It mentions foreign travelers inbound to the US, not US citizens outbound elsewhere.
Beware shifting definitions. A foreign traveler can be read two ways: a foreigner that travels here or anyone that travels to foreign places.
Be sure they note when citizens travel to unfriendly places and seek to return. Declaration of someone as an "enemy combatant" is effectively the same as revoking someone's citizenship, even a natural-born citizen.
Yakov Smirnov should update his act: "American Express: Don't Leave Home."
the voting populace can post questions directly. You and I... can ask questions ourselves, not just a reporter in a crowd. Candidates won't know which questions they are being asked, and the video selection process will remain a complete secret.
So the questions will be presented in video format....
You're my hero for knowing the lyrics to that song. Seriously, that's fantastic.
Ah, it's on my iPod. I omitted the first chorus and bridge though for brevity, and I'm not certain it's "beeps" in the chorus. I think each of the two times through the chorus it may be a different word there (it's definitely a monosyllable with a long-e sound, and plural).
AFAIKT, this was the first posting of the lyrics to the net.
Now if only I could work out all the lyrics to "History Lesson" (the lyrics weren't in the movie, only on the soundtrack); I'm not a paleontologist, and my MP3s were ripped from vinyl (very few CDs of the soundtrack were made).
If you can't stop doing something, you're addicted. That's pathological.
I stopped yesterday.
I'll stop again tomorrow.
I also can't stop breathing for more than a few minutes at a time. Must be pathological respiration. But I'm confident that once I do break that habit, I'll never be addicted to it again!
This is clearly a straw man. Where is the compelling factor in learning something new?
Is it necessary to understand why something feels good to someone else? Isn't it enough that it does? Or is it that you don't understand why, or can't derive pleasure from it yourself, or even jealousy of their pleasure, a reason to stop them from doing it? (Of course, I'm speaking hypothetically, not personally.)
Then again, what if the derivation of pleasure from education was more readily evident?
"Good morning life-form." "Hi teach." "Are you sitting comfortably?" "Yes." "Then stand up! Harsh Economic Truths, Class Seventeen. You are standing up?" "Yes." "Good. Posit: you are living in an exciting, go-ahead civilisation. Where are you looking?" "Up." "What do you see?" "The open sky. The stars. An infinite horizon." "Correct! You may press the button." "Thank you."
[Button is pressed. A surge of energy]
"Wow! That feels nice." "Posit: you are living in a stagnant, declining civilisation. Where are you looking?" "Down." "What do you see?" "My shoes." "Correct! What do you do to cheer yourself up?" "Uhm... press the button?" "Incorrect! Think again. Your world is a depressing place; you are looking at your shoes. How do you cheer yourself up?" "I buy a new pair." "Correct!" "Can I press the button?" "All right."
[Button is pressed. A surge of energy]
"Wa-ho! So nice." "Now, imagine everyone does the same thing. What happens?" "Everyone feels nice?"
By that logic shouldn't the Guinness Book of World Records be considered a book that encourages abnormal behaviors at levels that could be considered addiction?
Working just the other day You were an achiever, such a busy beaver! Now we hear you've gone astray And you're livin' in the shade of a video arcade
We don't see you on the street People ask about you; life is grey without you! Do you ever stop to eat? Do you comb your hair? Do you really care?
And it's just a little to the left
And it's just a little to the right
And it's just unreal how alive you feel
Vaporizing everything in sight
And it's just a little to the left
And it's just a little to the right
Just a few beeps more 'til you beat your score
And you're gonna if it takes all night
And you never feel lonely anymore
Never feel blue ever now
Video fever's gone and took the fight
From you
I hate when uneducated folk try to make this argument.
An addiction to something you find pleasurable may not have a few negative withdrawal effects, but EVERYTHING else is the same, including the PHYSICAL changes in the brain.
What if I find learning new things to be pleasurable? Am I then addicted to education? Should I then be prevented from seeking an education?
By whose standard does someone (else!) like something too much to label it an addiction? It's all about the powerful not wanting others to feel better than they do.
It's like Lucy taking a noisy toy away from Rerun and giving him something quiet and boring to play with, then taking that away because he's enjoying the new toy more than she'd intended. (I wish I had a copy of that strip to which to link.)
My ISP has a policy to immediately cut off any user it finds running bots on IRC. A quick Google search for some of the phrases in it shows that it is a common ToS/AUP.
Anyone else think this will start a new wave of phishing where botnet controllers send e-mail messages out forged as coming from FBI.gov to people telling them their machines are infected with bots (linking to the URL in parent) and that they need to install the program attached to the e-mail that is claimed to remove the offending software but in fact turns your machine into another zombie?
I'd like to see a game with a "programmable" magic system like that. Given a base set of simple spells that affect the environment in some way and a mana pool that gets larger as you level up
You can build up some pretty impressive magical weapons with some pretty low level spells and the right raw materials. For example: Copper pieces + Flaming Hands + Fool's Gold == Flaming Pyrite. Throw at enemy. Most effective if they get behind the enemy's armor and maintain contact with his flesh (esp. behind codpiece).
"Remember, Ralphie, if no one notices your slashdot post, you're being too subtle... or not subtle enough!"
Maybe I should have just stuck with my first thought: "Yeah, long lines and being treated like they were criminals really made people refuse to go to airports anymore, didn't it?"
They're treating movie goers like potential airplane hijackers!
No, a changing timeline cannot enter a cyclic state where time travel is alternatively discovered and not discovered.
Sure it can. The reflex point is necessity. You need to travel back in time, so you invent a time machine and do it. Then you've removed your need to travel back in time, so you don't invent a time machine, and you don't do it. The need returns, so invent it again. Thus the timeline oscillates between time travel existing and not existing. Constructed properly it can be self-sustaining.
Unless you subscribe to many-worlds. Then a time machine is also a cloning machine. If you can plot the alternate timelines, you can engage in interdimensional trade where you have infinite supply of identical goods. In such a situation it is essential that you maintain artificial scarcity to maintain demand (see diamonds). (It helps to keep prices up by selling to the last customer first and the first customer last: every new sale is at bleeding-edge prices.)
Not necessarily. It could enter into a self-sustaining stable harmonic state where it is alternately discovered and not discovered, or create a pocket self-contained universe where dinosaurs and lizard-men live and time travel is regularly performed inside special pylons using grids of glowing colored rocks.
Invest a penny at the beginning at time, and before you know it, you'll be dining at Milliways.
Better check that (1) your bank will continue to exist for the requisite period ("Do you take Visa?" "Visa hasn't existed for 500 years." "American Express?" "600 years." "Discover card?" "Sorry, we don't take Discover."), and (2) that they don't have restrictions that you (a) maintain a minimum balance or (b) maintain a minimum account activity where, if either is violated, they start taking away your money (and, in the case of (b), do it retroactively from the month of your last transaction--yes, some banks do do this), and (3) their policies won't change over the course of your investment.
This is great. Now I don't need to confiscate cameras from people for taking unwanted pictures; I just hack their camera's wifi and erase the pictures without their knowledge! Bonus, I get to download whatever personal pictures they have stored on the camera. This will be great for surreptitiously profiling people by the contents of their cameras at airports, too! ("No guns, no toy guns, no pictures of guns or toy guns permitted beyond this point.")
Oh, don't worry. The lines will be longer for a little while, but only 'til people are so fed up with being considered a criminal for wanting to watch a movie that even more refuse to go to the cinemas anymore.
Next, the MPAA will gather the names of known and suspected pirates, their aliases, and their birth dates and issue a list of people not permitted entry into any movie theater. No photos, no descriptions, just names and birth dates. A kind of No-Cinema List.
Sure, some people who may have the same name as a convicted pirate may end up getting hassled and pulled aside for extra attention every time they go to the theater, but that's a small price to pay to protect the movie industry's profits against the piracy of another Ocean's 11 sequel.
In one place it says, "...the Mars atmosphere is essentially a vacuum..." In another place it says, "The problem is, there are winds on Mars..."
And in fact both statements are made by the same person: Phil Christensen. But while "the windy vacuum of Mars" has a bit of a giggle factor, the key word in the quote is "essentially", especially when discussing the likelihood of liquid water at Martian air pressure.
There is atmosphere, enough for there to be wind, but for liquid water it might as well be a vacuum.
(hint: open source systems need not even bother to apply)
Well, unless you're TiVoized open source, such as the TiVo Series3 HD DVR. The underlying OS is Linux, but locked down with firmware to prevent tampering, and running a proprietary application.
Mine is on its way. I'm getting it for two reasons: (1) a new widescreen LCD HDTV (replacing my 4:3 CRT HDTV) and (2) bugs in the Mystro beta software being run on TWC's Scientific Atlanta (replaced Passport) that make them incompatible with any DVR that keeps accurate time (they crash or drop digits on channel changes made during the rollover between programs in the guide data the box receives, i.e. at the hour or half-hour). And I want the unidirectional cards, not the 2.0 models, precisely because of the problems with their data.
(through some deep secret kung fu no customer should ever know how to do)
On a different note, I find it interesting that you feel there is product knowledge that should be forbidden to the customer.
It's not an opinion I hold; it's a fact that must be true for the DRM to have a chance to work. If the end user can un-pair the card, then he can re-pair the card to another unauthorized device that allows unfettered access to the decrypted data stream. The same reason why end users aren't allowed to do the installation themselves: physical verification that it is installed to certified equipment.
Yes, I've heard reports that some areas did allow end users do the installation. I expect these to become corrected exceptions to the rule, especially once users start trying to move these internal cards to uncertified hardware, or a shipment to an OEM goes missing.
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Be sure they note when citizens travel to unfriendly places and seek to return. Declaration of someone as an "enemy combatant" is effectively the same as revoking someone's citizenship, even a natural-born citizen.
Yakov Smirnov should update his act: "American Express: Don't Leave Home."
Can I ask mine while wearying a Guy Fawkes mask?
AFAIKT, this was the first posting of the lyrics to the net.
Now if only I could work out all the lyrics to "History Lesson" (the lyrics weren't in the movie, only on the soundtrack); I'm not a paleontologist, and my MP3s were ripped from vinyl (very few CDs of the soundtrack were made).
I'll stop again tomorrow.
I also can't stop breathing for more than a few minutes at a time. Must be pathological respiration. But I'm confident that once I do break that habit, I'll never be addicted to it again!
Then again, what if the derivation of pleasure from education was more readily evident? (We miss you, Douglas.)
By that logic shouldn't the Guinness Book of World Records be considered a book that encourages abnormal behaviors at levels that could be considered addiction?
Video Fever
The Beepers
WarGames Soundtrack
Working just the other day
You were an achiever, such a busy beaver!
Now we hear you've gone astray
And you're livin' in the shade of a video arcade
We don't see you on the street
People ask about you; life is grey without you!
Do you ever stop to eat?
Do you comb your hair? Do you really care?
And it's just a little to the left
And it's just a little to the right
And it's just unreal how alive you feel
Vaporizing everything in sight
And it's just a little to the left
And it's just a little to the right
Just a few beeps more 'til you beat your score
And you're gonna if it takes all night
And you never feel lonely anymore
Never feel blue ever now
Video fever's gone and took the fight
From you
By whose standard does someone (else!) like something too much to label it an addiction? It's all about the powerful not wanting others to feel better than they do.
It's like Lucy taking a noisy toy away from Rerun and giving him something quiet and boring to play with, then taking that away because he's enjoying the new toy more than she'd intended. (I wish I had a copy of that strip to which to link.)
My ISP has a policy to immediately cut off any user it finds running bots on IRC. A quick Google search for some of the phrases in it shows that it is a common ToS/AUP.
Anyone else think this will start a new wave of phishing where botnet controllers send e-mail messages out forged as coming from FBI.gov to people telling them their machines are infected with bots (linking to the URL in parent) and that they need to install the program attached to the e-mail that is claimed to remove the offending software but in fact turns your machine into another zombie?
"Remember, Ralphie, if no one notices your slashdot post, you're being too subtle... or not subtle enough!"
Maybe I should have just stuck with my first thought: "Yeah, long lines and being treated like they were criminals really made people refuse to go to airports anymore, didn't it?"
They're treating movie goers like potential airplane hijackers!
No, a changing timeline cannot enter a cyclic state where time travel is alternatively discovered and not discovered.
Sure it can. The reflex point is necessity. You need to travel back in time, so you invent a time machine and do it. Then you've removed your need to travel back in time, so you don't invent a time machine, and you don't do it. The need returns, so invent it again. Thus the timeline oscillates between time travel existing and not existing. Constructed properly it can be self-sustaining.
Unless you subscribe to many-worlds. Then a time machine is also a cloning machine. If you can plot the alternate timelines, you can engage in interdimensional trade where you have infinite supply of identical goods. In such a situation it is essential that you maintain artificial scarcity to maintain demand (see diamonds). (It helps to keep prices up by selling to the last customer first and the first customer last: every new sale is at bleeding-edge prices.)
Not necessarily. It could enter into a self-sustaining stable harmonic state where it is alternately discovered and not discovered, or create a pocket self-contained universe where dinosaurs and lizard-men live and time travel is regularly performed inside special pylons using grids of glowing colored rocks.
This is great. Now I don't need to confiscate cameras from people for taking unwanted pictures; I just hack their camera's wifi and erase the pictures without their knowledge! Bonus, I get to download whatever personal pictures they have stored on the camera. This will be great for surreptitiously profiling people by the contents of their cameras at airports, too! ("No guns, no toy guns, no pictures of guns or toy guns permitted beyond this point.")
Sure, some people who may have the same name as a convicted pirate may end up getting hassled and pulled aside for extra attention every time they go to the theater, but that's a small price to pay to protect the movie industry's profits against the piracy of another Ocean's 11 sequel.
There is atmosphere, enough for there to be wind, but for liquid water it might as well be a vacuum.
Compare the solar-windy vacuum of space.
Thus our interest in their mating rituals.
Mine is on its way. I'm getting it for two reasons: (1) a new widescreen LCD HDTV (replacing my 4:3 CRT HDTV) and (2) bugs in the Mystro beta software being run on TWC's Scientific Atlanta (replaced Passport) that make them incompatible with any DVR that keeps accurate time (they crash or drop digits on channel changes made during the rollover between programs in the guide data the box receives, i.e. at the hour or half-hour). And I want the unidirectional cards, not the 2.0 models, precisely because of the problems with their data.
Yes, I've heard reports that some areas did allow end users do the installation. I expect these to become corrected exceptions to the rule, especially once users start trying to move these internal cards to uncertified hardware, or a shipment to an OEM goes missing.