of said corporation could then manipulate this lemming mentality to his benefit, at the expense of the little guy (me).
Imagine CEO of XYZ company owns 1,000,000 shares of his company that is trading at $50 per share on Friday. He wants to build a new bungalow by the lake, but has all his capital tied up in his company. What does he do? Calls up his broker on Friday afternoon and sells 900,000 shares for $45,000,000. The media picks up on this, and it is all that is talked about all weekend. Widespread panick ensues. Monday morning opens with XYZ falling through the floor. By Tuesday afternoon, the CEO calls up his broker and buys back his 900,000 shares at $20 each for a total of $18,000,000. The CEO now has $27,000,000 to spend on his cabin. After a couple weeks, everyone realizes that there was nothing wrong with XYZ and share prices begin to climb back up.
But hey, what do I know? I don't own any stock, or have any money to play with, but I am drinking a really fine stout that makes me think I have savvy!
Buddy of mine was working on a yacht with a schnazzy sound system. Once they realized what they had access to, all the technicians bought portable harddrives and made themselves a copy.
Good thing I didn't copy the 50Gigs of mp3's from CD, or I could be on the hook for a lot of money!
Ha ha, that reminds me of the time I was moving a '69 AMC Javelin for a buddy. I had to actually drop the phone once while trying to corner in a 3-on-the-tree with no power steering. I actually needed both hands to turn the wheel, plus shifting with an unfamiliar transmission. Good times, good times. At least the left front brake worked...
I don't know too much about RFID, but I thought the deal was that it is encrypted so that the chip only responds if the code transmitted is correct. Much like my car alarm. This makes it more difficult to "sniff" hidden chips.
As far as removing the unwanted RFID chip, if the RFID transducer is fabricated on top of a PIC microcontroller, and the microcontroller has no added external markings, everything that has a microcontroller could have a hidden RFID chip. This means your key fob for your car, your USB memory stick, your cell phone, your digital camera your... anything with a microcontroller could contain a very non-removable RFID device. Reading the chip IS limited to a few inches, but airports could find this a useful way to track travellers when they put your cell phone through the x-ray. Sorta like an extra passport you didn't know you were carrying?
Would have been perfect for my old commute. 25km that would take me 45 minutes. Bumper to bumper the whole way. I finally quit because it was costing me so much in gas to get there. A car like this? Assuming they didn't price it in the range that Canadians (and Americans) are used to, would go a long way in the city.
I just told all my friends to start drinking Corona, or MGD (pry off) or even Grolsch with the flip top. Now that I have enough bottles for 2 batches (23 liters each!) I can start trading full beer to my friends for their empties. Works out at around a dollar a liter.
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The ridiculous shroud thing sounds like something that should be reserved for more mystical games like doom, etc. Wolfenstein was cool in that there was no monsters, just human guards and german shepherds. Shroud sounds lame.
That highway is quite spectacular, with some interesting vista's along the way. Unfortunately, some of those vista's were poorly designed. The foundation of this particular one was unstable from the beginning, and looks to have crashed Mozilla. Personally, I think they should do away with the vista's and focus on stability and long term viability.
I'm confused...
Maybe it was only a Canadian thing, but I remember way back when that you had to pay for incoming text. I spent half an hour on hold with Telus once to tell them that it was crap that they sent me a text spam that I had to pay $0.10 for. The helpful chick on the other end of the phone agreed with me. Then I remember something along the lines of it being illegal to charge for something that the customer has no choice to decide if they wanted to accept or reject, and they were no longer allowed to charge for incoming text messages.
However we are still over the barrel with system access fees, absurd charges for call display, $400 cancellation fees, Contracts that get reset for any changes made to your plan. I'm looking forwards to the upcoming bandwidth auction! I have heard that Shaw wants to enter the cell phone market. So far my experiences with Shaw have been un-evil.
The secret is in the angle of the boob host. Once you get her on her back, and the boobs are sitting perched upon her rib cage, they should sit nice and round.
Been married almost 10 years now... and I still can't get enough of that set of boobs!
My in-laws live on a rural mountain road with a cell phone tower just across the river. A while back, someone with an Onstar equipped vehicle drove off the road, and down a bank. The brush closed behind them, and their vehicle didn't make any noticeable marks on the side of the road. The ONLY reason the authorities found them was because Onstar told them exactly where to find their car.
The fact that they were drunk, and trying to avoid the authorities is another matter.
I like to buy a new one, solved, and in the package, then using some CA (krazy glue) glue it together so nobody can "un-solve" it.
The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) that I assume they are talking about is far from lethal. Loud? Yes. Annoying? Oh yeah. Kickass speaker for AC/DC Thunderstruck? Yeaaahhhh!!!
I had the pleasure of playing with one of these in a previous job, and the pain of having it turned up too high while I was in front of it. The LRAD is good for causing extreme discomfort, and disorienting a large crowd of people, and though it may cause permanent hearing damage if abused, I can't see it killing anyone.
My wife and I are Christians, and my mother-in-law has recently become a Jehova's Witness. This leads to an extra "special" relationship with my mother-in-law. But it evens out because my mother is a Mormon. Lets just say that our kids absolutely have to grow up knowing how to make their own decisions, and research what they believe thoroughly. If they forgo Christianity once they are old enough to make their own decision, that is their decision as it is my job to raise them in such a way that they can make decisions that are un-tainted by others.
My Dad used to always say "Poking butter up a wildcat's ass"
I find it gives a good mental picture of difficult, and not worth trying.
Ha ha, sucker, I am in!
Now I'll just change your router settings so you can't access the inter...
Cows have 4 stomaches designed for a vegetarian diet. I have a single stomach designed for vegetarians!
;-). I covered both sides of each steak with garlic pepper and allowed them to reach room temperature on my counter before I grilled them to a beautiful juicy rare with perfect grill marks on both sides. Then I like to hold the steak on the side with the fat strip down to sear to a nice crispy brown. That's my desert. Served with an ice cold home-brew stout, it was the best meal I had in a long time.
The other day, I was home alone tiling my floor which meant I had no stove in the house. I was forced to survive with what I could cook on the bbq. There is a cute little German meat shop a few blocks away where I picked up 2 AA Alberta strip loins about 2.5cm thick (I had to survive for 2 nights with no woman around
If you can grow a strip-loin with perfect texture, perfect amount of sinew and perfect flavor to reproduce the perfect steak? I'll give it a go!
If I am sitting down to a meal that has no meat in it, I will generally enjoy it until someone says something like "Pretty good, and it doesn't even have any meat in it". I then have to suppress the urge to go to McD's.
According to the voice data recorder, the last comment before the course change was:
"Screw you guys, I'm going home."
I agree with what you say Omestes, but you missed an important point.
When the government draws up a budget, they determine how much money they are going to need to spend, then decide where they are going to get the money from. By not taking the $528 million from the big greedy corporations, they need to adjust the tax rate of the citizens to compensate. So in essence, that $528 million is coming directly out of your pocket.
The drug heads, bums, and other burdens on society are part of living in a civilized community. I would like to see laws allowing the incarceration of drug users for their own help, but that's just me.
Thanks. Worked too hard today, missed the obvious joke. I'll try not to let it happen again.
OK, I got nothin' on LHC-001. Wiki let me down, and even Google let me down. What's LHC-001 or are you talking out of your ass?
I pulled out ear plugs once on a road trip when the kids were getting loud in the back seat. I got in flack though because I didn't bring a pair for the wife.
When I used to fly, I would wear earplugs, then ear phones (the big ones) on top. It worked pretty good, and with engine noise and such, wouldn't disturb anyone else. My biggest problem was that cranked to full volume, the battery wouldn't make it for the 8-10 hours of flying.
Except that the CEO of said corporation could then manipulate this lemming mentality to his benefit, at the expense of the little guy (me).
Imagine CEO of XYZ company owns 1,000,000 shares of his company that is trading at $50 per share on Friday. He wants to build a new bungalow by the lake, but has all his capital tied up in his company. What does he do? Calls up his broker on Friday afternoon and sells 900,000 shares for $45,000,000. The media picks up on this, and it is all that is talked about all weekend. Widespread panick ensues. Monday morning opens with XYZ falling through the floor. By Tuesday afternoon, the CEO calls up his broker and buys back his 900,000 shares at $20 each for a total of $18,000,000. The CEO now has $27,000,000 to spend on his cabin. After a couple weeks, everyone realizes that there was nothing wrong with XYZ and share prices begin to climb back up.
But hey, what do I know? I don't own any stock, or have any money to play with, but I am drinking a really fine stout that makes me think I have savvy!
Buddy of mine was working on a yacht with a schnazzy sound system. Once they realized what they had access to, all the technicians bought portable harddrives and made themselves a copy.
Good thing I didn't copy the 50Gigs of mp3's from CD, or I could be on the hook for a lot of money!
Awesome! That's the best 404 page I have ever seen!
Any strongbad related post deserves +6 awesomeness!
Ha ha, that reminds me of the time I was moving a '69 AMC Javelin for a buddy. I had to actually drop the phone once while trying to corner in a 3-on-the-tree with no power steering. I actually needed both hands to turn the wheel, plus shifting with an unfamiliar transmission. Good times, good times. At least the left front brake worked...
I don't know too much about RFID, but I thought the deal was that it is encrypted so that the chip only responds if the code transmitted is correct. Much like my car alarm. This makes it more difficult to "sniff" hidden chips.
As far as removing the unwanted RFID chip, if the RFID transducer is fabricated on top of a PIC microcontroller, and the microcontroller has no added external markings, everything that has a microcontroller could have a hidden RFID chip. This means your key fob for your car, your USB memory stick, your cell phone, your digital camera your... anything with a microcontroller could contain a very non-removable RFID device. Reading the chip IS limited to a few inches, but airports could find this a useful way to track travellers when they put your cell phone through the x-ray. Sorta like an extra passport you didn't know you were carrying?
Would have been perfect for my old commute. 25km that would take me 45 minutes. Bumper to bumper the whole way. I finally quit because it was costing me so much in gas to get there. A car like this? Assuming they didn't price it in the range that Canadians (and Americans) are used to, would go a long way in the city.
Google: "Z80 kit", third one down.
http://www.quasarelectronics.com/sc01.htm
I wonder if they will setup a pier to pier network.
I just told all my friends to start drinking Corona, or MGD (pry off) or even Grolsch with the flip top. Now that I have enough bottles for 2 batches (23 liters each!) I can start trading full beer to my friends for their empties. Works out at around a dollar a liter.
Cheaper then Kool-Aid!