I thought FB was currently owned (majority financed) by some shady Russian oligarch(s). Even tho I'm no user of their products (no pad or phone, stopped using the pod years ago when I got tired of tunes' annoyances), given a choice, I'd prefer Apple ownership.
What I really want is an in-dash USB plug into which I can insert an assortment of usb all containing a few hundred songs (or npr podcasts) each. Simple
> So exactly why is this stuff so bad? Agave syrup...
I want to sweeten my tea; I add some Agave syrup. I want some sausage, hey, the label says there's no Agave syrup in there. I want some dry roasted peanuts, nope, no Agave syrup in there, either. Potato chips? Nope, not there. Saltines? Nope. BBQ sauce? Still no Agave.
Odd, tho, somebody seems to have snuck 'corn sugar' into all the products I just mentioned. WTF?
>I don't think the media industry can possibly be sufficiently significant donor
You sir have an out-sized idea of how little it actually takes to purchase a politician.
> Without the country people, the city slickers would last about a wee
Why are people repeating this over and over again w/o walking down to the damned produce section in Mega-Lo-Mart and even ATTEMPTING to find something that was grown within 1000 miles of their home? Mexican strawberries? Fish from Chile? Apples from China? Brazilian beef? Helloooo! Oh, wait, the GMO wheat, HFC and soy-based oil in my Coke, Twinkies and Cheetoes is locally produced. Thanks, rural resident!
I was at the Ontario Science Museum in the early 90's where a "fish silo" was on display; this was a tall transparent cylinder about 5 feet in diameter with a spiraling floor from top to bottom. There was a downward flowing current through the spiral which the fish would swim against for exercise. It was billed as a super-efficient fish farm that allowed the fish to exercise in ways they couldn't (or didn't) in a regular pond farm and thus produced fish more like wild-caught. I asked about this a few years later and never could find anyone connected with the museum who'd ever heard of the thing.
Maybe in 1998, but what about now? Do people with iPads still type slower on its virtual keyboard than you write in your little notebook, scribbling away with your little notes, glancing up at the people around you every few seconds, then scribbling furiously again with your little pencil in your little notebook...
Aaah! They might be evil! I should keep doing nothing! Yes, back in my happy place. Now to click on XKCD and feel even more accomplished in my inaction.
I still have a love/hate relationship with javascript; have tried to appreciate its power but still when I open a.js to me it looks like browser vomit.
> do you know how much [DelRay] can make drug dealing
In the interest of reducing profiling I'm substituting the name "Bobby-Lee" here ("George W" might work, tho more a 'user' than 'dealer', but I digress) , but according to Stephen Levitt most drug dealers make less than minimum wage.
clicking thru to the 'pictures' link in the article, a comparison chart between this device and the iPad says it should be somwehere between $327-$800.
> Since when have we ever returned land to the wild
Go visit America's breadbasket; vast stretches of formerly occupied homes and manicured lawns now turned into buffalo country
> It was sort of fan fiction, but by a skilled professional.
I'm probably inviting myself to be captured and place in "Guantonamo Disney", but I've read some fan fics that take another author's characters and extend them into situations that really allow them to grow outside of canon. If it's fresh and exciting enough, it could even become part of canon itself; otherwise if it fails, heck, it just gives me another excuse to dust off the originals and re-read/re-watch them to remember why I loved the originals so.
Besides, the Star War's prequels vs some of the other universe books are proof positive that being the original author doesn't mean someone else can't do a better job with your characters (tho WRT Asimov this bar is set WAY WAY up there)
> it makes more sense to optimise electric vehicles for commuting, not long distance
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Which IMMEDIATELY takes all the available electric cars out of consideration as a 'non-primary, commute-only' vehicle. My high school age daughter will be driving soon and I'd love to hand her one of these as she's rarely going to be out of town but maybe late eves at crew practice or some earning money at a fast food job; however there's NO way I'm spending nearly 3X as much as i spent on my own Saturn Astra on a run-about electric car for her. The $2500 Subaru mentioned above would better serve my needs; too bad it's a carbon generator but what the hell other choice to I have? So nice for Tesla they have a car for rich dudes, but where's my all-electric Tata?
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I thought FB was currently owned (majority financed) by some shady Russian oligarch(s). Even tho I'm no user of their products (no pad or phone, stopped using the pod years ago when I got tired of tunes' annoyances), given a choice, I'd prefer Apple ownership.
How is this - http://bit.ly/dxd1Ya - overpriced @ $139 wholesale?
What I really want is an in-dash USB plug into which I can insert an assortment of usb all containing a few hundred songs (or npr podcasts) each. Simple
This one's got a 7in screen and it's only $150 - http://bit.ly/dxd1Ya
> So exactly why is this stuff so bad? Agave syrup...
I want to sweeten my tea; I add some Agave syrup. I want some sausage, hey, the label says there's no Agave syrup in there. I want some dry roasted peanuts, nope, no Agave syrup in there, either. Potato chips? Nope, not there. Saltines? Nope. BBQ sauce? Still no Agave. Odd, tho, somebody seems to have snuck 'corn sugar' into all the products I just mentioned. WTF?
>I don't think the media industry can possibly be sufficiently significant donor
You sir have an out-sized idea of how little it actually takes to purchase a politician.
to open source, this is a prime example. Sheesh!
> Without the country people, the city slickers would last about a wee
Why are people repeating this over and over again w/o walking down to the damned produce section in Mega-Lo-Mart and even ATTEMPTING to find something that was grown within 1000 miles of their home? Mexican strawberries? Fish from Chile? Apples from China? Brazilian beef? Helloooo! Oh, wait, the GMO wheat, HFC and soy-based oil in my Coke, Twinkies and Cheetoes is locally produced. Thanks, rural resident!
> 1970's era surveys using constitution
Reference, please? This is *golden*.
I was at the Ontario Science Museum in the early 90's where a "fish silo" was on display; this was a tall transparent cylinder about 5 feet in diameter with a spiraling floor from top to bottom. There was a downward flowing current through the spiral which the fish would swim against for exercise. It was billed as a super-efficient fish farm that allowed the fish to exercise in ways they couldn't (or didn't) in a regular pond farm and thus produced fish more like wild-caught. I asked about this a few years later and never could find anyone connected with the museum who'd ever heard of the thing.
> I see people with their $200 PalmPilots
Maybe in 1998, but what about now? Do people with iPads still type slower on its virtual keyboard than you write in your little notebook, scribbling away with your little notes, glancing up at the people around you every few seconds, then scribbling furiously again with your little pencil in your little notebook...
It should be parked outside just beyond the 'porch' they installed a while back; preferably sans wheels and up on cinder blocks.
Aaah! They might be evil! I should keep doing nothing! Yes, back in my happy place. Now to click on XKCD and feel even more accomplished in my inaction.
I still have a love/hate relationship with javascript; have tried to appreciate its power but still when I open a .js to me it looks like browser vomit.
> do you know how much [DelRay] can make drug dealing
In the interest of reducing profiling I'm substituting the name "Bobby-Lee" here ("George W" might work, tho more a 'user' than 'dealer', but I digress) , but according to Stephen Levitt most drug dealers make less than minimum wage.
clicking thru to the 'pictures' link in the article, a comparison chart between this device and the iPad says it should be somwehere between $327-$800.
> if it's made with pig anus and old fore skin.
So, hold the Italian sausage on yours, then?
I'm thinking molecular assembly of any material from a 'soup' of atoms (or maybe solid block?). Assembly-line alchemy.
I guess they hired their urban planner away from Phoenix or Las Vegas.
Hurd was a mess (i think it was at its second or third rewrite at the time, trying for the last fad in kernel design)
Hurd is the DNF of OS's?
Chilluns. *sigh*
The article's in Japanese; so where do I in the US get one in time for Christmas for my puzzle lovin' kin?
I WISH my work machine ran builds that fast.
> Since when have we ever returned land to the wild
Go visit America's breadbasket; vast stretches of formerly occupied homes and manicured lawns now turned into buffalo country
> It was sort of fan fiction, but by a skilled professional.
I'm probably inviting myself to be captured and place in "Guantonamo Disney", but I've read some fan fics that take another author's characters and extend them into situations that really allow them to grow outside of canon. If it's fresh and exciting enough, it could even become part of canon itself; otherwise if it fails, heck, it just gives me another excuse to dust off the originals and re-read/re-watch them to remember why I loved the originals so.
Besides, the Star War's prequels vs some of the other universe books are proof positive that being the original author doesn't mean someone else can't do a better job with your characters (tho WRT Asimov this bar is set WAY WAY up there)
> it makes more sense to optimise electric vehicles for commuting, not long distance br> Which IMMEDIATELY takes all the available electric cars out of consideration as a 'non-primary, commute-only' vehicle. My high school age daughter will be driving soon and I'd love to hand her one of these as she's rarely going to be out of town but maybe late eves at crew practice or some earning money at a fast food job; however there's NO way I'm spending nearly 3X as much as i spent on my own Saturn Astra on a run-about electric car for her. The $2500 Subaru mentioned above would better serve my needs; too bad it's a carbon generator but what the hell other choice to I have? So nice for Tesla they have a car for rich dudes, but where's my all-electric Tata?