Lemme guess.... You haven't hit 30 yet, have you Sunshine?
Actually, I passed 30 a while ago. Not everyone goes to pot after that age. You just have to be more careful with your health and realize that you're not so young anymore. It also helps if you don't eat that much meat. Meat is good for you when you are young, but you need to reduce or cut it out when you get older.
I have similar conversations with my dad, who is a bit of an "America is always right" right-wing nut. I'm reasonably slim and in great shape eating organic food, tempeh, and getting a good and balanced workout on top of all that. He eats McD's and all the slop that comes out of today's grocery stores. He is vastly overweight, even though he jogs, and is likely to have a coronary sometime soon. But I'm apparently the one who is nuts.
OT: oh, and about your sig, that's one of my favorite Outer Limits, too. That and "Nightmare":-p
Yeah, the pope and the top christians throughout the major chirstian denomations must also be anti-christ types for believing that evolution occured. Yep, yep.
Actually, most of the fundies do believe this. They believe that only their little enclave is even slightly Christian and that all the others worship a false Jesus.
I got a bit of a surprise - I sent some registered mail - and now I have an "electronic copy" of their signature, sutiable for cut-n-paste.
I am NEVER AGAIN going to accept registered mail, or if I do, I'm signing someone else's name. This is getting ridiculous!
Well, just don't use your usual signature. Write it with your left hand (assuming you are right-handed) or write as though you are having the shakes.
What most likely happened is one of his applications was claiming multiple inventions, so it got split into two different applications through a restriction/divisional.
And when his attorney explained this to him, he probably said, "Yeah, whatever" and didn't really follow up on what was really going on.
Exactly! What we need is some real leaders in this country who will rein in urban sprawl and initiate a widespread re-invention of modern cities into walkable communities.
Al Gore talked about that before the 2000 election. The overall response in the US was "Boring!" and then elected the dipshit who made it easy for big oil to gouge us while other corporations plunder everything else.
Um, no thanks. At least, not without a good dash of cajun spices, or perhaps some good curry or chinese chilis. Otherwise, the boiled frog won't sit in your stomach and digest very well.
Um, ID started in the Great Britain because of backlash against the atheist misinterpretation of Darwin's theory, which was published there first.
Um, ID as an idea and a movement was started by the Discovery Institute, which is Washington state. You may be thinking of creationism or literalism, but ID got started as a nutty American thing, and is still based in the US. Anyway, I don't see that it matters except to you and the GGP. Despite the repeated denials, the Brits and the Aussies are just as nuts as Americans.
So now its the US's fault that some canadian professor can't get funds?
Or is it because there are fundies in Canada, maybe?
It seems like a national pasttime up there to blame all of their problems on us.
Um, ID started in the US because of fundie creationists. And yes, there are fundies in Canada. There are fundies in Britain and Oz, too. There are even some fundie groups in South Korea that were originally started by American fundie churches. And now they come to the US as missionaries. Talk about coals to fucking Newcastle!
You know, there is an old saying that even the best joke will not bear infinite repetition. Give it a friggin' rest, already! The spaghetti jokes are lamer than Yakov Smirnov and more painful than a Yoko Ono music fest.
And anyway, everytime we find another transitional fossil the creationists are just going to point to the two gaps on either side of the new transitional and say, "Now there's two missing links! Nyah nyah nyah!" They already don't believe evolution is possible anyway.
No kidding! I don't know who my great-great-great grandparents are, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist or this shows a "lack of transitional fossils." Seriously, how refined in terms of generations do we have to get here?
Sorry, but given the novels Michael Crichton writes, along with essays like this, I have trouble considering anything he says as "factual". Stuff he says tends to be factual only in an accidental sense, much like what Heinlein said of Pravda.
Of course, there could always be a class action lawsuit. Unfortunately, the lawyers will get all the money and the people represented will get a coupon for a free copy of the spyware.
It's certainly about time they did something. But, I'm sure loopholes will easily be found as soon as the campaign contributions start rolling in.
Also, I assume everyone noticed the acronymn. It reminds me of Gnus Not Unix.
"gay" has been accepted, by a large part of the population, as a synonym for "uncool" or "lame". While it's roots are homophobic it's time to get past that.
Odd, I thought "gay" simply meant you were happy and easy going...
There are more options than one of two extremes that you posit. As Drooling Iguana points out above, we dragged our feet into WWII. And when we did enter, we quickly carted west coast Japanese-Americans into interment camps, although we did not do the same to German-Americans and Italian-Americans. Americans are still more than 50% white, though that will most likely change in the future. But whichever is true, white people generally hold the power in this country. Just look at our congress for starters.
Also, just because we bailed out Europe in '41-'45 doesn't mean that we can go around doing whatever the hell we like for all future time. Besides, if we hadn't interfered in the First World War, there would not have even been a Second World War. France and Germany were both pretty much bled dry. All the other fronts were just as deadlocked. It is only the fact that we entered after everyone had beaten each other up that we were able to easily and decisively conquer the Germans (though, much like OBL, we never hanged the Kaiser). After that, the post-war reparations were such that some kind of totalitarian government in Germany was likely, Hitler or no Hitler.
BTW, objecting to a particular tendency of Americans in general does not make one anti-American. Only blithering binary-thinking idiots like you would believe so.
If he chooses to go through Canada, instead of into Montana (better Maple syrup, honestly)
Ha! You fell into their foul trap! Don't you know that Canadian maple syrup has a biogenic compound that causes a person wearing a tin-foil deflector beanie to start bleeding EM radiation out their pores. This is especially insidious since, during the type of self-manipulation that people often participate in during on-line perusals of mature content, a huge burst of EM radiation will occur along with usual burst that is the natural end result of such self-manipulation.
The difference here is that the Europeans are overwhelmingly white. So most Americans will have a big problem bombing them. If they were all brown, on the other hand...
THE BIGGEST ANALOG HOLE EVER When i watch a film i can actually recored it in my head by burning synaptic pathways. I can replay bits when ever I like and can actually describe bits of the film to friends. Its a real DRM nightmare for the studios I can tell you.
Don't worry. They're working on it. When the Memory Rights Management system comes out, all your memories are belong to them.
The point is that this is only an application, it is not a patent. So long as you pay the application fees, you can file any insane piece of shit application you want (and people have) and get it published. Wait until this becomes an actual patent (assuming it does). Then, not now, look at the claims and see if you think they are overly broad. Only then can you come back and bitch about it. Right now, it is only a published application, which doesn't mean jack squat.
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Actually, I passed 30 a while ago. Not everyone goes to pot after that age. You just have to be more careful with your health and realize that you're not so young anymore. It also helps if you don't eat that much meat. Meat is good for you when you are young, but you need to reduce or cut it out when you get older.
OT: oh, and about your sig, that's one of my favorite Outer Limits, too. That and "Nightmare" :-p
Actually, most of the fundies do believe this. They believe that only their little enclave is even slightly Christian and that all the others worship a false Jesus.
Been hitting the Kool-Aid pretty hard, haven't you? I bet you believe that we actually found the WMDs, too!
I am NEVER AGAIN going to accept registered mail, or if I do, I'm signing someone else's name. This is getting ridiculous!
Well, just don't use your usual signature. Write it with your left hand (assuming you are right-handed) or write as though you are having the shakes.
And when his attorney explained this to him, he probably said, "Yeah, whatever" and didn't really follow up on what was really going on.
Al Gore talked about that before the 2000 election. The overall response in the US was "Boring!" and then elected the dipshit who made it easy for big oil to gouge us while other corporations plunder everything else.
Um, no thanks. At least, not without a good dash of cajun spices, or perhaps some good curry or chinese chilis. Otherwise, the boiled frog won't sit in your stomach and digest very well.
Um, ID as an idea and a movement was started by the Discovery Institute, which is Washington state. You may be thinking of creationism or literalism, but ID got started as a nutty American thing, and is still based in the US. Anyway, I don't see that it matters except to you and the GGP. Despite the repeated denials, the Brits and the Aussies are just as nuts as Americans.
Or is it because there are fundies in Canada, maybe?
It seems like a national pasttime up there to blame all of their problems on us.
Um, ID started in the US because of fundie creationists. And yes, there are fundies in Canada. There are fundies in Britain and Oz, too. There are even some fundie groups in South Korea that were originally started by American fundie churches. And now they come to the US as missionaries. Talk about coals to fucking Newcastle!
You know, there is an old saying that even the best joke will not bear infinite repetition. Give it a friggin' rest, already! The spaghetti jokes are lamer than Yakov Smirnov and more painful than a Yoko Ono music fest.
No kidding! I don't know who my great-great-great grandparents are, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist or this shows a "lack of transitional fossils." Seriously, how refined in terms of generations do we have to get here?
I love the smell of burning karma in the morning!
Sorry, but given the novels Michael Crichton writes, along with essays like this, I have trouble considering anything he says as "factual". Stuff he says tends to be factual only in an accidental sense, much like what Heinlein said of Pravda.
Of course, there could always be a class action lawsuit. Unfortunately, the lawyers will get all the money and the people represented will get a coupon for a free copy of the spyware.
It's certainly about time they did something. But, I'm sure loopholes will easily be found as soon as the campaign contributions start rolling in. Also, I assume everyone noticed the acronymn. It reminds me of Gnus Not Unix.
Odd, I thought "gay" simply meant you were happy and easy going...
MMmmmm.... Chief Justice Warren Burger....
Also, just because we bailed out Europe in '41-'45 doesn't mean that we can go around doing whatever the hell we like for all future time. Besides, if we hadn't interfered in the First World War, there would not have even been a Second World War. France and Germany were both pretty much bled dry. All the other fronts were just as deadlocked. It is only the fact that we entered after everyone had beaten each other up that we were able to easily and decisively conquer the Germans (though, much like OBL, we never hanged the Kaiser). After that, the post-war reparations were such that some kind of totalitarian government in Germany was likely, Hitler or no Hitler.
BTW, objecting to a particular tendency of Americans in general does not make one anti-American. Only blithering binary-thinking idiots like you would believe so.
Ha! You fell into their foul trap! Don't you know that Canadian maple syrup has a biogenic compound that causes a person wearing a tin-foil deflector beanie to start bleeding EM radiation out their pores. This is especially insidious since, during the type of self-manipulation that people often participate in during on-line perusals of mature content, a huge burst of EM radiation will occur along with usual burst that is the natural end result of such self-manipulation.
The difference here is that the Europeans are overwhelmingly white. So most Americans will have a big problem bombing them. If they were all brown, on the other hand...
Windows Media Download?
Weapons of Mass Destruction?
There is a difference???
Don't worry. They're working on it. When the Memory Rights Management system comes out, all your memories are belong to them.
I have four words for you, I Love This House! YEAHHH!!!!
The point is that this is only an application, it is not a patent. So long as you pay the application fees, you can file any insane piece of shit application you want (and people have) and get it published. Wait until this becomes an actual patent (assuming it does). Then, not now, look at the claims and see if you think they are overly broad. Only then can you come back and bitch about it. Right now, it is only a published application, which doesn't mean jack squat.