To qualify as "checkpoint friendly," a bag must have a designated laptop-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine belt and contains no metal snaps, zippers or buckles and no pockets.
So... the only thing keeping my laptop from falling out of my bag as I carry it (or someone bump-and-grabbing it) is going to be a strip of lint-encrusted velcro?
No, the problem is that someone put a T-800 series Terminator in charge of California!
All the state's COBOL programmers have to work around the clock just to keep that early-80's piece of shit working.
Well, though it ran on a 6502 processor, it at least had access to its own commented RWTS (Read/Write Track Sector) assembler source code when recording its memories to 5.25" disks.
BTW, a corporation is considered a person, but is it considered an "individual" person as interpreted by this case? Are corporations also considered immune to the substantive provisions of the DMCA? Can I incorporate and gain immunity too?
Excerpt from pages 576,324 to 576,326 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mk. I.:
7. Sex: None
Actually, there is an awful lot of this largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, rainfall, or anything else that might keep all of the nonexistent people in the universe occupied.
Apple II cannot be used on a TV set unless you add a TV out (RF) card.
No, there were little boxes that would take the composite signal and convert it to an RF signal on channel 2, 3, or (later) 4. Most such boxes were twin lead, but there are other adapters for the coaxial cable ports.
Driving a component, VGA, DVI, or HDMI signal... well it just don't do that.
Hmm, makes me think about hooking up my Apple//c video out into a portable DVD player's video in. I may yet emulate Dr. Heywood Floyd using a//c on a beach in 2010.
How long until anyone coming through customs with surgical scars will be subjected to vivisection to determine if they are concealing any implanted information storage devices?
"You will be disposed of as useful organic material to be added to the Protein Bank. May His Merciful Shadow fall upon you."
Lazlow: Ants, killer bees, fat people, what's plaguing you? Call now! Chatterbox, hello, you're on the air... Caller: Err yes...I'd like to say something about these damn people trains and buses in this city who yammer on and on into cell phones. I'm really glad to hear about what your having dinner! What we should do, is herd them up, and put them on island. I am the President of a group called Citizens Raging Against Phones." Lazlow: "C.R.A.P."?!? Caller: Exactly! Lazlow: "Your organization's called 'CRAP,'...wh...what kind of moron are you...you wanna round people up for using a phone?!? But you...your calling up on a phone t...to tell the world about it! I...I mean, how many people are there in this 'CRAP'? Caller: Citizens are raging against phones, Lazlow!! Lazlow:How many people? Caller: There are three of us. It's hard organizing meetings without the phones though. We've had to resort to carrier pigeons, and they keep disappearing. Lazlow: What are you speaking to me on? What...what's that in your hand? Caller:I am not the problem! You are! And you're perpetuating the downfall of mankind! Liberty City was great before phones ruined everything. Lazlow: Liberty City was a church, a cow pasture and 3 houses when the telephone was invented! Caller:Liar!! Lazlow:You're the liar! Caller: Liar, liar, pants on fire! Lazlow: What are...are you three years old?!? Caller: Lazlow's a liar, Lazlow's a liar!! I bet that isn't even your real name. Lazlow: Shut up!! Caller:You shut up!! Lazlow: Stupid! Caller: Nanny nanny boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo! Lazlow: Ohh...we're going to commercials!
Is your job affecting your health? Do you become fatigued? Does working take time away from family and social events like watching wrestling?...
Wii sports golf made the best Wii drinking game in my opinion. Drink for every point over par and every point you opponents were under par. Good times...
Sounds like a game you play to lose:
Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find that his will was beginning to weaken. He didn't realize that this was because of an old drinking game that Ford learned to play in the hyperspace ports that served the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.
The game was not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and was played like this:
Two contestants would sit either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them.
Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit (as immortalized in that ancient Orion mining song "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit").
Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent -- who would then have to drink it.
The bottle would then be refilled. The game would be played again. And again.
Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power.
As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.
Ironic, really, that the whole point of Trusted Computing is that the person doing the computing cannot be trusted...
Not ironic at all. It's the computer that is Trusted in that phrase, not the user.
Nor is it the user doing the trusting.
"And now, folks, it's time for, `Who do you trust?' Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money. And where is the Batman? He's at home, washing his tights!" -- The Joker, Batman (1989)
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1989-08-11 (reported in Esquire, 1992-08)
This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.
Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]
These days I'm surprised they haven't required that post boxes be accessible from curbside so that the carriers will not to have to get out of their vehicles.
Meanwhile, Google isn't a utility provider granted easement nor does it receive an invitation.
After watching the 911 truth movement pull together massive amounts of correlations based of basically nothing I am in awe of the human ability to rationalize correlations.
"I love humans. They always see patterns in things that aren't there." -- The Doctor, Doctor Who (1996)
If I were PM I'd be telling the US government where they can shove their 'special relationship' and their entirely one-sided extradition treaty. Then I'd tell them to put ACTA in the same place.
"Yes, if it didn't bite." -- Bek, Blakes 7 "Shadow"
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To qualify as "checkpoint friendly," a bag must have a designated laptop-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine belt and contains no metal snaps, zippers or buckles and no pockets.
So... the only thing keeping my laptop from falling out of my bag as I carry it (or someone bump-and-grabbing it) is going to be a strip of lint-encrusted velcro?
"Broadcast special communique to Cybertron: Stay the hell off of Mars." -- Optimus Prime
I wonder how difficult/reliable it would be to harness those deep sea monsters.
No, the problem is that someone put a T-800 series Terminator in charge of California!
All the state's COBOL programmers have to work around the clock just to keep that early-80's piece of shit working.
Well, though it ran on a 6502 processor, it at least had access to its own commented RWTS (Read/Write Track Sector) assembler source code when recording its memories to 5.25" disks.
So the best people to rule would be those who have no desire to rule?
Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to can be allowed to?
"Pussy! Pussy, pussy! Coo-chee, coo-chee, coo-chee, coo-chee! Pussy want his fish? Nice piece of fish, pussy want it?"
Dude, if your neighborhood has 50 people, and 48 of them want to kill you and eat you, that's democracy.
Oh my God! The dead have risen and they're voting Republican!
BTW, a corporation is considered a person, but is it considered an "individual" person as interpreted by this case? Are corporations also considered immune to the substantive provisions of the DMCA? Can I incorporate and gain immunity too?
Excerpt from pages 576,324 to 576,326 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mk. I.:
7. Sex: None
Actually, there is an awful lot of this largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, rainfall, or anything else that might keep all of the nonexistent people in the universe occupied.
Apple II cannot be used on a TV set unless you add a TV out (RF) card.
No, there were little boxes that would take the composite signal and convert it to an RF signal on channel 2, 3, or (later) 4. Most such boxes were twin lead, but there are other adapters for the coaxial cable ports.
Driving a component, VGA, DVI, or HDMI signal... well it just don't do that.
Hmm, makes me think about hooking up my Apple //c video out into a portable DVD player's video in. I may yet emulate Dr. Heywood Floyd using a //c on a beach in 2010.
Or would you prefer Red vs Blue?
"Blue vs Red.... No one says Red vs Blue; it sounds stupid when you say it backwards."
-- Caboose, Reconstruction: Blue vs. Red, 4th Chapter
Damn, I've got moderator points, where is the "this is the only post you need to read" option when you need it?
Read the Firehose, set filter keyword to "comment". It nicely highlights responses modded up or down.
It's where I read your posting modded as "Offtopic".
I <3 the future.
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today
How long until anyone coming through customs with surgical scars will be subjected to vivisection to determine if they are concealing any implanted information storage devices?
"You will be disposed of as useful organic material to be added to the Protein Bank. May His Merciful Shadow fall upon you."
Lazlow: Ants, killer bees, fat people, what's plaguing you? Call now! Chatterbox, hello, you're on the air...
Caller: Err yes...I'd like to say something about these damn people trains and buses in this city who yammer on and on into cell phones. I'm really glad to hear about what your having dinner! What we should do, is herd them up, and put them on island. I am the President of a group called Citizens Raging Against Phones."
Lazlow: "C.R.A.P."?!?
Caller: Exactly!
Lazlow: "Your organization's called 'CRAP,'...wh...what kind of moron are you...you wanna round people up for using a phone?!? But you...your calling up on a phone t...to tell the world about it! I...I mean, how many people are there in this 'CRAP'?
Caller: Citizens are raging against phones, Lazlow!!
Lazlow: How many people?
Caller: There are three of us. It's hard organizing meetings without the phones though. We've had to resort to carrier pigeons, and they keep disappearing.
Lazlow: What are you speaking to me on? What...what's that in your hand?
Caller: I am not the problem! You are! And you're perpetuating the downfall of mankind! Liberty City was great before phones ruined everything.
Lazlow: Liberty City was a church, a cow pasture and 3 houses when the telephone was invented!
Caller: Liar!!
Lazlow: You're the liar!
Caller: Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Lazlow: What are...are you three years old?!?
Caller: Lazlow's a liar, Lazlow's a liar!! I bet that isn't even your real name.
Lazlow: Shut up!!
Caller: You shut up!!
Lazlow: Stupid!
Caller: Nanny nanny boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo!
Lazlow: Ohh...we're going to commercials!
Is your job affecting your health? Do you become fatigued? Does working take time away from family and social events like watching wrestling?...
You can pop a pill for that.
Now we just need beer pills and work pills and my life is complete...
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today
Wii sports golf made the best Wii drinking game in my opinion. Drink for every point over par and every point you opponents were under par. Good times...
Sounds like a game you play to lose:
"...with our catalyst almost 100 percent of the current used for electrolysis goes into making oxygen and hydrogen."
Hopefully there's enough other current to compress that oxygen and hydrogen into pressurized tanks for recombination.
Yes, both. I'm not keen on letting either of them build up in free air to explosively combustible concentrations in my garage.
Ironic, really, that the whole point of Trusted Computing is that the person doing the computing cannot be trusted...
Not ironic at all. It's the computer that is Trusted in that phrase, not the user.
Nor is it the user doing the trusting.
"And now, folks, it's time for, `Who do you trust?' Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money. And where is the Batman? He's at home, washing his tights!"
-- The Joker, Batman (1989)
"Weal houdoulm?"
from the so-val-kilmer-can-breathe-easy dept.
Val Kilmer? Don't you mean Dan Quayle?
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit ... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1989-08-11 (reported in Esquire, 1992-08)
This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.
Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]
The post box is where you mounted it.
Implied consent.
These days I'm surprised they haven't required that post boxes be accessible from curbside so that the carriers will not to have to get out of their vehicles.
Meanwhile, Google isn't a utility provider granted easement nor does it receive an invitation.
After watching the 911 truth movement pull together massive amounts of correlations based of basically nothing I am in awe of the human ability to rationalize correlations.
"I love humans. They always see patterns in things that aren't there."
-- The Doctor, Doctor Who (1996)
No, *the* Ice Age.
Expect more sequels.
If I were PM I'd be telling the US government where they can shove their 'special relationship' and their entirely one-sided extradition treaty. Then I'd tell them to put ACTA in the same place.
"Yes, if it didn't bite."
-- Bek, Blakes 7 "Shadow"