What I haven't seen anyone here mention is that this is more than likely one of the many such class action suits that are being slipped through as the door is closing. Suits like this will be required next week to seek a willing Federal Court by The Class-Action Fairness Act of 2005 (S. 274, I think).
The plaintiffs may have a leg to stand on, but (and IANAL) it looks shaky at best. This has the markings of just another "last-minute" case attempt. If I were to wager, I'd say the attorneys are hoping for an out-of-court settlement.
Would you buy designer grass that grows two inches and stops?
Most people I know that live in suburbs already have Zoysia. Its a hybrid grass that chokes out weeds and grows right up to about the right hieght and then slows. You still ahve to cut it occasionally but not that often. If you let it get too tall it will bend in half giving you a mowed lawn look whether you feel in the mood ot mow or not. Granted it isn't GM but hybrids are in a way a form of gene tinkering.
My point is, although we now have the ability to shortcut right to the desired traits, engineering plants (or anything else for that matter) isn't exactly a recent human endevor.
I want to apologize to mankey wanker, Tassach, and the AC. After carefully rereading my post I discovered the source of miscommunication.
I did not mean 'wrong' as in: "The sin thou hath committed is wrong, thou shalt burn for eternity."
It was actually more of a: "OH! Gurl! She is just so wrong!"
So you see, its the meaning of the word 'wrong'. Which is sort of a slang I hear my friends use to mean something that is dramatic or shocking, not morally reprehensible.
I think you misunderstood my tounge-in-cheek humor. I obviously am the last person to say anything about someone's sexual preferences. Mine may be pretty plain (relativly), but I can appreciate others having more interesting play preferences, even ones that involve stretching an orfice to its physical limits. (Makes me grimace just thinking about it).:-P
Good gawd I know I'm going to regret this. . . but, um, WTF is fisting? I'm gay, and have no clue, my boyfriend thinks he knows what it is. ..but if he's right that's, oh man, that's just wrong.
I read this book last fall. It is a good book with a humorous take on trivia and some dime store psychology about its possible relationship with intelligence.
The book is also a very indepth analysis of the author's own personal neuroses.
Actually, that is the reason I keep hiding the book from my partner. I also consider a eventful evening a trip from the sofa to the fridge. I certainly don't need to offer up any amunition to my partner.
All in all, it is a take on information overload, and those people who belive that simply knowing a lot means they are intelligent.
The link, oddly enough, is www.frontierlabs.com. I have the previous model, the NEX IIe, and have loved it. No matter how many times I have dropped it at the gym or jogging it still works. The NEX ia is now just $69, BYOCF. I have to also say, running for a week off one set of AA batts is nice. I keep a few sets of rechargables in my gym bag and never have to remember to plug in the actual player. If I'm not at home to recharge, there are still AA batts for sell somewhere. Their 20gig player is nice also.
As far as customer support they are absolutly top notch. The NEX IIa's battery cover wasn't all that well designed. It was not attached to the unit and therefore somewhat easy to loose. I have lost 3 personally. Each time, I emailed them and they mailed me a new one for no charge. (They fixed the design flaw in the NEX ia, BTW)
I love their new motto, "FL: Lucking Fovely Entertainment"
Imagine what would happen if they found silver, uranium, plutonium, platinium, etc. on Titan! The biggest "gold" rush ever!
Aside from the fact that simply transporting such materials back to earth would cost tens to hundreds of times thier value, may I point out that precious metals are a drop in the bucket of the real value in a planetary body with "rivers of methane." You may be more familiar with methane as the "Natural Gas" you buy from the utility company.
What I thought would be a really easy addition would be a flash card reader that simply read a bunch of simple commands.
OH! That kind of flash card! As I was reading the above I pictured standing in my living room holding index cards with commands written on them in front of my Robosapien and it reading them and nodding that it understood. Maybe some more coffee will help . . .
Let's forget terrorists for a moment, do you really believe these badges would be designed so that an employee of the Department of Agriculture can gain access to an NSA building?
True, true. But let's reverse that for just a moment. Do you think a valid NSA, or more practically, a valid FBI ID would grant the bearer unfettered access to the Dept. of Agriculture and other "low-level" agencies? Before you say, "Yeah, but what would terrorists care about in the DOA?", may I direct you to the MIPT's repository on Agri-Terrorism threats.
I would suspect that someone who looked "official" and had a convincing story would get pretty far with a reasonable fake. Point is, if there are many differnt types of IDs out there you will need many differnt fakes and correlating stories. When presented with IDs from other agencies guards will typically look up sample IDs they are not familiar with and/or verify stories. By creating one Universal ID(tm) you create a dangerous comfort level. IDs begin to all look the same and it becomes easier to overlook small discrepancies that would scream fake.
Ask a Police Officer which fake IDs are missed at clubs the most often. Yet another in-state ID that passes a glancing inspection. Or an out-of-state ID that requires the checker to read the card trying to locate name and date of birth.
Although I live on the Ocean now, I never learned this in school. I grew up in the heartland. Ah, tornadoes. As such, I can identify a supercell, know that a wall cloud will look like a comma on doplar radar, and to find a stable lower level, inner room, put my head between my knees and put my hands palm down over the back of my head. If outside find low ground. Avoid ditches (flash flooding) and trees (lighting).
My point is, that yes, US schools are very good about teaching safety. It wouldn't suprise me at all that kids in coastal areas learn what to do for tsunamis, huricaines, et. al.
My Elementary school years were filled with safety and health seminars with guest speakers/mascots teaching everthing from school bus saftey, to fire saftey, to dental care, and even a rather odd saftey day about safe roller skating and skate boarding. Oh yeah, electricity saftey day was a blast! One guy in a furry lightning bolt costume with a huge smiley face, one Van DeGraph generator, two terrified first graders, and one very brightly lit florescent tube in thier hands. Great fun.
High School health/saftey demos were much more depressing. . . AIDS, gasoline explosions, major wounds, physical trauma. . . bleh.
No you didn't...but you may have spent 7 hours on a ramp or taxiway.
Allow me to rephrase. . . I spent 7 whole hours in a non-moving plane that was parked on a concrete surface and filled with just under 200 really pissy people screaming at flight attendants.
Back on May 1st of this year Delta's internal traffic monitoring system grounded them worldwide when it was hit by a worm (forget which one). Yours truly was flying that day. I spent 7 hours on a runway in Cleveland. (Talk about adding insult to injury.) Comair is a regional carrier of Detla's. I wonder who handles Delta's IT needs?
good place to look for stories about entertainment, food, culture, etc., but news reporting - and especially investigative journalism - is just not its forte
Sounds like the LA Times provides exactly what its local readership cares about.
Yeah, yeah. I live in Miami, we won't get into the Hearald.
In the past couple of decades there has been this great public concern about government debt. The reason I am bothered by this is that no one ever bothers to mention who the loan holders are.
Almost all the US Federal Government debt is in the form of bonds. Who holds these bonds? Your grandmother. Your company. Me.
Most, in fact close to all of the US Federal Governments loans come from Treasury Bonds.
How this works: Every time I get a pay check some of it goes into my 401k, some goes into my IRA. However, I also buy a Treasury Bond. There is an fact a Bureau of the Public Debt.
It goes like this. I have $25 burning a hole in my pocket. Uncle same needs $25 to put a man on the moon but won't have the extra cash coming in from taxes that he needs. I buy a bond, in this case a Series EE from TreasuryDirect, that is deducted from my checking and mailed to me. Now, the General Accounting Office has $25 more dollars. They do not write $25 in the black. The face value of this bond is not $25 but in fact $50. The loan period would be 17 years. So they would actually write -$25. (This is a tecnicallity as they would actually put the mature value, the bond reaches face after 17 years but I can hold it and acrue intrest for up to 30 years). Point is that for the next 17 years they will be showing a debt to me.
There are many differnt types of bonds, War Bonds, Public Works Bonds, Treasury Bonds, etc etc.
Almost all public debt is bonds held by companies and citizens. The Insurance Industry loves bonds. They hold more than half of public bonds, because public bonds are long term, safe, guaranteed money makers.
It may not be the best thing for the government to spend uncontrollably, but that is not to say that it hurts the American people. You want some of your taxes back? Charge Uncle Sam interest.
This is a greatly simplified explination of public debt. The important thing to remember is that the government typically borrows the extra money it needs from the citizens who MAKE MONEY off this arrangment.
Open your own account with the Treasury. Loaning Uncle Sam money is a great way to save for the future.
Over the years the broadest swings have been in the swans which apparently are somewhat difficult to breed. Some years there are huge shortages other years gluts in availability. Excluding the swans from the core index allows for a more stable and truthful economic indicator that is not tied to supply-demand related swings in swan pricing.
Can't belive I am jumping in on this discussion. ..
Apparently the testicles of a Kangaroo are so close to the body that "Determining the gender is done by locating the pouch on a female or the testicles of the male." Read: feel around till you find something, then give a good squeeze to see if there is anything in it. Also, IIRC, when two male kangaroos fight for dominance thier teticles pull up into thier bodies to prevent damage.
So, although, I have never heard of someone being so frightened that thier testicles retracted into the abdominal cavity (which personall would progress my fear to outright trauma), it is not without merit and precidence in the animal kingdom.
Okay, okay, so I'm not on your Christmas card list. My point is that everone seems to have all sorts of problems with all sorts of other people. There are six billion of us all with different opinons. (thank God they aren't all Mac zealots) Maybe a little more "whatever the fuck, leave em alone, mind your on bid'nes" would do us all some good.
I think Wal-Mart has a holiday discount on senses of humor, might wanna check that one out.
Oh and BTW, I saw your kids, I wouldn't want them any more than I would wnat your fugly ass.
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Pardon the aside, but does "plastified" mean the same as laminated?
The plaintiffs may have a leg to stand on, but (and IANAL) it looks shaky at best. This has the markings of just another "last-minute" case attempt. If I were to wager, I'd say the attorneys are hoping for an out-of-court settlement.
But when will season 1 be out on DVD?
Most people I know that live in suburbs already have Zoysia. Its a hybrid grass that chokes out weeds and grows right up to about the right hieght and then slows. You still ahve to cut it occasionally but not that often. If you let it get too tall it will bend in half giving you a mowed lawn look whether you feel in the mood ot mow or not. Granted it isn't GM but hybrids are in a way a form of gene tinkering.
My point is, although we now have the ability to shortcut right to the desired traits, engineering plants (or anything else for that matter) isn't exactly a recent human endevor.
Nothing to see here, move along.
So that's what they wanted with Keyhole. . .
The Seventies came back in fashion, why not in computing.
I did not mean 'wrong' as in: "The sin thou hath committed is wrong, thou shalt burn for eternity."
It was actually more of a: "OH! Gurl! She is just so wrong!"
So you see, its the meaning of the word 'wrong'. Which is sort of a slang I hear my friends use to mean something that is dramatic or shocking, not morally reprehensible.
I think you misunderstood my tounge-in-cheek humor. I obviously am the last person to say anything about someone's sexual preferences. Mine may be pretty plain (relativly), but I can appreciate others having more interesting play preferences, even ones that involve stretching an orfice to its physical limits. (Makes me grimace just thinking about it). :-P
OH JESUS, 86 my last post. Asked a buddy, he knew A LOT about it and has done it to his GF. Just wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.
Good gawd I know I'm going to regret this. . . but, um, WTF is fisting? I'm gay, and have no clue, my boyfriend thinks he knows what it is. . .but if he's right that's, oh man, that's just wrong.
The book is also a very indepth analysis of the author's own personal neuroses.
Actually, that is the reason I keep hiding the book from my partner. I also consider a eventful evening a trip from the sofa to the fridge. I certainly don't need to offer up any amunition to my partner.
All in all, it is a take on information overload, and those people who belive that simply knowing a lot means they are intelligent.
As far as customer support they are absolutly top notch. The NEX IIa's battery cover wasn't all that well designed. It was not attached to the unit and therefore somewhat easy to loose. I have lost 3 personally. Each time, I emailed them and they mailed me a new one for no charge. (They fixed the design flaw in the NEX ia, BTW)
I love their new motto, "FL: Lucking Fovely Entertainment"
Aside from the fact that simply transporting such materials back to earth would cost tens to hundreds of times thier value, may I point out that precious metals are a drop in the bucket of the real value in a planetary body with "rivers of methane." You may be more familiar with methane as the "Natural Gas" you buy from the utility company.
Let's hope Dubya doesn't get wind of this.
OH! That kind of flash card! As I was reading the above I pictured standing in my living room holding index cards with commands written on them in front of my Robosapien and it reading them and nodding that it understood. Maybe some more coffee will help . . .
True, true. But let's reverse that for just a moment. Do you think a valid NSA, or more practically, a valid FBI ID would grant the bearer unfettered access to the Dept. of Agriculture and other "low-level" agencies? Before you say, "Yeah, but what would terrorists care about in the DOA?", may I direct you to the MIPT's repository on Agri-Terrorism threats.
I would suspect that someone who looked "official" and had a convincing story would get pretty far with a reasonable fake. Point is, if there are many differnt types of IDs out there you will need many differnt fakes and correlating stories. When presented with IDs from other agencies guards will typically look up sample IDs they are not familiar with and/or verify stories. By creating one Universal ID(tm) you create a dangerous comfort level. IDs begin to all look the same and it becomes easier to overlook small discrepancies that would scream fake.
Ask a Police Officer which fake IDs are missed at clubs the most often. Yet another in-state ID that passes a glancing inspection. Or an out-of-state ID that requires the checker to read the card trying to locate name and date of birth.
My point is, that yes, US schools are very good about teaching safety. It wouldn't suprise me at all that kids in coastal areas learn what to do for tsunamis, huricaines, et. al.
My Elementary school years were filled with safety and health seminars with guest speakers/mascots teaching everthing from school bus saftey, to fire saftey, to dental care, and even a rather odd saftey day about safe roller skating and skate boarding. Oh yeah, electricity saftey day was a blast! One guy in a furry lightning bolt costume with a huge smiley face, one Van DeGraph generator, two terrified first graders, and one very brightly lit florescent tube in thier hands. Great fun.
High School health/saftey demos were much more depressing. . . AIDS, gasoline explosions, major wounds, physical trauma. . . bleh.
One word. . . Tornadoes.
Allow me to rephrase. . . I spent 7 whole hours in a non-moving plane that was parked on a concrete surface and filled with just under 200 really pissy people screaming at flight attendants.
Back on May 1st of this year Delta's internal traffic monitoring system grounded them worldwide when it was hit by a worm (forget which one). Yours truly was flying that day. I spent 7 hours on a runway in Cleveland. (Talk about adding insult to injury.) Comair is a regional carrier of Detla's. I wonder who handles Delta's IT needs?
Sounds like the LA Times provides exactly what its local readership cares about.
Yeah, yeah. I live in Miami, we won't get into the Hearald.
Almost all the US Federal Government debt is in the form of bonds. Who holds these bonds? Your grandmother. Your company. Me.
Most, in fact close to all of the US Federal Governments loans come from Treasury Bonds.
How this works: Every time I get a pay check some of it goes into my 401k, some goes into my IRA. However, I also buy a Treasury Bond. There is an fact a Bureau of the Public Debt.
It goes like this. I have $25 burning a hole in my pocket. Uncle same needs $25 to put a man on the moon but won't have the extra cash coming in from taxes that he needs. I buy a bond, in this case a Series EE from TreasuryDirect, that is deducted from my checking and mailed to me. Now, the General Accounting Office has $25 more dollars. They do not write $25 in the black. The face value of this bond is not $25 but in fact $50. The loan period would be 17 years. So they would actually write -$25. (This is a tecnicallity as they would actually put the mature value, the bond reaches face after 17 years but I can hold it and acrue intrest for up to 30 years). Point is that for the next 17 years they will be showing a debt to me.
There are many differnt types of bonds, War Bonds, Public Works Bonds, Treasury Bonds, etc etc.
Almost all public debt is bonds held by companies and citizens. The Insurance Industry loves bonds. They hold more than half of public bonds, because public bonds are long term, safe, guaranteed money makers.
It may not be the best thing for the government to spend uncontrollably, but that is not to say that it hurts the American people. You want some of your taxes back? Charge Uncle Sam interest.
This is a greatly simplified explination of public debt. The important thing to remember is that the government typically borrows the extra money it needs from the citizens who MAKE MONEY off this arrangment.
Open your own account with the Treasury. Loaning Uncle Sam money is a great way to save for the future.
Over the years the broadest swings have been in the swans which apparently are somewhat difficult to breed. Some years there are huge shortages other years gluts in availability. Excluding the swans from the core index allows for a more stable and truthful economic indicator that is not tied to supply-demand related swings in swan pricing.
Apparently the testicles of a Kangaroo are so close to the body that "Determining the gender is done by locating the pouch on a female or the testicles of the male." Read: feel around till you find something, then give a good squeeze to see if there is anything in it. Also, IIRC, when two male kangaroos fight for dominance thier teticles pull up into thier bodies to prevent damage.
So, although, I have never heard of someone being so frightened that thier testicles retracted into the abdominal cavity (which personall would progress my fear to outright trauma), it is not without merit and precidence in the animal kingdom.
I think Wal-Mart has a holiday discount on senses of humor, might wanna check that one out.
Oh and BTW, I saw your kids, I wouldn't want them any more than I would wnat your fugly ass.
Fingers crossed dude. It will happen.