(Though your original sneer seems to sound as though you think advocation for industrial hemp is a trojan horse to sneak in some commie plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids, and is thus to be quashed.)
I think the common dogma is that a catastrophic event happened some billion years ago where Mars lost its magnetic field. The loss caused the upper atmosphere to be evaporated from solar radiation that was then allowed to pass into the lower levels.
I always thought it probably gradually lost (and is still losing) its atmosphere and, thus, its water. Why is a catastrophic event necessary?
Why are you bouncing your phone off brick walls? Shouldn't you use it to make and receive calls? I bet they'd break with far less regularity if you switched tactics.
I have a Daweoo and getting parts for it is sometimes not easy. I wonder if they could machine a replacement brake shoe or fender for me? (I have grave doubts I could supply them with the specs, though...)
...you've never played with a flight simulator. They'll show you that 99% of flight time consists of just sitting there, waiting for the plane to get where you're going, not touching any controls at all.
I started to get all excited about Adobe Album over the image-tagging and querying and stuff ("show me pictures with both me and my wife in the last month"), but then I realized there would be no way for me to get that information back out of the program again if I ever wanted to change to another picture manager -- it seems it's stuck in some proprietary internal DB. (Or am I wrong about that?) So I've held of, unsure about which way to go next.
Now, I got all excited because Google is putting out their own picture manager -- great, the search gurus will get it right! But...you're saying there's no image tagging at all? Arg. I hope they add it sometime soon. (And maintain it in some plain text file.)
it's too broad and could even be used to target Mead and other paper companies for making tracing paper.
Don't forget Xerox. Those damnable copright infringement devices they make are the devil's work.
Seriously, though, (folks)...
I don't think it's too broad at all--being that broad shows how ridiculous this idea is. If it narrowly targeted currently-vilified practices only, it would be more likely to pass, thus providing a toehold for further erosion of the public interest later on.
I say take the argument to its logical conclusion: ban everything. Printers, scanners, photocopiers, carbon paper, pencils, pens, blank paper, the teaching of reading and writing. All these things are enabling technologies that allow (nay, encourage!) people to commit the heinous, ugly, horrible, wife-beating, child-molesting, terrorism-funding, baby-eating practice of--ugh!--intellectual property theft-stealing-robbery-piracy. Won't somebody please think of our profi...er, the starving artists?
I could see them objecting to maintaining Hubble in favor of a better space telescope, or even "we haven't got enough money", but because there's a risk?
Is the idea at NASA that we should just not try something because there's a risk? I mean, is this the same agency that put men on the moon eleven years after being formed? Should I just not go to work tomorrow because I could get run down crossing the street?
What the hell happened to this country's can-do spirit?
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But is clealy now deeply embedded in the Jobs Reality Distortion Field.
My evidence?
There is now an entire Slashdot Topic devoted to the iPod. (See top of this page.)
Pathetic.
...and he's gunnin' for your level of monopolism.
His name, of course, is "music industry".
...of joke posts to non-joke posts, for a non-"It's funny. Laugh." item, that is.
Well...all right then.
(Though your original sneer seems to sound as though you think advocation for industrial hemp is a trojan horse to sneak in some commie plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids, and is thus to be quashed.)
Cuz $DEITY forbid anyone should ever want to get high on anything.
Translation: sheep
Translation: counterculturalists who have sold out to "the man"
Translation: unmitigated nerds
Translation: pretend badasses
Translation: self-appointed martyrs
Translation: never did quite figure out what to major in
Translation: insufferable elitist
Why are you bouncing your phone off brick walls? Shouldn't you use it to make and receive calls? I bet they'd break with far less regularity if you switched tactics.
Hey thanks! Looks worth checking out...
(Pun intended?)
I have a Daweoo and getting parts for it is sometimes not easy. I wonder if they could machine a replacement brake shoe or fender for me? (I have grave doubts I could supply them with the specs, though...)
...you've never played with a flight simulator. They'll show you that 99% of flight time consists of just sitting there, waiting for the plane to get where you're going, not touching any controls at all.
Governments do play to a draw sometimes. Korea, anyone?
Clearly, he used up most of his brain's neurons for the chess-playing portion, thus leaving too few for the not-being-crazy portion.
Misdistribution of neurons is a terrible thing.
I started to get all excited about Adobe Album over the image-tagging and querying and stuff ("show me pictures with both me and my wife in the last month"), but then I realized there would be no way for me to get that information back out of the program again if I ever wanted to change to another picture manager -- it seems it's stuck in some proprietary internal DB. (Or am I wrong about that?) So I've held of, unsure about which way to go next.
Now, I got all excited because Google is putting out their own picture manager -- great, the search gurus will get it right! But...you're saying there's no image tagging at all? Arg. I hope they add it sometime soon. (And maintain it in some plain text file.)
And the legal right to sell, too?
These guys. Remember them, faithful Slashdot readers?
Time to jump on this and clean up, comrades.
Getting beaten right in the "male gromming department", that is.
See?
Seriously, though, (folks)...
I don't think it's too broad at all--being that broad shows how ridiculous this idea is. If it narrowly targeted currently-vilified practices only, it would be more likely to pass, thus providing a toehold for further erosion of the public interest later on.
I say take the argument to its logical conclusion: ban everything. Printers, scanners, photocopiers, carbon paper, pencils, pens, blank paper, the teaching of reading and writing. All these things are enabling technologies that allow (nay, encourage!) people to commit the heinous, ugly, horrible, wife-beating, child-molesting, terrorism-funding, baby-eating practice of--ugh!--intellectual property theft-stealing-robbery-piracy. Won't somebody please think of our profi...er, the starving artists?
No moving parts, works even in a vacuum.
1. Choose a Euclidean Solid
2. Place feet sticking out of each vertex
3. Drop "robot"
4. Always lands on its feet!
...if you ran your virus inside a virtual machine (like VirtualPC), and stepped the machine through cycles to see what it does.
In other news, VMWare announces new partnership with Norton...
And don't forget: if you can use this to track them, anyone else (who wants to badly enough) can too.
I could see them objecting to maintaining Hubble in favor of a better space telescope, or even "we haven't got enough money", but because there's a risk?
Is the idea at NASA that we should just not try something because there's a risk? I mean, is this the same agency that put men on the moon eleven years after being formed? Should I just not go to work tomorrow because I could get run down crossing the street?
What the hell happened to this country's can-do spirit?
Especially if it's raining. Or snowing. Or hailing. Or foggy. Or rather hot. Or particularly windy. Or some combination of the above.
...your own sense of self-satisfaction?
(ObSimpsons)