That worked for me until I emailed a customer feedback comment to a somewhat large corporation which makes a product I really like. I also got a satisfactory reply from their customer representative.
A few months later, that *expletive* customer representative forwards one of those stupid urban myth chain-letters (about some missing kid/fake amber alert), using that company's email address book, which included my email address!
So what are you saying, there should be a canadian-american war to destroy most of the infrastructure, so later we can rebuild it with brand-new hardware?
Well at least it would give those Uconn students a good reason to riot and burn cars.../sarcasm
is people who would normally be too busy to have social lives, using electrical gadgets, computers, televisions, etc. would suddenly engage in actually talking to strangers in groups in the street.
I thought it was an interesting phenomenon. We should have periodic, planned blackouts more often!
Not to mention the urban backyard astronomers, who would be very happy too.
imagine some sort of cruisecontrol with realtime indicators flashing up to tell you which direction to go to that is most efficient and fast.
on the highway, the car-clusters could share the windbreaking load, like migrating geese, thereby increasing fuel efficiency. and at the push of a button, get full control again and opt out of the cluster.
So, how long before
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How long before we can wi-fi-cluster cars, and let the network arrange speed and routing through congested urban areas?
Looks like there's a trend starting to develop here.
And I think it's for the better too... Sci-Fi Mini Series.
The Dune ones, the new Battlestar Galactica, for example, and now this Farscape one.
I think it's a good way to keep stories fresh and entertaining, with a tight plot, compared to some season-long space operas that drag on way past their expiry date...
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of TV. Mostly cartoons (and later SitComs), mostly on the English American channels, because the local French ones were crappy in comparison.
Years later, when we started having English classes in school, I was way ahead of the learning curve.
Russian "Flying Saucers" to Grace American Skies Created: 05.04.2004 20:12 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 20:14 MSK
MosNews
You might not have to go to New Mexico to see a UFO-flying saucers are coming to your home skies, thanks to Russian aircraft designers. The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has signed an agreement with Russia's EKIP Aviation Concern to cooperate in the production of unique flying saucer-shaped aircraft developed in Russia, perfect for putting out forest fires and monitoring oil pipelines. Originally developed in 1992, the alien-looking aircraft failed to secure funding from the Russian government. Twelve years later, the U.S. and China are very interested in making it work.
Obviously, the unusual round shape in itself makes such a vehicle exciting-but what are the practical applications? "This is a radically new craft," Alexey Konovalov, EKIP's executive director, explains. It doesn't require a long runway and can land on sand, but most importantly, the shape of the aircraft is a brilliant solution for getting rid of vibration, a long-time problem in aircraft design. EKIP plans to build first unpiloted vehicles that could be used for monitoring in hard-to-reach areas and then move to building larger craft weighing up to 100 tons. The unpiloted EKIP "ships" could aid in putting out forest fires as well as collecting information that could be transmitted to a land base, Konovalov said.
Originally, the Russian government had promised funding for the project, but in 1995, three years after the construction commenced, all funding was cut off. Private investors couldn't be persuaded to commit the millions of dollars necessary to continue work on the craft, Konovalov laments. Now, with the agreement between EKIP and the Naval Air System Command signed, EKIP is waiting for the funds to come in and in the meantime, negotiating with China to discuss a possible joint venture.
Russian designers will keep the rights to their unique work, but the vehicles might be produced either in Russia or the U.S. Currently, the plan is to test the aircraft in 2007 and launch it into mass production in another five years. Until then, any strange shapes in the sky are certain to be flown by little green men.
"I looked up the laws about changing your name in a couple different states, Washington, Oregon, and Ohio, and every single one of the says that it's alright to have a number spelled out, but having a numeral isn't allowed."
Alright! As a Star Wars fan, that means I can still name my kid Artoo Deetoo, or See Threepio.
if you want to give your child an unusual name, at least give him or her something s/he can abbreviate to something less unusual if s/he turns out to be more conservative than you, otherwise, s/he could have some problems, among other things, with finding a job, people assuming the name has typo or is a joke name (but I have a vewy good fwiend in Wome named Biggus Dickus!).
even some foreigners are starting to modify their names due to embarrassing phonetic correlation in English... like this Vietnamese person I know: real name "Phuoc". (side note: a friend of mine who is a native French speaker took her child to the Toronto zoo once, and she was teaching her to say the animal names in French. The people around her were evidently scandalized to see this mother teach her daughter to point at a seal and to say: "un phoque!")
That being said, I also know a guy named Richard Hertz, who everyone calls Dick. No joke.
I wouldnt be surprised if one day someone starts an agency to research names that have absolutely no bad connotations in any language.
Yeah, but there could be some revisionists and deniers among the people who make games...
I mean, the Darwinists pretty much won the Evolution vs Creation debate, but the creationists are still around, and there's plenty of evidence regarding the WW2 holocaust, yet there are holocaust deniers.
the problem with historical war games is that they represent a sanitized version of what really happened, probably the winner's version of history, too.
Slashdot Mirror
isnt he planning on shooting sequels, and then prequels to Howard the Duck?
I saw some leaked snapshots of Anakin, and I'm betting that the title will be:
Star Wars: A Jedi BBQ
That worked for me until I emailed a customer feedback comment to a somewhat large corporation which makes a product I really like. I also got a satisfactory reply from their customer representative.
:(
A few months later, that *expletive* customer representative forwards one of those stupid urban myth chain-letters (about some missing kid/fake amber alert), using that company's email address book, which included my email address!
Then the spam deluge started.
If only the spam I get would actually contain a sales pitch... those are easy to filter out and delete straight out at the mail server level
With HTML turned off, all I get is gibberish spam, with gibberish sender, gibberish subject and gibberish content. Ad Nauseam.
I'm about to throw the towel and get a new email address.
Or a bag of rocks and spammers' addresses.
So what are you saying, there should be a canadian-american war to destroy most of the infrastructure, so later we can rebuild it with brand-new hardware?
/sarcasm
Well at least it would give those Uconn students a good reason to riot and burn cars...
He who dies with the most money, still dies.
is people who would normally be too busy to have social lives, using electrical gadgets, computers, televisions, etc. would suddenly engage in actually talking to strangers in groups in the street.
I thought it was an interesting phenomenon. We should have periodic, planned blackouts more often!
Not to mention the urban backyard astronomers, who would be very happy too.
you wouldnt have to give up control totally.
imagine some sort of cruisecontrol with realtime indicators flashing up to tell you which direction to go to that is most efficient and fast.
on the highway, the car-clusters could share the windbreaking load, like migrating geese, thereby increasing fuel efficiency. and at the push of a button, get full control again and opt out of the cluster.
How long before we can wi-fi-cluster cars, and let the network arrange speed and routing through congested urban areas?
I want the future now!
I hope they didnt take the photo of my home while I was sunbathing in the nude on the roof-deck!
I got my sig thanks to you.
would not be complete without a good old slashdotting!
Looks like there's a trend starting to develop here.
And I think it's for the better too... Sci-Fi Mini Series.
The Dune ones, the new Battlestar Galactica, for example, and now this Farscape one.
I think it's a good way to keep stories fresh and entertaining, with a tight plot, compared to some season-long space operas that drag on way past their expiry date...
I'm all in favor of this format.
"I think TV just makes everyone dumb"
I call BS too.
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of TV. Mostly cartoons (and later SitComs), mostly on the English American channels, because the local French ones were crappy in comparison.
Years later, when we started having English classes in school, I was way ahead of the learning curve.
Causality?
I have yet to see a two year old (or less) baby play a videogame.
Coming soon to the friendly skies of North America... Russian Flying Saucers.
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http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/05/ufo.shtm
(Moscow News)
Article has photo of the thing
Russian "Flying Saucers" to Grace American Skies
Created: 05.04.2004 20:12 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 20:14 MSK
MosNews
You might not have to go to New Mexico to see a UFO-flying saucers are coming to your home skies, thanks to Russian aircraft designers. The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has signed an agreement with Russia's EKIP Aviation Concern to cooperate in the production of unique flying saucer-shaped aircraft developed in Russia, perfect for putting out forest fires and monitoring oil pipelines. Originally developed in 1992, the alien-looking aircraft failed to secure funding from the Russian government. Twelve years later, the U.S. and China are very interested in making it work.
Obviously, the unusual round shape in itself makes such a vehicle exciting-but what are the practical applications? "This is a radically new craft," Alexey Konovalov, EKIP's executive director, explains. It doesn't require a long runway and can land on sand, but most importantly, the shape of the aircraft is a brilliant solution for getting rid of vibration, a long-time problem in aircraft design. EKIP plans to build first unpiloted vehicles that could be used for monitoring in hard-to-reach areas and then move to building larger craft weighing up to 100 tons. The unpiloted EKIP "ships" could aid in putting out forest fires as well as collecting information that could be transmitted to a land base, Konovalov said.
Originally, the Russian government had promised funding for the project, but in 1995, three years after the construction commenced, all funding was cut off. Private investors couldn't be persuaded to commit the millions of dollars necessary to continue work on the craft, Konovalov laments. Now, with the agreement between EKIP and the Naval Air System Command signed, EKIP is waiting for the funds to come in and in the meantime, negotiating with China to discuss a possible joint venture.
Russian designers will keep the rights to their unique work, but the vehicles might be produced either in Russia or the U.S. Currently, the plan is to test the aircraft in 2007 and launch it into mass production in another five years. Until then, any strange shapes in the sky are certain to be flown by little green men.
why would it be anymore dangerous to list someone's address than, say, in a phonebook of any given city?
evil people will always find a way to find a target.
that Sony should market a "PS2 laptop" for a slightly higher price than a console, but cheaper than a regular laptop.
(yes I know about the accessories to make the PS2 portable. not the same.)
I hope none of them have any bitterness towards their parents...
da dum tshhhh
"I looked up the laws about changing your name in a couple different states, Washington, Oregon, and Ohio, and every single one of the says that it's alright to have a number spelled out, but having a numeral isn't allowed."
Alright! As a Star Wars fan, that means I can still name my kid Artoo Deetoo, or See Threepio.
april fool jokes aside...
if you want to give your child an unusual name, at least give him or her something s/he can abbreviate to something less unusual if s/he turns out to be more conservative than you, otherwise, s/he could have some problems, among other things, with finding a job, people assuming the name has typo or is a joke name (but I have a vewy good fwiend in Wome named Biggus Dickus!).
even some foreigners are starting to modify their names due to embarrassing phonetic correlation in English... like this Vietnamese person I know: real name "Phuoc". (side note: a friend of mine who is a native French speaker took her child to the Toronto zoo once, and she was teaching her to say the animal names in French. The people around her were evidently scandalized to see this mother teach her daughter to point at a seal and to say: "un phoque!")
That being said, I also know a guy named Richard Hertz, who everyone calls Dick. No joke.
I wouldnt be surprised if one day someone starts an agency to research names that have absolutely no bad connotations in any language.
"History is written by the winners."
Yeah, but there could be some revisionists and deniers among the people who make games...
I mean, the Darwinists pretty much won the Evolution vs Creation debate, but the creationists are still around, and there's plenty of evidence regarding the WW2 holocaust, yet there are holocaust deniers.
the problem with historical war games is that they represent a sanitized version of what really happened, probably the winner's version of history, too.
I predict you'll be urinating a lot, often, and that your urine will smell of coffee.
Do you want them alive? No disintegration? /Boba Fett