Reminds me of the Simpsons episode (yes, I'm a nerd) where Bart and Lisa went to work for a dot com company and they were issued stock options off of a toilet paper roll.
Google is ubiquitous, but if there never was a google, would things be that different? We would still have yahoo, perhaps altavista, go.com, and other search portals and technologies.
As I'm sure you know, we didnt go to the moon to learn about moon rock (well, some scientists were interested, I'm sure). We went to beat the Ruskies. At the time, it seemed like our national survival was at stake with us falling behind the USSR in space exploration. No one wanted to look up and see a "Red Moon" in the sky. Of course, if we had known that both countries would more or less abandon manned space exploration instead of going on to create colonys ala the fictional 2001 A Space Odysey, Space 1999, etc. it would have seemed a lot less "crucial".
Even if you sign your life away, and fall and get hurt/die because the operator was negligent, you (or your family) can still sue the pants off of them. IANAL, but I know that kind of waiver is less enforcable than a pre-nup.
Umm - I think it's more likely that the average slashdot reader has a cheap monitor than their own missile defense system. Story strikes closer to home (and is stuff that REALLY matters)
Simple - have passengers sign a waver. Not responsible for death, injury, etc. etc. Done and done!
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People thought the Segway would change the world to, and look how much THAT has accomplished:-). Seriously, good points about expanding the radius of work - I read somewhere that for 1000s of years the longest a person was willing to commute to work was about 45 minutes. So, when you had to travel by foot, people lived within a couple of miles of where they worked. Add horses, cars, cars with freeways, etc and the distance you could travel in 45 minutes keeps expanding.
Nope, never seen it. So he's an actor? And, it appears that the best way to get modded down as a troll is to explicitly say "This is not a troll". But I guess I knew that.
Not a troll, but - wtf is "Lil' John"? Some rapper, I presume? Either way, those teeth are frightening - they definatley must know their target market, since I never heard of this guy and certainly don't recognize him.
Not exactly not true - if you read the Snopes article, it says:
This is one of those items that -- although wrong in many of its details -- isn't exactly false in an overall sense and is perhaps more fairly labelled as "True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons."
So, it really is true overall although some of the reasons are someone stretched (not unlike a Michael Moore movie)
Ahh, remember the good old days of manned space travel and rapid advances in aeronautics. Seems like just yesterday.
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When I clicked on the link, I said to myself - "That terminal is WAY to new to be a VT100". Then I read the caption - its a far newer VT320, in spite of the name of the website.
I think the place where you draw the line is making 10,000 copies and selling them on the streets for 5 bucks a piece. Clearly, that is moraly and legaly wrong. Giving a copy to a friend or friend, who may have not have wanted to purchase the album in the first place, is not wrong. You can't penalize people for something they DIDNT do - thats just crazy. I have 100s of tapes that I made from friends and off the radio in the 70s and 80s. Did I "steal" from the record companies? I don't think so. Unless this is Minority Report, there is no way for them to draw a clear line between my actions and their profits. And even if there was, so what? It is not responsible for me to keep record companies in business. If they offer a product that I wish to purchase, then I will. It's just capitalism at work.
Not to mention Jar-Jar. For awhile there was a rumour that they were adding him to Ep. 4. Fortunately, that seems to not be the case - but I won't be watching these new DVDs anyway. Sorry, it's not Star Wars. If it was just the 1997 special edition, as bad as that was, maybe. But, enough has been changed that it's a 2004 remake/hack job of a 1977 - 1983 movie series.
But I sure did when I read of the changes. No sense in endless debating Han Shoots first etc. etc. - that's been done. But, where Lucas really went too far was in putting elements of the new movies like Naboo, the voice of Bobba Fett, and Hayden Christensen in. Basically, the original trilogy has been remade - this is not your fathers (or mine) Star Wars. No DVD purchase for me, thank you very much.
If the film was only "half completed" then I want half the money back that I've wasted on these half movies, going back to 1977 when I saw the original "Star Wars" in the theatre ten times.
Anyone know if the rumors are true that Jar Jar is getting inserted into one of the films, and that Hayden Whatshisface will be shown as a ghost at the end of Jedi? I'm interested in getting the DVD (in spite of the travesty of Han not shooting first, etc etc) but I draw the line if Lucas has added stuff from the crappy prequels to the original trilogy.
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Chris Farley - no wait, John Belushi - no wait - oh, damn.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode (yes, I'm a nerd) where Bart and Lisa went to work for a dot com company and they were issued stock options off of a toilet paper roll.
Where's Al Gore, inventor of the internet???
Google is ubiquitous, but if there never was a google, would things be that different? We would still have yahoo, perhaps altavista, go.com, and other search portals and technologies.
As I'm sure you know, we didnt go to the moon to learn about moon rock (well, some scientists were interested, I'm sure). We went to beat the Ruskies. At the time, it seemed like our national survival was at stake with us falling behind the USSR in space exploration. No one wanted to look up and see a "Red Moon" in the sky. Of course, if we had known that both countries would more or less abandon manned space exploration instead of going on to create colonys ala the fictional 2001 A Space Odysey, Space 1999, etc. it would have seemed a lot less "crucial".
Even if you sign your life away, and fall and get hurt/die because the operator was negligent, you (or your family) can still sue the pants off of them. IANAL, but I know that kind of waiver is less enforcable than a pre-nup.
Umm - I think it's more likely that the average slashdot reader has a cheap monitor than their own missile defense system. Story strikes closer to home (and is stuff that REALLY matters)
err - can I mod myself down? I meant to be funny, not informative. Obviously, insurance will be an issue for a commercial enterprise like this.
Simple - have passengers sign a waver. Not responsible for death, injury, etc. etc. Done and done!
People thought the Segway would change the world to, and look how much THAT has accomplished :-). Seriously, good points about expanding the radius of work - I read somewhere that for 1000s of years the longest a person was willing to commute to work was about 45 minutes. So, when you had to travel by foot, people lived within a couple of miles of where they worked. Add horses, cars, cars with freeways, etc and the distance you could travel in 45 minutes keeps expanding.
Nope, never seen it. So he's an actor? And, it appears that the best way to get modded down as a troll is to explicitly say "This is not a troll". But I guess I knew that.
Not a troll, but - wtf is "Lil' John"? Some rapper, I presume? Either way, those teeth are frightening - they definatley must know their target market, since I never heard of this guy and certainly don't recognize him.
Dude, where do you live? I havent seen one of those stickers in at least 10 years. Now its all about the OBX and W04 stickers on cars.
Why does every slashdot story end up as a discussion over the proper plural form of Lego? You say two fish, I say two fishes.
This is one of those items that -- although wrong in many of its details -- isn't exactly false in an overall sense and is perhaps more fairly labelled as "True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons."
So, it really is true overall although some of the reasons are someone stretched (not unlike a Michael Moore movie)
Ahh, remember the good old days of manned space travel and rapid advances in aeronautics. Seems like just yesterday.
When I clicked on the link, I said to myself - "That terminal is WAY to new to be a VT100". Then I read the caption - its a far newer VT320, in spite of the name of the website.
Damn, I DO remember that! Never had one though, but it sure looked cool.
I think the place where you draw the line is making 10,000 copies and selling them on the streets for 5 bucks a piece. Clearly, that is moraly and legaly wrong. Giving a copy to a friend or friend, who may have not have wanted to purchase the album in the first place, is not wrong. You can't penalize people for something they DIDNT do - thats just crazy. I have 100s of tapes that I made from friends and off the radio in the 70s and 80s. Did I "steal" from the record companies? I don't think so. Unless this is Minority Report, there is no way for them to draw a clear line between my actions and their profits. And even if there was, so what? It is not responsible for me to keep record companies in business. If they offer a product that I wish to purchase, then I will. It's just capitalism at work.
Not to mention Jar-Jar. For awhile there was a rumour that they were adding him to Ep. 4. Fortunately, that seems to not be the case - but I won't be watching these new DVDs anyway. Sorry, it's not Star Wars. If it was just the 1997 special edition, as bad as that was, maybe. But, enough has been changed that it's a 2004 remake/hack job of a 1977 - 1983 movie series.
But I sure did when I read of the changes. No sense in endless debating Han Shoots first etc. etc. - that's been done. But, where Lucas really went too far was in putting elements of the new movies like Naboo, the voice of Bobba Fett, and Hayden Christensen in. Basically, the original trilogy has been remade - this is not your fathers (or mine) Star Wars. No DVD purchase for me, thank you very much.
If the film was only "half completed" then I want half the money back that I've wasted on these half movies, going back to 1977 when I saw the original "Star Wars" in the theatre ten times.
Argh! Guess Lucas isn't getting my money on this one.
Anyone know if the rumors are true that Jar Jar is getting inserted into one of the films, and that Hayden Whatshisface will be shown as a ghost at the end of Jedi? I'm interested in getting the DVD (in spite of the travesty of Han not shooting first, etc etc) but I draw the line if Lucas has added stuff from the crappy prequels to the original trilogy.
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